But it's not until she hears Asher's voice that the memories come rushing back. When Skye wakes up in unfamiliar surroundings, she knows something terrible has happened. 'About this title' may belong to another edition of this title.īook Description Paperback. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. Readers will once again be left breathlessly waiting to see how Skye tackles the challenges set before her, but will find themselves confident that she will find a way to save the day-and herself.-Jessica Miller, New Britain Public Library, CTα(c) Copyright 2011. She neither neglects her human life nor allows herself to be blindly led into a new world by an amazingly good-looking boy. Davies pushes through and delivers a main character who defies expectations and chooses her own path, refusing those blatantly offered. While some readers might fear that this novel seems to have the most overdone tropes of the genre-a love triangle and a main character unsure of herself and led by others-those who stick with the story will be rewarded. Her love may be strong, but her determination to find her true path will turn out to be even more powerful. As she learns more from her guardian about her parents' decision to fight and where her own human friends may fit into her life, Skye is forced to make some very tough choices. Though she pledges herself to Asher and the Rebels, she finds herself continuously questioning her own balance of powers and her intuition that Devin can be redeemed. Now aware that she is descended from angels on rival sides of a holy war, she must decide whom she can trust and on which side she will fight. And as the secrets of her true identity are revealed, Skye realizes that her destiny may reside in the Heavens-or somewhere darker.Gr 9 Up-After the explosive ending of A Beautiful Dark (HarperCollins, 2011), Skye wakes up to find herself fully healed from Devin's betrayal and assassination attempt. Torn between unpredictable Asher, whom she loves, and the infuriating Devin, who she can’t stay away from, her fate is murky as a starless night. High up in the mountains of Boulder, Colorado, Skye finds herself caught in the middle of an ancient battle, one that began untold millennia ago. Events that Skye, if she dares to think it, might be responsible for causing.

Skye has no idea what they want-only that their presence coincides with the beginning of some shockingly strange events. Polar opposites, like fire and ice, Asher is dark and wild, while Devin is fair, cold, and aloof. Until the night of her 17th birthday, when the arrival of two strangers intrudes on her cozy life. She never questioned if the stories were true.

Her Aunt Jo adopted her after the death of her parents when she was just a child, and together they flip through memories the way some people flip through photo albums. Skye never questioned the story of her life.

A beautiful dark by jocelyn davies