christopher paolini to sleep in a sea of stars review

I also haven’t been super motivated to keep reading this book. I started reading The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and it was so addicting that I had to keep reading and finish it (spoiler non-spoiler: it was a 5-star read). So I took a few days off of reading this because 1. We are starting to see and learn more about side characters and honestly, my favourites so far are the Entropists! These guys seem SO cool and I want to see more from them. One moment it’s a bit slow and another it’s frantic and I kind of like that this book is keeping me on my toes. I didn’t spend a whole lot of time reading today but the 5% I did read was pretty good, things are developing rapidly and I’m starting to notice the weird pacing.

It baffles me that I’m only a quarter into this book (roughly 200 pages), it feels like I’ve read quite a lot already but this is a BIG book.

This could simply be that now I have adjusted to this massive new world and understand the protagonist a bit more or just that the author’s writing has progressed and I’m definitely enjoying this more as I continue to read it. Adult books definitely use more brainpower when it comes to reading but I’m finding that since I hit the 20% mark, the writing has gotten easier to read. It has been quite exhausting to read because the writing hasn’t been as digestible. I’m really enjoying this but also realising that I should try and read this book in small bites. I’m finally a quarter in! The story has progressed so far since I last updated and more anticipation and action is happening. So far the only qualm I guess you could say is that the romance has been quite clunky and I personally just hate the usage of ‘babe’. I’m quite excited to see where this goes. So far, it’s made me feel so many emotions hopelessness, utter sadness, weirded out and shock amongst others. Wtf does the rest of the 700 odd pages have for me? IDK. I genuinely have no idea where this book is going to go and by my calculations, I’m only just over 100 pages into this book. Our protagonist basically makes a huge alien discovery and we start to see more aliens in the story which is super scary and omg SPACE IS SCARY. I would skim without thinking then realise – oh, I don’t actually know what happened, let’s go back and reread that paragraph lol. So far it has been adrenaline-filled and suspenseful although I found some of the action scenes kind of hard to follow or understand. I read up to 15% in my eARC and HOLY SHIT, a lot has happened since Chapter 1 – way faster than I anticipated. I had been finishing a couple of other books before continuing onto this one so I spent a few hours reading this book. I then realised that I literally knew nothing about this book going in so I read the blurb after finishing the first chapter and now I have a better idea of what I’ve gotten myself into. It was super nice and wholesome, and there is TOTALLY gonna be something sinister or problematic that happens to totally ruin their plans. We meet her love interest and they have these beautiful plans to change their lives and stop hopping from one planet to another through their work. Our main character is a scientist with specialist knowledge and such so it’s a bit of a culture shock. So far, it’s very interesting, there was a lot of new lingo for me to get my head around. I have read the first chapter of this thicc book. NOTE: this is a non-spoilers post so if you are interested in reading this book you can continue!

I honestly didn’t know what I was getting myself into, but here is are my thoughts as I read the book – I hope you enjoy my rambles 🙂 So, I reached out to my editor goddess at The Nerd Daily and managed to snag an eARC of the sci-fi beast and it basically became my goal to read it ASAP to review, so that my bf can read it straight afterwards. But my boyfriend is a HUGE fan of Paolini and kept asking me to try and get an ARC. It is bigger than The Priory of the Orange Tree at 880 pages and that’s utterly terrifying.

The book in today’s revolutionary blog post is none other than To Sleep In A Sea of Stars by Christopher Paolini. It’s so cool to be able to see someone’s reactions and thoughts as they are reading a book, and I was like – why can’t I do that? Obviously, I don’t want to show my face and push myself into a dark pit of disastrous commitment by starting a YouTube Channel - but why can’t I still do a reading vlog style blog post? So here it is! As a proud member of the book community, I am well versed in the art of watching reading vlogs by booktubers I admire and love.

Christopher paolini to sleep in a sea of stars review