The Fork, The Witch, and The Worm by Christopher Paolini is the newest release (and I mean newest as in it came out at the start of this year I think more than 4 years after its last predecessor) and picks up with Eragon some time after the last book and gives us a look into his life as well as the history of his world.
This novel was an enjoyable read, and significantly shorter than anything else by him (only 288 pages), and wasn’t what I was expecting. I thought it would be either a) a variation on The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe, which it was not, or just some short stories, which it wasn’t. Yes, there were three stories in this book, but they related to the world itself and fit into the novel as a whole. I really appreciated them, and this book.
This is a great novel for all ages, and just makes me want more of his writing again. It is marvelous to see how his writing has changed (I think he wrote Eragon when he was 16) and that it has actually grown.
Highly recommend this to fans of adventure, magic, tales, folklore, and fans of Eragon and dragons. And, no, there is no romance in this, sorry!
