Author: Brandon Sanderson
Format: Hardcover
Genre: Young Adult, Science Fiction
Publication Date: November 26, 2019
Synopsis:
All her life, Spensa's dreamed of becoming a pilot and proving herself a hero like her father. She made it to the sky, but the truths she learned there were crushing. The rumors of her father's cowardice are true--he deserted his Flight during battle against the Krell. Worse, though, he turned against his team and attacked them.
Spensa is sure that there's more to the story. And she's sure that whatever happened to her father that day could happen to her. When she made it outside the protective shell of her planet, she heard the stars--and what they revealed to her was terrifying. Everything Spensa has been taught about her world is a lie.
Humankind has always celebrated heros, but who defines what a hero is? Could humanity be the evil the galaxy needs to be protected from? Spensa is determined to find out, but each answer she discovers reveals a dozen new questions: about the war, about her enemies, and even, perhaps, about Spensa herself.
But Spensa also discovered a few other things about herself--and she'll travel to the end of the galaxy to save humankind if she needs to.
Sophomore books are so hard to read because you never know if it's going to meet your expectations. However, this book was a really great continuation of Skyward.
The whole first book we were wondering why Spensa's colony was not allowed off of their planet and this book finally answers the question, plus so many more. We get introduced to a new group of characters but still get the great camraderie between Spensa and M-Bot. I however really missed the Spensa - Jorgen relationship. I knew going into it that this book was probably going to be mainly Spensa but I really wish we could have seen more of what her friends were up to instead of little snippets.
With that aside, I thoroughly enjoyed this book and it's made me so excited to read book 3. I am reading along with my daughter and we both decided to spread the books out and not read Cytonic (Skyward #3) until August since Defiant (Skyward #4) won't be released until November.
The whole first book we were wondering why Spensa's colony was not allowed off of their planet and this book finally answers the question, plus so many more. We get introduced to a new group of characters but still get the great camraderie between Spensa and M-Bot. I however really missed the Spensa - Jorgen relationship. I knew going into it that this book was probably going to be mainly Spensa but I really wish we could have seen more of what her friends were up to instead of little snippets.
With that aside, I thoroughly enjoyed this book and it's made me so excited to read book 3. I am reading along with my daughter and we both decided to spread the books out and not read Cytonic (Skyward #3) until August since Defiant (Skyward #4) won't be released until November.
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