![]() ![]() Having read Paolini’s author’s note at the end, I had a bit more patience and sympathy for why the book was the way it was. I felt so betrayed that it effectively made all the fighting that had JUST happened, totally redundant. Literally all of them with a snap of her fingers. What I’m talking about here is the fact that after such a long time trying to defeat the Jellies, Kira simply becomes a super powerful alien herself that is all-knowing and magically fixes all the problems in the book. I’ve other books that have wrapped up a sci-fi story in a similar fashion and the way it’s done comes across as a bit of a cop-out to me, which was a real shame. This is quite possibly just a “me” thing. I’m not going to discuss any spoilers but I have to say, the ending really let me down. It keeps the pace of the book steady and easy to get through. The book rotates through periods of calm and quiet, focussing on character development, and then swings full gear into action-packed scenes that are just delectable to read. Greg was probably my favourite character in the whole story – there was just something really fun (and crazy) about him! The space adventures are fun and new and the element of a “shipmind” (human turned AI that controls ships, basically) was an awesome aspect. It certainly wasn’t a slog to get through. But there was just a nice *something* about this book and I found myself thoroughly pleased that I would have so many pages to get to know the world and the people in it. I loved the characters we meet along the way, especially the crew Kira spends most of her time with. The ending did let me down, but we’ll come back to that later. One of the things I actually enjoyed the most about this book is its length. If you love your hard sci-fis that love throwing in some physics here and there, and you love a good old chase through the star systems with crazed aliens, this is absolutely worth it. I won’t go into detail about what goes wrong because the blurb is actually very vague. The story follows what I call a Space Biologist (the book obviously has a fancy term for this) on a mission, and things go very wrong very quickly. You can tell from page one that Paolini has put an enormous amount of effort into research how things should work in space to make this a perfect addition to this genre. This is Paolini’s first book since the Inheritance series and it is vastly different! This is a hard sci-fi that involves all the science-y and space-y stuff you’d expect in such a book. However, I wasn’t the biggest fan with the way the book ended which was a really big shame! As cool as things were, it came close to feeling like a cop-out. I finally conquered this book! I enjoyed this complex scifi world a lot and am amazed with the effort Paolini has put in (this took him 9 years to complete). ![]() Thank you to Pan Macmillan for sending me a copy of this for an honest review To Sleep in a Sea of Stars by Christopher Paolini ![]()
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