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Starsight by Brandon Sanderson

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bag_end_library's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging emotional funny reflective sad 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

4.25

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avialaeleigh's review against another edition

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adventurous 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? No

5.0

So much happened in this book. If I were one to annotate while reading a lot of the things that happened probably wouldn't have been as much of a surprise as they were and I think that to me at least is why I enjoy reading Fantasy and Sci-Fi.

And once again M-bot and Doomslug are my favorite characters even though both of them didn't get as much page time as I feel like they deserved.

Brade is a conundrum in my mind I hate her, but mostly because she has been brainwashed by the superiority to think that her kind, human kind, is something deserving of extinction when what Winzik is wanting to do is probably worse than what the humans had done in the third wars. At least from what I can tell the humans weren't wanting to keep hyperdrive space travel to themselves unlike Winzik and the superiority are doing. I also think that depending on how the next books go she might be one of my favorite characters and that she is much like Spensa in the fact that she was molded by those around her, in not a good way, to be the way she is, and outcast who is hated by those around her.

I also hope that we get to learn more about Alanik and her people. I also would like to know if the comment that Vapor about Alanik home planet having a colony on humans on her planet as well as her being half human has truth to it. I also just want to know more about the Cytonics and why they are the only ones that can hyperjump, cause even the Taynix (which is what Doomslug is) are a Cytonic species. I just want to know why some races have Cytonics but others don't. Like the Kitsen used to have Cytonics in the past but now they don't, but there are several species from my understanding that have never had Cytonics and I just an very curious as to why they haven't.

Also why is everyone against advanced AI and why are they so quick to attempt to destroy M-bot because he is AI? I feel like there is a huge plot point to this, but I could also be wrong.

Also why do Cytonics interfere with Taynix hyperjumping? The are both Cytonics I feel like maybe I might have missed something important there. Also why to the Taynix scream into the nowhere before hyperjumping. I don't believe that Spensa did that any other the times that she hyperjumped.

Also is there different kinds of Cytonics because Spensa can hear the "stars" calling to her but Jorgen can here the Taynix calling and I also feel like this is most likely something that is very important. Guess I'll find out in the next books.

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alicelalicon's review against another edition

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adventurous medium-paced

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

3.75

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ritaconstantino's review against another edition

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adventurous slow-paced

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

3.5

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readwithria's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional mysterious 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

Starsight took the little nuggets of info we got in Skyward and ran with them! This book expanded on the universe so much, and I absolutely loved it.

The new cast of characters were so fun to get to know (though I will say that I missed Jerkface and Quirk). Also, Spensa learned so much about her internal biases and WE LOVE AN ANTIRACIST MESSAGE! Whoop whoop!

M-bot continues to be such a funny character, and the themes of consciousness and self determinism were so interesting to explore through his lens. I also love Doomslug, she’s such a good slug, and am excited to spend more time with her in the next books.

This series is so bingeable, and I will definitely be reading the novellas asap. I’m not sure what exactly kept this from being a dove star book for me, but it didn’t have ~the vibe~ so it gets a solid 4.5 stars.

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macliffe's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional inspiring 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

4.25

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sophieamreacher's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional funny inspiring mysterious tense slow-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? It's complicated

4.0

Not as fast paced and fun as first one but that’s mostly because it’s the second book and had to world build and build up towards the third book. I’m amazed at how complex a story the author can create.

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themoodreader's review against another edition

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adventurous funny mysterious medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

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minzzi's review against another edition

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adventurous tense 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? It's complicated

4.0

I flew throw this book in the speed of light. Could not put it down.
All the worldbuilding details that I asked for after reading book 1 are here and I loved all of it. From the Supremacy and their political schemes to the Delvers and the gigantic treat they represent.
Learning about the new characters, their different alien biology and cultures was also super cool and I loved all of them. But Brade was still the most interesting to me. The way this alien governament turned her against her own species is insane.
My only real complaint is that we spend so much time with Spensa and this new alien characters, we barely see the human characters we already know. I really wanted to learn more about them, but all we got was a few small chapters from Jorgens perspective. So I really hope we get more from these characters in the next book.
Also - I noticed this in the first book, but in this one is way more prominent - the writing was kinda wonky in some places. Repeating the same descriptions in different fight scenes like they were copy pasted, using the same adjectives over and over again, puting two words that mean the same thing right next to each other. In not taking away any star for this, because I'm hopping its a problem with the translation, so I'm going to get book 3 in english to see how the original writing is.

The only two things that bothered me in the narrative were a) Ironsides simply desapered. She was a huge part of book 1 and there is no explanation of were she went and b) Jorgen being a citonic. I'm not mad that he is one, but the way the author introduced that fact in the story was so boring. Like it was nothing important. We don't even get to see Jorgen struggle with the fact he has powers.

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adventurous dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring mysterious sad tense 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

5.0

I loved this book. I liked the first one but this one was so much better. The description of the alien world pulled me right in. I would definitely recommend this to any sci-fi fan.

I loved how considered the different needs of the aliens were as if highlighting how a society can be disability friendly.

I also loved how pronouns were used so casually in the book with the alien species being referred to as they/them as well as she/her and he/him. The concept of how all the aliens were weird to the main character and it also pointed out how that was a very human way at looking at it was so good!! The detailed description of of the different species with different cultures and ideas and even ways of reproducing was fascinating.

The twists of the plot as well. They were definitely foreshadowed but I had no idea and everything just perfectly slotted into place. Things started happening so quickly in the last 150 pages. It did frustrate me how it ended so suddenly so I guess I'll have to read the next book very soon (although I am going to read the first two novellas first).

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