Complete opposites-like fire and ice-Asher is dark and wild, while Devin is fair and aloof. On the night of Skye’s seventeenth birthday, she meets two enigmatic strangers. Mini-Review : A Beautiful Dark stumbles in the beginning but finds it light by the end. Great cover!įirst Sentence : 'The air had a brutal edge to it as I stood outside of Love the Bean, the local free-trade coffee shop.' I love the blue sky in the background and the euphoria on the model's face. The sweeping, darkly romantic story that began with A Beautiful Dark and gathered intensity in A Fractured Light comes to a thrilling conclusion in A Radiant Sky.Publisher : HarperTeen (September 27, 2011)Ĭover : The girl leaning into the fall with sleeves like wings is absolutely gorgeous. Because she has a future-and a love-that’s worth fighting for. The Rebellion does, too.Īnd both sides will do whatever it takes to win.ĭark days lie ahead, and if Skye is to survive, she’ll need to rely on her extraordinary powers and the strength of her will.

Because it’s not just the Order that sees her as a threat who must be eliminated. And doing so comes at a cost: Her greatest love may now be a lethal enemy.

But completing the mission her parents left unfinished is more difficult-and dangerous-than she could have imagined. The treacherous and elusive half-angels may be the key to maintaining the balance of fate and free will. With the help of her friends, Skye forges her own path, setting out to gather an uprising of Rogues. Since the night of her seventeenth birthday, Skye has been torn between two opposites: Light and Dark, the Order and the Rebellion, Devin and Asher.īut her decision shocked both sides-because she chose neither. And by the time the sun rises, odds are they’ll discover that there’s a fine line between science and magic, and that the mysteries of love and friendship can’t be explained. And lightning strikes.īefore they know what's hit them, the four teens embark on an epic all-night adventure to follow their dreams, fall in and out of love, reconcile the past, and overcome the fears that have been driving them since that one lost summer. And shy, poetic Tiny has slowly been fading away.īut fate weaves their lives together again the night before the SATs, during a wild thunderstorm that threatens to shut down New York City. Will has risen from anonymity to popular soccer star. Nathaniel has become obsessed with winning the prestigious science scholarship that his genius older brother once won. Now, three years later, they hardly talk anymore. Then life-defining events the summer before high school tore them apart. Tiny, Lu, Will and Nathaniel used to be best friends. A bolt of lightning inspires an incredible journey in this charming, magical realism adventure that takes four teens on an all-night journey through the streets of New York City.Įxtraordinary things happen when we least expect them.

A beautiful dark by jocelyn davies