What do you get when you toss some great fantasy works, Pern, and Star Wars into the blender? A dark emperor with mystical powers, a young Jedi... I mean a magic using telepathic dragon rider who's the only one who can stop him. There's some variation but you toss in Dwarves, Elves, and morality issues ad you get at best a lackluster plot. It really should have ended with this book but the beating of the dead horse continues.

Simply an amazing read. You cannot put it down!!! Can't wait for the fourth book.

Wow, he has really stepped it up in this book. As much as I was disappointed that there will be a fourth book I am actually excited about it too. I started reading this series because of my neices and nephew but I have really enjoyed it for myself. Having grown up in Montana myself I understand much about the landscape the book was based on. For parents who might read this, this book is a little more graphic in the violence but I don't know that it is excessive. It is speaking about war after all. I really feel it is no problem for teenagers. There is no sex, drugs and foul language that saturates most of the other media found today. Really a great book and hope others find it so also. Thanks again to Amazon for the lowest price guarantee which got me the best deal on my book.

wow oh wow! i was exicited to get this in my hands. im not a big fan of fantasy novels...but i got hooked on this writer. and amazon.com was there to help me make it easy to order, and read. even before my friends . it's just plain fun, when all you have to do is order and read. it was here before they said it would be. the journey of these charaters, are a worthy cause for adventures. and i hear that there is a fourth and final part of this series. so i'll be waiting !

I just finished reading Brisingr, and must say I enjoyed this book very much, and am impatient to read the next and hopefully last book of the series. 'Hopefully last' only because I want to see how it all ends and not because it's not a good story. I did find that some parts were overly long, and dragged a little. The sword-making bit, Christopher, if you're reading this, really was unnecessary to go on for so many pages! It's obvious that it's only been put in because of the amount of research you probably put in. I hope you will resist the urge in the final book :)

There was one tiny but glaring mistake: when someone says/thinks "he could care less" - the common error made in colloquial English, when the person actually means "he couldn't care less".

Otherwise I admire your skills and maturity of writing, very well done!