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. So of, course, eventually, I had to read it. Review to come (probably Friday night? maybe?).There are blurbs on this book from authors I love, and the description of it is Vikings meets Wonder Woman made it a “total Sarah pick” as our Macmillan sales rep told me. How great is that? Although that has literally no bearing on my enjoyment of Sky in the Deep, I like her so much more because of it.

She wanted to spread the love for other authors. The entry was to like the post and to go on any review platform and post a review of, get this, someone else’s book. Also, she just ran a giveaway for a manuscript of her new book. I just started following Adrienne Young on Instagram and she has a great feed. This is a book that I am totally kicking myself for not reading sooner. But, I think the story really works without it. There is no magic or fantasy (which I normally enjoy and gravitate toward). It has the feel of historical fiction in a fictional setting. I have been listening on my way to work since Monday morning so I think I’m making good progress. Right now, I am just starting Chapter 32. I honestly can’t believe I was ever on the fence about reading it. Not only am I immensely enjoying audiobooks in general, I love this story.

I recently started using audiobooks and Sky in the Deep is the first book I am listening to. Since this is a new post type, I want to give a brief background. 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. Raised to be a warrior, seventeen-year-old Eelyn fights alongside her Aska clansmen in an ancient, rivalry against the Riki clan.

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