Eragon
A farm boy finds a dragon egg and becomes the last of the Riders. Unashamedly traditional epic fantasy, written when the author was fifteen, and still the book most people mean when they say they want dragons. On the House's scale it rates 0 for spice (closed to the world), 1 for how much of the book is the romance, and 3 for craft. Fourth Wing readers who want the dragon bond with no romance at all.
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How it rates
- Author
- Christopher Paolini
- Series
- The Inheritance Cycle, book 1 of 4 · series complete
- Spice
- Spice 0 out of 5, Closed to the world0/5 · Closed to the world
- Romance
- 1/5
- Plot
- 4/5
- Worldbuilding
- 4/5
- Darkness
- 2/5
- Writing craft
- 3/5
- Burn
- Slow burn
- Point of view
- third person
- Ending
- Happy ever after
- Setting
- Alagaësia, under an empire founded by a fallen Rider
- Audience
- Young adult
- Pages
- 576
On the spice rating No romantic content of any kind on the page. This is a quest novel. How the scale works.
Content warnings violence, war, death of a guardian.
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