To Sleep in a Sea of Stars
Ratings120
Average rating3.6
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Ratings120
Average rating3.6
Now a New York Times and USA Today bestseller! Winner of Best Science Fiction in the 2020 Goodreads Choice Awards! To Sleep in a Sea of Stars is a brand new epic novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author of Eragon, Christopher Paolini. Kira Navárez dreamed of life on new worlds. Now she's awakened a nightmare. During a routine survey mission on an uncolonized planet, Kira finds an alien relic. At first she's delighted, but elation turns to terror when the ancient dust around her begins to move. As war erupts among the stars, Kira is launched into a galaxy-spanning odyssey of discovery and transformation. First contact isn't at all what she imagined, and events push her to the very limits of what it means to be human. While Kira faces her own horrors, Earth and its colonies stand upon the brink of annihilation. Now, Kira might be humanity's greatest and final hope . . .
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2 released booksFractalverse is a 3-book series with 1 primary work first released in 1905 with contributions by Christopher Paolini, Ilkka Rekiaro, and Katalin Sóvágó.
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CAWPILE Breakdown:
Characters: 7
Atmosphere: 10
Writing: 10
Plot: 5
Intrigue: 7
Logic: 9
Enjoyment: 9
I really enjoyed this book. It was fascinating to see everything come together. I also loved how the book was broken up with each part being one trip of Kira's journey after her discovery. The characters in this were decent the writing is what I absolutely loved. The plot was very slow and I found myself wanting a faster paced novel at times but the writing and descriptions of everything were great. I rarely if ever read adult science ficition so I have nothing to compare this book too but I think if you are a fan of Christopher Paolini you will love this book.
I have heard such good things about this book. But to be honest I thought it was utter garbage. It could have been 300 pages and at the same time, it should have been 3 separate books. Either way, this 880-page monstrosity isn't the right way.
Getting through it was immensely difficult. The characters are not interesting, all of them are boring especially the main character. Only the ship-mind is likeable and seems interesting and 3 dimensional. So much happened to them but none of them really changed or developed in any meaningful way, without intervention from some unknowable alien god creature anyway.
So much happened and at the time nothing at all happened. There wasn't any overall goal the party was clearly headed toward which also made it hard to keep me excited for the next chapters.
And let's not forget the ending where she just apparently gains ineffable and unexplained powers and knowledge that she uses to give all her friends gifts and then goes to chase after the just murdered alien gods Horcruxes. The ending was honestly stupid and made no sense for the story whatsoever. What an excruciating journey with the most meaningless conclusion of all time.
I love the fact that Paolini adds small nods to science fiction literature all over the place. I'm not sure if he did it on purpose, or if I just making correlations. Meatbags, Prey, Firefly, Halo, Ringworld, and much much more. Just an enjoyable audiobook.
Complete enough story that I feel like I don't need to continue the series.
