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I am loving this series. I’ve barreled through it from Skyward straight through the conclusion of this third book. But now I have to wait until next YEAR for the fourth. Arggggh.
Spensa proved herself an excellent pilot for her small human enclave on a far-flung planet called Detritus. They’ve been stranded on the planet for 70 years and kept there by an alien race the humans call the Krell — but then they find out the Krell have just been acting as prison guards. The Superiority, the governing galactic alliance, are ultimately responsible for the humans’ imprisonment on Detritus.
In Starsight, Spensa gets an opportunity to go to the home base of the Superiority as a spy, in hopes of learning more and of stealing a hyperdrive. She learns a lot more than she had expected: what the hyperdrives are, for one, and that there’s a faction of Superiority leadership that are planning a military coup — which includes the goal of wiping out the humans on Detritus.
At the beginning of Cytonic, Spensa has taken a leap into the “nowhere,” a dark space she’s familiar with because of her cytonic abilities, which allow her to teleport. She’s already faced the delvers, the malevolent beings that lurk in the nowhere. In her close experience with one, she made some interesting discoveries. In this third book, which takes place entirely in the very strange outer reaches of the nowhere, she will learn exactly what the delvers are and where they came from.
So far, each book in the series has been set in a different place. So new characters and settings are introduced, which are fun, even as a few from previous locales get to pop up in the new action. It’s all so clever and fascinating. There are certainly scary situations and formidable enemies, but there are also cute and witty situations and characters that lighten the story and balance it nicely. Again, so looking forward to the next book, which comes in 2023.
Rated: Mild. There are about 10 uses of mild language. Violence is mostly fighting in space, with reference to pilots being killed. There is little sexual content; a couple kiss and there are references to a boy being shirtless.
