Eragon
by Christopher Paolini
Published in 2003
Kylie Light
House: Hufflepuff
I chose this story because it is a very well written novel, it has everything you can ask for; action/adventure, surprises, drama and a bit of romance. I think that Eragon is got to be in my top three favorite book (alone book in a series) and I find that the book has a lot of thrills and twist to keep readers interested till the very end.
Hero and Heroine
Hero: Eragon is a local farm boy in Planacar Valley near the villiage of Carvahall, Alagaesia, who found a mysterious stone in the untamed mountains near the village.
Heroine: Saphira is one of the three dragons left in Alagaesia and was mistaken by Eragon as a mysterious stone that he had came across in the mountains while he was hunting.
Plot Summary
Eragon is a farm boy who leves near the village of Carvahall, Alagaesia; raised by his aunt and uncle. He, on a hunting expedition in the Spine (or untamed mountains), comes across what he believes to be some sort of stone and attempts to trade it in for meat for his family. After being refused by the town's butcher, he return home to find out that it was much more. To his utter amazement, it was actually a dragon's egg, one of the last three in existence. Marked as a Dragon Rider, he must leave his simple life and travel with his new dragon, Saphira, and the village's old storyteller, Brom, to unknown places to find what it truly means to be a Dragon Rider.