Eragon's Guide to Alagaësia comes from the makers of Dragonology, Piratelogy, Egyptology, and more!
You will wander through the different parts of Alagaesia as a new Rider. Eragon has written to you, in his own hand, a guide book to all the things you will need to know as a Dragon Rider. Complete with lush pictures and hidden trinkets, you will truly be walking into Alagaësia as soon as you open this book.
When I got Eragon's Guide to Alagaësia in the mail I was thrilled! It is a sapphire blue hardcover book that looks and feels like it is bound in "dragon skin". I marveled at the beautiful pictures the book contained. My favorite of all would have to be the elves and the landscapes. While it is a beautiful and relatively informative book it verges on the corny side. Stuck in little packages on the different pages are paper flowers, "dragon knucklebones", and other little things. You can feel a dragon's wing (glitter), or a Fuldunost's fur, which in all honesty reminds me of some little books my cousins had in preschool. Something about that just feels like they were trying to hard. This is a wonderful keepsake and a simply gorgeous book, but for a diehard Inheritance fan it might not seem much. On the other hand, I do think it could get younger readers interested in the exciting series by our much loved author Christopher Paolini.
Overall, I enjoyed looking at it, and believe it is a nice collector's item but doesn't quite serve to satiate my thirst for CP's thick and exciting prose.