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  • Let the Sky Fall by Shannon Messenger
  • Kate Quealy-Gainer
Messenger, Shannon . Let the Sky Fall. Simon Pulse, 2013. 404p. Trade ed. ISBN 978-1-4424-5041-7 $17.99 E-book ed. ISBN 978-1-4424-5043-1 $9.99 Ad Gr. 7-10.

Seventeen-year-old Vane Weston has little memory of his childhood and no memory at all of the tornado that killed his parents ten years ago. He's always felt different, somehow incomplete, and when Audra, a girl who has haunted his dreams since the storm, shows up in real life, he finds out why: Audra and Vane are sylphs, wind elementals. Vane is a particularly powerful sylph, in fact, and Raiden, the head bad guy of the sylphs, is hunting him down to either exploit Vane's powers or kill him. Audra's got seven days to train Vane to master the four languages of the wind, balance his powers, and prepare for an all-out wind war that threatens Vane's town and his loved ones. Chapters shift perspective between Vane and Audra, giving readers an intimate look at our two heroes and the inevitable romantic relationship that develops between them. Unfortunately, this singular focus on the two protagonists takes some of the urgency out of Raiden's threat; secondary characters are rarely seen, and if they appear, they're mostly stock, so the world beyond Audra and Vane never comes into focus and the danger to it therefore never seems consequential. The pacing also struggles during the earlier portion of the novel, especially during Vane's training sequences. The action picks up when the wind warriors show up for battle, though, and the twist ending is a remarkably unpredictable one. This won't necessarily blow readers away, but fans of supernatural romances may appreciate a new elemental's debut. [End Page 429]

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