I was going to continue on this book (I originally gave myself until the end of the year). However, I decided to stop reading it earlier than planned. I also liked the introduction to other characters perspectives that we encountered in the previous book. 

But, personally it’s not worth the significant slog to read them because the start of this book is really good but it becomes stale in the middle. 

the middle part of the novel consists of Eragons training with the Elves and, in my option, this should have been cut down to a small montage to keep the story going. <\spoiler>