Skyward

The first Skyward novel. Humanity’s survivors are pinned to a single planet under relentless alien bombardment, and Spensa has wanted to be a pilot since she was a child, except her father was branded a coward and deserter for fleeing a battle. Barred from flight school by his reputation, she finds a buried, broken starship with a mind of its own. Sanderson takes a familiar underdog-pilot premise and spends the book quietly dismantling the story everyone has been told about that war.