#BlogTour-‘Sky In The Deep’ by Adrienne Young

Many thanks to Titan Books for my gifted copy of ‘Sky In The Deep’ by Adrienne Young!

About the Book…

Raised to be a warrior, seventeen-year-old Eelyn fights alongside her Aska clansmen in an ancient, god-decreed 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.

Eelyn loses her focus and is captured. Now, 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 settling in the valley, Eelyn is even more desperate to get back to her beloved Aska clan, which is rumored to have been decimated by the same horde.

She is given no choice but to trust Fiske, her brother’s friend who tried to kill her the day she was captured. 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 find a way to forgive her brother while daring to put her faith in the people she’s spent her life killing.

WOW! What an amazing book, it is so hard to belive that this is only her first novel, I am already itching to read ‘The Girl The Sea Gave Back’ in September, which is set in the same universe!
You first meet Eelyn and her kin as they prepare to do battle-her Aska tribe are sharepening their axes and preapring to fight-and kill-enemy villagers the Riki.

The fog around their village makes fighting difficult and Eelyn gets serperated when she sees an impossible face-that of her brother who died 5 years ago. But he is on the side of the Riki.

Angry and confused, she goes after her brother and gets captured-the snow on the mountain where the Riki have their base prevents her from leaving-as does the iron collar that the Riki place around her neck identifying her as a slave-so forced to stay put , she gets to know her brother again. But what happens after the thaw?

It’s a stunningly realised world, very reminiscent of Tolkien and Viking mythology via Neil Gaiman which is not to say that it is in any way derivative, but that it is a living breathing world with it’s own language and customs.

And it is becuase of these feelings for Fiske that Eelyn is beginning to shake free, from obligation and acceptance of the ways she was raised with, to challenging and questioning. Eelyn is a fantastic warrior, from the moment you meet her you bond with her, yet she has been brought up with only one view of the world-her being captured forces her to be outside of herself and to decide whether her loyalties to her blood family supercede the one she is taken into.

The language and religions that Adrienne creates are rich and vividly realised, the reader is swept up into the world from page 1.More please!!

I am so grateful to Titan and Adrienne for having me on the blogtour!

About the Author…
Adrienne Young is a born and bred Texan turned California girl. She is a foodie with a deep love of history and travel and a shameless addiction to coffee. When she’s not writing, you can find her on her yoga mat, scouring antique fairs for old books, sipping wine over long dinners, or disappearing into her favorite art museums. She lives with her documentary filmmaker husband and their four little wildlings beneath the West Coast sun.

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