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To Sleep in a Sea of Stars by Christopher Paolini

33 reviews

sacculent's review

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

This book is fucking incredible, and, after reading it, has put me in a state of contemplation and self reflection, as well as just getting me out of a several month long book slump. FUCK it's good.

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allcapspyrex's review against another edition

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adventurous tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

At first I wasn't sure what to rate this book. It's not perfect on a technical level, and I can see why it's reviews are somewhat mixed. That being said, I ended up loving it. It's been a long time since I've had as much difficulty putting a book down as this one. Somehow, despite being well over 800 pages, it's still a fast pace story, there's near constant action and all of it is just so well written. If you love sci-fi or want to jump into a space opera for the first time, I absolutely recommend this, it's a joy.

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minna_chan's review against another edition

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adventurous mysterious medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

Entertaining, immersive and well-thought out world. Very fun to decipher the laws of nature and society in this sciencefiction world. And oh, it’s actually based on science that could work in theory. Nice addition.

Characters were kind of flat to me at times, and story became predictive. There’s no real major character development for any of the characters.

(Spoiler alert, read with caution).

Main girl has to save the world (or universe, really) because it’s about to be destroyed by a monstrous debacle but doesn’t really change throughout the story. I mean, yeah, she might’ve accepted that she might not return to her old lifestyle but is otherwise the exact same person as she was at the beginning, despite having been dead and resurrected…twice.

But it was a nice read overall. 3/5.

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sjlarson's review

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adventurous slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.5

I enjoyed this overall. It was a fun adventure with interesting characters, but the ending unfortunately dragged on a bit and I am not a fan of the ending.

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sometimes_samantha_reads's review

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adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

This book was a beast. It took a long time to finish but it was worth it! The fight scenes were wel-written, judt a bit overdone bu tue end I think. Otherwise, this is the best sci-fi I've read in years and I'm happy to know that a second book is in the works.

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ashlightgrayson's review

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adventurous dark mysterious tense slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

I don't usually read hard sci-fi like this, but this one gradually grew on me. It reminded of original Star Trek in terms of pacing, but with really enthralling action scenes in between the lulls of the plot. There is an emphasis on the vastness of outer space and this first book feels like an introduction to the Fractalverse overall. It takes a while to really get to know the characters, but by the end I really appreciated the humor and friendship amongst the crew. I would say it is definitely more of a plot dye l driven story, though.

The conclusion of the story is open ended and emphasized how far in the future the story is occurring. I think some people may see some aspects of fantasy in the world and story. Personally, I found that interesting and enjoyable. I’m not one to nitpick at the minor aspects of a world if it doesn’t really affect the story. It’s a fictional story with aliens, spaceships, and impossible space travel, so a symbiotic relationship that modifies the host party isn’t really where I draw the line is what I’m saying. If you want to just read this first book and stop here you totally can. However, I definitely think I'm going to read the sequel. I feel like I appreciated the story most after finishing it and having time to digest everything that happened. It’s one of those books that I think you have to sit with for a bit in order to determine if it’s for you or not. Even if it’s not for you, I think it’s not a bad introduction to hard sci-fi. I'm looking forward to more.

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