Sky in the Deep

Sky in the Deep is a book about a young Viking warrior by Adrienne Young. It was an interesting read that kept me wanting to find out what happened next.

Eelyn is a warrior for her tribe. It’s just her and her father now; her brother died five years ago, and her mother died long before that. After getting captured during a battle, her life is upended. Unfortunately, it would give away major spoilers to say what distracted her and caused her to get captured.

Eelyn is forced to live with her enemies and serve them as a slave. Her only goal in life is to escape and run back to her father and her own tribe, but with winter approaching, that’s not possible. The tribe she’s forced to serve has been her tribe’s enemy for as long as can be remembered, and they serve a different god.

Over the course of the story, she begins to realize that her enemy tribe is not much different than the people she grew up with. And she falls in love. Eventually, an even bigger threat than her enemy tribe shows up and… her tribe has to work with her enemy tribe to neutralize the threat.

I enjoyed this story. While Sky in the Deep started off a little slow for me, it picked up fairly quickly. The characters, her relationship with the family she has to live with, and the plot where her tribe of birth is forced to join with the enemy tribe to vanquish the outside threat was all enjoyable. The book is light in the romance department, but the love story seemed realistic.

If you’re looking for a Viking story with some violence, an enemies to lovers romance, and a story with family (both found and what you’re born with) you might enjoy Sky in the Deep.