It's something else, with just enough detail when the time arises but not over-explaining everything and boring us to death with info dumps. It's beautiful! His writing isn't overly flowery or dry and bland.

I can hear the raw creativity as he pens alien races and the dry humor as he writes M-Bot's lines. I can tell that Brandon Sanderson had a lot of fun writing this book and that joy translates in the reading. Brandon Sanderson has a gift for elevating a world to the next level, and he definitely didn't disappoint here! How cool is that? The aliens were so well written, as were the societies. He goes from having philosophical talks about what it means to really be alive to complaining about squishy nasty humans in the ways only M-Bot can.Īs I said earlier, Starsight completely changed from Skyward! We still have a bunch of the characters, but now Spensa goes to space. Now we know some more about her and she's even more awesome! M-Bot can do no wrong. She was one of my favorites in the first book but we didn't really know her. I told you this in my review of Skyward and I'll tell you over and over until you make me shut up: M-Bot and Doomslug are everything! I'm glad we got to learn more about Doomslug. I love her because she can be so much fun and brings more lightness and levity to the story while still dealing with issues and being an exemplary heroine. Spensa is such an amazing MC! We got to go even deeper into her character this time and even puzzled out parts of her abilities.

And I'm 1000% here for it!! I love love love books with fantastic characters! Starsight had a double whammy: it had good characters AND a plot!! Normally books with good characters are character-driven, which is great, but we got BOTH! (If you couldn't tell I'm very happy about that.) I've only read two Brandon Sanderson books: this one and Skyward, but I still have a feeling that great characters and strong character development might be normal for one of his books. I enjoyed the first book in this series quite a bit and expected Starsight to be similar but it was perfectly unique in the best ways possible! I have a feeling this one might give me a book hangover. I would give this book a galaxy, but I guess I'll settle for five stars.

This was a buddy read with Jen K and Katie, who are some of my fantastic groupmates for The Procrastinators Book Club's Fright Night vol. Come see this review and more at my blog, The Scribe Owl!

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