Brisngr Has Arrived! Caution potential spoilers!

 

 

Well I received the third book of the Eragon Inheritance Cycle and I am loving it right now! I received it four days ago and I am almost half way through it. x] That's sad because I don't want it to end! I got it a day earlier than expected so as you could imagine I was doing the happy dance. Some of you who are reading this are probably going. . "DUDE, What a nerd!!" . . . More than half of of you who are saying that have no room to talk. I am sure you all were doing the happy dance when the vampire book thing came out. Twilight series I believe (Besides, nerd day is on Monday!!). . . I have to see what the fuss is all about with those books. . . If it's making people read, that usually don't read, it must be a good book.

Any-who, I guess nothing much has happened. In the beginning Roran [Eragon's cousin], Eragon and his dragon, Saphira went to Helgrind to rescue Roran's fiancé, Katrina, who was kidnapped by bird- beetle like creatures called the Ra'zac and their mounts, which are equally as creepy, the Lethrblaka.

The Lethrblaka were described as "A huge twisted shapes. . .Eyes, black, bulging, rimless. A beak seven feet long. Bat-like wings. The torso naked, hairless, rippling with muscle. Claws like iron spikes"

The Ra'zac was described as "Unlike their parents [the Lethrblaka are the Ra'zacs parents] the Ra'zac were roughly the same size and shape as humans. An ebony exoskeleton encased them from top to bottom, although little of it showed, for even in Helgrind, the Ra'zac wore dark robes and cloaks." (They also have beaks, often used for picking out the eyeballs of their prisoners or eating them down to the bone. . . . gross. )

Eragon defeated both the Ra'zac, Saphira defeated both the Lethrblaka, and Roran rescued his beloved Katrina. Little to Roran's and Katrina's knowledge, Eragon discovered, Sloan (alive), Katrina's treasonous father, in the cell next to Katrina's. Eragon told them both that he had broken his neck and was dead. But Eragon stayed behind to kill the last remaining Ra'zac of the only two. (To clear things up, there were only two Ra'zac, and two Lethrblaka. Eragon killed only one Ra'zac while he was fighting with Roran. The other ran off. Saphira killed both of the Lethrblaka.) Katrina and Roran flew off on Saphira without Eragon (much to Saphira's disliking) to the only free country, not under the Empire's rule, Surda. That's where the rebel army known as the Varden was staying.

Eragon killed the last Ra'zac with great ease. He then took the barely alive Sloan (his eyes were pecked out), and started towards the Varden, Sloan being carried in his arms.

(Some back ground info on Sloan- Was the town butcher in Eragon's home village, Carvahall. HE didn't like the idea of Roran being betrothed to his daughter, Katrina. So he turned to the Ra'zac and gave the information about the egg that Eragon brought in months back. The Ra'zac ended up kidnapping both Sloan and Katrina.)

To punish Sloan, Eragon didn't put him to death, but instead made him swear in the ancient language ( if you swear using that language you can never lie or break your promises.) That he would never be able to see his daughter again and that he had to walk all the way to the land of the elves. Now when he was to get there, if he ever made it, he would have a home, a place to sleep and food, he would also have his vision restored.

But I only have 5% of my laptop battery remaining so I am going to wrap it up here. I won't put a song today, my entry was long enough as it is. Have a nice rest of your weekend everybody!

--Sonja