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patrick_soares 's review for:
To Sleep in a Sea of Stars
by Christopher Paolini
Creative bankruptcy.
* A main character who looks like a 12 year old girl who fell in love for the first time with no depth whatsoever.
* A mediocre, forgettable supporting cast... well aside 1 special character that's a specific trope we have seen over and over in sci fi.
* Mediocre, way too simplistic (at least for my taste) prose. The amount of times Paolini uses expressions as 'BOOM' and 'BANG' is ludicrous.
* Atrocious pacing. Here's the plot of the book: we need to find A, we go to someplace, oh no the aliens found us, explosions and more explosions, we escaped, now we need to find B, let's go to another place, more explosions... *sigh*
At some point it felt like I was reading the equivalent of a Michael Bay book.
C'mon... space battles and action scenes should be occasional climaxes the author should build the narrative towards to, not some plot device that happens every 50 pages.
* The xeno that attaches to our Main Character is basically a Fantasy object. Oh the plot needs this to happen, voilá, here comes the Soft Blade. Oh, our characters are in peril, voilá here comes the Soft Blade to the rescue.
Jesus Christ. Instead of exploring the relationship between the xeno organism and the main character with depth, with handicaps, with opportunities to flesh out the character, no. Our main character is a Comic Book Super-Hero who saves everyone. *facepalm*
* The world building I can definitely give some value to Mr. Paolini. Does it have unique concepts we've never seen in sci-fi? Not really but it's overt the amount of time and care the author spent in creating the world, so yeah, that was not the problem here.
Suffice to say, this was my first and last experience with Mr. Paolini.
* A main character who looks like a 12 year old girl who fell in love for the first time with no depth whatsoever.
* A mediocre, forgettable supporting cast... well aside 1 special character that's a specific trope we have seen over and over in sci fi.
* Mediocre, way too simplistic (at least for my taste) prose. The amount of times Paolini uses expressions as 'BOOM' and 'BANG' is ludicrous.
* Atrocious pacing. Here's the plot of the book: we need to find A, we go to someplace, oh no the aliens found us, explosions and more explosions, we escaped, now we need to find B, let's go to another place, more explosions... *sigh*
At some point it felt like I was reading the equivalent of a Michael Bay book.
C'mon... space battles and action scenes should be occasional climaxes the author should build the narrative towards to, not some plot device that happens every 50 pages.
* The xeno that attaches to our Main Character is basically a Fantasy object. Oh the plot needs this to happen, voilá, here comes the Soft Blade. Oh, our characters are in peril, voilá here comes the Soft Blade to the rescue.
Jesus Christ. Instead of exploring the relationship between the xeno organism and the main character with depth, with handicaps, with opportunities to flesh out the character, no. Our main character is a Comic Book Super-Hero who saves everyone. *facepalm*
* The world building I can definitely give some value to Mr. Paolini. Does it have unique concepts we've never seen in sci-fi? Not really but it's overt the amount of time and care the author spent in creating the world, so yeah, that was not the problem here.
Suffice to say, this was my first and last experience with Mr. Paolini.