Sky in the Deep: 1 (Sky and Sea)

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It is, however, a debut novel, and sometimes that showed in the writing - happily in it being a little too straightforward at times, though, rather than overly flowery. And the science side of the science fiction was mostly hand-waved, but then would occasionally need focus to serve the story - I much prefer it being either glossed over entirely, or consistent in the level of detail at least.

Another problem is the characters. The main character's entire personality is her angst over being mixed race and having been the alternate choice for Japan. She has zero character growth. Absolute zero. 12 year old Asuka is the exact same as 21/31ish year old Asuka. She is the kind of person who puts ZERO effort into her relationships and then is hurt/offended when people don't care deeply about her: In a time of typewriters and steam engines, Iris Winnow awaits word from her older brother, who has enlisted on the side of Enva the Skyward goddess. Alcohol abuse led to her mother’s losing her job, and Iris has dropped out of school and found work utilizing her writing skills at the Oath Gazette. Hiding the stress of her home issues behind a brave face, Iris competes for valuable assignments that may one day earn her the coveted columnist position. Her rival for the job is handsome and wealthy Roman Kitt, whose prose entrances her so much she avoids reading his articles. At home, she writes cathartic letters to her brother, never posting them but instead placing them in her wardrobe, where they vanish overnight. One day Iris receives a reply, which, along with other events, pushes her to make dramatic life decisions. Magic plays a quiet role in this story, and readers may for a time forget there is anything supernatural going on. This is more of a wartime tale of broken families, inspired youths, and higher powers using people as pawns. It flirts with clichéd tropes but also takes some startling turns. Main characters are assumed White; same-sex marriages and gender equality at the warfront appear to be the norm in this world. Today, we are indebted to the great American astronomer Edwin Hubble (1889–1953) for developing a simple classification scheme for galaxies. Hubble first mentioned this in a paper he wrote in 1922. Four years later, he expanded it and added some illustrations. Finally, in 1936, Hubble provided a better explanation of the classification scheme in his book The Realm of the Nebulae. And it was in this book that the famous “tuning fork” diagram first appeared. So, the scoop: a group of women (and trans men) shot off into space, with the goal of colonizing a certain planet for the guaranteed continuation of the human race (since things don’t look too swell on earth; just like present day).With the world slowly dying, one wealthy individual uses her funds and technology to sponsor a last ditch effort to send humans to a new planet. As the ship hurtles to the new planet it seems there my be a person or persons on board looking to sabotage the mission. What is different in this story? This wealthy individual chose only women, young women that were trained as girls. 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. They stopped struggling, both looking up at me with wide eyes, and it dove deeper within me. What I was seeing. Who I was seeing. I know. But you will never be the same. You will never be the same person you were.” He paused. “You are seeing the truth. I see you thinking it, everyday.”

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. 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: train to fight and fight to 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.It wasn’t the first time she had stitched me up and it wouldn’t be the last. But the only time she’d ever told me I couldn’t fight was when I broke two ribs. I’d waited five years to avenge Iri in my second fighting season and I spent a month of it sitting in the camp, cleaning weapons and seething with anger while my father and Mýra went out into battle without me. A multinational crew of women embarks on a voyage to a distant planet. But then a mysterious explosion sets the ship off course. As the crew works to correct the ship's trajectory, Asuka, the main character, investigates the explosion and tries to determine who was behind it.

I cannot gush over this book enough! Sky in the Deep is breathless, vivid, and badass, with a heroine you'll at once want to scream at and for. Debut Adrienne Young has created a book you'll never want to leave, with characters you'll instantly love.

I found my father’s face across the field, where the fog was still pulling up from the land like a lifting cloud. So, TL-DR; if you’re gonna read this, read it for the story, the political commentary and the main character. 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.