To Sleep in a Sea of Stars

I loved the cast of this book. Gregorovich, Sparrow, Atari, all of them. That being said, this book was easily 400 pages too long. Kira was a slow hero. Learning about the “soft blade/seed” and what it was, could have been done in half the amount of words and still held the same meaning. I'm not a huge fan of heroes that act more on guilt than for justice or revenge, but I liked this book a lot. The writing wasn't poor or anything, but I wasn't excited to continue to pick this book up because the sheer number of pages left every time. I feel like for an epic novel, I shouldn't be able to sum up the entire story in 5 minutes and with this one I can. I will give props to Paolini for writing a believable female main character and not skeeve me out while reading.