Shadows & Starstone (The Immortals #1)
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A thousand years ago the gods known as The Four created the Immortals to protect and defend their...
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Magic The Gathering Arena
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Magic: The Gathering Arena is a free-to-play digital collectible card game developed by Wizards of...
Daigoro Vs Goliath (1972)
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Children's giant monster movie from the makers of Ultraman. When a cute baby monster is orphaned by...
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Saint Death (John Milton #2)
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John Milton has been off the grid for six months. He surfaces in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, and...
Blazing Minds (92 KP) rated I Kill Giants (2017) in Movies
Nov 1, 2021 (Updated Nov 3, 2021)
But with the underlying story that her mother is ill and she takes herself off into a fantasy world to battle giants to escape the reality of true-life is so nicely done, I found myself very emotional towards the end of the film, but still lifted that Barbara has fought her way through against giants, bullies and the fears of losing her mother.
Night of Ash (Odriel's Heirs #2.5)
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The night buries all Shadows... After healing from the last battle with Idriel's Children, the...
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Candy Blast Mania
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Candy Blast Mania is a match 3 puzzle game where you can match and collect candies in this...
Blocky Cars Online Shooter
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You enjoy pixel shooters, online games and battles, but something’s missing? Every online shooter...
CHAOS Combat Copters HD - №1 Multiplayer Helicopter Simulator 3D
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ENJOY WHAT IS SIMPLY THE BEST MULTIPLAYER HELICOPTER ARCADE ON TABLETS & SMARTPHONES C.H.A.O.S -...
Sanderson's new series is a foray into proper sci-fi, but written for the Young Adult market (which should not be read as a bad thing, just something of a warning that for once any white middle-aged men might have to put some effort into thinking about how the main character might feel. Similar to his super-hero Steelheart series (also outwith his Cosmere univers), the story follows a young person who has had a hard life, has a dream to be something and has put every effort into learning the knowledge needed to achieve that, and just need a little luck to go their way. Sadly, Spensa is the daughter of renowned "coward" Chaser, a fighter pilot who fled the thick of battle against The Krell (a mysterious alien race who regularly attack the surface of the planet that has become the human race's last stand) and was shot down for his desertion. Spensa has to battle against all the odds to get a place on the flight training scheme and work hard to stay there.
The action sequences are decent and regularly spaced throughout the book, both in the simulator training scenes and the actual battle sequences.
The plot itself is fairly typical, and more or less the plot of the Hot Shots film, but in space. There was a tremendous amount of mystery surrounding aspects of the world the human race come to inhabit, and their alien attackers, which was rather clumsily all blurted out in a nonsense bit of exposition in the final 3 pages or so.
As with a lot of sci-fi, Sanderson gets quite bogged down in the made-up science and technology that might exist in the future and this, alongside some of the dialogue, was a little too geeky for my tastes (the use of Jerkface as an insult was cringeworthy the first time but is then used throughout the book).
All in all, a well told sci-fi tale that could easily be picked up by the YA audience but likewise should appeal to older sci-fi readers as well.
