Black Woods Blue Sky by Eowyn Ivey

Black Woods Blue Sky

 by  Eowyn Ivey

Black Woods Blue Sky by Eowyn Ivey 

was published in Hardback on 4th February 2025 by Tinder Press. 

My thanks to the author and publisher for sending me a copy to review and to 

Random Things Tours for inviting me onto the tour.

Birdie ' s keeping it together, of course she is. So she's a little hungover on her shifts at times, and has to bring her daughter to the lodge while she waits tables, but Emaleen never goes hungry. It's a tough town to be a single mother, and Birdie just needs to get by. And then Birdie meets Arthur, who is quieter than most men, but makes her want to listen; who is gentle with Emaleen, and understands Birdie's fascination with the mountains in whose shadow they live. When Arthur asks Birdie and Emaleen to leave the lodge and make a home, just the three of them, in his off-grid cabin, Birdie ' s answer, in a heartbeat, is yes. Out in the wilderness Birdie's days are harsher and richer than she ever imagined possible. Here she will feel truly at one with nature. Here she, and Emaleen, will learn the whole, fearful truth about Arthur. BLACK WOODS, BLUE SKY is a daring reimagining of the legend of Beauty and the Beast, that asks the question: can love save us from ourselves? 

My Thoughts

To say I was hooked from the outset is an understatement. Black Woods Blue Sky has to be one of the most captivating books I have read for a long time. The storyline is unique and explores the depths of true love in ways that are so simply laid out it will have you questioning why much of life has to be so complicated.

Birdie, Arthur and Emaleen will draw you to them in the little world that they create away from the vast majority of the rest of the world. Does it matter that relationships are not conventional if love binds you together ?

The characters that Eowyn creates will take you into their world with them. You will understand what they are going through and how they live, and change , in order to survive what life throws at them. The progression of their lives and the paths that each of them find themselves on pull you with them and there may be times when you find yourself asking yourself if it is possible.

Most of all though go on the journey with Birdie, Arthur and Emaleen and see their lives through their eyes.

Eowyn Ivey is an author who takes the reader into her imagination and keeps them with her until the very last full stop.

About Eowyn

Eowyn Ivey is the author of The Snow Child, an international bestseller published in thirty countries, a Richard and Judy Book club pick, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and winner of a British Book Award. Her second novel, To the Bright Edge of the World, was longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award, shortlisted for the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Award, and was a Washington Post Notable Book. Eowyn was raised in Alaska and continues to live there with her husband and two daughters.