To Sleep in a Sea of Stars

Daniel reviewed To Sleep in a Sea of Stars by Christopher Paolini (Fractalverse, #1)

Trilogy Read

5 stars

I think this is three books that I listened to as a single book. Engaging but at times I was thinking “what is taking you so long to figure this out”. Aliens were quite alien but had human thought processes as well. I enjoyed it nonetheless, although I did not care for the Epilog.

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.

[email protected] 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.

[email protected] reviewed To Sleep in a Sea of Stars by Christopher Paolini (Fractalverse, #1)

Review of 'To Sleep in a Sea of Stars' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

Loads of fun, but the longer it goes, the farther it gets from its promising start as "real" scifi. The author's afterword discussing the long process creating this book was quite interesting. I wonder if I personally might have liked one of the earlier versions?
The backdrop is great, the characters engaging. By all means read it, but I guess I was hoping for something it's not.