I continue to be amazed at the brilliancy that made Eragon not have a sword. I guess he just likes killing people in much more gruesome ways.

 

I also continue to be amazed at the complexity of the magic system in these books. My brain wants to esplode every time Eragon does things or explains what he did. Speaking of which, I totally forgot all the freakish powers he acquired late in book 2. GJ, team.

 

Roran/Katrina FTW.

 

Ra'zac cursing Eragon: I'm a faaaaan.

 

Back to the vegetarian thing: I do NOT get how he can't eat any meat at all cuz it sickens him, but he can live with killing off a couple animals or plants to do magic. Lol whut? 

 

Ohhh Islanzadi. How I love you.

Her first entrance in the book is entering a tent to talk to Eragon. She's dressed in total badass Elf wargear, with blood all over her hands.

Eragon: "…Hi? Uh, who died?"

Islanzadi: "Oh, some stupid humans were cutting down trees. We reminded them why they used to fear the forest."

*Eragon wets himself*

 

The Trial of the Long Knives: *facepalm* Can humans get any stupider? Seriously!

 

Vote Angela '08.

 

The praying-mantis goddess.

…

Now that is special.

 

"Unless we be searching for Murtagh. You heard what Morzan's spawn said well as I did."

*cue Harriet Jones, screaming "WHAT DID HE SAY? WHAT DID HE SAYYYYY?"*

 

Tenga, son of Ingwar: Hahahahahahaha WTF????

 

It's amazing how much more relaxing the book is before Arya comes back in. She is so….excuse the term, but she's real bitchy. "Eragon, you're such an idiot! Eragon, why did you make such a decision? Eragon, trouble follows you like a love-sick cow. Eragon, you're so reckless. Eragon, you're a loser/failure/moron/boy. Seriously! Shut up!

 

"You are well?"

"I'm healthy as an ox. And you?"

"To compare myself with a bovine would be both ridiculous and insulting, but I'm as fit as ever, if that is what you are asking."

I heart Saphira.

 

Okay, the whole thing with Garven makes me want to punch Nasuada in the face. And I don't usually feel that way. "Are you an idiot? SERIOUSLY!" So irritating. She should know better. Errrghhhh.

 

On a similar note, Blodhgarm. Oh gosh. Hehehehehe. Yucky magic. Yucky. And also it's really silly but somehow I can't picture him at all. As hard as I try, all I get is Hank McCroy. In a loin-cloth. Oi.

 

Eragon and Arya's encounter with the soldiers: Baaaaaadaaaaaass. I think that's the first time we really see how Eragon has changed, fighting-wise, as well as….well….you know. Killing-wise.

 

"It's not the wolves out there. It's the wolves in here."

 

I really, really, liked learning Arya's story from herself. I still don't like her much, but I feel bad for her, and have a bit more respect.

Actually the whole campfire scene in general was bizarre. It was like "Okay, that was pretty crazy, I bet the scene is going to end now." NOPE! Stuff just kept happening and being said!

-Arya was forthcoming

-magicked ships made of grass

-Dr Who

-magic lilies

-spirits

-magic GOLD lilies

I'm so not even kidding. The spirits were like a Phoenix Requiem moment. Oh and the Banishing of the Names! That's super creepy.

 

I don't trust Jormunder OR Blodhgarm. I have no idea why. Jormunder seems too nice and Blodhgarm is too mysterious. I dunno.

 

Vote Orrin '08.

 

Two women talking to Angela: Raaandooooom. There are a lot of random events in this book. Tenga. Dr. Who. These two chicks who clearly have a lot going on.

 

"Nothing escapes you, does it?"

 

"Let it escape. I only concern myself with things that exist."

Note to self: Next time you're having problems giving a story a decent opener, just start off with a bloody pagan ceremony full of dismembering and cannibalism.

 

"Wet blotches quickly sullied the virgin cloth."

Say WHAT?

 

I think it's really interesting how Eragon and Co. become more and more well-spoken as the books go along. Like, they all sounded kinda like hicks in the first one, now they're all "Conjunctions were created by Galbatorix" and "Aye is the new Yes". The descriptions get more and more poetic too, but that I live with because when you're developing as a writer like CP is, stuff like that just happens. Your style changes. But it is up to YOU to keep your characters' speech patterns consistent.

 

Vote Murtagh '08.

 

"Perhaps what Murtagh enjoyed was watching another person shoulder the same terrible burden he had carried his whole life."

I totally was THINKING this sentence right before I read it….kinda creepy.

 

"A fountain of amber motes billowed and swirled…"

Me: "OMG I CAN HAZ MOTES AND SELL IN MAI NP SHOP????"

 

I love love LOVE the booze. Hahahaha. "Omg can't angst, must drink raspberry mead. Otays now I angst moar."

 

"The stone exhibited a profound lack of movement."

 

Eragon's Three Big Rules for Using Magic:

1. Don't take on projects that are beyond your abilities

2. Don't try to bring back the dead

3. Don't try to unmake anything

 

I love how Eragon and Roran are basically on a male-bonding weekend retreat: booze, chats around the fire about their love lives, therapy sessions…."Oh, and we gotta rescue your gf in the morning, btw."

 

Dang I never wanna see Saphira try to kiss Arya. Wheww.

 

"Death is a part of who we are. It guides us. It shapes us. It drives us to madness."

 

"Cheer up! You may not have to worry about living forever. Galbatorix, Murtagh, the Ra'zac, or even one of the Empire's soldiers could put steel through us at any moment."

 

Okay did this sentence seriously just happen?

"They shared a laugh, and then the silence that so often intruded on their discussion asserted itself once again, a gap born of equal parts weariness, familiarity, and--conversely--the many differences that fate had created between those who had once gone about lives that were but variations on a single melody."

That's like….I'm not even sure what that's like. But I'm pretty sure 47.8 brain cells just esploded.

 

Boys are dumb. Leave em alone for five minutes, they start stripping and comparing bruises/cuts/scars.

 

Last but not least: Eragon really needs to get over the vegetarian thing.