Will Sargent reviewed To Sleep in a Sea of Stars by Christopher Paolini (Fractalverse, #1)
Not great
2 stars
Reads very much like it was written by a 12 year old
Hardcover, 880 pages
Published Sept. 14, 2020 by Tor Books.
4 stars
(54 reviews)
Kira Navárez dreamed of life on new worlds. Now she's awakened a nightmare. During a routine survey mission on an uncolonized planet, Kira finds an alien relic. At first she's delighted, but elation turns to terror when the ancient dust around her begins to move.
As war erupts among the stars, Kira is launched into a galaxy-spanning odyssey of discovery and transformation. First contact isn't at all what she imagined, and events push her to the very limits of what it means to be human.
While Kira faces her own horrors, Earth and its colonies stand upon the brink of annihilation. Now, Kira might be humanity's greatest and final hope...
DThoris reviewed To Sleep in a Sea of Stars by Christopher Paolini (Fractalverse, #1)
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5 stars
Wow! What an amazing world Paolini wrote. Deep and rich and vibrant and full of people with their own personalities. This is a deep dive into the psyche and healing during a newly sprung war. The characters wrestled with their own moral dilemmas, their own pains, and the interconnectedness of their lives that allowed them to support each other.
Aliens, space battles, the vastness of space, run away military, and smugglers. Hits all the scifi buttons and delivers on them!
The audio book runs about 31 hours for the book itself (it also includes appendices and some author commentary, bringing it to 33). Jennifer Hale did a phenomenal job of bringing the characters to life.
Marco reviewed To Sleep in a Sea of Stars by Christopher Paolini (Fractalverse, #1)
Schuster bleib bei deinen Leisten
1 star
Paolini kann vielleicht Phantasie. Eine Phantasie-Story in die Zukunft und den Weltraum zu verlegen macht leider noch keinen brauchbaren Science-Fiction-Roman. Selten so ein uninspierertes und vorhersehbares Buch gelesen.
aura@books.theunseen.city reviewed Idéalis by Christopher Paolini (Fractalverse, #1)
A bland, not well-written sci-fi book
2 stars
Content warning Spoilers
Meh. For someone who read a bit of sci-fi, this book is really bland. Characters are behaving inconsistently, which makes it difficult to relate with them. I turned the pages, one sci-fi cliché after another, waiting for have some narrative signifiance. But the ruthless space marine who is actually kind, the alien-that-is-different-from-us-but-is-actually-thinking-just-like-the-humans-in-the-books, the countraband ship captain who is also a love interest... This first book does not really hype me for the upcoming sequel.
Tattooed_Mummy reviewed To Sleep in a Sea of Stars by Christopher Paolini (Fractalverse, #1)
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5 stars
Wow. Never ever bored. Gripping exciting stuff. Enjoyed every page.
John Best reviewed To Sleep in a Sea of Stars by Christopher Paolini (Fractalverse, #1)
Enjoyable,
3 stars
I originally found a hardcover copy of this book in a "free books" bin, then borrowed the audiobook edition from the library. I definitely enjoyed it, but I never felt emotionally invested in the characters. The episodic nature of the plot made the book feel very long; whenever I expected things to wrap up another conflict was tacked on.
Jolteon reviewed To Sleep in a Sea of Stars by Christopher Paolini (Fractalverse, #1)
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4 stars
It's a good book, but it should have been 2/3 the length. Overall, it's a interesting story with interesting characters. Unfortunately, I feel like it was written to be a certain length. I am rating this at 4 instead of 3 because I listened to the audiobook, which (for me) makes me more tolerant of slow parts.
Max reviewed To Sleep in a Sea of Stars by Christopher Paolini (Fractalverse, #1)
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5 stars
To Sleep in a Sea of Stars is an epic space-opera, spanning a vast amount of both space and time in a fascinating, fantasy-like galaxy. Despite its size, I dug through this book in 4 days, and every minute spent was worth it, worth being immersed in this breath-catching science fiction novel set in a vivid world with amazing characters.
neilernst reviewed To Sleep in a Sea of Stars by Christopher Paolini (Fractalverse, #1)
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2 stars
Plot plot plot ... never a moment to think
woollypigs reviewed To Sleep in a Sea of Stars by Christopher Paolini (Fractalverse, #1)
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4 stars
I don't normally like this kinda SiFi, it got a bit too much for me at the end. But the book got me hooked and I read it to the end and truly enjoyed it and I wanted to read it. There wasn't any points in the story I had to fight my way through.
karlhungus reviewed To Sleep in a Sea of Stars by Christopher Paolini (Fractalverse, #1)
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2 stars
Read this because it was the winner of the 2020 sci-fi category on goodreads.
WTF Goodreads.
Irritating characters, with predicable plot arcs, feeling exposition.
This would have been a hard pass if i hadn't been reading it to my daughter.
M Is For Awesome reviewed To Sleep in a Sea of Stars by Christopher Paolini (Fractalverse, #1)
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2 stars
It was a surprise to me to find out this is a modern book because it feels like something written in the 80’s. The world building is interesting and from what little I saw of it seemed detailed but the main character spent the entire first two chapters obsessing over her relationship with her boyfriend and while she is smart and capable the storytelling is full of old fashioned, thoughtless little ways society undermines women.
And that was before our heroine was invaded by an alien device and it murdered her fiancé.
Just as I was giving the author the benefit of the doubt about the optics of that the heroine herself describes the situation as having been “in a way penetrated” by this unwanted alien symbiont. Shortly thereafter she is naked in a glass room with unwanted medical procedures being attempted on her by a doctor who goes out …
It was a surprise to me to find out this is a modern book because it feels like something written in the 80’s. The world building is interesting and from what little I saw of it seemed detailed but the main character spent the entire first two chapters obsessing over her relationship with her boyfriend and while she is smart and capable the storytelling is full of old fashioned, thoughtless little ways society undermines women.
And that was before our heroine was invaded by an alien device and it murdered her fiancé.
Just as I was giving the author the benefit of the doubt about the optics of that the heroine herself describes the situation as having been “in a way penetrated” by this unwanted alien symbiont. Shortly thereafter she is naked in a glass room with unwanted medical procedures being attempted on her by a doctor who goes out of his way to treat her like a lab specimen.
I quit when the robots rolled in a bed with shackles on it.
oox reviewed To Sleep in a Sea of Stars by Christopher Paolini (Fractalverse, #1)
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4 stars
I enjoyed this. My only complaint was about some of the meditation inspired paragraphs, stuff about clearing your mind and such. As someone who is a serious meditator, these things stood out to me as poor representations and/or unskillful ways of relating to the mind. They all seemed to be drawn from pop-culture which doesn't really know much about meditation
Bethany reviewed To Sleep in a Sea of Stars by Christopher Paolini (Fractalverse, #1)
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1 star
So, in this book there's an AI and it calls some of the ppl it works for "meatbag"! Can you imagine? AI is supposed to be respectful and this one is snide! Wow, great stuff. That and so many more piping fresh ideas about SF in this masterpiece.
