Cytonic

Skyward, Book 3

De: Brandon Sanderson

Narrado por: Suzy Jackson

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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Great!

Great book, I can't wait for the next one. I hope it doesn't take him too long.

Meh

The ending was a little meh to me. I won't spoil it, but ok... Will the next one be better?

Good book for preteens, not adults

I loved the first 2 books. This one was so painful to listen to that I had to leave it unfinished. It's basically a childrens' book. I would have loved it at 11 yo. But as an adult it actually has nothing to offer me. Absolutely no development, no progression, no intensity, no humor (although constantly trying).
I love Sanderson and I'll definitely buy book 4 (and try to make myself finish this one then), but for now - big letdown.

Was different, but

Very different from the other books but still enjoyable in some ways.

But what about the rest of it. Since this title is exclusive to audible I have to wonder about what happened to the rest of it? As in the end of the book where it lists all the people who worked on it, I have to wonder something. What happen to the second reader, the sound effects and all the cool artwork? As they said in the book at the end where they thanked 2 separate people for reading the book, even though Suzy Jackson was literally the only one reading anything and doing every bit of the reading.

As I have heard her read the previous books plus other ones as well. As most of the voices for the characters in this book are the same as other ones. As with her reading of how to kill a demon king in ten easy steps she used the exact same voices for two main characters. As I have heard enough of there voice and different impressions and voice changes to recognize, so who else read this book as no one else talked.

Also there were no sound effects anywhere in the book, as at least five people composed and worked on sound effects for this book, yet there are no sound effects. There is just “there was a alarm”, “there was a fluting noise”, etc yet five people were credited for making sound effects for all these things, despite there being no sound effects. And tons of art and stuff which was apparently made for this book and was also very heavily implied was included with it.

Except there is no art or any other version of this book which that was included in. So what happened to all these hardworking people who contributed so much, but who’s actual work wasn’t actually seen or part of the book. As there is one reader, no sound effects and no large amount of artwork included in this books only publication. Yet none of that is here as people were credited with all this stuff despite none of it making it into the book. As now there is no real proof that these people even did anything. So if someone connected to this book project if your reading this can ask Sanderson what happen to all the stuff that was supposed to be included in this book yet isn’t.

Also one last thing, in book 2 of the primary series it says that cytonics can make mind blades yet there is a disturbing lack of awesome mind blades, starship battles (like the previous which in any case should have had more) fight scenes, stuff blowing up, starship combat (which seems to keep getting more phased out and less exciting each book) and less actual threats and people being attacked by massive fleets of starships and that sort of thing, as the closest there was, was that almost happening and a base almost getting hit by a giant rock. As it’s like Sanderson is making a action book devoid of good action scenes like his other books. As you can have good action scenes and character devolpment together, but stop constantly sacrificing action scenes for dialogue and slow character devolpment. As it ruins the entire story flow as it’s like the action is not longer exciting and the characters feel like really, really 2D and change so slowly and all have basically the same character traits as each other, as the thrill and anticipation from the first two books is now gone. And the characters feel fake because your trying way way way to hard to make them seem deep and thoughtful, as the narrator is good but it clashes with the flow and rhythm of the story. As the narrators voice and there mannerisms portray one thing but the words and characterization say something else normally slightly in conflict or not quite fitting with the situation. As it needs more style, different types of wit, more creativity, more intelligence and some level of plotting and just basically good story telling like in other Sanderson works. Like some how there are just so many little issues and conflicting things going on and substandard Sanderson writing that it messes up and ruins the book and the story and the message it’s trying to convey. As Sanderson needs to go back and re learn all of the basics. And things and find a way to just have the book fit the genre and have some real soul and emotion, bit more subtleness and for him to just not try so hard just tell a good story, with awesome action scenes and work with the narrators flow and feel better and book 1, 2, 3 are all super different from each other and that also makes the narrator not fit and mesh well with them. As first we got an apple, then a banana and then a beet or something. And then he expects the narrator to make near identical cakes only using that ingredient as a flavor (plus sugar) it just doesn’t work. He should just play to the narrators strengths as it was a pretty good fit for book one but not perfect, and then a ok but not great fit for the second, and then a kind of eh, shaking nests of book three. It like he’s trying to make who mows what when he should just make a good story ( also maybe make it longer so there’s enough space for epic battles and all the characterization you want to put in as it’s totally unbalanced at its current ratio’s) As it’s like characterization, dialogue, character devolpmemt, not all that exiting fight scene or conflict, repeat for or five times, then finally (this books finally was the least exciting one by the way) more Lore and stuff shoved in the middle and other places and at the end and then the end, cue cliffhanger, then another less exciting book that still feels off in some major yet hard to explain basic fundamental way ( they just don’t feel right, ok, something basic and
super important is some how missing) and then the end, spenza turns all the delvers and turns braid (plot of next book, it’s super predictable now and will be disappointed if that doesn’t happen as that’s the only right thing story wise to do) the end every one lives happily ever after.

Honestly I don’t know 100 percent why but this ain’t anywhere close to Sandersons normal level. (Enough is enough, we don’t want Sanderson inc pumping out infinite solesless copies ( don’t get me started on lux, it was a nightmare that ruined the reckonners for me) please just find a way to be good at writing again.

I didn't enjoy as much the first two

the story was alright and certainly some really good moments. I found myself not caring about the (yet another)new cast of characters. The story felt too removed from the events of the first too books in my mind. I would have liked a more connected story.