Name: The Sky is Mine
ISBN: 9781786075550

Amy Beashel

Izzy feels invisible. Trapped under the weight of expectation and censored by shame. Her mum Steph and best friend Grace have always been there to save her. But with one under the control of her stepfather and the other caught in the throes of new love, Izzy is falling between the cracks. As threats to her safety grow, Izzy wants to scream. But first she must find her voice. And if the sky is the limit, then the sky is hers. [This book contains material which some readers may find distressing, including discussions of rape, coercive behaviour, domestic violence and abuse.]

The Sky is Mine

Karolina

Izzy Chambers life looks like a perfect picture. Happy family, gorgeous house, but it doesn’t as perfect as it seems. Most of it is just for show. She lives with her mother and controlling stepfather. However, he is not controlling in a way: at what time you need to come home, or that you need to have the best grades. He wants them to be perfect. He wants them to look and behave perfectly. He controls what they eat, wears and how their life needs to look like. 

Besides her life at home, her school life isn’t better. Everything started during the house party when she accidentally drunk too much and one of the guys from the class used it. The consequence of this was the humiliating pictures. They were like shadows that followed her every day. The threats started soon after and crashed her in a way there was no coming back from. 

She lost herself, she didn’t see a way out of all her problems. Her mom couldn’t let them live like this anymore. She didn’t want them to be scared and threatened their whole lives. She packed all the important things they will need and run away where no one will find them. 

My thoughts:

It’s hard to share all my fresh thoughts about the book as I read it three months ago. It’s the second time I write this review. The first one, unfortunately, got lost and cannot be found. I checked every possible thing on my laptop to find it but the only thing I found was the first sentence of the review. Well, I need to share what I remember. 

Firstly, I would like to talk about the main character; Izzy. Izzy Chambers has many things to worry about and people around that who don’t see it, just add more to the list. She’s an easy target to break and manipulate and people use it against her. If not her mom, she would be completely devastated at the end. Their escape helped her to recover and made her brave. She met people that showed her that what was happening to her was wrong and she didn’t deserve that. She finally could relax and take a breath and that’s what she needed the most. 

Let’s talk about Daniel and Jacob. I don’t know which one of them is worse. Both can be assigned as the worst version of a man nowadays. I was disgusted by them and no villain made me so angry as these two. The worst thing is that this kind of man exists, and they are around us. They act like they will give you the world but later they destroy it. No woman deserves being treated like this. 

The book touches the subject people don’t talk a lot about. There are still fights about how much a woman is worth and a lot of men still things that we don’t have as many rights as they have. They still think that we are here to be their toys. It’s still there but as the characters of The Sky is Mine, we need to fight and show them that we are stronger than they think. 

I would like to thank NetGalley, Oneworld Publications and Amy Beashel for providing me this amazing book. I’m so disappointed that I lost the review I wrote right after I finished reading the book because it had more details than this one, but I am happy to share this with you and recommend it to everyone. It was an amazing journey.

The Sky is Mine

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