I have a family member that loves this series to bits and pieces, but I’ve never read them myself.  I’d be interested to hear other opinions on them. 

I do find it interesting that Paolini published so young, though!

I just finished the three books.

My assessment:
By the time Paolini gets around to releasing the fourth book, the little bit of me that wants to know how it ends won’t care anymore.

Other than that, it’s rather violent, doesn’t provide answers to some moral questions regarding warfare that it raises to the characters, has some highly suspicious scenes that crossed the line of ‘kinda-okay’ to ‘not-okay’ that I skimmed over, and Paolini can’t seem to decide whether to believe in monotheism, panthiesm, atheism, or polytheism.

Add that to the Star Wars/LotR borrowings throughout all the books (haha, they even have two different variants of the “Luke, I am your father” moment in the books), the fact that I cared more about Murtagh than our MC Eragon, and the way the plot kept pausing to talk about random customs of elves and dwarves and riders…. meh, the only thing I really want to know about the last book is whether Eragon will share Frodo’s fate and cross the sea which apparently the elves have been across at some point.

Final word:
Star Wars in Middle-earth, without the historical royal magnificence of those who followed Feanor or the strong, decisive, identifiable moral struggles of the Skywalker family.

Not going to be a re-read.

For the record, I think Dragonspell is a Christianized Eragon, but that’s my take after only one Dragonkeeper book…