To Sleep in a Sea of Stars

"Finished March 10th - first book of March. This book was sooooo long but soooo worth the read. So complex and beautiful. "

"While being a Paolini fan I was not ready for what was about to happen. I'm glad I went into this not knowing much about the plot. It was surprise after surprise and "Omg what is that?" That being said I do believe this was a little to ambitious for one book. While Paolini did amazing research, I found it to be too much at times. If I daydreamed for one second while listening I missed something important.<br/><br/>This was a very character driven book. Which I was surprised about. It seemed as though the world was given a lot of detail but not in a way that was easy to understand and construct. Although the characters were so fun. Really making you want to be apart of the Wallfish crew. The ship mind Gregorovitch was by far my favorite character. The comic relief if you will. I felt Keria was too detached most of the time kind of like a robot and in the end it's almost what she became.<br/><br/>"I like to be where ever interesting things are happening." <br/><br/>The many named woman with the cat. I have a hutch that there are a couple salutes to Paolini's The Inheritance Cycle which was nice. And of course I'm very impressed with the narrator Jennifer Hale. If I knew all the characters better to begin with she wouldn't even need to tell you who was talking because Jennifer was that good at changing her voice. The audiobook is a must.<br/><br/>The worst part to me was being so conflicted. Having read the Ender's saga I have a new found respect for alien lifeforms and how we should handle first contact. Let me clarify with regards to this story. If we as humans are attacked, without the knowledge or communication skill, we have no idea of the threats intentions. Are they doing it out of an act of desperation, misinformation, or if they are in fact just a menacing species? So that being said even later on, without trying to reason with them we continue shooting the aliens down. It just didn't sit well with me. <br/><br/>One of the best things was the length of the story. It didn't appear to drag too much but I loved the real time at which you read it. Not much time slipped by unless Keria was in cryo. So we got to follow her across the galaxy which was very awe inspiring. The line was blured to where you were getting to know this new world and then all the sudden you were apart of it.<br/><br/>"A newtron bomb." <br/><br/>Hahaha the puns was they funniest part of the story. I really wish there would have been more of that togetherness that helped bring you into the group of characters. Also just going to come out and say it Paolini is a little cruel when it comes to romance. It's never satisfying even though I know it's not the main ring of the circle. Still the relationships always get pushed to the very back of the story. Almost as if that don't really matter or are not strong. The ending again wasn't sufficient. It was nice and fit but left a lot up in the air."

"Fantastic story. I did not want it to end...."

"#science_fiction "

"I’m currently reading this and will follow up when I’m done but so far it is amazing and I’m obsessed"

"Generic space war book"

"now this book is amazing, the amount of detaism that go into the war, the action, the characters, space etc it was very good"

"I grew up reading the inheritance cycle, which is meant for "young adult" and I loved it to death. I'm half way through reading To Sleep and you can tell her had way more fun writing it. The author can do what he wants because its for adults not children, he is free to write whatever he wants to happen even if it's terrifying at times."

"This book was so amazing! I don’t usually read very much sci-fi, but this story got me hooked from the beginning. The characters are so real and engaging and funny! While the world they traverse is huge, it is always easy to follow and there are numerous engaging twists and turns. I can typically guess what will happen in a book, but this book repeatedly surprised me. I listened to this as an audiobook and the narrator really brought the characters to life. I especially love Gregorovich 😆"

"I feel that this novel could have been 2_3 books"