A review by samtherat17
Skyward Flight by Brandon Sanderson, Janci Patterson

adventurous tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

Sunreach: The most "YA" book in the series. The stuff with the taynix was pretty good but the rest was not anything special. The main reason why I liked FM in the first book was that she had a different point of view and was not afraid to criticise the DDF. However, we got very little of that here and the majority of the novel focused on her romance with Rig, which was not anything I was super engaged in.

ReDawn: I liked the exploration and worldbuilding but this could have been way shorter. Alanik wasn't really a great POV character and she came across a little cold emotionally. Also, a couple of things were a bit hard to visualise. Like at one point, someone flies INSIDE a tree which was just confusing as a whole.

Evershore: I liked this one. Jorgen's character arc with his emotional turmoil and exploring his cytonic abilities was great.
However, Jorgen getting promoted to admiral THAT fast was kinda unrealistic.
The human-kitsen dynamics were also pretty fun. 

Overall, an okay set of novellas. I was mainly interested in the important things in the plot instead of the character arcs as they were not anything special. I would recommend reading this if you really want to read about the Skyward Flight characters again, but other than that, I don't think these are necessary to read.