I could visualize myself there, which I always love in a novel. It was descriptive without feeling like too much. Young does a beautiful job with world building. I loved feeling immersed in the world of the vikings, and getting to see the different landscapes these rival clans, the Aska and the Riki, lived in. She has become one of my new favorite characters. I loved how complex she was, and how much she grew as the novel moved forward. She is determined and strong, but also a little stubborn and prejudiced. The book starts off following Eelyn into a battle where she fights fiercely, which is not something you see in very many books.
Since my childhood, I have always adored a strong, warrior heroine, and Eelyn certainly fits that bill. But then I stuck it on my TBR shelf and never read it, until now! I absolutely flew through this book! I got in in an OwlCrate box when it came out last year, and I remember thinking it sounded really cool. I don’t know why I put off reading Sky in the Deep for so long.
Part Wonder Woman, part Vikings-and all heart. Driven by a love for her clan and her growing love for Fiske, Eelyn must confront her own definition of loyalty and family while daring to put her faith in the people she’s spent her life hating. They must do the impossible: unite the clans to fight together, or risk being slaughtered one by one. She is given no choice but to trust Fiske, her brother’s friend, who sees her as a threat. But when the Riki village is raided by a ruthless clan thought to be a legend, Eelyn is even more desperate to get back to her beloved family. Until the day she sees the impossible on the battlefield-her brother, fighting with the enemy-the brother she watched die five years ago.įaced with her brother’s betrayal, she must survive the winter in the mountains with the Riki, in a village where every neighbor is an enemy, every battle scar possibly one she delivered. Her life is brutal but simple: fight and survive. Raised to be a warrior, seventeen-year-old Eelyn fights alongside her Aska clansmen in an ancient rivalry against the Riki clan.
Sky in the Deep by Adrienne Young ~ 340 pages ~ published 4/24/18 by Wednesday Books Goodreads Synopsis:
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