It is on the short side, and I think maybe adding a little more to it might have helped. And it is a stand alone, so in the end, it wasn’t that surprising. I was able to get the idea from the way other characters acted, so it wasn’t a huge deal. There were some terms that popped up that I wasn’t sure of- I flipped to the back expecting a glossary, but there wasn’t one. I think at least one more book could have expanded on the rivalry and the different relationships between the characters, but overall, I thought it was pretty good for just the one book. There was distrust, of course- and that was set aside. I think I did expect more than two clans who have quite a few different villages between them, but I think any more would have made things more complicated, so two worked out really well for this book. It was, though, and while you have the rival clans that band together to defeat a bigger rival, it worked really for both clans. I’m always nervous about stand alone fantasy novels, because I’m never sure if the world will be explained well enough. Before realizing it was a stand alone, of course.
I got a really good sense of the world that Eelyn lives in, and of course, I initially assumed it was the first book in a series. I liked the setting, and the world is one that felt both familiar and different, in a good way.
Something about the setting made me think of both Norse mythology and Iceland. I ended up liking it more than I thought I would. I wasn’t sure about Sky In The Deep at first, but I’m glad I picked it up. 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. Where I Got It: I borrowed the hardcover from the library Published April 2018 by Wednesday Books|340 pages
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