Okay so I've put my Inheritance Cycle re-read on pause for a bit because I 1. Had to finish American Gods so I could give my friend his copy back, and 2. Decided to finally tackle To Sleep In A Sea Of Stars because Paolini is touring for Fractal Noise right now, and one of the places he's stopping is in a city only about an hour away from where I live!! So obviously I have to go do that.

But holy shit y'all, this book is good. If you are a fan of Eragon and you have any interest in sci-fi at all, highly recommend. It's very dense sci-fi (which is why I struggled to read it when I first bought it) of the variety that just throws a bunch of new concepts and terms at you until you have enough context to understand them, but if you can wade through that, the story and characters are so good.

We've got Kira, the main lady, who is Going Through It right now. We've got Falconi, crafty ship captain who's really into gardening. We've got Trig, an absolute lad. We've got Sparrow and Hwa-jung, muscle-bound space lesbians. We've got Nielsen, compassionate hard-ass, who I may or may not be imaging as Rhea Seehorn, even though her description doesn't line up. We've got Vishal, overly formal doctor after my own heart. We've got Gregorovich, the eccentric and definitely slightly crazy ship-mind. They have a cat and a pig on the ship, and god damn it if they aren't part of the family. They crew a ship called the Wallfish, an old British slang word for snail. They got in trouble with the space government for illegally selling a planet 777,776 newts and destroying the ecosystem. I'm love them.

Oh also Angela is just there. Like straight up she's just there.