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Ever since she was little, Spensa dreamed of becoming a fighter pilot like her father, but when her father was killed in the Battle of Alta, everything changed. Her father used to be revered. Now they’re calling him a coward. They say he ran away from the fight.
Everyone speaks of being a coward like it’s a fate worse than death. Being the daughter of the coward means Spensa’s chances of attending Flight School are slim to none, but she won’t give up so easily, because Spensa knows, without a doubt, her father was never a coward. He was the bravest person she knew, and those in command would rue the day they thought to lie about him.
Her father once told her to “claim the stars.” Spensa intends to do just that. After all, she’s Defiant. She’s a fighter. She’ll do whatever it takes to prove herself as a pilot and redeem her father’s name. And an accidental discovery of an ancient spaceship in a small, hidden cavern might just provide her a way to reach the skies.
Brandon Sanderson has created yet another vivid world that kept me reading during every spare moment I could find. I haven’t read that much sci-fi, so I was surprised by how much I loved Skyward! Despite the technical terms, once I got a couple of chapters into the book, I found the story easy to follow (the pictures scattered throughout the pages helped as well.)
Overall it was brilliant sci-fi with a breath-of-fresh-air, plot-driven story featuring no romance (though there is a potential love interest that makes an appearance) and many twists and turns. I can’t wait to return to Spensa’s world in Starsight!
Rated: Mild, for 9 instances of mild and moderate language. The fantasy cuss word “scud” is used mainly throughout the story. There is also one scene with childish potty humor from an AI. In the way of violence, there are a lot of distant deaths witnessed where fighter pilots fall to earth and one scene where the character witnesses an unsettling crash with a dead pilot still in the cockpit. There is no sexual content.
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