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

by Christopher Paolini

[HekArtemis]

4.5 stars. This was super fun scifi with a slight cosmic horror feel to it. But only because of all the tentacles and maws and old ones and stuff. It's not actually very horrory imo.

My main issues were the consistent "Alan" running through the whole 800 pages. And the end went a bit Silmarillion there which is an interesting choice for scifi that I don't think fit perfectly, despite the various dream sequences throughout.

Gregoravich was great, as were Runcible and Mr Fuzzypants. But the Entropists were the standout for me. I hope any future Fractalverse books feature some of them again. And to that, I do like the breadth of the world/universe building and the snippets of depth we get as well. I am definitely looking forward to more books in this universe.