![]() I thought it was interesting to set her up as a Xenobiologist and then not have her do much science as the book went on. I liked Kira as a character, and given that the entire book is centered on Kira it’s a good thing I did. I personally didn’t need to know and cannot fact check that but hey it’s there! But if you are the kind of person who wants to know then there is an addendum which explains things. The characters knew how faster than light (FTL) travel worked and I could be blissfully ignorant. That was actually one of the moments where things could be taken as read. Speaking of science and being a scientist I thought it worth mentioning that I didn’t feel like this book got bogged down in science. Tell me something one time I will accept that it happened every time, I don’t need to be told each time it happens. That’s ad admirable thing to do – especially since he admits in his author’s note that he had to do a lot of research to get things right as he isn’t a scientist – but as a reader I quite often just want things to be taken as read. There were points where it felt as though Paolini was desperately trying to plug plotholes before they had even turned up. I did think this book maybe edged into the ‘too much detail’ mark. But hey – 800+ pages loving every word would be a lot of work. I was less keen on the space battles because I find whenever there is more than one battle in a book they tend to just blur into one for me – but if space battles were your thing then maybe you would really love that part of the book! Maybe that’s a double edged sword in that there is something for everyone but I don’t know how many people would adore the book in it’s entirety. I personally like character driven science fiction so my favourite moments were the dialogue with other characters and the moments where Kira got more introspective. In some ways that is a good thing, I certainly felt like there were parts of this book that would appeal to many different readers. The UK hardback clocks in at over 800 pages and despite the fact that the chapters are broken up into lots of smaller sections there is still a huge amount of text. My overwhelming impression of this book is that there is a lot in there. 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. During a routine survey mission on an uncolonized planet, Kira finds an alien relic.Īt first she’s delighted, but elation turns to terror when the ancient dust around her begins to move.Īs war erupts among the stars, Kira is launched into a galaxy-spanning odyssey of discovery and transformation. Kira Navárez dreamed of life on new worlds.
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