A review by hebberelle
To Sleep in a Sea of Stars by Christopher Paolini

3.0

This was epic in every sense of the word. It's a HUGE novel, and not an easy, fluffy read. It has big ideas and big explanations and big locations. I had a rough time with it though. The beginning was so jarring (is supposed to be), but then it seemed like fully 2/3rds of the novel was 'shit going wrong in every way possible'. At one point it read like someone's drunken rpg with the PC's just scrambling to do whatever they could. Then all of the sudden it's wrapped up neatly and things are going right. Then it just goes completely off the rails and into crazypants. I feel like I've been wrung out reading this. Like my brain is a bit too small for all the information this book tried to present and cram in there.

The best character in this book is Gregorovitch. Each character was actually refreshingly real as a person and unique.