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Vane Weston was the “miracle child” spared when both his parents were killed by a powerful tornado. Since then, he’s lived with adoptive parents in arid Coachella Valley, California. Life has been pretty good, but he still can’t understand why he can’t remember anything about the tornado or his life before it — except for the face of a dark-haired girl watching him in the storm. She’s appeared in his dreams ever since, and while he’s thought a few times he’s actually seen her, she must be just a figment of his imagination. A beautiful figment. Then one night while Vane is on a set-up date, he sees her across the room. The gorgeous girl. And he’s sure she has something to do with the not-so-great end of his date.
Audra has been guarding Vane since the “tornado,” only it wasn’t a regular weather event — it was an attack by the enemy. Audra is a sylph, an air elemental who can harness the winds. And she has to help Vane unlock his memories and gain his own elemental powers because the Stormers, evil sylphs who want to capture Vane to use his special gifts, now know where to find them both. These two teens only have days to prepare for the attack.
Of course, they fall for each other, and of course, it’s forbidden, because the powers-that-be in the sylph world have planned a match for Vane. So they must train, with Audra doing all she can to help Vane have “breakthroughs” of powers and learn how to use them in record time, even as Audra must try to keep him at arm’s length emotionally.
Let the Sky Fall is a fairly typical fantasy YA romance. I was interested in seeing where the story went but not particularly blown away by the romance or the characters; they felt standard, like place markers, and didn’t make me feel they were real. I may or may not read the sequels in the trilogy.
Rated: Mild, for only a few instances of mild language, kissing and nothing further, and violence. Violence includes references to the attack by the Stormers a decade earlier and to the one that (inevitably) takes place at the end of the book. There are descriptions of trees and wind weapons stabbing people and causing a lot of blood to be shed.
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