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Apr 20, 2019
I was so excited when Raincoast sent me Sky in the Deep. I haven't read a lot of novels featuring vikings, let alone one where the lead is a female warrior. Eelyn story is wonderfully compelling, and this book read like candy. I won't lie, this book is not to most ground-breaking or well-written. It's a debut, and it makes a lot of the mistakes debuts have by giving so much in a story without properly providing necessary aspects such as strong world building or deep and developed characters. This is true for Sky in the Deep and yet, I didn't care. I was having so much fun reading this book, and while I didn't read it quickly, I appreciated what an easy read it was. Eelyn is a fun heroine. She's strong, difficult, and she stands out. She takes to tasks and wants to get the job done, making her quite the boss. She's also wonderfully flawed, which made me happy given I like a heroine to have flaws that the reader can relate to. This is a heroine who is tough, she mows people down, she has a sense of justice and duty and yet she's a fighter. I just, I loved her so. I just had such fun with all the action in the book. I also liked the political aspects between the viking groups, though I wish it had been more developed. I also appreciated that the romance wasn't the forefront in this story mostly because I found it to be very phoned in. I still say I loved the issues involving the clans (well, any bit of information we received). I can't really explained why I liked this book. There's a lot of action, politics and an awesome heroine, but there's equally enough problems such as a lack of world-building and characterization among the secondary cast. But I found this to be such an enjoyable page-turner and even with the lack of information at times I was still loving the book, flaws and all. I wish we had more YA viking fantasy, and even with the book's problems, I am still so happy it exists in the world and I cannot wait to start recommending it.