Blog Tour Review: Under These Restless Skies by Lissa Bryan

Under These Restless Skies By Lissa Bryan

Rating-★★★★★

Available from Amazon, Kobo, Barnes and Noble, and TWCS

Summary:

Will Somers has always thought himself unlovable. When he encounters a creature of myth and magic, he seizes the chance to finally have a wife and family of his own. Emma is a selkie—one of the immortal fae-folk of the sea—bound to Will by the magic of her kind, and eager to learn about life on land. She has to learn to adapt quickly to human customs, because Will is headed for the court of Henry VIII, to serve as the king’s fool. It’s a glittering, dangerous world, where a careless word can lead to the scaffold and the smallest of gestures is loaded with political implications. Anne Boleyn is charmed by Emma’s naïveté and soothing selkie magic and wants Emma for her own fool. Can Will protect his newfound love from the dangers that lurk in every shadow? Circa regna tonat: around the throne, the thunder rolls.

Review:

I started reading Lissa Bryan’s books when she came out with Ghost Writer and loved that as well as The End of All Things. Under These Restless Skies just got added to the list. There is something just so pure and magical about Lissa’s writing that takes you away to another place and time. You feel like you should be watching a movie instead of reading a book because all of the visual details are there.

One main thing that drew me to this book was the mystical creatures of the Selkies (which I kept calling Silkies in my mind and wanting to giggle because it sounded cute) their innocence of our land just brings a fresh view to things that you wouldn’t even think twice about such as eating ‘dead food’ (meat) and why coins are valubale if they are just round metal circles.

The history element of this story was great as well. I love being transported to another time and I think Lissa did a great job of bring that to life.

All in all I really enjoyed this book and will continue loving to read anything that Lissa writes, just as I have been since picking up her first book.

Author Bio:

Lissa Bryan is an astronaut, renowned Kabuki actress, Olympic pole vault gold medallist, Iron Chef champion, and scientist, who recently discovered the cure for athlete’s foot . . . though only in her head. Real life isn’t so interesting, which is why she spends most of her time writing.