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    The Girl the Sea Gave Back: A Novel
    The Girl the Sea Gave Back: A Novel
    The Girl the Sea Gave Back: A Novel
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    The Girl the Sea Gave Back: A Novel

    Written by Adrienne Young

    Narrated by Caitlin Kelly and Dan Bittner

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    About this audiobook

    "Both narrators add depth and resonance to Young's rich prose...Those who enjoy epic fantasy novels should definitely give this a listen!" — AudioFile Magazine

    From Adrienne Young, New York Times bestselling author of Sky in the Deep, comes her new gut-wrenching epic The Girl the Sea Gave Back.

    For as long as she can remember, Tova has lived among the Svell, the people who found her washed ashore as a child and use her for her gift as a Truthtongue. Her own home and clan are long-faded memories, but the sacred symbols and staves inked over every inch of her skin mark her as one who can cast the rune stones and see into the future. She has found a fragile place among those who fear her, but when two clans to the east bury their age-old blood feud and join together as one, her world is dangerously close to collapse.

    For the first time in generations, the leaders of the Svell are divided. Should they maintain peace or go to war with the allied clans to protect their newfound power? And when their chieftain looks to Tova to cast the stones, she sets into motion a series of events that will not only change the landscape of the mainland forever but will give her something she believed she could never have again—a home.

    "Gripping and exquisitely written. The Girl the Sea Gave Back tore at my heart strings until I was completely unraveled." - Stephanie Garber, New York Times bestselling author of Caravel

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Audio
    Release dateSep 3, 2019
    ISBN9781250241276
    The Girl the Sea Gave Back: A Novel
    Author

    Adrienne Young

    Adrienne Young is a foodie with a deep love of history and travel and a shameless addiction to coffee. When she’s not writing, you can find her on her yoga mat, sipping wine over long dinners or disappearing into her favorite art museums. She lives with her documentary filmmaker husband and their four little wildlings in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. She is the author of the New York Times bestselling Sky in the Deep duology and the World of the Narrows series.

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    • 3/5
      The writing and setting were definitely my favorite. I wish there were more interaction between Tova and Halvard because as much as I wanted to root for them, the lack of scenes between them made the romance feel instant or force.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      Great story and loved how the reader got more from the spiritual side of the warriors; but i would have preferred an epilogue to wrap things up and not left drifting for the reader to predict what would happen next.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      This book... God this book... when i first started this novel i was actually giving the author another chance since the 1st book was okki and predictable to me, however i was surprised at the events of the story, it had me wanting more, wanting to know what will happen and when it ended i wished there was more....I hope the author continues the story since it has only began... and I WANT MORE.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 3/5
      I really enjoyed different kind of protagonists, who raise to the challenge a brewing war between tribes brings to them.
      The ‚romance‘ Element of this novel is definitely on the back burner, so if you are looking for a lot of lines about sparks between the boy and the girl, you’ll be disappointed. Instead, there’s a lot of axe wielding action.
      I appreciated the poetic, steady narrative and the subtle ties to the author‘s previous novel ‚Sky in the Deep‘.

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    • 3/5
      The Girl the Sea Gave Back
      by Adrienne Young
      Sky and Sea #2
      YA Norse Mythology
      Scribd (Everand) Audio
      Ages 16+

      Found as a young child by a tribesman of the Svell, Tova grew up in fear for her life because the symbols tattooed on her skin marked her as a member of a warrior tribe who lived far in the north. The only thing keeping her alive is one mark that proclaims her as a Truthtongue, gifted with the power to use the Runes to see into the future.

      With a cast of those stones, Tova's custodian twists what she said the Runes say, and he gives their chieftain's brother the excuse to go to war with the newly 'allied clans' who dwell both on the fjord and the mountains.


      Don't be like me and expect this to start where the first left off.

      Taking place about ten years after the previous book, this story centers mostly on Tova and the tribe that took her in as a child, the Svell. The other MC is Halvard, a minor character from the first book.

      The main plot in this story is a war against tribes in order to take what the other has, and to have more power. Other subplots have to do with family, fate, and romance. This book does not spend a lot of time deep diving into the characters, but there's enough for the reader to feel some connection with them, but I wish there were more about the reasons why Halvard was selected for (spoiler). I get the one reason, but that can't be the only one, there are missing details.

      And Tova's real tribe I'm curious about and there could be another story here.

      Overall, a great listen/read, but I wish it was a little bit longer to get more story about the 'allied tribe' and their struggles to get where they were. That information would give readers, especially those who didn't read the first book or did years before, a deeper connection with them so to feel the importance of what they were fighting for.

      Those details would have given this book one more star...

      3 Stars
    • 4/5
      It took a while to get all the characters straightened out but overall a good book.
    • 3/5
      Love the intricacy of the plot and the character building. It was also very rare to have a tattooed heroine!!! However, I find it lacking in romance. It was not supposed to be a romance- focused read but a little romance couldn't hurt.