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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Reckoners series, the Mistborn trilogy, and the Stormlight Archive comes the second book in an epic series about a girl with a secret in a dangerous world at war for humanity's future.
All her life, Spensa's dreamed of becoming a pilot and proving herself a hero like her father. She made it to the sky, but the truths she learned there were crushing. The rumors of her father's cowardice are true—he deserted his Flight during battle against the Krell. Worse, though, he turned against his team and attacked them.
Spensa is sure that there's more to the story. And she's sure that whatever happened to her father that day could happen to her. When she made it outside the protective shell of her planet, she heard the stars—and what they revealed to her was terrifying. Everything Spensa has been taught about her world is a lie.
Humankind has always celebrated heros, but who defines what a hero is? Could humanity be the evil the galaxy needs to be protected from? Spensa is determined to find out, but each answer she discovers reveals a dozen new questions: about the war, about her enemies, and even, perhaps, about Spensa herself.
But 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.
"Sanderson delivers a cinematic adventure that explores the defining aspects of the individual versus the society. . . . Fans of Sanderson will not be disappointed." —SLJ
"It is impossible to turn the pages fast enough." —Booklist
"He's simply a brilliant writer. Period." —Patrick Rothfuss, author of the New York Times bestseller The Name of the Wind, on Brandon Sanderson.
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November 26, 2019 -
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- ISBN: 9780399555831
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- ISBN: 9780399555831
- File size: 4325 KB
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- English
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- ATOS Level: 5.7
- Lexile® Measure: 740
- Interest Level: 9-12(UG)
- Text Difficulty: 3-4
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Kirkus
November 1, 2019
As if the threat of huge, raging monsters from hyperspace isn't scary enough, hotshot fighter pilot Spensa Nightshade becomes embroiled in an alien empire's politics. On a desperate mission to steal hyperdrive technology from the crablike invading Krell who are threatening to destroy her beleaguered home colony on Detritus, Spensa, who is white, holographically disguises herself as a violet-skinned UrDail and slips into a Krell pilot training program for "lesser species." The discovery that she's being secretly trained not to fight planet-destroying delvers but to exterminate humans, who are (with some justification, having kindled three interstellar wars in past centuries) regarded in certain quarters as an irrationally aggressive species, is just one in a string of revelations as, in between numerous near-death experiences on practice flights, she struggles to understand both her own eerie abilities and the strange multispecies society in which she finds herself. There are so many characters besides Spensa searching for self-identity--notably her comic-relief sidekick AI M-Bot, troubled human friend Jorgen back on Detritus, and Morriumur, member of a species whose color-marked sexes create trial offspring--that even with a plot that defaults to hot action and escalating intrigue the pacing has a stop and start quality. Still, Spensa's habitual over-the-top recklessness adds a rousing spark, and the author folds in plenty of banter as well as a colorful supporting cast. Not quite the wild ride of Skyward (2018) but still great fun. (Science fiction. 12-15)COPYRIGHT(2019) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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- Kindle Book
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- English
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- ATOS Level:5.7
- Lexile® Measure:740
- Interest Level:9-12(UG)
- Text Difficulty:3-4
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