After all that? That ending was crap. (view spoiler)[That wasn't HEA or HFN and it didn't even leave me feeling there was a potential for happiness in the future. Seriously, the dragon who fears she is the last of her kind gets a romp before she has to fly off, but Eragon gets to know that Arya loves him but they don't get to be together, not even a final kiss. At least Aragorn and Arwen got to be together in the end of LotR. I seriously felt like Murtagh and Nasuada had a better chance for happiness. (hide spoiler)] 
 So maybe I have learned a lot more about writing in the last year than I thought, but this is the biggest disappointment I have read in the last decade. With a few exceptions the first 223 pages are a waste of time. When the story finally gets to more necessary details, you have to wade through the myriad of unnecessary ones to find them. 
 This story needed an editor to reign him in. Instead, they thought it was the next Harry Potter and let the author do whatever he wanted. There are so many unnecessary scenes and details that I wanted to skip over, but didn't for fear of missing the one thing that makes a future difference. Overall, I feel like I wasted a lot of my time. 
 The last half of the book moved better than the first half. The last 100+ pages are all aftermath though. And I could have done without the last chapter. I'd rather imagine my own ending at this point. 
 Edited to add: I wrote my review before I saw this one, but it says everything I felt, and does it better than I: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...