Ember Starsight

A great sequel. Nah a great book by any standards. A lot has changed in the last 6 months. The right people are in charge of the humans Spensa has gotten the notoriety she deserves but is obsessed with not only craving battle but unlocking the power within her to save her people.In this story she is once again thrown out of her comfort zone and into a mission that sounds like suicide on every front. Of course she never backs down."A hero does not choose her trails".What does make her such a great hero is dispite her own self doubts her courage always manages to inspire others. Her determination to overcome is amazing like the first book there are many obstacles for her to overcome especially in the bigger universe.A great story as soon as I finished it I wanted to read the next book. I can't wait to see what happens next.

The second novel of Spensa, a woman who has grown up on humanity’s last refuge, and become a pilot to help defend her world. Starlight starts without an obvious direction to go in - the plot of the first novel, while leaving space for the sequel, didn’t make the onward path obvious.So I was happy to find that Sanderson has found a way to advance the plot, and of course his all-important worldbuilding, without dramatically shifting the tone of the narrative. We’re still aligned with Spensa, exploring an unfamiliar environment, learning so much, and facing an even bigger threat than before.I didn’t find the novel as captivating as I had expected though. It’s not non-captivating, just not to the level I have come to expect from Sanderson’s novels. There are evident similarities between the style of the narrative here with his previous young adult novels, but it’s clearly grown since Alcatraz into something I can at least engage with without being put off.What I loved the most about this novel is the worldbuilding - that Sanderson is taking all the little seeds that he planted in the first book and growing them into surprising new directions, that either make you feel a bit dumb for not seeing where it was going, or make you rethink your understanding, or just make you go wow.

I have bought & read most of Brandon Sanderson's novels. I loved Skyward, Starsight expands the story in so many ways & you come to realise why humans are on to Detritus start with. The pity is of course that humans have changed but the Aliens who keep them there don't know this, and like all politics some of them use the fact of their continued existence for their own ends. A Fast moving pacey story that leaves you on the edge of your seat not really sure who to trust. I look forward to the third in the series Cytonic but I wish they had a date for putting it out in paperback Hardbacks are big & take up a lot of room.

This was a fantastic sequel to Skyward, it was so gripping and I could not put it down! I sped through this book in a couple of days.Brandon Sanderson is an excellent writer. I can’t wait to read the sequel and have already bought a copy.

Good sequel to the first book. I do like Brandon Sanderson stories and this pair of books have followed his usual quality of prose, characters and sheer enjoyment. I have always been an avid reader of adventure, fantasy and science fiction and found this story contained all the right elements of action, drama and mystery to capture my undivided attention. Highly recommended.