![]() ![]() And then Paolini didn’t release another book for, like, nine years until this one appeared on the shelves. I liked Eragon a lot when I read it the first time and by the end of the series I was completely done with it. This is, in case you don’t know, the guy behind the “Inheritance Cycle,” the series of books that started with Eragon and got longer and shittier with each successive book. Before you even open the book, you know the main thing you need to know: Christopher Paolini is super fucking important. ![]() If I had bought the book from a bookstore, I very well might have put it back on the shelf, because this offends me to a degree that I’m honestly kind of surprised by. This is the only book I own that does not have the name of the book on the spine. Books by people far more important and far more successful than Christopher Paolini. ![]() It is a massive book.Īnd the spine, which Amazon tells me is 1.74 inches wide, features the word PAOLINI on it in the largest font possible and nothing else other than the publisher’s mark. Now, understand this: Stars is eight hundred and twenty-five pages of story with another 53 pages of (utterly unnecessary) appendices, a glossary, a timeline, and author’s notes tacked onto the end. Seriously, stare at it for a while it’s probably the best thing about the book. I’ll start with something positive: take a look at that cover, and bask in its gorgeousness for a moment. Gird your loins and adjust your expectations as necessary, because this is going to end up more as a review of Christopher Paolini than a review of his new book. ![]()
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