Eragon: Inheritance, Book I

love the series, hate the narration. not a lot of variation in the voices until you get to Saphira. His voice for her makes me physically cringe, to the point where I have no want to listen further than Eragon naming her. Maybe if you've never read it, and have no expectation for her voice, you might be able to look past it. I still recommend the series for reading though.

I loved this book series growing up and years later the story still holds up very well. I would give the book a solid 5 star rating! But like many others have said the narration isn't the best. In my opinion the general narration, and most of the voices for background male characters are just fine. The voices for female characters are a bit awkward, and both Eragon's and Murtagh's voices seem off or ill fitting. But by far the worst is Saphira's voice with Solembum's a close second. Both voices feel very over done and gimmicky... think Oscar the grouch meets Yoda meets god knows what else. All in all you can get used to it, but if subpar narration bothers you I suggest you just read the book yourself.

Saphira's voice is terrible. I always imagined a regal female tone not a bad batman impression. Solembum sounds like Yoda. Made me inwardly cringe every time she/he had dialog. The other voice impressions are ok if you like that they all sound pretty much the same. Also considering each book comes with a pronunciation guide means the narrator shouldn't completely mangle all the proper names and words in the other languages which also happens frequently. I love the series but I physically can't finish the audio book