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Defiant by Brandon Sanderson

10 reviews

keepsleep's review against another edition

adventurous reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Classism, Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Colonisation, War, Death, Animal death, and Violence

Minor: Vomit, Medical trauma, Slavery, Abandonment, Panic attacks/disorders, Grief, Cursing, Animal cruelty, Kidnapping, and Gun violence

blythemind's review

adventurous hopeful inspiring tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

I wish there was more. This would be a great book series for young reader new to Sci-Fi. I really enjoyed the social intricacies of species learning to interact on an intergalactic stage, though I can understand if others found that aspect of the story a bit boring. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Animal death, Confinement, Colonisation, Death, Animal cruelty, Abandonment, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Xenophobia, Violence, and War

sophiesmallhands's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement, Gun violence, Xenophobia, War, Violence, Slavery, Kidnapping, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Torture, Death of parent, Genocide, Death, and Emotional abuse

bergha1998's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

I’m not going to lie this one took me a bit to get into. I don’t know if it was because it’s been awhile since I read the first three books in the series, but this one just dragged in the first 1/2 for me. After the 1/2 way point I really enjoyed it. 

Coming of Age, Romance Subplots

“I don’t think most people want to do what’s right. That’s what makes doing the right thing noble. It’s a conscious choice. A hard one. If it were easy, why would we respect it so much?”

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Kidnapping, Colonisation, Violence, War, Genocide, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Death, and Gun violence

aileron's review against another edition

adventurous emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, War, and Violence

Moderate: Kidnapping, Animal cruelty, Xenophobia, Confinement, Grief, Slavery, Animal death, and Suicide

Minor: Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Colonisation, and Death of parent

laguerrelewis's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

What a sendoff to Spensa and Skyward Flight. Brandon Sanderson has given us a finale worthy of all the buildup and growth of these characters and this beautiful, expansive world. It’s incredible to see how much Spensa has grown, and to see how far the characters we’ve become attached to have come. This book gave me everything I loved from previous books, and kept me surprised at several turns—I gasped out loud at least twice. The culmination of Spensa’s arc and the self reflection she has been having in the past installments really does pay off in a beautiful way, too. If you love Spensa and co. like I did, you surely will not be disappointed.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Vomit, Medical content, Murder, Confinement, Violence, Animal cruelty, and Animal death

betweentheshelves's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

This is a great conclusion to this series! Though it seems like Sanderson will be writing more books set in this world, which seems pretty on par for him. But Spensa's story is concluded in this particular book. 

Seeing the character growth from the first book to this book is honestly masterfully done, and though there is definitely a build up to the ending, it is worth the build up. There's so much action packed into that last part of the book that you won't want to put it down until you finish reading it. I know I didn't!

There are so few sci-fi books like this for teens that I'm glad that this series exists. Because I know there are teens that like to read about space battles, too! The random illustrations thrown in here are also fun. And I appreciated the theme that just because an alien species doesn't think or act like humans doesn't mean they aren't intelligent beings. They just have intelligence in a different way.

All in all, this sci-fi series has all the space battles you could want while still hosting a cast of characters you will come to love by the end.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, War, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Grief, and Violence

Minor: Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, and Slavery

supernovatovah's review against another edition

reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

Not the strongest book in the series but well written and enjoyable. 

Book 3 felt very much like a middle reader and I was relieved that Defiant once again felt like a YA book.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Animal death and Injury/Injury detail

ari_dev's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, War, Panic attacks/disorders, and Grief

Minor: Injury/Injury detail

readwithria's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

What a conclusion!

Defiant was the last book in the Skyward series, and it took the story and characters we know and love and put them to the test. There are so many things about this book that I love, and while I will try my best to avoid spoilers I can’t guarantee that the lost below will be 100% spoiler free for the other book pls in the series

Things I loved
🛰️ getting the flight back together! I wish we had spent more time with them, because Skyward Flight is one of my favorite parts of this series 
🛰️ SLUGS (iykyk)
🛰️ new POVs from characters we know and love, plus characters we love to hate
🛰️ big growth from Spensa
🛰️ Hesho, M-Bot, and Doomslug
🛰️ themes of loneliness, war, and sacrifice 
🛰️ FM in the epilogue! Great! I loved it, and loved her

There were a couple things that kept this from being a 5 star book, here’s what I wish were a little different 
💫 another 5-10 pages in the last action sequence would have been great. It wrapped up really quickly, and I wanted more resolution 
💫 y’all we already know this, but romance is not Brandon Sanderson’s strength. I can’t be the only person who thinks the relationship between Spensa and Jorgan is a little underdeveloped, right? It feels like I missed a lot of it
💫 the amount of times Spensa thought about how a piece of information would be important if she could figure out what it meant. I don’t know why, but that felt so silly to me 😂

All in all I’m so pleased with how this series ended. If you haven’t started the Skyward series you should do it asap! 4 stars

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Animal death, Confinement, Animal cruelty, Violence, Gun violence, Death, Murder, Kidnapping, and Grief

Minor: Slavery, Torture, Injury/Injury detail, and Death of parent