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. 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. Spensa’s life as a Defiant Defense Force pilot has been far from ordinary. This story is a sheer delight and a real hoot. Only Sanderson could make you feel attached to a literal slug. Oh and Doomslug continues to be an unexpectedly amazing character.

And the character development that this sentient ship goes through (which is just so weird and ironic it makes me laugh) in this book is 10 levels of entertaining. There are some new and strange characters in this book (again) and the twists and turns around each of them are often unexpected.īut the hero of the story is obviously M-bot. The way that Sanderson just comes up and creates this cool new worlds is really impressive and it sets your imagination tingling as you start constructing all these worlds in your mind. The concept of the nowhere in this book is also really fun. I found this immensely satisfying despite the fact this it probably makes up about 1.3% of this book. I love how weird Spensa is, but what I love more is how Jordan just accepts all of her weirdness and likes her anyway. M-bot continues to be my favourite book in this series – but the other thing I really, really loved was the budding relationship between Spensa and Jordan. If you’re reading this for some reason and haven’t read the first two, then stop now lest I spoil you for things that have happened in those books.

I’ve been really impressed reading this series with the way that none of the books have felt like a filler and in fact they’ve all expanded the story broadly and differently. Also excuse me, how dare I have to wait for book four after that finish.

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