Uploaded January 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Welcome back to YAnuary, our monthly theme of Young Adult books! Today is all about Skyward!

This is a fun series with tons of action, adventure, and mystery. It's a pretty easy sci-fi concept to get into. Yet the series goes through some interesting and - at times - weird changes. It's full of creative ideas and fascinating concepts.

Well talk about why this series was clearly written to be YA from the start, and how YA is all about defiance! Plus we'll discuss the novellas by Janci Patterson and the combination of two authors. Enjoy!

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0:00 Intro
1:25 The Concept
2:38 The Worldbuilding
5:25 Characters
7:22 The Plot of Book 1
8:44 Book 2 & Seperate Ways
9:38 Skyward Flight – The Three Novellas
14:47 Is the Ending Worth it?
15:57 Young Adults and Defiance
17:27 Whimsy Sci-Fi
18:45 Defending Elysium
20:09 Representation
21:19 How Much Should You Try?
22:09 Outro