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aethyta 's review for:
To Sleep in a Sea of Stars
by Christopher Paolini
hopeful
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Look, the Chosen One trope is still the Chosen One trope even if the protagonist is a woman. This was a long-winded sci-fi story about the peril of conflict, how much xenophobia sucks and how we should all just mind meld and make cool shit together.
The alien allies were referred to as “jellies” well until the conclusion of the book and the protagonist never found common ground with the Inari. It’s a completely different civilization! Write one conversation where they discover they have ONE THING just one thing in common!! Men writing aliens always ends in disaster because they refuse to connect with them if no sexual connection is possible.
In fact the only reason Kira didn’t just sound like a man altogether is because I listened to the Jennifer Hale audiobook rendition of this novel.
She gets a living armor carapace she cannot shed and she has absolutely zero concern or discomfort about it. Can you not describe how invasive it is? How creepy? How painful? How it moves weird? Obviously a dude would be like “power armor?! Sweet!!” He mentioned menstruation once but because she’s sterile it’s fine?! Dude, it does not work like that. Generally, frustrating listen for me.
The alien allies were referred to as “jellies” well until the conclusion of the book and the protagonist never found common ground with the Inari. It’s a completely different civilization! Write one conversation where they discover they have ONE THING just one thing in common!! Men writing aliens always ends in disaster because they refuse to connect with them if no sexual connection is possible.
In fact the only reason Kira didn’t just sound like a man altogether is because I listened to the Jennifer Hale audiobook rendition of this novel.
She gets a living armor carapace she cannot shed and she has absolutely zero concern or discomfort about it. Can you not describe how invasive it is? How creepy? How painful? How it moves weird? Obviously a dude would be like “power armor?! Sweet!!” He mentioned menstruation once but because she’s sterile it’s fine?! Dude, it does not work like that. Generally, frustrating listen for me.