Seventeen-year-old Audra is a sylph, an air elemental. And he has no idea if the beautiful, dark-haired girl who's swept through his dreams every night since the storm is real. Seventeen-year-old Vane Weston has no idea how he survived the category five tornado that killed his parents. I did not like it and given the current situation of the characters, it makes me hesitant to pick up Messenger's second book in the series called Let The Storm Break.A broken past and a divided future can't stop the electric connection of two teens in this 'fast-paced, fantasy-romance' ( VOYA) novel. Let The Sky Fall is an easy quick read, it didn't bore me at any point, it was satisfying and there's a great build up to the climax. The relationship between the main characters are quite sweet though quite feisty and harsh at times. Shannon Messenger successfully portrayed two realistic perspectives which I really enjoyed reading. The story flickers between Vane's and Audra's narrative, and Vane's teenage 'girl crush craze' is evident but becomes more than just a crush. As their love grows they cannot lose each other, but Vane is betrothed and she would lose all respect and and loyalty the Gales have for her by pursuing Vane.

As each session progresses Vane appears weaker and is at a constant risk of being carried away from her. As Vane becomes hopeless in learning the languages, she attempts to train him to defend himself despite peace being in his Westerly nature. Audra is withholding memories of Vane's past, too scared that her actions were unforgivable that she is to blame for both her father's and Vane's parents' deaths.

Meanwhile, Audra's powers are drained and she is at risk of dying, like her father. If he can master all four languages in the small time frame before the Stormers arrive, they'll have a chance at defeating them and Audra may not have to go through with the sacrifice. Vane is the last westerly and is the only one that can know language but it's buried somewhere in his memories. Most sylphs can speak northerly, southerly and easterly as it has become the common tongue. The are 4 types of winds, the northerly, the southerly, the easterly and the westerly – they all speak a different language, but combined these languages create the strongest of winds. They are windwalkers, otherwise known as sylphs.

Sky fall series by shannon messenger