A Radiant Sky

by Jocelyn Davies

[Suz @ Bookish Revelations]

A Radiant Sky is the final book in the Beautiful Dark trilogy by Jocelyn Davies that has captivated and thrilled me from the beginning. It is a wonderfully written and imaginative paranormal series that I have grown to love. The characters are entertaining and likable in so many ways, the story is greatly developed, and the world building is fantastic. On the whole, it's been a brilliantly intriguing trilogy from the get-go and one I'm glad that I got the chance to read and review. If you're looking for a paranormal series that is fast paced, full of adventure, and snappy battles of good and evil then this is definitely one of the series that you'll want to look to.

It's been a journey following Skye through out each of the novels and to see how she's grown, matured, and developed. Obviously, she's come a long way since A Beautiful Dark, and that has made her all the more endearing to me. One of the best things about this character, is the fact that she chooses to make her own choice through out the course of this third and final novel in the series. Torn between light and dark a good portion of the time, Asher and Devyn, she finally decides to choose neither and walk her own path. Her refusal to choose between light and dark and either boy, makes her path harder and more dangerous, but it also makes her so much stronger and more brave than ever. It adds such an element of intrigue and suspense, danger and chaos, that you can feel the tension in your bones.

As much as I found myself enjoy this third and final novel in this series, I also found myself disappointed at some other aspects as well. I wish that Davies had written a bit more conflict into the pages of the story she has been weaving together for a while now, but I just couldn't find it and it sort of fell a bit flat to me. Another aspect that I wish would have been written a little better than it read, was the epic battle that was meant to be full of danger and bloodshed. There just didn't seem to be enough pay off with that, it sort of mirrored the lack of pay-off that Breaking Dawn had to offer and left a feeling of frustration after all the characters had been through to get to that one point. There should have been more to the final battle, something to show for all of the danger and suspense that had led up to it and there simply wasn't. That, I found to be, quite the bummer.

Overall, though, I did enjoy this book a great deal. It wasn't the best of endings, but it wasn't the worst either. I would say that it was a pretty solid ending that had the potential to be so much more than it ended up being. I would also go even further, as to recommend this series to anyone who was looking for an enjoyable fast-paced paranormal romance trilogy that has some great world building, wonderfully developed and likable characters, and definitely a fantastic romance.