


Spensa, who is assumed white, interacts with reasonably diverse human classmates with varying ethnic markers. Opportunities to exercise wild recklessness and growing skill begin at once, as the class is soon in the air, battling the mysterious Krell raiders who have driven people underground. I didn’t get afraid”), Spensa “Spin” Nightshade leaves her previous occupation-spearing rats in the caverns of the colony planet Detritus for her widowed mother’s food stand-to wangle a coveted spot in the Defiant Defense Force’s flight school. Plainly modeled as a cross between Katniss Everdeen and Conan the Barbarian (“I bathed in fires of destruction and reveled in the screams of the defeated. Eager to prove herself, the daughter of a flier disgraced for cowardice hurls herself into fighter pilot training to join a losing war against aliens.
