Spoiler-free review.
"To Sleep in a Sea of Stars" is a beautiful book. Its strengths are its world building and its characters. I read sci-fi, but I'm not the MOST well-versed sci-fi reader, so I'm sure people who are more knowledgeable or read almost exclusively from the genre may disagree, but: I thought the world building was out of this world good. I haven't felt so immersed in a fictional world in a long time. And the characters--I really liked Kira, and Falconi was SO GOOD.
Not so good things...really, it's mainly one thing. It was definitely too long. Even though I enjoyed it, it dragged in so many places. Knowing that this is just the first book in a series makes me feel even worse about this, because as book series go on they usually get longer. I'm just not as excited as I could be for the next one.
"To Sleep in a Sea of Stars" is a beautiful book. Its strengths are its world building and its characters. I read sci-fi, but I'm not the MOST well-versed sci-fi reader, so I'm sure people who are more knowledgeable or read almost exclusively from the genre may disagree, but: I thought the world building was out of this world good. I haven't felt so immersed in a fictional world in a long time. And the characters--I really liked Kira, and Falconi was SO GOOD.
Not so good things...really, it's mainly one thing. It was definitely too long. Even though I enjoyed it, it dragged in so many places. Knowing that this is just the first book in a series makes me feel even worse about this, because as book series go on they usually get longer. I'm just not as excited as I could be for the next one.