Yup. I just finished it myself. I was hoping there would be some sort of reward for slogging through such a poorly written book. Nothing. I'm irritated. It was pointless. I don't know if it would have been any better as a short story, honestly.... but maybe, with some adjustments. I saw somewhere that it was inspired by a nightmare? That would explain it a bit.. but still it was too long and felt pointless.

To Sleep in the Sea of Stars had it's issues.... too many things happen virtualy the same way with slight differences multiple times, but it had a narrative, it was interesting and new, and I enjoyed it overall. Unfortunately he rambles a bit (Eragon book 3) and needs to be rained in sometimes, which is unfortunate because he has some good ideas. I hope the new book in the Eragon series doesn't suck. I recently found and read the set of three short stories in that series and I really liked them, probably because they were short and to the point.

I guess there are worse things in the world right now to be complaining about.

I too have tried to sign up to no avail. I just never receive any emails for verification. I've used both gmail and a custom domain on Google workspace (actually thinking of migrating that to mailbox.org or protonmail)