New Series

A really good series is the Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini. The first in the series is a book called Eragon. This book is about a farm boy who finds a strange blue stone in the Spine mountains known for its unusually circumstances and things mysteriously disappearing when they walk in including the king's army. Eragon returns to his home in Alegasia a kingdom ruled by a ruthless emperor. The emperor used to be a dragon rider until his dragon was killed by urgals the half men half beast that live on the edge of the empire. He went to the council to demand they give him another dragon but they did not so instead he killed them all and poisoned a dragon egg with dark magic to serve him. Eragon finds out that what he thought was just a blue stone is actually a dragon egg which has hatched for him! Now he has a decision to make join the empire or be destroyed by it?