To Sleep in a Sea of Stars

A scifi story that has nothing to say, blown up to about 900 pages to repeat the same things over and over and over again. Paolini does not trust you to follow anything without spoonfeeding you the explanation and reasoning behind every single action the characters take.
It starts out as relatively hard scifi with some aliens, but quickly deteriorates into a fantasy quest of good vs evil.

There are quite a few good character moments here and there, but the writing is so transparent that I never thought “hey, what a great moment with these characters”, but “hey, Paolini used writing trick number 26 again” instead.