I love this part about Brandon Sanderson’s writing. It was really interesting to see all the other aliens that occupy this space and how Brandon Sanderson dives deep into each type including their own history and traditions. Of course, there were the Krell that we all know from book one, but we’re also introduced to many others with different gender identities, government aspects, and personalities from Detritus. I really loved this story and I loved going deeper into this world with the different alien species and how they all co-exist together. Ok, I did a lot of explaining, but this book has so much to unpack that I felt like I needed to explain the setup a little bit before I headed into the rest of the book. Here, Spensa is told that she’s being trained to help destroy the delvers a shadowy creature that destroys everything in its path that have somehow started to show signs of being a threat again. Using holograms to hide her identity, Spensa flies off to Starsight, a massive spaceship that houses a whole bunch of different alien species that live under the ruling of The Superiority.

When a mysterious star fighter shows up at the planet, Spensa and the others find it an opportunity to infiltrate the Krell base and steal the hyper drives they need to escape Detritus. While the book starts off a little slow with Spensa fighting off more Krell ships and understanding how they’re all prisoners on a prison planet, the tiny group of people living on this planet finally realized that they needed to escape using the hyper drives that the Krell ships use to come in and out of Detritus’s space. In Starsight, we go to space and OMG I was living for it. That was a bit of a spoiler, but this is the second book so I highly suggest checking out the first book before you get into this one. I especially loved the introduction of cytonic powers and how Spensa has the ability to hone it. I loved learning about the world and the introductions to all the characters who will be playing a role. Skyward was so great introducing Spensa and the characters along Detritus. In many ways, I loved Starsight more than I loved Skyward.

Everything Spensa has been taught about her world is a lie.īut Spensa also discovered a few other things about herself–and she’ll travel to the end of the galaxy to save humankind if she needs to.įind it on Amazon | Find it on When she made it outside the protective shell of her planet, she heard the stars–and it was terrifying. And she’s sure that whatever happened to her father in his starship could happen to her. Spensa is sure there’s more to the story. She made it to the sky, but the truths she learned about her father were crushing. All her life, Spensa has dreamed of becoming a pilot.