Brisingr - Christopher Paolini

J'ai choisi de lire ce troisième volet de la saga Eragon en anglais et je ne regrette ni la lecture ni la langue ! L'auteur avait prévu une trilogie qui se voit transformée en quatre volumes et, à la lecture de Brisingr, il devient assez évident pourquoi. Le récit me semble avoir pris de la profondeur avec une écriture plus évoluée qui va plus en profondeur sur les relations des personnages, y compris entre Eragon et Saphira, et une histoire plus complexe et détaillée. Je n'ai quasiment pas laché le livre avant de tourner la dernière page !

Un petit extrait, en anglais bien sur :

"A single voice, low and clear, wafter across the chamber, singing a slow, wistful melody. One by one, the other members of the hidden dwarf choir joined in the song, filling Tronjheim with the plaintive beauty of their music. Eragon was going to ask for them to be silent, but Saphira said, It's all right. Leave them alone.
Although he did not understand what the choir sang, Eragon could tell from the tone of the music that it was a lamentation for things that had been and were no more, such as the star sapphire. As the song built toward its conclusion, he found himself thinking of his lost life in Palancar Valley, and tears welled in his eyes.
To his surprise, he sensed a similar train of pensive melancholy from Saphira. Neither sorrow nor regret was a normal part of her personality, so he wondered at it and would have questioned her, except that he also sensed a stirring of something deep within her, like the awakening of some ancient part of her being.
The song ended on a long, wavering note, and as it faded into oblivion, a surge of energy rushed through Saphira - so much energy, Eragon gasped at its magnitude - and she bent and touched the star sapphire with the tip of her snout. The branching crasks within the giant gemstone flared bright as bolts of lightning, and then the scaffolding shattered and fell to the floor, reveiling Isidar Mithrim whole and sound again."

Ma note : 10/10 - coup de cœur !