The Bibliophile's Bookshelf

It’s time for another Saturday Spotlight theme! April 19th through the 25th is Disability Book Week! So, this month I am sharing some of my favorite books with disability representation!

This week I am sharing about Finian de Karran de Seel, from the Aurora Cycle by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff.

Finian is one of my favorite characters from this series! He is such a fun, caring character and I loved all his interactions with his found family. Finian had to wear a special suit that assisted him with moving and had to sleep in a low-gravity area to help relax his body. This book has wonderful representation of using mobility support. It also makes Finian’s mobility needs a normal part of the story, and some of the most meaningful parts of the story are when he realizes that his friends accept him.

The year is 2380, and the graduating cadets of Aurora Academy are being assigned their first missions. Star pupil Tyler Jones is ready to recruit the squad of his dreams, but his own boneheaded heroism sees him stuck with the dregs nobody else in the Academy would touch…

A cocky diplomat with a black belt in sarcasm
A sociopath scientist with a fondness for shooting her bunkmates
A smart-ass techwiz with the galaxy’s biggest chip on his shoulder
An alien warrior with anger management issues
A tomboy pilot who’s totally not into him, in case you were wondering

And Ty’s squad isn’t even his biggest problem—that’d be Aurora Jie-Lin O’Malley, the girl he’s just rescued from interdimensional space. Trapped in cryo-sleep for two centuries, Auri is a girl out of time and out of her depth. But she could be the catalyst that starts a war millions of years in the making, and Tyler’s squad of losers, discipline-cases and misfits might just be the last hope for the entire galaxy.

They’re not the heroes we deserve. They’re just the ones we could find. Nobody panic.