Sanderson is able to utilize his skills as a fantasy writer more than ever before in this series, and he does so to create a quest narrative-you can almost hear The Lord of the Rings echoing between the lines of Cytonic. This is still science fiction, of course, but whereas Skyward was a mystery and Starsight was a political thriller, Cytonic is first and foremost an adventure story. Let’s start with the good: the genre switch. But a fresh story structure is about all Cytonic has going for it-after Rhythm of War, a serious contender for the best book Sanderson has published, Cytonic is a shocking low that ranks among his worst. The third volume in Sanderson’s Skyward series picks up exactly where Starsight left off, with Spensa entering the Nowhere although the story continues uninterrupted, Sanderson again switches genres, which has proven to be the biggest strength of this series. I received an ARC of Cytonic from Random House Children’s Books in exchange for an honest review.
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