5 stars!!! 
 Lending Light tells the story of Gives Light but from Rafael's Point of View (POV). 
 When I read Gives Light one of the things I tought it had missing was exactly Rafael's POV and... 
 even tought I tought it was really SWEET and LOVABLE that Rafael could kind of guess Skylar's thoughts and feelings, it just wasn't very believable to me... 
 if Rafael COULD read him so well... if Sky's face WAS that easily read... WHY couldn't HIS OWN DAD (who had lived with him all his life, may I add) understand his toughts too?! 
 In this book it IS explained how Rafael could understand Sky so well... if you want to know, then click the spoiler 
 (view spoiler)[ Rafael can feel other people's feelings throught touch and he kind of can see their auras... How AWESOME is that?! I never expected a paranormal genre in this book... :) (hide spoiler)] 
 "You will very soon learn what it means to have no voice" 
 I LOVED this book more than I did Gives Light... I LOVED seeing Skylar throught Rafael's "in love" eyes... just as I loved Rafael so much when I first "met" him in Gives Light throught Skylar's. 
 Rafael Gives Light is such a LOVABLE character... he's an artist, a dreamer ... so imaginative... he is suferring so much, having a serial killer for a dad... a dad he still loves, a dad he still has good memories with... a dad he wouldn't have in his wildest dreams, tought to be a murderer... a monster! 
 " I missed my dad. I didn't understand how he had turned into a monster without my noticing, or - or maybe he had been a monster all along, maybe I'd been too stupid to see it, we all had; but how? How do you look right into a devil's eyes and think you're staring at a human? What was wrong with me? By loving my dad, by missing my dad, wasn't the same as saying it was all right for him to take so many lifes? That he should have taken more?(...) I was the monster" 
 Rafael feels guilty... he is afraid of himself, he hates himself... because he has his dad's face... he is in so many ways like his dad... he is afraid he will turn into a murderer too!!! Everyone looks at him and sees his dad... sees a murderer to be. 
 "I was born in Nettlebush, and I could have loved it there, but everyone else who was born there looked at me like I was a plague. Maybe I was a plague. Except for her eyes, except for Mom's dimples, I had my father's face: square chin, flat nose, flat cheeks. Sometimes I'd looked at old pictures of him and thought I was looking at me. People needed someone to hate when their wives, their children, their mothers went missing. Dad wasn't here anymore; people couldn't hate him to his face. I had his face. I was his proxy." 
 " The ghost of my father was written on my face, a face everyone hated, me most of all. I wanted to rip my face off." 
 " I fixed a scowl on my face. (...) The kids nearest me looked frightened. Two girls even stepped backward. I felt like something disgusting; maybe something evil." 
 "She was scared of me. She was scared of me because I had a monster's face. Neither of us could say how much else I'd inherited from that monster." 
 But, then, one day... a curly, blond boy comes to NettleBush. 
 Rafael is determined to Hate this boy -Skylar St. Clair- his dad's last victim... his only remaining living victim... 
 It was Skylar who indentified Rafael's dad as a murderer... it was his fault Rafael lost his dad... It was his fault everyone knew his dad was a serial killer... it was his fault his mom got sick and then died! 
 "I'd made up my mind that I was going to hate him. It didn't have to make sense. Nothing about me made sense. 
 The guy locked eyes with me. I forced my face into the most hateful, concentrated glower I could muster. He jumped in his seat (...)" 
 BUT... How Can You Hate a smiling, mute, sweet boy who looks at you like you're a Person Not a Monster... a boy who doesnt hate you, even tought you have the same face of the man who killed his mom and took his voice away... a boy who carries so much light with him, he LIGHTS UP your world even without noticing it... a boy who wants to be your Very FIRST Friend Ever? ... 
 ... you JUST CAN'T :) 
 "The guy smiled at me. (...) I'd had everything planned out. I would hate the St.Clair kid the way everyone else hated me. I would force him to share the burden of my father absence. I'd had everything planned out; and it lasted all of 2 seconds. 
 The moment I saw that soft, unassuming face I could only think of protecting it. He was new around here (...) I didn't want to hurt this guy. You wouldn't blame me if you'd seen what I'd seen. Who looks at a lamb and wants to hurt it?" 
 so they become Friends... the Best of Friends... Inseparable Friends... 
 "This was my friend. This friend belonged to me. (...) nobody else could interact with him the way I could." 
 "He was my friend, and he was real. He wasn't ink and paper. I wasn't alone." 
 ... Until Rafael's FEELINGS for Sky turn Protective, Possesive, and WAY STRONGER than Friendship... Rafael realises he Loves Sky... but the question is ... could Skylar ever, possibly, love him back?! 
 "I didn't know that anyone could suffer such an infatuation as I did. (...) It was like having a latern inside of me, and it blazed to life when sky was near, without him even knowing (...) it made me happier than I'd know humanly possible. (...) I thanked Creator every day that he'd given me Sky. I thanked Creator that there finally existed someone who made me a more tolerable person by virtue of his existence alone." 
 This book was just SO BEAUTIFUL... I cried at parts, it made me think... and laught even (Rafael and Sky together, were hilarious :D)... I LOVED how, after kissing Sky, Rafael just couldn't stop saying to Everyone that he HAD a BOYFRIEND... even if they didn't care at all :D (that's how happy he was!)... I also really liked Sarah Two Eagles's friendship with Rafael, it was so sweet :) 
 I'll end up by saying that Lending Light is DEFINITELY a MUST READ for Gives Light LOVERS! Go Read it... you'll LOVE it! :)