3.7 AVERAGE


so much detail

I wanted to love this book but it was so hard to wade through the immense amount of details. It made it harder to read and follow everything that was going on. Overall great story just hard to get into and continue at some points.
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suey's review

4.0
adventurous funny mysterious

An intense alien invasion sci fi story. 
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cant_get_over_ryuu's review

4.25

Wow what a long book, and yet, it never felt slow or dragged out. 

Really loved the concept, plot, characters and alien creatures. Kira was a great MC, who you got to see go through grief and fear and anger and forgiveness, watching her grow and adapt was great writing. 

Up til the very last I wasn’t sure how the book would end, and I’m satisfied with the ending.
adventurous emotional funny 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: Yes

michaelbecker's review

4.25
adventurous tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

sebastionaut's review

2.0

2.5 Sterne
- Gute Sci Fi
- Nicht so interessante Charaktere
- Geschwindigkeit zu langsam
- Beschreibungen und Träume oft unklar
adventurous mysterious 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: No

The book was enjoyable but it should have been split into 2 books. It was far too long and there were many parts where I felt like it should have ended. 

Just couldn’t get into it
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sidn's review

4.0
adventurous emotional funny mysterious 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: Complicated

Christopher Paolini was my favourite during late teenage and literally I'm reading one of his book after 5 years and meaning to read this one till the date he launched the book title and cover, so there is already a love for this book in my heart and also he wrote an intelligent sci fi epic. 

Sometimes it has generic space opera tropes and occasionally unique world building aspects. He totally went weird with the logics of the soft blade/seed. And that one of a ambitious ending maybe... I loved it fr. 

All that chapters of explanation of FTL system was fuking awesome, made me feel like I was preping for a semester finals in 22nd century physics.

Goodness me that was a long book. I feel like this had SO much potential but it was really dragged down by the long, almost never-ending story arcs and descriptions. That being said, the descriptions and scene-setting was so convoluted that I actually struggled to picture what was going on in my head.

I did really enjoy the story, I liked following Kira along and the whole found family element of it. I probably won’t read anything Paolini though.