This third volume of Eragon is worthy of the saga, already complex and attractive. Note well the growing maturity of the author in this book is very readable without downtime. We find can be a little more political (the Varden have many problems to manage). After two volumes which seeks Eragon Arya, one notices in this opus incipient complicity. According to Arya, he was too young for her in Volume 2 here but we feel that it is aware of its experience and maturity. Eragon is not a young farmer with a dragon but a skilled fighter who already have experience of heavy clashes ...