Sky in the Deep: 1 (Sky and Sea)

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There is very little tension or build up in the story and the culprit is super obvious. The plot is extremely slow, and if you've ever been the alternate for a team you can basically guess how the selection academy went for Asuka without having to read anything. Always.” I looked behind us where our clansmen stood shoulder to shoulder in a sea of red leathers and bronze, all waiting for the call. Mýra and I had fought for our place at the front. This is absolutely brutal and stark, but with so much texture and depth and richness of the world that I want to throw away my flip-flops and messy bun for battle armor and braids. The MC is pure wrath and solid conviction, and I love that her level of ferocity and concept of honor is paired with so much raw emotion.

The Aska man waiting behind us sat down on the stool and Kalda got to work on the cut carved into his cheek. I heard Sigr honored you today. He was a friend of my father’s. Everyone was.

After a lethal bomb kills three members of a elite group of eighty young people chosen to journey to a distant planet, Asuka, one of those chosen elite, becomes the most likely suspect. What really sets globulars apart, however, isn’t their age, but their location. Open clusters lie within the spiral arms (disk) of our Milky Way Galaxy. Globular clusters surround the Milky Way in a spherical distribution. This structure is often called the “halo.” Studying the distribution of globular clusters around the Scorpius-Sagittarius area correctly led Harlow Shapley (1885–1972) to conclude that the center of our galaxy must lie in that direction. Raised to be a warrior, seventeen-year-old Eelyn fights alongside her Aska clansmen in an ancient, rivalry against the Riki clan. Her life is brutal but simple: fight and survive. Until the day she sees the impossible on the battlefield—her brother, fighting with the enemy—the brother she watched die five years ago. Mýra sighed beside me, though it looked as if she was enjoying it a little. I shot my eyes to her before she could say a word. The narrative jumps around from present to the past frequently and I felt like, for me, those transitions weren't smooth enough. They were quite jarring and I kept feeling out of touch with what was happening because of it. Additionally, as far as the characters go, I had a hard time remembering anyone besides our main, Asuka.

He nodded. He wasn’t going to say it wouldn’t happen because we’d both seen enough clansmen fall to know it could. “And if you don’t?”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! Two regions are at war and every 5 years there is a battle between the two. This year Eelyn was taken and sold to the enemy. While she is a slave there she finds her brother. Living with them, working with them, he was supposed to be dead. Killed by them but obviously he wasnt and hes aliveand well and didnt have the decency to tell his sister that he was alive and that he decided to join the enemy. Sentences were choppy. Like. A lot. It was hard. Finding a single compound sentence. And. It made it hard. To follow early transitions. Not smooth. Awkward.