I guess those preconceived and intimidating notions that big books are scary and harder to read slightly clouded my judgement. I don’t know why I thought this book would be hard to read and would take up so much brain and energy because I flew through this in like 2 days? It was incredible. It was absolutely spectacular in my eyes, and one of my new absolute favourite fantasy books of all time. Okay, so it’s not a surprise anymore but I LOVED this book. Because this ship, uniquely, appears to have a soul. When she discovers the wreckage of an ancient ship, she realizes this dream might be possible-assuming she can repair the ship, navigate flight school, and (perhaps most importantly) persuade the strange machine to help her.

Spensa, a teenage girl living among them, longs to be a pilot. Let’s just say that I was pleasantly surprised and it’s review time! Goodreads Blurb:ĭefeated, crushed, and driven almost to extinction, the remnants of the human race are trapped on a planet that is constantly attacked by mysterious alien starfighters. Let’s buy Skyward and see how Brandon Sanderson’s writing is. I had friends in real life tell me how good this book was and this year, when I got an Amazon gift card I decided, let’s try this out. When Skyward came out, I was pretty apprehensive cause it was another Brandon Sanderson book – but this one was YA and everybody started talking about it. His books are notoriously big and always fantasy filled that I’ve been pretty intimidated to pick his books. I discovered Brandon Sanderson a long time ago, I even bought his Mistborn trilogy over a year ago but never got to it.

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