On the planet they were supposed to find the Staff of Blue, they instead get saved by a rebel faction of the Jellies. Why?īecause when they get to the Staff, it turns out to be broken.
How? Kira doesn’t know, she never finds out, and so we never know either. In her dreams, her suit shows her images of “The Staff of Blue”, a cool ancient relic that could somehow stop the Jellies and end the war. On this ship (I just accidentally typed “shit” instead of ship – and that’s fair) she meets a host of characters, none of whom are relevant enough to be mentioned in the synopsis on Wikipedia. Kira escapes and finds herself rescued by a smuggler ship called “The Wallfish”. The Jellies are pissed that the “Soft Blade” – Kira’s nanosuit – has been activated, and also about the creation of a corrupted being called “the Maw” that floats through space and is evil? Anyway Kira accidentally created it with her suit, and the Jellies have started a war with humanity for the above reasons and it’s all real bad. She then gets taken into custody by a special division of the military who do some experiments, but then the ship is attacked by the Wranaui, or “Jellies” as they are more commonly referred to. So what I want to do here is not just point out all the things I didn’t like about the book, but actually offer my insights into how I think this book could have been improved.Īnyway, what happens is Kira accidentally touches some space dust that turns out to be ancient alien nanotechnology that covers her in a protective, but aggressive skin-tight suit that accidentally kills her team mates and her boyfriend, Allan. One could argue that it takes more than that to make someone a good writer, but as far as I’m concerned, this book only needed a couple of adjustments to make it pretty good. The prose of To Sleep in a Sea of Stars is very well written and never bothered me. In order to not be overly negative, I want to preface this article by saying that I don’t actually think Paolini is a bad writer at all. Unfortunately, even the book that I kept mentally referring to as his “redemption arc” wasn’t able to win me over. When I started this book, I was really rooting for Paolini. Paolini is an adult now, and To Sleep in a Sea of Stars was published by an actual publishing house. The chances of that novel actually being good were always gonna be rather slim, especially when you consider that the book was never edited by a proper editor. After all, A 15 year old writing a novel is quite an impressive feat. However, my problem was never with Christopher Paolini. It read like it was written by a 15 year old – and it was. To put it plainly… I really hated Eragon. I must admit that since reading Eragon a couple of years ago, I’ve been conflicted about Christopher Paolini. For the past few… months, I should say, I’ve been listening to the audiobook of To Sleep in a Sea of Stars by Christopher Paolini.
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