From the number one New York Times best-selling author of the Reckoners series, the Mistborn trilogy, and the Stormlight Archive comes the third book in an epic series about a girl who will travel beyond the stars to save the world she loves from destruction.

Spensa’s life as a Defiant Defense Force pilot has been far from ordinary. She proved herself one of the best starfighters in the human enclave of Detritus, and she saved her people from extermination at the hands of the Krell - the enigmatic alien species that has been holding them captive for decades. What’s more, she traveled light-years from home as an undercover spy to infiltrate the Superiority, where she learned of the galaxy beyond her small, desolate planet home.

Now, the Superiority - the governing galactic alliance bent on dominating all human life - has started a galaxy-wide war. And Spensa’s seen the weapons they plan to use to end it: the Delvers. Ancient, mysterious alien forces that can wipe out entire planetary systems in an instant. Spensa knows that no matter how many pilots the DDF has, there is no defeating this predator.

Except that Spensa is Cytonic. She faced down a Delver and saw something eerily familiar about it. And maybe, if she’s able to figure out what she is, she could be more than just another pilot in this unfolding war. She could save the galaxy.

The only way she can discover what she really is, though, is to leave behind all she knows and enter the Nowhere. A place from which few ever return.

To have courage means facing fear. And this mission is terrifying.

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Brandon Sanderson
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Listening Length	13 hours and 15 minutes
Author	Brandon Sanderson
Narrator	Suzy Jackson
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Audible.com Release Date	November 23, 2021
Publisher	Audible Studios
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B09BRTRLVQ
Best Sellers Rank	#447 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) #4 in Dystopian Fiction for Teens #6 in Teen & Young Adult Science Fiction Action & Adventure #8 in Teen & Young Adult Survival Stories

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Logan

Too much convenience

Reviewed in the United States on November 29, 2021

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I would consider this the weakest Sanderson book I've read. It's unfortunately slow, meandering, and filled with convenient plot events that baffled me. The tone changed multiple times throughout and rarely matched the political military themes of the first two books. I heard that this was Brandon's most revised novel and it definitely shows. I know this is YA but the series had such strong writing that I don't believe that can be used to justify it.

If book two had ended on less of a cliffhanger I would have made this series a duology for me. I'll probably read book 4 because I support Brandon but I don't have high expectations.

*SPOILERS AHEAD*
The book opens with Spensa arriving in a jungle with pink sky. She is captured by pirates but then saved by a swashbuckling Indiana Jones-like riding an alien dinosaur. This opening scene sets much of the tone for the rest of the book. An adventure story across floating islands, fleeing monsters and pirates that are more reminiscent of Pirates of the Caribbean than space opera.

The mysterious and genuinely scary delvers, Lovecraftian horrors that couldn't (and I believe shouldn't) be understood, devolved into angry ascended AIs that don't know how to deal with emotion. Emotions granted to them somehow by the Nowhere. M-Bot getting emotion as well was not like in the previous book. He became annoying and his emotions were often played for gags. I enjoyed Chet at times but he also was very comedic in an annoying way.

So in the end we spend almost no time with any established characters from either prior novel, have two comedic side-kicks, have a romp through pirate land with a showdown over who gets to be the "Pirate Champion", and end with Spensa gaining over-the-top super powers to defeat the baddies.

I feel like this book is the sequel to a completely different series.

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Andrew Oliner

Disappointing after two great books

Reviewed in the United States on December 6, 2021

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For the first time in this series, I got impatient reading this. The plot seemed to move at a snails' pace. For most of the book, the plot seemed aimless and repetitive. All of the elements that had made the previous books so exciting were missing. What was left was an endless slog through a repetitive landscape with uninteresting characters.

I kept waiting for the payoff at the end of the book, which I expected to be the conclusion of the series. Instead, it was "there's another book". At least Spensa is back in her own universe again, where interesting things happen to interesting characters. May they happen that way again!

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barleyguy

Loved it

Reviewed in the United States on January 11, 2022

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This is an excellent book IMO. It's got pocket realities. It's got pirates. It's got jet battles. It's got AI. It's got a little bit of doomslug.

Keywords would be "exciting" and "fun" and "fantastical".

My only complaint is that the end doesn't resolve and that I have to wait probably another year or two for the fourth book.

Amazon is asking me what age kid I got this book for. I'm an adult. I got it for myself, and loaned it to my adult friends. It would be great for teenagers and young adults too, or maybe a smart 10 year old.

Cheers.

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T. Reads

Where are the characters from the first book?

Reviewed in the United States on December 7, 2021

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The first book was great! We loved the characters — then they all got sidelined. Why? Book 2 and book 3 introduced weak characters that we care nothing about. I had never read a Sanderson book I didn’t like then Oathbringer, then these two books and I’m still waiting for Wax and Wayne and the Evil Librarians, I didn’t bother with Rhythm of War. — it’s like a Sanderson pandemic! Sanderson needs a new editor to tell him the truth about how boring his books have gotten! Bless his heart ❤️

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moneybags

Did not see that coming

Reviewed in the United States on May 2, 2022

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Ok, once again, Brandon blows me away. Wow, super didn’t call that ending. I am so glad there is another book!!! And I loved all of the exploration in the nowhere with Chet and M-Bot. The world building was fantastic, but the characters were so intriguing and deep. And I freaking love Spensa. She says things that make me literally laugh out loud.

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Kori Linae Carothers

Ok, Brandon!!!!

Reviewed in the United States on April 25, 2022

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I was not sure what I was expecting when I started to read Brandon’s Skyward series, by I should have known they would be fabulously well written and the storyline is so great! I love a good SciFi yarn, and this took me away for a while into the world of M-Bot, Spensa and of course DOOMSLUG!! These are their continuing adventures …

I won’t spoil anything for you just buy the series and have a lot of fun reading - and don’t forget to buy a Doomslug plushie from Brandon’s website!! ( I love mine!! )

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S. C. Stroud

Maybe 4.5?

Reviewed in the United States on February 23, 2022

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Sanderson is really good at scaling the same story and changing the scenery. Each act is something unique along the way toward a grand ending. Each book in a series is maintaining a theme, but each is sooooooo different. This one is a dream in a dream and was a lot of fun.
ON TO THE NEXT BOOK!

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Dave G.

Insanely good

Reviewed in the United States on April 6, 2022

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Great pacing. The story is genuinely unique. I've never read anything like this before. It's incredibly unfair that an author can be so successful at writing fantasy and now he is just as good and writing sci-fi. I know Mr Sanderson would say that they are two sides of the same coin. But I read a lot of sci-fi and a lot of fantasy and I can say that it takes a lot of skill to write both this well.

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K. G. A. Alavi

Spensa's quest

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 28, 2022

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What an awesome book. I really enjoyed the first book, the story took a different turn to what I was expecting in the next book, now I think I have a new favourite book in the series.

Spensa has been given a choice, go home and fight along either her friends and be another pilot (a great pilot), or become something much more.

Spensa will have a chance to face threats all the heroes and heroines in the old stories faced. Heart breaking choices. New enemies, and allies. Most of all new understanding and skills.

I love everything about thus book. The quest the characters, and the leveling up. The combat is intense. The courage displayed bybthe characters is truly heroic. I also like that they expanded on crossovers in the novella book 2.1 and 2.2. I can't wait to see what happens next.

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Rick P

Not the best of the series.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 31, 2022

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Iv'e read most of the authors work and found that whilst I will continue to read the adventures of our heroine, this third book seemed to go a little off course.
Maybe that's just me, but I almost felt like the storeyline changed to something totally different mid way through this book.
Can't knock the author really though, even if some of his efforts do seem a bit rushed.

Sipeter

Typical Brandon! Wow!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 25, 2021

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The Skyward series is the first Science Fiction work of his I have read and they are as good as his fantasy novels which I have read and reread.
Cannot wait for the next in the series.

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Dan

Superb

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 9, 2022

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As expected, a brilliant continuation of the story, can’t wait to see what happens in the next one! Thank you Brandon!

Adrian Carter

Great read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 12, 2021

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Disappointing in as much it's the third book but no conclusion. Looking forward to the next book but makes you wonder how many books it will be stretched in to!

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