He looked human except for his crimson hair and maroon eyes. Use Omniscience WiselyĪ tall Shade lifted his head and sniffed the air. Wind howled through the night, carrying a scent that would change the world.Ī scent will change the world by itself? Please tell me everyone in this world spends the next month gagging on horrid fumes, until they gather and go on a great quest to find and destroy the source of their smelly doom! I want to read that. This prologue is sitting here before chapter one, so clearly we need to read it.
Opening and… a prologue! We have a prologue. Sure, it’s for a young audience, but don’t young adults deserve strong writing too? Someone decided to publish this, and lots of people paid money for it. But that doesn’t make his work immune to critique. In fact, he’s probably ahead of the curve for his age. Since Paolini was a teenager when he wrote this book, he has a solid excuse for poor writing. Perhaps a dragon named Eragon, as that’s just “dragon” with a letter swapped out?
I know I can expect a young male chosen one and (obviously) the dragon on the cover. I’ve never read Christopher Paolini’s Eragon before now, but I’ve heard it compared to both Star Wars and Harry Potter.
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