And yet Eragon makes lots of very basic, stupid mistakes with his weapons care (mostly out of laziness) that any military captain would have had him disciplined for.

Mind you, he never said he actually read said book.

Just... stop with the bulshit and just call it magic, Paolini. Honestly, nobody will judge you for having magic in a fantasy story, stop trying to rationalise it.

The more he tries to "science" his magical fantasy land the deeper he digs himself into a hole. This is just like Smeyer pretending she knew the first thing about chromosomes, because she apparently thought it would make her sparkly vampires seem more plausible. 🙄

"girl"?! Arya is over a hundred in this series, an adult even by elf standards!

Yeah, but she's got, like, internal sex organs so therefore it's noteworthy that she can keep up with the menfolk! And by "menfolk" I of course mean "a bunch of goddamn teenagers, one of whom can't even read". 🙄

Which raises the question, why the HELL Brom hide away from Morzan's supporters, the remaining foresworn, and Galby himself, in Morzan's own lands which Galby now controlled, without so much as changing his name or appearance?! That's just asking to be caught. And the only reason he wasn't is because of Galby's indifference.

Further proof that "I never really got into a corner" is a lie, as is him not just making shit up as he goes. If you actually plan everything out in advance instead of pulling everything out of your ass, you don't get this many ridiculous plot holes.