Books I Read and Other Assorted Oddities

 I think this is the book that I was the most excited to read. I got it for Christmas, but I had to reread the first two in the series. It took far longer than I wanted because, as I said in my last post, I took a slight break to read The Hawthorne Legacy  in the middle. Cytonic  picks up right at the end of Starsight , and overlaps a little to refresh the cliffhanger that Starsight  ends on. Spensa jumps through the portal into the nowhere, but instead of going home, she makes a decision that plants her in the Belt, the very edge of the Nowhere that borders the Somewhere. She is told that she must find the Path of Elders and learn about the Cytonics and the Delvers. Upon arrival, she is immediately attacked by pirates who occupy this portion of the Belt, ever looking to increase their numbers. Unable to escape, she's captured, but before they can take her prisoner, a man rides through the jungle on a dinosaur-like creature to save Spensa. He introduces himself as Ch...

I had the privilege of attending the launch party for this novel last November. While I had a blast, I hadn't yet read Skyward , so my excitement for this book was... limited. The hype and the release party have so much more meaning now that I've finished both books. Starsight  by Brandon Sanderson picks up not long after the conclusion of Skyward . Spensa and her friends are still fighting the Krell, whose attacks have seemed to be getting more aggressive. The DDF has also started trying to reclaim Detritus' outer defenses, hoping to be able to protect themselves. An old recording is found from the humans that built the Detritus shell. They are attempting to harness cytonic power, and summon a terrible being from somewhere in space. Cytonics like Spensa are now rare, and yet she manages to call out to one from another planet, who then crash lands on Detritus. Spensa must now take the alien's place at Starsight, the base that's sending the Krell to attack Detritus. ...

Skyward  by Brandon Sanderson follows a rebellious girl called Spensa. She has spent her entire life looking up to her father; a man who the military government of their underground settlement has labeled a traitor. Her homeworld, where their ship crash-landed before Spensa was born, has been under attack by strange aliens for her entire life. In order to clear her father's name and bring glory to her family, Spensa gets into Flight School. But even with the honor of being in school, she's not allowed to stay on the base with the other cadets. She stumbles upon a cave where a strange ship has been parked in the cavern for years with stealth technology and a sassy AI. Can Spensa repair the ship? Will she ever be allowed to graduate flight school? Can she clear her father's name? I loved Skyward . I don't know why it took me so long to pick this one up, but I'm grateful I got around to it. Brandon Sanderson is a master of character rotations (writing in the third pers...