CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI TO SLEEP IN A SEA OF STARS REVIEW FULL

The book is comfortingly long, I like big books when I am enjoying the story and I didn't want this book to end which is why it achieves the full 5 stars, no questions asked. I can tell you that there is a very interesting and quite incredible story at the back about how this novel came kicking and screaming into existence. Ther's no plot spoliers here so don't worry Life is too short to waste reading stuff like this. Overall summary: starts quite well but degenerates into trite rubbish. All the soldiers are real tough guys, the 'kid' is a real wide eyed innocent, the hero doesn't seem to have any problems with just ignoring pain and injury, and look! -just when it looks like the end of the world has come, some of the mindlessly aggressive enemy aliens turn out to be a liberal rebel wing who actually like humans and want to help! The characterisation doesn't live up to any of its early promise either. The aliens are not particularly alien, more like monsters out of some YA horror story. Much of the plot is completely implausible, with sudden twists that just don't make any sense except that the author needed something to propel the story on. By the mid point I really began to lose hope. At the outset, it seemed a reasonably interesting space opera romp with some potentially engaging characters - though the main character's love story is a bit gushy, like something out of a trashy romantic novel. I don't often give up on a book, but I quit reading this one half-way through. I don't get how so many reviewers were so enthusiastic about this. I cannot comment on this, I didn't get that far, but if the attention to the science is the same as the attention to the writing then I can quite easily believe it. From other reviews I have read the science doesn't stand up that well either. I am no scholar but I have rarely been so aware of such poor writing in the many books I have consumed, it was such a distraction I had to 'throw in the towel'. Sentences and paragraphs should flow off the page through the mind of the reader without being read through twice because you cannot believe how badly formulated they are and thinking to yourself 'I would have constucted that differently'. When I read a book I assume that the author will look after such technical issues i.e they have the the basic writing skills and I,as the reader, can concentrate on the main story, characters and ideas. If you are not concerned about things likes sentence construction and grammar then read on. How did this get past the proof reader and the publisher? Was it proof read by a year four? I managed to get to page 55 and realised that this author hasn't a clue about sentence construction. This is boring and uninspired and if you're looking to read some good science fiction, I would strongly suggest that you take your money somewhere else. I don't know what on earth has driven some of the critics to praise this novel. There's absolutely nothing fresh, unique or interesting in the premise and nothing at all that rouses your interest in an incredibly over-crowded and overdone market of ideas. What has he brought to the table that's any different? The novel literally draws upon EVERY TROPE science fiction/space opera has relied on for decades now. There's about a million other stories such as this about humanity colonising the stars and coming into conflict with an alien race. I respect some certain features of the story, such as the world-building and the reimagining of the future with the introduction of some really interesting tech, but the central premise is just so tired, worn out, and overdone. If he could trim the list of characters, shave away some of the uninteresting, boring parts of the story and confine the story within an area of interest, that could have worked. It's about 500 pages longer than it needs to be. An absolute chore to get through for the most part. Unfortunately, this book still is a giant bore. The only positive thing about this book that I can personally say, is that at least it isn't completely derived and borrowed off another one like the Eragon books were. It's a long, bloated, boring novel that makes me regret paying money for it. To Sleep in a Sea is absolutely no improvement from his earlier works.

They just ripped off the Star Wars movies beat by beat.

His Eragon books were uninspired, long, boring, and most importantly - completely derivative. Christopher Paolini is just a bad author.

Christopher paolini to sleep in a sea of stars review