The Riki and the Aska clans aren’t so different after all. But Adrienne Young does take these plot devices and spins them into a positive message. The trope of falling in love with her captor. The trope of the protagonist being taken as a slave or servant of the enemy people. This novel does have a few tropes that I wasn’t too happy to see. While I’m not familiar with Viking history at all, the setting and way that the characters act felt genuine to that time period, at least, as much as a young adult book can be. I was immediately enraptured by Adrienne Young’s language, and the not-so-subtle violence that occurred in the beginning of the book. Plotįinally, a young adult book about Vikings! Sky in the Deep is fast-paced from start to finish. Betrayed and furious, she is now a servant to her brother’s new family, and she must figure out a way to escape, or she must learn to trust her brother again. It is then that she discovers that not only is her brother fighting with the enemy, but he has become the enemy. Compelled to follow him, she is distracted and finds herself captured by her enemy, the Riki. Years later, seventeen-year-old Eelyn is fighting in a particularly brutal battle when she sees her brother alive and well and fighting for the other side. Young Eelyn was raised to be a warrior in her Viking clan, the Aska, where she fought side by side with her brother until he died in battle. Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy, Historical Fiction
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