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Mav Skye lives with her family in the Pacific Northwest. She has a son with a severe mental illness. His courage to overcome everyday gives her courage.
She adores pirates, red hots, mascara, Cleopatra and Shirley Jackson. She prefers scary stories with teeth and claws and psychopaths.
Mav used to write under another name in Texas, but after her son's mental break, they moved back North. Resurrection under a fresh writing name was something to get excited about again. She hasn't published much under her new name, but you can click to her website and you'll find her current fiction as well as a link to all her previously published work, award nominated fiction, interviews and poetry.
www.mavskye.com
Reviewed by Bil Howard for Readers' Favorite
Plunged into dark despair by madness that she cannot escape, Phoebe is already living in hell. Mav Skye takes us on a deep and dark journey into a world of madness and mental illness that borders on the terrifying in The Undistilled Sky. As Phoebe struggles within a world of maddening dreams and hot lava flowing through her brain, she desperately searches for a way to escape it for the sake of her daughter, Dessa Rae. As the horrifying dreams of her family and her home on the farm continue to fuel the madness of her illness, she fights to give her daughter the love she needs and the home that she wishes the child could have. With stress continually mounting with the loss of a job, pressure to fly from Texas to Washington for her sister’s wedding, and a perception of being entirely alone in the world, Phoebe measures her options and has to make a choice that might bring her relief, but will leave her child alone in a world of madness.
Dark and desperate are the two best words to describe The Undistilled Sky. Mav Skye has brilliantly captured the horrors of a mental illness that is driven by flaming madness. The descriptions, emotions, and thoughts that go through Phoebe’s head plunge the reader into the same darkness and leave a feeling of desperation churning in the pit of the stomach. This is a very well-written, well-thought-out masterpiece. Though I have never suffered from this form of mental illness before, this story tracks what others suffering from PTSD have told me. What really grabs the attention most is how very much her mother, in reality, is like the blind pig of Phoebe’s nightmare. Dark, desperate and tragic, The Undistilled Sky puts the reader inside the mind of madness.
