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The end of the year is slowly approaching and as many other people I am trying to reach my Goodreads reading goal. To be quite honest, I set it to 50 at the beginning of the year and have changed it every time I reached my goal because I want to keep better track of my reading and I do not care much about reaching my goal in the middle of the year already. So far I'm up to 74 and I kind of hope to make 80 by the end of December. Let's see if I'll manage that. But first we have to talk about what I read in November of this year. I didn't read as much as last month but that was to be expected. Still, seven books in a month is still very good for me. I'm a bit surprised sometimes how I manage that but I spend enough time on public transport to get some reading in every day. I read about 2804 pages which averages to ca. 94 pages a day. Which seems right as I read about 50 pages in the morning and about 50 on my way home most of the time. This was also a month ...

What happens if you mix a "Kampfzwerg" ¹ , an AI with an existential crisis, and a whole lot of fighting in space? You get the Skyward series by Brandon Sanderson, and specifically Starsight. One of my most anticipated releases of this year and I had to wait until the year is almost over for it to come out. But the wait seriously was worth it. We pick up about six months after the end of Skyward. The people on Detrius now know somewhat why they are there and why the Krell are fighting them. But to fully survive they need a proper hyperdrive to escape the planet. The best way seems to be to infiltrate the Krell spaceships above their planet. Until one day something arrives on Detrius that changes that plan just a little bit. From here on out there will be slight spoilers for the overall plot. Nothing too spoilery but to properly review this book I have to talk about the thing that changes the plan for the humans on how to escape their planet. Because what arrives o...