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To Sleep in a Sea of Stars
by Christopher Paolini
825 pages and 2 months later, I finally finished this marathon. A while ago I read ‘Dune’ and tried ‘Seveneves’ (which I just couldn’t finish), and found both incredibly hard work and off-putting for sci-fi- and I hadn’t tried it since. However, ‘To Sleep...’ was incredibly refreshing and great fun to read. It’s a story based around ‘human’s first contact’, and (potentially with my sci-fi virginity) had a really fun spin with it and was actually ENJOYABLE
It took 10 years for Paolini to write, and it’s not difficult to see why. He’s created an incredibly immersive world; an ensemble of characters who I actually liked and had had a genuine fondness for; and although all the ‘science’ in this sci-fi was all based on real, existing theorems, it wasnt overbearing and heavy, and was such an easy and free-flowing read.
For such a hefty book as well, the fact that I was fairly captivated for all 800 pages I thought was testament to how well written the story was.
Only thing holding it back from that 5th ⭐️ was there was some predictability with where the story was heading with classic ‘the hero wins’ conclusions (sorry, spoiler), but I really enjoyed it nevertheless. Look forward to more marmite sci-fi 👍🏻
It took 10 years for Paolini to write, and it’s not difficult to see why. He’s created an incredibly immersive world; an ensemble of characters who I actually liked and had had a genuine fondness for; and although all the ‘science’ in this sci-fi was all based on real, existing theorems, it wasnt overbearing and heavy, and was such an easy and free-flowing read.
For such a hefty book as well, the fact that I was fairly captivated for all 800 pages I thought was testament to how well written the story was.
Only thing holding it back from that 5th ⭐️ was there was some predictability with where the story was heading with classic ‘the hero wins’ conclusions (sorry, spoiler), but I really enjoyed it nevertheless. Look forward to more marmite sci-fi 👍🏻