The main characters are admirable: Tova finally listens to her intuition and escapes her old life to right wrongs, and Halvard grows into the leader his people need in a crisis, one who ultimately chooses peace, even though it's harder to achieve. Characters (including teens) drink mead and wine at meals and before and after battle. A head is chopped off a corpse and carried away. A whole village of innocents is slaughtered, with details of the aftermath (seeing children dead in mothers' arms). Many are also wounded, with details about blood loss, infections, and stitching deep cuts. Many die, including a few secondary characters who are heavily mourned and burned on pyres. Expect close-up details of gory action: throats slit with knives, the pop of a knife plunging into a chest, axes digging into flesh, etc. As in that novel, the battles and skirmishes are extra bloody here.
A few of the same characters show up, but they have no major role to play, so either book can be read first. Parents need to know that The Girl the Sea Gave Back is a Viking warrior fantasy from the same world as Sky in the Deep, but it takes place about 10 years later. Some drinkers are older teens.ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Drinking, Drugs & Smoking in your kid's entertainment guide. Besides those negative factors, the novel was fairly enjoyable, the fight scenes were brutal and well written, and I would definitely consider reading from author again in the future.Characters drink mead and ale in homes and before and after battle. It should've beat out everything else that happened in the book but it didn't and everything just seemed rushed, which is how you never want to end a book. Like what the pho (speaking of pho, I should go get some)? It should've been epic. The whole lead up to the climax left me with anticipation and when it finally came, I was far more than disappointed.
Nevertheless, one of the biggest problems I had with "The Girl the Sea Gave Back" was the pacing and the boring ass ending. so 3 solid stars it is! I came into this novel not realising it was part of the series and luckily for me this novel could be considered a standalone. It was good enough to be rated over 3 stars but not enough to be 3.5 in which case I would normally round up but it was pretty much borderline. Let's be honest, I was pretty much conflicted on how to rate this rate.
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