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INHERITANCE by Christopher Paolini _(Knopf, $28)_ SUBSCRIBE TO THE WEEK Escape your echo chamber. Get the facts behind the news, plus analysis from multiple perspectives. SUBSCRIBE &
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news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox. The final novel in Christopher Paolini’s _Inheritance Cycle_ will have fans
“speed-reading” its 880 pages to find out the fate of the farmboy-turned-warrior Eragon and his blue dragon, said Yvonne Zipp in _The Washington Post._ Though the book “could have been
tighter,” Paolini serves up a “propulsive plot and plenty of answers.” Parents might consider some of the violence a bit dark for young-adult readers, but “Paolini is hardly the worst
offender” in that regard. OUT OF OZ by Gregory Maguire _(Morrow, $27)_ A free daily email with the biggest news stories of the day – and the best features from TheWeek.com By expanding the
mythology behind L. Frank Baum’s Oz books, Gregory Maguire has created “a land as rich as Middle-earth or Narnia,” said Brian Truitt in _USA Today._ The “satisfying finish” to Maguire’s
Wicked Years saga begins as a bookend to Baum’s series, with “a motley crew traveling down the Yellow Brick Road.” Eighteen years after the “Matter of Dorothy,” Rain, the granddaughter of
the Wicked Witch of the West, is traveling with friends old and new in search of her long-lost parents. THE NIGHT ETERNAL by Guillermo del Toro & Chuck Hogan _(Morrow, $27)_ Filmmaker
Guillermo del Toro and novelist Chuck Hogan have written “the only truly worthy successor” to Anne Rice’s great vampire series, said Alan Cheuse in the _San Francisco Chronicle._ Their
Strain trilogy, about a vampire plague that sweeps the world, reaches its climax with the evil vampire Master exploding nuclear warheads to plunge the world into permanent night. If you’re a
bedtime reader, you may worry that the “light might never return.” IN OTHER WORLDS by Margaret Atwood _(Nan A. Talese, $25)_ Years after she “ruffled the feathers of sci-fi fans” by
appearing to disavow the genre, Margaret Atwood has done a 180-degree turn, said John Williford in _The Miami Herald. In Other Worlds_ delves into the history of fantastical fiction and the
origins of Atwood’s own interest in using its tools in such dystopian novels as _The Handmaid’s Tale_ and _Oryx and Crake._ The result is “a delightful read, full of Atwood’s well-honed
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