Eragon vs Tintenblut: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Magic, Fantasy, Fiction
Eragon
One boy... One dragon... A world of adventure. When Eragon finds a polished blue stone in the forest, he thinks it is the lucky discovery of a poor farm boy; perhaps it will buy his family meat for the winter. But when…
1 film adaptation
vs
Tintenblut
Dustfinger has found a Silvertoung named Orpheus to read him back to Inkworld but after he is read in Farid finds out Basta and Mortola are against it. Farid has Meggie read him and herself into Inkheart to warn…
The verdict
- Ratings are close across the board — any is a safe pick by score.
- Eragon is the quickest read — about 9 hours vs 11 for Tintenblut.
- Tintenblut has the widest readership — 137283 ratings behind its score.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Eragon | Tintenblut | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 4.0 (34051) | 4.0 (137283) |
| Hardcover | 3.7 (2538) | 4.0 (2) |
| Google Books | 5.0 (3) | — |
| Apple Books | 4.5 (2358) | — |
Reception
| Eragon | Tintenblut | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 34051 | 137283 |
| Editions | 90 | 34 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | — |
| Want to read | 685892 | 51386 |
| Reading it now | — | 2918 |
| Written reviews | 34051 | 5185 |
| Wikipedia attention | 18811 | — |
| Pages | 518 | 640 |