Vane Weston is the miracle child. Survived a tornado but forever lost both his family and his memories in the process. Or so he thought. When the girl of his literal dreams appears, Vane gets swept up by the wind. Audra, his guardian, had been watching him and tampering with his life; particularly his love life. She swore an oath to protect him, sacrifice herself if needs be, but Vane cannot lose the girl of his dreams, the one constant in his life.
Vane and Audra are not human. They are windwalkers, otherwise known as sylphs. 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. Most sylphs can speak northerly, southerly and easterly as it has become the common tongue. Vane is the last westerly and is the only one that can know language but it's buried somewhere in his memories. 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.
Meanwhile, Audra's powers are drained and she is at risk of dying, like her father. 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. As Vane becomes hopeless in learning the languages, she attempts to train him to defend himself despite peace being in his Westerly nature. As each session progresses Vane appears weaker and is at a constant risk of being carried away from her. 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.
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. Shannon Messenger successfully portrayed two realistic perspectives which I really enjoyed reading. The relationship between the main characters are quite sweet though quite feisty and harsh at times. 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. My only criticism is the ending. 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.
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