I’ve never had that before in a book I’ve listened to and I suspect it was due to time pressures in meeting the release date, but it was off putting and oddly amateur for a release this hyped. They kept missing the cut point so that words would be repeated as the various takes were sewn badly together. As she mentions in the discussion at the end it was her first audio book and she really did grow into it. Hale definitely grew into it as the book progressed but it sounded like it might stumble into erotic fiction for the first hour or so. The narration was too breathy at the start. I suspect it will be dealt with in a follow up book but that but just felt unnecessary and overly complicated the story arc in an unsatisfactory way. Firstly a couple of the characters/plot points appear and then disappear without a trace, including one who is briefly the big bad only to barely raise a mention later on. There are a couple of things that felt odd. Also the crew of the Wallpig in particular very much had the feel of the Firefly crew to my mind which I rather liked. Rarely did I feel like the characters jarred enough to break me away from the world it created, and also felt that I wanted to know how the story progressed. That said, it *is* a grand space opera of a story and it did it well. It was a little bit like if Disney did a space opera. I’d also say that the main character is just a bit too nice and it never felt like she was struggling against her own nature to the right thing. It definitely has feelings of it being written by an author use to writing for young adults/teens and the characterisation felt a bit blunt on occasion. It’s long but having gotten to the end I think I would go back and do it again unlike some other long books I’ve listened to (Shantaram I’m looking at you, although I do keep thinking of Shantaram so maybe I’m being unfair to it). I liked listening to it and I’m glad that I have listened to it. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio. Now, Kira might be humanity’s greatest and final hope. While Kira faces her own horrors, Earth and its colonies stand upon the brink of annihilation. First contact isn’t at all what she imagined, and events push her to the very limits of what it means to be human. As war erupts among the stars, Kira is launched into a galaxy-spanning odyssey of discovery and transformation. At first she’s delighted, but elation turns to terror when the ancient dust around her begins to move. Now she's awakened a nightmare.ĭuring a routine survey mission on an uncolonized planet, Kira finds an alien relic. Kira Navárez dreamed of life on new worlds. To Sleep in a Sea of Stars is a masterful epic science-fiction novel from the New York Times and Sunday Times best-selling author of the Inheritance Cycle, Christopher Paolini. Goodreads Choice Award for Best Science Fiction Novel.
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