To Sleep in a Sea of Stars (Fractalverse, #1)

by Christopher Paolini

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Where do you start when you attempt to put into words your thoughts on a book that is 880 pages long? You simply dive in and try not to loose your way. So my thoughts on this story and that what is a story. This novel is very much a character driven story. You start out with a crew who is working in space, our main character Kira ends up joining up with an alien spacesuit that takes over her whole world. I was hooked from the start mostly cause i really felt for Kira and i wanted to see how she was getting this alien life form off of her. Then you add in some really cool aspects like not one alien enemy but two, then you add in that her whole crew is killed, and then their a cat and pig for pets. How much more interesting can it get oh i forgot the ship minds, the quest to find a blue staff and that alien space suit and all the amazing things it wants to achieve and how Kira has to navigate her life in it.

This novel took the author almost a decade to deliver and it shows in all the intricate details. I really loved how he poured a lot of research and time into showing that he has so much more to offer beyond the inheritance cycle. Their been a trend for young adult authors to move out that genre and write adult novels and i sad to say i not sure it the best move for them. In this case i think it totally was, mostly cause he took the opinions of those first earlier readers and made it better, he saw where they were coming from and instead of turning in some half baked idea he went back to the drawing board and delivered an epic story. Don’t let the amount of pages put you off, if anything let them draw you in to an adventure that spans if i remember right ten months of space adventure. I promise you come out on the other side missing it and looking for your next great adventure.