 kind of a similar that I have given a Brandon Sanderson book five stars. Why don't you write a song about it, Spencer? This is how I feel about clothes. Losing their minds. So I recently read Skyward by Brandon Sanderson, which I wasn't planning to do if you watch my TVR, and it was because the new book, Saitonic, is coming out and three good booktube friends of mine, Jess from Jess Owens, Jesse May, and Elle from Elliot Brooks were all hosting a read-along. I am not gonna make it on Reading Star site before Saitonic comes out. Anyway, that's why I picked it up. Just sort of like, I was like, well, now's the time. And as I was reading it, I found myself asking the question, is Skyward a retelling of Name of the Wind? Okay, yeah, no, not seriously, but I was really surprised by how many things in Skyward reminded me of Name of the Wind. And at first, it was just like, you know, unauthentic, like, this kind of reminds me of Name of the Wind. And then after I came to that realization, then I just started like finding other things that like kind of fit that as well, that I wouldn't necessarily have, wouldn't by themselves have made me go, this is like Name of the Wind. But like once I started looking, I was like, hey, there's actually a lot of parallels. So maybe it's no accident for everybody that was like losing their minds, and I'm not getting losing their minds over the fact that I gave Skyward five stars because it's by Brandon Sanderson two things. It's really 4.5, but I rounded it up to five. And two, I gave Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson five stars as well. This is not the first time that I have given a Brandon Sanderson book five stars. Of course the reaction from everyone is like, so we have Kings one star and Skyward five stars. I mean, that's a dumb comparison. I could do a whole video explaining why that's a dumb comparison. But um, that's not what we're here to do today. Today we're here to talk about why Skyward, a five star book for me, is extremely similar to the Name of the Wind, which is another five star book for me. So again, maybe it's no accident that I like Skyward so much if it is actually just Name of the Wind. Just wanted to be clear up front that this video is all in good fun and I'm not actually arguing that Brandon Sanderson is like ripping off Name of the Wind with Skyward. But I do think it's funny how similar certain things are. So anyway, let's dive into it. Okay, the first one is obvious and easy. A dead parent or dead parents plural in clothes case. I guess I should warn you now, mild spoilers for both series and both books. So FYI, I mean none of none of my things are like two major spoilery. It's not like the climax of both books is the same or anything like that. But I mean, the having of dead parents, I guess is spoilery because when you start reading Name of the Wind, you don't yet know the clothes parents are going to die, although the writing is really on the wall for that. Anyway, so Spensa's dad is dead and in both case both mom and dad are dead. So Spensa has it a little bit better. Yes, this is YA so she gets to keep one parent. Next, they are both prodigies. Spensa is a prodigy at flying and both is a prodigy at both music and the magic of sympathy, which is specific to the Kinkiller world. So both prodigies with at least one dead parent, both of them are poor and have to scavenge to make ends meet. So in Spensa's case, she's like getting rats out of caverns and they're being real thrifty at home. In both case, he was literally living on the streets and eating whatever he could find. So kind of similar. And then they are both almost denied entrance into the elite school that they're trying to get into by a petty adult that is in some leadership role at that school. So in Spensa's case, she's trying to attend flight school and because of the history and questions surrounding her dead father, they are trying to deny her a place at that school. And in Quoth's case, because he's a smart ass, he's the smartest dumbass and the dumbest smart ass, he pisses off people before he even gets to attend the school in the admissions process. So they immediately take a dislike to him and don't want him going into the school, don't want him becoming a student at the school. So both Spensa and Quoth leading into the next point are kind of looked out for by a teacher who has to stick out their neck for her Spensa or for him Quoth. So in Spensa's case, a teacher steps forward sticks his neck out for her and gets her admitted into the school because she's admitted to his class that he has control over. Kind of similarly in Quoth's case, he gets admitted to the school. There's more people in his corner. There's also more people against him. It's more of like a group groupings of people, not just one on one. But there is a teacher that takes Quoth on to be like kind of under his wing and sticks his neck out for him in order to get him accepted and placed in the school. I kind of already touched on the snark, but I mean both Spensa, both Spensa and Quoth are incredibly sassy and snarky. And this is actually the like the moment, all that other stuff had been kind of like building up in the back of my mind, but I hadn't like made that connection yet. But Spensa mouthing off when she's barely barely made it into this school, really it's by like the skin of her teeth and by just sheer dumb luck that she got into the school. And she's mouthing off at adults and mouthing off at privileged people. And I just am my immediate reaction of like, oh no. Why are you doing this? No good can come from this. Please be quiet. Why are you making it worse for yourself? I was like, this is how I feel about Quoth. This is what it's like to read the Kingkiller Chronicle and going, no Quoth, no why? Why Quoth? Why are you doing this to yourself? Stop it. Kind of jumping off of that, really sort of like a part two or like a second bullet point to that they are both snarky comparison. Very specifically, they both get a privileged guy at their school to be widely called a demeaning nickname that starts with a J. So in Spensa's case, she gets everybody to call the privileged guy jerkface. And in Quoth's case, he writes a song about it and gets everybody to start calling someone jackass. So again, as soon as I got to jerkface, I was like, so this is jackass jackass? Is that what's happening right now? Why don't you write a song about it Spensa and really like nail down this comparison? Next up, I have completely like now diverging from the school or from being snarky or anything like that. They both have a secret and slightly maybe possibly crazy friend that lives subterraneanally, that they have to kind of like sneak out and visit in secret. So Spensa has Mbot, the sentient AI ship, and Quoth has Ori, who lives, dwells in the under thing as she calls it. And she's basically the little love good of Kingkiller. So they're both sneaking away in secret, into like subterranean places to talk to a thing and to help out a thing because actually I didn't even write that down but like not just talk to but help out. So Spensa is getting her friend to kind of fix up and bot and like get it functional again and is stealing parts for it. Quoth, even though he has her little money or food himself, he finds food and other things to bring to Ori who's clearly like she's living underground by herself. So he brings her food and things as well. I'm just saying. Editing Liana here, I forgot one when I was writing my list, one that I thought of while I was reading. And that is that both Spensa and Quoth are denied access to amenities that regular students have access to. So in Spensa's case, she's denied access to like the bunks and the cafeteria that other students get to partake of and in Quoth's case, because he's the dumb ass, he is immediately banned from the library. So he has to be a student without actually having access to the library. So add that to the list. And lastly, I have that they are both searching at their respective schools for answers to the mystery surrounding their parents' death. Parents where you just move the apostrophe for Quoth and Spensa respectively. Parents, parents singular. And so Spensa is trying to find answers to what actually happened with her father. Are they covering something up? Is he actually at fault? The way that they said is what is the deal? What is the situation? Is what the government says true about her father and how he died and etc. In Quoth's case, his parents, he believes were killed by the Chandrian. He saw them, he thinks. So he needs to learn more about the Chandrian, why they would have singled out his family, and how he can find them again. So there you have it. I think I have definitively proved that Skyward is in fact a retelling of Name of the Wind. Let me know in the comments down below. If you've read either or both books, if you enjoyed either or both books, if you also spotted these similarities when you were reading them, maybe to the other way around, maybe you picked up Name of the Wind and you're like, this is low-key a retelling of Skyward. Whatever you want me to know. I post videos on Saturdays, other random times as well, developing Saturdays. So like and subscribe, join my Patreon if you feel so inclined, and I'll see you when I see you. Bye.