Sunday, July 8, 2018

Sky in the Deep by Adrienne Young

🌟🌟🌟🌓 out of 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

OND ELDR. BREATHE FIRE.

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: fight and 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.

Faced 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. 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.

She is given no choice but to trust Fiske, her brother’s friend, who sees her as a threat. They must do the impossible: unite the clans to fight together, or risk being slaughtered one by one. 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.

I haven't read a YA book about vikings and had heard everyone raving about this book. I decided to give it a try because who doesn't like a book with war and bloodshed in it?! I thought...yeah, that's something that I need to read. 
I wouldn't say that it was outstanding like other readers have but I liked it a lot. I actually keep bouncing back and forth between a 3 and a 4 when I go to rate it. I eventually just went with 3.5.  The story wasn't as involved as I thought that it would be. It was really simple. An age old war between two different peoples and star crossed lovers. There wasn't much to the story that hasn't been told before other than the viking element. 
I enjoyed the main character being a strong person and a warrior to boot! She didn't need a man's help with anything! I loved watching her grow as a character because she was extremely stubborn at first but then began to question everything that she was raised to believe. 

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