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keepsleep's review against another edition
- 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
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
rexpostfacto's review against another edition
4.5
Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Kidnapping, Violence, Gun violence, Death of parent, War, and Death
sophiesmallhands's review against another edition
- 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
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
- 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
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?”
Graphic: Murder, Kidnapping, Colonisation, Violence, War, Genocide, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Death, and Gun violence
iono's review against another edition
- 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
3.25
Graphic: Death, Violence, and War
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Murder, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, and Animal death
Minor: Death of parent and Slavery
readwithria's review against another edition
- 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
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
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