Underneath a canopy of debris lies a barren planet known as Detritus. Welcome to the final frontier of humanity. They’ve doubled their fleet, making Spensa’s world twice as dangerous… but their desperation to survive might just take her skyward… And the Krell just made that a possibility.

No one will let Spensa forget what her father did, but she is still determined to fly. But her fate is intertwined with her father’s – a pilot who was killed years ago when her abruptly deserted his team, placing Spensa’s chances of attending flight school somewhere between slim to none. Spensa has always dreamed of being one of them of soaring above Earth and proving her bravery. Pilots have become the heroes of what’s left of the human race. Humanity’s only defense is to take to their ships and flight the enemy in the skies. An alien race called the Krell leads onslaught after onslaught from the sky in a never-ending campaign to destroy humankind. Sanderson uses plot twists that he teases enough for readers to pick up on to distract from the more dramatic reveals he has in store.Spensa’s world has been under attack for hundreds of years. Period.-Patrick Rothfuss, author of the New York Times and USA Today bestseller The Name of the WindĬompelling. Praise for Brandon Sanderson's Reckoners series:Īnother win for Sanderson. Sanderson delivers a cinematic adventure that explores the defining aspects of the individual versus the society. It is impossible to turn the pages fast enough.- Booklist as the pulse-pounding story intensifies and reveals its secrets, a cliffhanger ending sets things up for the next installment. With this action-packed trilogy opener, Sanderson offers up a resourceful, fearless heroine and a memorable cast. Startling revelations and stakes-raising implications.Sanderson plainly had a ball with this nonstop, highflying opener, and readers will too.

And an accidental discovery in a long-forgotten cavern might just provide her with a way to claim the stars.

Flight school might be a long shot, but she is determined to fly. No one will let Spensa forget what her father did, yet fate works in mysterious ways. But her fate is intertwined with her father's-a pilot himself who was killed years ago when he abruptly deserted his team, leaving Spensa's chances of attending flight school at slim to none. Since she was a little girl, she has imagined soaring skyward and proving her bravery. Now pilots are the heroes of what's left of the human race, and becoming one has always been Spensa's dream. Spensa's world has been under attack for decades. From Brandon Sanderson, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Reckoners series, Words of Radiance, and the internationally bestselling Mistborn series, comes the first book in an epic new series about a girl who dreams of becoming a pilot in a dangerous world at war for humanity's future.

Skyward by brandon sanderson