"Estelar" es la continuación directa de "Escuadrón" y comienza tan solo meses después del final de este. Aquí vemos como Spensa debe seguir tomando una y otra vez decisiones apresuradas para tratar de salvar a la humanidad y a la vez ir dilucidado como funciona su poder, sin saber muy bien que esta haciendo.

A mi parecer es un libro mucho más ágil en cuanto a acción que su predecesor, ya que no todo se basa en peleas entre cazas estelares. Se nos muestra una serie de nuevos personajes que son de lo más variados, con personalidades únicas que nos van informando como funciona este universo con infinidad de razas muy diferentes unas de otras.

Hay un claro crecimiento en Spensa (ya no es tan insoportable) y M-Bot, mención aparte sus preguntas existenciales, pero se hecha de menos a sus antiguos compañeros de escuadrón que tienen casi nula participación en este libro. El final como nos acostumbra Sanderson vertiginoso y con varias sorpresas dejando todo listo para la nueva entrega "Citónica".

En resumen una lectura entretenida con bastante humor y mucha acción. ( )

Brandon Sanderson is a skilled writer, who creates intricate worlds full of compelling characters. Starsight, sequel to Skyward, is no exception.

The first hundred pages of the novel provide new information about the world outside Detrius. Centuries ago, the race that founded the Sovereignty used cytonic travel (basically magic used to teleport starships). But that drew the delvers, who live in the nowhere (which cytonics enter as they jump from one location to another). Once in our realm, delvers are drawn to all forms of wireless communication, and they destroy the sentients using it. This explains why Spensa, a cytonic, is hated - even if her people have forgotten the reasons for the prejudice. In addition, humans are isolated on prison worlds like Detrius because the species tried three times to take over the galaxy; and they called devlers to our realm as weapons, only to lose control of them. All members of the Sovereignty are peaceful (at least outwardly). The Sovereignty doesn't need to destroy their enemies; they have a monopoly on FTL travel, and denying it to non-members traps them on their primitive worlds.

Spensa impersonates an alien who crash lands on her planet, traveling to the Superiority to try out for the space force, secretly hoping to steal a hyperdrive. No one understands how hyperdrive technology works, but Spensa hears screaming with her cyotnic senses every time it is engaged. The mystery of the novel is well done. Small clues click into place so that the reader creates hypothesis that are similar to Spensa's (which are only made explicit near the end), but expectations are reversed as the reality is not quite what either the reader or Spena expected.

In the end, Spensa is able to divert the delvers by connecting to them as people. The resolution is quite similar to that of Ender's Game: we were at war with the delvers because we didn't realize the were sentient, and they didn't realize we were sentient. Even though this has been done before, it's still good. ( )

it’s baffling to me that Brandon Sanderson could be just as good at writing science fiction as he is at fantasy, and yet he is.
i read this book in one sitting, it was an exciting ride. i love Spensa and her development from a scrappy young girl into a strong pilot.

i do wish we had gotten to see more of the characters from the first book, but i’m sure that’s what the next one is for :) ( )

Delvers, the size of the moon, can destroy planets at will, but luckily they are in another dimension until someone calls out to them. Delvers don’t take kindly to human and alien races, but why? How do they even exist? If you read the book you’ll find out.

Starsight is the sequel to Skyward, so there’s going to be slight spoilers for both books. Humanity is trapped on the planet Detritus and their capture is the alien race, the Krell. But after the end of Skyward, humanity can make a lot of progress. Our main character, Spensa, has a ship with an advanced AI, M-Bot. Spensa is a Cytonic, which means she can fly at warp speed without a hyperdrive. After an opportunity approaches, Spensa and M-Bot warp to Starsight, a Superiority station that is an intergalactic trading station. Now Spensa is in her enemy’s station and has to find a way to fit in and find information to aid humanity.

This book puts you in the perspective of a girl, who acts on feelings, loses her temper, and has very strong opinions. Now she has to spy on her enemies, where aggression is frowned upon, and has to make sure that she doesn’t act out on feelings but to think out the best approach to the problem. And to put the cherry on top, she is the only one who can do this and she has no contact with her people.

Some people can relate to Spensa. Some people feel like they don’t fit and how Spensa uses a disguise, some people might wear a fake mask to fit in. Some people may think that if they take this mask off, they’ll be frowned upon or made fun of. Spensa made friends when she was in her disguise, but when she took it off, some of them hated her while a few still liked her.

I believe that the theme of Starsight is about growing individually. We see Spensa on enemy grounds, in a place full of aliens she has never seen before. We see her having to control her aggression. She can’t rely on her friends and allies for help. She has to pretend to be someone that she is not. Spensa can’t go full guns and blazing like she usually does, but instead, be strategic think through her plans, and be sneaky.

I recommend this book because it has tense moments and has Spensa in a multitude of problems. Although this book doesn’t have a lot of heavy action and dogfights, it makes up for Spensa’s strategic planning and amazing characters and plot twists. So, if you want to read a sci-fi where humanity is trapped and the strategic plans, Starsight is a great book for you. ( )

I enjoyed Skyward a lot but this sequel felt a bit off...
First off, the pacing was slightly strange. It takes just a few pages for our hero to be thrown into an entirely new world, then things slow down for the majority of the book. Finally, Sanderson just throws all of his plot twists and climax of the story into the last 20 pages or so.
The story suffers from a similar problem. Sanderson obviously thought long and hard about many of the aspects of social interaction with aliens, and some of the twists and turns are very unexpected as a result. But most of the "alien" interaction felt too easy. I got the impression that every alien species was essentially human with one or two aspects changed.
This gave me the impression that there were a lot of cool ideas behind the book, but that the rest was very hurriedly thrown together. ( )