Sky in the Deep: 1 (Sky and Sea)

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There are two clans: the Aska and the Riki. The Aska worship the god Sigr and they fight their enemies according to his will. The Riki are the ones who worship the goddess Thora, every five years. The two clans have an ancient blood feud that has filled them with hatred, but unknown to them, the fates of two people (one from Aska and one from Riki) are intertwined.

I could barely hear him. I could barely think, everything washed out in the flood of the vision before me. In the next breath, I joined with her, saying the ritual words we knew by heart. "We ask Sigr to accept your soul into Sólbjǫrg, where the long line of our people hold torches on the shadowed path."The other main cluster type is a globular cluster. These objects are spherical in shape and the greatest concentration of stars lies toward their centers. Globular clusters have many more stars than open clusters, ranging from about ten thousand stars to more than one million stars. Globular clusters are old. Most are in excess of 10 billion years old. My only real criticism is the pacing of the book. The beginning started off with a big event, but then the book became a little too technical and, even though the chapters in the past timeline did help me understand the main character more, the pacing would slow to a crawl only to speed up and then slow down way too much again.

Woven throughout this thriller is a stunning exploration of identity and belonging. Our main character Asuka never really feels like she fits in both as an alternate and as a Japanese American selected to represent Japan in the competition for spots on the ship. Her story was incredibly powerful and compelling. I love how her struggle was reflected in both the past and present timelines. I think the primary reason for this was that this didn't work as a sci-fi or thriller/mystery. The extent of the sci-fi in this novel is that they're stated to be in a space ship, have augmented reality, and some bots. The entire premise of the mission and crew just doesn't stand up under basic scrutiny. You absolutely would not have all of your leadership pregnant at the same time,?you wouldn't even have them get pregnant in the first place when you don't have advanced medical tech to eliminate the risks, and you wouldn't have a crew selected that had issues with each other before they began. Yes. Sky in the Deep is definitely something unique in the YA Fantasy landscape. Intensely character-drive, stark, bleak, and yet the thread of hope is pulled taut throughout the entire narrative.The aspects of this that didn't work as well for me were the story construction, especially in the beginning, and some of the character work. The Deep Sky is an epic space thriller that doesn’t let you forget about the humanity of the people that go on adventures like these. It is wide in scope and sincere in characterization. In an striking balance, it makes us think about how the earth came to the brink of demise while The worst part is the way women are portrayed. We have women who basically instantly cave under pressure, fight amongst themselves, can only be motivated in the end by the thought of their future offspring, make poor impulsive decisions, and are portrayed as being flawed/highly disliked/problematic if they aren't motherly/kind or constantly put on that mask. Also, everyone just is cool with having to get pregnant and have kids? Not one single person who isn't super thrilled?

Halvard, the little boy in the book that melts the ice around Eelyn’s heart. I love him. Do you write listening to music? If so, what music inspired or accompanied this current book? Thank you, Netgalley and Wednesday Books, for the opportunity to read and review this book. My views are entirely my own. The Plague has left a population divided between Elites and Ordinaries—those who have powers and those who don’t; now, an Ordinary teen fights for her life. I broke through the fog and ran toward the river as fast as my feet would carry me with Mýra on my heels, her sword swinging. My eyes were on the trees, in the direction Iri had gone. They jumped from shadow to shadow, looking for a streak of flaxen hair in the darkened forest.FIERCE, VIVID, AND VIOLENTLY BEAUTIFUL. ” —Stephanie Garber, New York Times bestselling author of Caraval I stood, pressing my fingers into the hot wound at my arm and saying Sigr’s name under my breath, asking him to accept me. To welcome me. To watch over my father. “Vegr yfir fjor,” I whispered. One aspect that I really enjoyed was the future technology, from the ever-present AI to the ship's ability to adapt, transform and personalize environments based on each crew member's preferences. This creative approach added to the vivid and immersive reading experience. M22, a beautiful object in Sagittarius, was the first globular cluster to be discovered, in 1665. Twelve years later, the great southern globular Omega Centauri was observed by Edmund Halley (1656–1742). Today, about 200 globular clusters are known to surround our galaxy. Globulars have been observed around many other galaxies as well. As an example, the giant elliptical galaxy M87 in Virgo contains more than one thousand globular clusters. A woman leapt from the tree line, but her shriek was cut off as Mýra came from the side, plowing into her with a knife. She dragged it across the woman’s throat and dropped her where she stood, falling into step with me again as I ran.

Each member of the crew has their own DAR, a Digitally Augmented Reality. So each person essentially could create their own unique world that was different from anyone else. I loved the mystery and plot line around that world building aspect the most!This was really good actually. I was a bit on the fence at first. The story wasn't fully able to capture my attention until around the halfway mark. I was very pleased that Kitasei was eventually able to pull me in through the intensity of the storyline and completely pulled it off in the end. If there's one good thing to say about this story, is that it is inclusive, pronouns flying all around.