3.7 AVERAGE

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brookewhite9's review

3.5
adventurous

Christopher Paolini has given us a wonderful story with a strong female character, Kira Navarez, a xenobiologist on assignment with a team of other scientists to verify that the planet is suitable for colonization. While the assignment is completed, there is one worrisome detail that she is sent to investigate shortly before the team leaves ??? to return to their home base – one of the drones that was sent out to gather visual information has disappeared. Kira is charged with finding the drone and, if possible, what happened to it. At the coordinates of the drone’s last transmission, she finds an interesting rock formation. Curiosity was both a blessing and a curse for Kira. She knows she shouldn’t stay to inspect the formation, and discovers its an alien relic with a purpose.

Paolini’s writing is outstanding, his characters well-developed as are the life forms that show up with domination on their minds. He has built a world where humans have scattered out to the far ends of the galaxy assuming that they are the only beings. Their arrogance is soon proven wrong. This book is tightly written with no wasted words, but his writing is so good that you’ll find yourself reading at every opportunity.

The ending clearly telegraphs that there will be another book in this series.

If you love hard-core SciFi, then this book must be at the top of your to-be-read list. If this is your first foray into the genre, this book and this author is a very good place to start.

My thanks to Tor Books and Edelweiss for an eARC.
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anna_carina's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH

Nach etwa 120 Seiten abgebrochen.
Sehr amerikanisch. Könnte einem Hollywood Blockbuster der 80/90 er entsprungen sein. Furchtbare Dialoge, der Versuch witzig und frech zu sein, alles sehr pathetisch. Alles wird für die Wissenschaft geopfert. Extreme Stereotype. Die Idee ist bis zu dem Punkt wo ich aufgehört habe nichts innovatives.

charliew12's review

3.5
adventurous fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No
adventurous challenging hopeful tense medium-paced

This book was incredibly long but I enjoyed it.i read it took Paolini nine years to finish this and I can tell the amount of work he poured into it. 
Very different from the Eragon series. 
adventurous challenging tense medium-paced

daanjansen96's review

3.0
adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring mysterious reflective relaxing sad 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: Yes

pitaku's review

3.75
adventurous mysterious

tiggie's review

3.0
adventurous slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes