Sky in the deep

by

340 pages

English language

Published Nov. 17, 2018 by Wednesday Books.

ISBN:
9781250168450

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2 stars (1 review)

Raised to be a warrior, seventeen-year-old Eelyn fights alongside her Aska clansmen in an ancient, rivalry against the Riki clan. Her life is brutal but simple: train to fight and fight to survive. Until the day she sees the impossible on the battlefield her brother, fighting with the enemy the brother she watched die five years ago.

1 edition

reviewed Sky in the deep by Adrienne Young

Conventional love story with a ton of violence

2 stars

A fairly conventional love story with a lot, lot of violence that makes the protagonist very hard to relate to. It can be effective to involve a character in a war, but Eelyn kills dozens of people, which is just cartoonish. Story doesn't cover a lot of ground and is generally predictable.

The prose is generally very well done.

Subjects

  • Vikings
  • Clans
  • Loyalty
  • Women and war
  • Fiction