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To sleep in a sea of stars 28/27/2023 I won’t go into spoilers, as much as I want to rant about this book (in a good way), because it will just be endless giddy screaming. They were a great group to have help Kira and they helped make the book a little more lighthearted.Īnd don’t get me started on all the newt puns I had to deal with. We also have some great new characters we meet and befriend who I loved getting to read about. Even though she’s been forced into this awful situation, and it definitely gets to her at times, she knows what she needs to do to help the people around her and the universe as a whole. ![]() The characters are amazing as well, in fact, they were one of the main reasons I loved it so much. Kira is a great main character because while she’s a tough cookie, and at times fearless, she’s also a great friend and very empathetic. He goes all out with this book, crafting images of beauty and horror in such an intense way. I’ve always loved his storytelling and his way with words. I would think I know where this story is going to go and then Paolini introduces something new that flips it on its head and makes it even better than before. The plot seemed familiar at first, but then Paolini turns it on its head and sends us off in another direction. And the illustrations inside are absolutely gorgeous, I just wish they had captions explaining what they were depicting.īesides formatting, the actual contents of this book are otherworldly. Instead of having to push through 50-80 pages for one chapter, I could stop at a specific section if I needed to. ![]() ![]() In each chapter there are numbered sections which really helped me since the chapters can be quite lengthy. Beginning, middle, end is like book 1, 2, and 3 – which I’m not complaining about, because it was awesome! I loved the format of the book because it really helped break up the density of this story and turn it into something a little easier to tackle. To start off, this book is like 3 books in one. When I received the book, I couldn’t believe I was holding a 900 page monster in my hands. If you’ve read or seen the Eragon books, you’ll know. I should have realized that this book was going to be a mammoth before I received it because, well, it’s Paolini. Now, Kira might be humanity’s greatest and final hope. While Kira faces her own horrors, Earth and its colonies stand upon the brink of annihilation. First contact isn’t at all what she imagined, and events push her to the very limits of what it means to be human. ![]() At first she’s delighted, but elation turns to terror when the ancient dust around her begins to move.Īs war erupts among the stars, Kira is launched into a galaxy-spanning odyssey of discovery and transformation. Kira Navárez dreamed of life on new worlds.ĭuring a routine survey mission on an uncolonized planet, Kira finds an alien relic. “ To Sleep in a Sea of Stars is a brand new epic novel from New York Times bestselling author Christopher Paolini. But let me tell you, this book is so good, it blew my expectations out of the water! I’m going to start off by saying that I love the Eragon series (though I haven’t read it in many years) so I was a little biased going into this. I won an ARC of To Sleep in a Sea of Stars by Christopher Paolini from Bookish First and Tor in exchange for an honest review. I had to take a few days to really digest this book, because if I wrote my initial thoughts after finishing this it would just be screaming (AAAHHH) across the screen.
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