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Sunreach

By: Brandon Sanderson, Janci Patterson
Narrated by: Suzy Jackson
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Summary

From number one best-selling author Brandon Sanderson and Janci Patterson comes the first of three Skyward series novellas, set between Starsight and Cytonic.

When a planet-destroying Delver suddenly appears in the sky of Detritus and vanishes just as suddenly, FM knows that the last free human society got lucky. Her Skyward Flight companion Spensa figured out how to draw this Delver away, but it won't be so easy next time.

The forces of the Galactic Superiority will be back - and if the Defiant Defense Force can't figure out a way to escape the planet, humanity's destruction is only a matter of time. Spensa's mission to infiltrate the Superiority unveiled the secret to their hyperdrives - a cytonic slug species called the Taynix. Now FM's flight leader Jorgen has found a large group of Taynix hiding in the caverns far below Detritus' surface.

FM and Jorgen must work together with the engineer, Rig, to awaken the mysterious alien Alanik and unlock the powers of the Taynix, or humanity will be trapped. With Spensa's friend, Minister Cuna of the Superiority, stranded at the outpost of Sunreach, they need to figure out how to rescue her - before her foes in the Superiority government can prepare a new weapon to wipe out Detritus once and for all.

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OK-ish

Not the same calibre as the main Skyward novels but not terrible either. I’m not sure it gave us much extra character depth and it only added a little bit to the story. It could probably be better for renamed as “experiments with slugs’. Personally I would’ve liked more world building and better character exploration. The main novels, although aimed at YA, are also able to appeal to Sanderson’s adult following, however this novella is definitely feel much more aimed at the YA market. The narrator does a good job most of the time, especially with emotional notes, but weirdly doesn’t have any comic timing so the jokes tend to fall a bit flat.

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Pretty good

Better than I was expecting. Though I’d have called it “Slugs of Doom” myself! Would read more of these side stories.

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Not a Sanderson Novella

Not terrible, but has some cringeworthy moments. Odd mix of extreme childishness and violence.

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Good to get the extras

Once I got over how annoyed I was that this reader pronounced Jorgan’s name wrong I got into the story. It wasn’t up to the usual standard but it was good to fill in some gaps in storm light

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Fast Paced Space Opera

This book hits the road running, fast paced, it flows through the story arc, not hesitating to intertwine with Brandons main story line it is excellent read (listen) and I found myself listening to the whole book in almost a single sitting, I look forward to more stories in this arc.
I recommend this for anyone.

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It’s OK

I like this series and enjoyed the first two full books in the series, this novella seemed like a good idea in preparation of the third full book. But.. Oh dear. It’s OK I guess.. but what’s with the cringe worthy teen romance that takes up half of the book? I felt like I was listening to a story in “Just 17”. I hope the next novella is better as I’m not totally sure I will be buying Cytonic if it’s going to be along the same lines.. also the narrator seems to use the same voice for all the guys. I won’t be listening to this again.

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Where was the class critique?

I was blown away with Skyward, and Starsight had a banging ending, but I felt this was a bit underwhelming, despite it too having a great ending. I really appreciated that the story spent a lot of time 'on the ground' as it were with FM, Rig, Jurgen and Kimerlin (sorry I don't know how their names are actually spelled), but I really enjoyed hearing FM chime in in Skyward, and in Sunreach she's a bit of a blank canvas. The defining feature of FM in Skyward seemed to be her somewhat champagne socialist perspective, and out-of-leftfield class critiques that landed like a lead balloon in the middle of Spensa's tirades and dressings down. Skyward contained a few subtle (and some explicit) critiques of class dynamics and nationalism, and Starsight a very interesting exploration of colonial mentality and colonial subjection... and Sunreach basically removes almost all of that for a quaint and soft look at animal rights. So, although you had an avatar in FM who spoke aloud the criticisms of leveraging child soldiers and the psychological tolls on social reproduction in constant wartime, the two writers decided to jettison that foundation for her personality and replace it with... nothing. I understand they cannot reproduce Spensa's behaviour and thought patterns for FM, that would be silly, but she seemed quite divorced from the character we'd seen before. This wasn't helped by the huge difference in accents between Sophie Aldred and Suzie Jackson, the Americanisation of the dialogue and delivery by Jackson meaning that there was no emphasis on the inherent class differences present between FM and Jurgen, and Rig and Spensa and the worlds of the working class soldiers. It would be wrong not to mention that there is discussion between FM and the disputers (I think they were called) who talked of making peace with the Krell, and her emphasising the need for collective human emancipatory nationalism on the planet of Detritus but this is mentioned in a short sentence twice, and so it just feels like the thing that made FM stand out was removed because maybe the writers thought it would make her insufferable... and so we were left with a palatable version who deserved more. I also think the relationship between her and Rig also suffers as a result, because apart from just fancying him for his appearance, it's not entirely clear why FM likes Rig. Because I think it's mentioned there are lots of nerdy guys around who like her, so why him? I enjoyed it and I'll listen to it again, but I wish we'd had FM from Skyward, rather than a tabula rasa who kind of deserved injection of more spirit and personality than what the story thought was an acceptable baseline.

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terrible that the narrator is suddenly an American

how the series can be mostly narrated by one narrator and then suddenly swapped for one with a vastly different accent and interpretation of characters half way through. I barely managed to get through the first chapter

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A new dimension to the Skyward saga

Honestly I prefer these books to the main story and that is saying something because the main story is awesome. This book is written through the eyes of FM, building on the main storys ark but this focuses more on the other members of the flight rather than just Spins story. The characters are well rounded and loveable the romance side of the story is well written and easy to want the characters to succeed in their efforts.

After these 3 books which I also bought in hardback (single book for all three) I then went and found more books by Janci Patterson to read as I really like her style.

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Good fun!

Not the strongest entry in the series, but that's understandable with it being a novella interlude to the main books. I've come to this out of order, after Cytonic, and still enjoyed seeing what was going on with the other characters during Spensa's adventures.

It's got action, teen romance, and peril. As a collaboration, it still feels like Brandon's universe 🌌

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