![]() ![]() The crew of the ship, the Walfish, is full of Archetypes rather than actual characters with dimension. She stabs and impales a refugee of the ship who breaks her nose and is instantly forgiven. Kira’s picked up by yet another ship, where she lies about the circumstances of the suit she’s wearing, and the fact that she killed practically everyone on her first ship. Even if she’d played a role in first contact, blaming herself for the war wouldn’t help. “Just like with–She ground the heels of her hands against her temples and shook her head. Laughably, Kira suggests someone else sees a psychiatrist, but never stops to think that she should need one. No PTSD, no guilt motivating her every action, or anything remotely realistic–she has virtually no issues compartmentalizing all the people she murdered and the alien war she started. She doesn’t give much consideration, except a passing thought not to think about it, to the fact that she murdered the man she wanted to spend the rest of her life with and to whom she just got engaged. She has literally no dimension other than to hate how she looks now that she’s bald and covered in an alien suit. Frustratingly, though she gets in an escape shuttle, Kira wants to save the other survivors who tortured her, in a frustratingly goody-goody move. Kira is picked up by a military ship, and tortured, before they are attacked by an alien race referred to as Jellies–perhaps the most non-threatening name for aliens ever–which destroys their ship. When she wakes, she is covered in an alien suit, and accidentally murders every single one of her teammates with it, including her fiancee, Alan. The readers remember that the last thing she saw was a black dust swarming her, and choking her. Kira is knocked unconscious, forgetting everything that happened to her. They’d finally made contact with another sentient species, but the species was hostile and able to fly circles around any human ship, even the unmanned ones.” Right before she’s about to leave, she researches a strange grouping of rocks, and climbs into a mysterious looking crack of the same unknown material, only to fall right into a dome-like room clearly created by aliens. Kira, a xenobiologist is part of the League and of a team that thoroughly researches planets to see if they are habitable for future colonization for humans. In fact, the beginning of the novel seemed almost exactly like the movie Prometheus, but more poorly executed. I found that the novel really didn’t add anything new to the science fiction genre. Though the Inheritance Cycle had the benefit of dragons, which is obviously more to my taste, I found that the allure of the science fiction elements of To Sleep in a Sea of Stars was not enough to get me to finish reading the novel. It took me 8 days of forced, painful reading to get even that far. I was determined to finish this novel, but I found at around 40% of the way though the galley, I simply could not go on. As with The Inheritance Cycle, I also never felt any tension while reading the few what-should-have-been climactic parts of the novels. Reading it was a struggle as there were tons of pacing issues, very shallow character development, lots of telling and not showing, strange metaphors, and it suffered from the classic case of a male author not knowing how to write a female. Unfortunately, no matter how hard I tried, I could not get through this novel. Plus, I was intrigued by the synopsis of To Sleep in a Sea of Stars, which sounded like an epic sci-fi story with a badass female protagonist named Kira. Having read all of The Inheritance Cycle series, I was curious if I would like Christopher Paolini’s writing better since he was an adult and several years have passed since he wrote these novels. Her journey to discover the truth about the alien civilization will thrust her into the wonders and nightmares of first contact, epic space battles for the fate of humankind, and the farthest reaches of the galaxy. But when xenobiologist Kira Navárez finds an alien relic beneath the surface of the world, the outcome transforms her forever and will alter the course of human history. ![]() It was supposed to be a routine research mission on an uncolonized planet. Published by Tor Books on September 15th 2020īuy on Amazon| Buy on Barnes & Noble| Buy on WaterstonesĪ brand new space opera on an epic scale from the New York Times bestselling author of a beloved YA fantasy series. To Sleep in a Sea of Stars by Christopher Paolini ![]()
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