skyward – Cannonball Read 17

“One human female, slightly rumpled and creased from a long time in storage. Expert pilot, trash at basically everything else.”

Cytonic (Skyward, #3) by Brandon Sanderson

December 29, 2021 by narfna Leave a Comment

How many left turns can one book series take? Not that I’m complaining. I wish book four was right now. And will I finally give five stars to a book in this series? I guess I will find out by the time I finish writing this review. (You are already aware if you are reading this right now. Writing is like time travel!) This is book three in Sanderson’s YA sci-fi/space opera series, Skyward. I liked the first book just fine, but book two, and […]

“A hero does not choose her trials. She steps into the darkness, then she faces what comes next.”

Starsight (Skyward, #2) by Brandon Sanderson

March 26, 2020 by narfna Leave a Comment

Look, I don’t know how he keeps doing this! My first impulse upon finishing Starsight was to give it five stars, but I’m glad I held off just because I want to really preserve the sanctity of that five-star rating, so people know I mean business when I do use it. It’s been a month since I finished this book, and it’s faded a bit in my memory since, and now that the book high is gone, 4.5 stars rounded down to four does seem […]

Last book of the year!

Starsight by Brandon Sanderson

December 31, 2019 by ingres77 Leave a Comment

In before the freeze! I didn’t come close to a Cannonball, but I did my best. I read the first book in this series this past February, and loved it immensely. Like everything the last couple months, I had trouble getting into this book. But, it’s Brandon Sanderson, so I stuck with it. And I’m very glad that I did. I could’ve avoided the difficulty had I just re-read Skyward, but it all worked out in the end, I guess. To start with, the book […]

Not the Best Monroe Book I Have Read

Skyward by Mary Alice Monroe

March 8, 2019 by Classic Leave a Comment

Honestly this one didn’t work when you focused on the adult characters. There was also a wise old black man helping out the white people around him and that didn’t sit that well with me either. I think the biggest issue is that Harris was selfish about everything and Ella should have stayed professional. The characters of Elijah, Brady, and Clarice are the only parts of the book I enjoyed reading about. Monroe backed off on incorporating Brady into more of the story and I […]

Why haven’t I read all of Brandon Sanderson’s books?

Skyward by Brandon Sanderson

February 2, 2019 by ingres77 10 Comments

Brandon Sanderson is a marvel. His output far exceeds other writers of his caliber. Since releasing Mistborn in 2006, he’s published over 20 novels along with numerous novellas, short stories, and graphic novels. And many of his books are giant tomes pushing 1,000 pages. In 2016 alone he published three novels, two novellas, and a graphic novel. And it’s not like he’s releasing mediocre work, either. His Wheel of Time books are widely seen as some of the best in the series, while the Mistborn, […]

Spaceship pilot/dragon rider.

Skyward (Skyward, #1) by Brandon Sanderson

December 30, 2018 by narfna 2 Comments

I had so much fun with this book. I’ve not really seen Brandon Sanderson go full sci-fi before. He did that novella, Snapshot, but that’s pretty much it. Everything else has been in the realms of epic fantasy, superheroes, and the more speculative end of fantastical fiction that doesn’t really have a scientific basis (i.e. Legion). But I wasn’t really worried because a lot of the same tools he uses for his fantasy books are also applicable to sci-fi. He’s a fantastic worldbuilding, an excellent plotter, […]

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