Cytonic

"A great sci fi read!"

"Probably my favorite Skyward book so far!"

"This was pretty underwhelming, however I will say that I love the characters so much. M Bot did get a bit annoying at times for me, but the ending showed how sweet he truly was. I also really liked Chet even though I was suspicious of him at first. The best chapters were the Interludes with Spensa and Jorgen"

"Idk. Had extra stuff it didn’t need to but I loved the fragment ****"

"What can I say, Brandon Sanderson is amazing and I love all his books and got my husband addicted to him too so I was thrilled to read this next installment in the Skyward series. Cytonic is another hit and favorite for me.<br/>This continues where the last book left off and flows smoothly with the story. We pick up right where it left off with Spensa, M-Bot, and Doomslug, and the Delvers. This book is a bit different with the genre, which was more noticeable to me at the very start, with it being a bit more Sci-Fi than Fantasy and then blending the two more as the story continues with Spensa. There are some twists, reveals/answers that help explain things and that caught me off guard - I mean how did he do that with some of these amazing twists in here. I love the continued development of the characters and their interactions as they continue on their journey with Spensa figuring out more about her talents and such. I love M-Bot, he cracks me up and Doomslug is awesome. I had a bit more emotional ride with this story than I have had with the other ones in this series.<br/>As a note here, two novellas were just published that are between the previous book, Starsight, and this one and they have good information and aspects to the story from other characters, etc, but it isn't necessarily required to read the novellas before this. I didn't read the novellas and I didn't feel lost or like I was missing anything obvious to the story.<br/>I highly recommend this read along with the previous books in this series by Brandon Sanderson if you haven't read them, go read them now! Thanks so much to Random House Children's Publishing/Delacorte Press and NetGalley for letting me read and review this fantastic book. All thoughts and opinions are my own."

"It’s been a while since Ive read the first two so I was a little hazy on previous details but I still really enjoyed this one :) <br/>"

"Much more of an adventure type book, I think this one made for some really wonderful imagery. Full of the classic twists and turns of a Sanderson novel, I thought I finally guessed one of the twists but alas not yet. I really enjoyed the new (and a few recurring) characters and loved how unique each one was. I do however miss and feel a bit detached from those on Detritus, though Sanderson did a good job of reminding us in a non annoying/non forced way about them. But I know that’s in part why he’s written the short novellas, and I’m excited to read them and find out what was happening in the Somewhere."

"I loved all the emotional growth and change. I also loved the natural progression of her powers. Not too forced or rushed"

"I don't love this book as much as the rest in the series, but I didn't hate it that much either. Brandon Sanderson is one of my favourite writers and I usually feel confident going into any of his books that I'll have a good time.<br/>This book could have easily been another novella. They could have done something like Arcanum Unbounded and put the 3 novellas + a shorter version of Cytonic into a book and made that the 3rd installment of Skyward. I actually liked the novellas more, even though they didn't even have Spensa in them at all. I didn't feel like this quest was as important as the actual war. She missed out on the alliance with the Redawn people, she missed out on saving her grandmother from being taken hostage, on her friends almost dying, she didn't even go back even after she saw her boyfriend clearly struggling without her and him begging her to come help, his parents died and she wasn't there, he apparently became an admiral? Don't know what that says about Cobs. I still enjoyed the lore, Mbot, and the whole Spears. I don't know, I wish Spensa only spent half the book in the nowhere and came back to Detritus fornthe rest of it. I'm guessing that's the 3rd novella? Anyway."

"Everything I liked about the first two books was missing here, set aside for some weird story trying to figure out the delvers. Floating islands of different worlds in “the nothing”? It could have been interesting, but it just wasn’t — Lots of filler that didn’t really feel like it moved the epic forward. Alas, at least this one is over and the fourth book is set up (which is probably what the third books should have been, with a couple of chapters of this delver nonsense instead)."