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A review by alexiasp
To Sleep in a Sea of Stars by Christopher Paolini
Did not finish book. Stopped at 41%.
Not even the fantastic audiobook made me want to sit through another 20 hours of this book.
I thought the beginning was interesting, but nothing was completely unheard of. It was a cool take on Venom in an alien/sci-fi way. But the book is just too damn long. It becomes repetitive (dreams with vision, traveling, dreams with visions, traveling). I also don't understand why so many "hard sci-fi" elements are thrown into this when it's more of a superhero story that becomes more fantasy than sci-fi.
I did like Kira's character, even though she's the stereotypical space opera FMC (think Gravity and Interstellar). She was enough to drive the plot forward. I also appreciate that the story is centered around her and does not give all the other 20 characters a deep background and development like many sci-fi do now. That is more appropriate for fantasy.
Not Paolini saying that The Maw is not inspired by other sci-fi/thriller works. Definitely not inspired by the Sandworm :)
I thought the beginning was interesting, but nothing was completely unheard of. It was a cool take on Venom in an alien/sci-fi way. But the book is just too damn long. It becomes repetitive (dreams with vision, traveling, dreams with visions, traveling). I also don't understand why so many "hard sci-fi" elements are thrown into this when it's more of a superhero story that becomes more fantasy than sci-fi.
I did like Kira's character, even though she's the stereotypical space opera FMC (think Gravity and Interstellar). She was enough to drive the plot forward. I also appreciate that the story is centered around her and does not give all the other 20 characters a deep background and development like many sci-fi do now. That is more appropriate for fantasy.