Young creates this tough yet vulnerable character in Eelyn. She can strategize with the best of the warriors, her fellow fighting mates. I loved just how fierce she is mentally and physically. She is a warrior of honor, strength, and heart. Rarely do we really get such a layered and well-written heroine in a YA novel, let alone a debut. Eelyn is a protagonist that completely steals the show-sweeping the reader along her heart-rendering journey. There are moments of stabbing and bloodshed and beautiful moments of ritual, and everyday life of the Aska and Riki-painting a vivid picture for readers. I love the sharp contrast between the lyrical way Young describes the landscape with the gritty and brutal moments of battle.
Instead, it steadily builds delicious tension this is a book you will not want to put down due to the page-turning addiction it creates. Well paced and with a straightforward plot, the novel does waste time on a convoluted story. Published April 24th 2018 by Wednesday Books Young Adult Fiction, Historical Fiction, Vikings Driven by a love for her clan and her growing love for Fiske, Eelyn must confront her own definition of loyalty and family while daring to put her faith in the people she’s spent her life hating.
They must do the impossible: unite the clans to fight together, or risk being slaughtered one by one. She is given no choice but to trust Fiske, her brother’s friend, who sees her as a threat. But when the Riki village is raided by a ruthless clan thought to be a legend, Eelyn is even more desperate to get back to her beloved family.
Until the day she sees the impossible on the battlefield - her brother, fighting with the enemy - the brother she watched die five years ago.įaced with her brother's betrayal, 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. Her life is brutal but simple: fight and survive. Raised to be a warrior, seventeen-year-old Eelyn fights alongside her Aska clansmen in an ancient rivalry against the Riki clan.
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