Skyward Skyward, Book 1, (Hardcover)

from chalton

Brandon Sanderson has done it again,he has done a great job with character creation and had the landscape a distant planet. When kids reach a certain age they're allowed to join the space force and possibly help defend the planet. The heroine of the story is the daughter of a coward of a previous...

from JennyNau10

Spensa I'm starfighter pilot is right up there with Katniss and Tris as a girl-power hero as far as I'm concerned. I liked her and her family. Especially her Gran-Gran: "People need stories, child. They bring us hope, and that hope is real. If that's the case, what does it matter whether people i...

from reading_fox

Fun. All of Brandon's books are fun. This is a YA mil-SF (already an odd combination, and a departure into SF for the otherwise fantasy centred Sanderson) featuring young girl growing up in a military academy, pretty standard fare for the genre, but well executed and fast paced as ever. Spin (her...

from yonitdm

I really enjoyed reading this book. The characters and the world building were incredible. I'm really excited to read the next one and see how the story continues to unfold there's so much here. The author could go back in time and write about how the world got to be how it is now. He can go forw...

from Narilka

Spensa has dreamed her whole life of becoming a fighter pilot just like her father. More than anything she wants to prove herself to be brave and strong, to do her part defending humanity against an unending alien invasion. Unfortunately her father was branded a coward when he unexpectedly desert...