Title: Let The Sky Fall Author: Shannon Messenger
Published March 5th 2013 by Simon Pulse
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I read “Seventeen-year-old
Vane Weston has no idea how he survived the category five tornado that killed
his parents.” and was like WOAH I have to read this boy’s story!
Turns out I was wrong and this
book is not about a tragic F-5 tornado that hit some town. No. It’s about super-powered people that are made of air or control air or something, and can (and
possibly will) destroy the human race.
Like I have stated before, I
hate it when a book tries hard at making me believe the heroine is kickass.
It’s like, let me decide that for myself and not shove down my throat how
wonderful and deadly this girl is. You know, the kind of problem I have with
Divergent. I think it’s more important to portray a girl with a healthy amount of
vulnerability so we readers believe that maybe, just maybe there’s also force
within ourselves that will allow us to become awesome heroines too. The thing
is, Audra was too unapproachable to me. Yes, she did have a sad story behind
her, and her family situation sucked, but it was hard to believe she cared about it,
because she never showed emotions for it, mostly what she talked about were her
duties as Vane’s guardian and her oath to protect him and it was hard to
believe any teenager would not have a bit of a pity party once in a while.
And then, I am sorry to say,
that Vane was kind of dull. I loved that he thought he was human, though so he
went through a lot of emotions and struggled to catch on to the new reality of
him being an air-elemental. It was a realistic approach to the way a boy would
handle the news, and that is what saved the book for me.
But then again, I am not one to
be easily awed by new realities and super powers and strange worlds. It is very
rare to get a supernatural/paranormal book in my hands that I can say blew my
mind or captivated me enough to continue reading the rest of the series.
On a happier note, I am absolutely in love with the cover of this book. Not only is gorgeous but it also makes a lot of sense once you read the story and captures perfectly these two characters.
I agree with you, except maybe for the part with Vane, because I did like him very much, but otherwise I was also a bit disappointed with this book. :( I gave it three stars as well though, and I'm hoping its sequel will be better, because I see a lot of potential.
ReplyDeleteVane definitely was better than Aura, I liked the parts from his POV more. I'm still not sure about getting the sequel but we'll see.
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