4 stars!!! 
 This is book #3 of the 
 Gives Light series 
 and it is rightfully named St. Clair ... Why? Because in this book there is just so much that happens to Skylar. 
 This is the Most 
 heartbreaking 
 book of the series... It's just Full of Feels... 
 There are 
 2 BIG, Serious, Things 
 that happen/are revealed in this book .... (more like 3, actually!) ... these Things... Loving Skylar and Rafael like I do... they just Broke my Heart to Pieces and made me all worried! 
 "Are you okay? I smiled quizzically at Rafael. Rafael had been in a talkative mood seconds ago. Now he looked guarded"..."(...) Rafael always knew what I was feeling, whether I wanted him to know or not. He knew something was wrong. He couldn't possibly know what it was; but he knew it was wrong. I laid my head on his shoulder- hesitant at first, because I'd never done such a thing before. I liked it when he laid his head on my lap, when he buried his face against the crook of my neck, but I'd never tried to do the same to him. It was more comforting to give comfort than to receive it. I didn't want to be the weak one. When you're weak people take advantage of you. (...) Rafael's fingers sifted into my hair. He teased his fingers through my curls, winding them around his knuckles. He grazed my scalp with his fingernails. If I had to be weak, at least he was the only one to see it." 
 Rafael and Skylar's Relationship really grows in this book and they become closer... These things that happen, really test Sky and Rafael as a couple... and I must say that they held strong, together, through it all!... and it was just Beautiful to see... 
 "Years ago, I never would have thought someone could love me. Someone who wasn't obligated to love me. I never counted on meeting Rafael." 
 Rafael is the perfect boyfriend I have to say! (I Loved the "Top Reasons Why I Love You" List) ... Rafael and Skylar's Love for each other is just so Beautiful, True, Strong and Meant-to-be :) 
 "I guess I've always loved you" he said. 
 But the book is NOT Just about their Love (and the things that happen to Sky) ... there's Bigger Issues here!... Like the Government trying to take their Land, their Home -Nettlebush- from them 
 "The government's taking back twenty-five acres of land." 
 "What if the government decided it wanted the rest of our reservation, too? Would they wipe out the badlands? Would they dry up the lake? Would they tear down our homes?" 
 I was Terrified... I Absolutely Love their Community... and knowing that someone might take it away from them or change anything in it... just messed me up. 
 "I wished I believed in a God. Sometimes I did and sometimes I didn't. If I'd believed just then, I would have asked him to take pity on us. This reservation was all the Southern Plains Shoshone had left of their ancestral lands. It didn't seem right to me that someone else had the power to take it away." 
 "Something occurred to me just then. If Nettlebush wasn't safe, no reservation was safe. Any of those four hundred reservations could get swept out from under their tribes' feet and gobbled up by the hungry masses. Nothing had changed since the 1800s." 
 So Skylar and Rafael really do Fight Throught a Lot in this book... it's a bit of an emotional rollacoster (especially because you already LOVE this characters) and you keep wondering what is gonna happen next. 
 I'll end up by adding that (again) I Really Love this series... it's been about 2 months since I've read Looks Over (book #2 of the series) and - (it's weird what I'm gonna write, I know!) - I Really 
 MISSED 
 Skylar, Rafael and the whole Nettlebush universe... I DID! ... and I'm usually NOT a Big Fan of Series about the Same Couple (I get Bored!)... but this Couple (and even the other characters) are just so Special and Dear to me... I just wanna see them more, know them more :) 
 "I want you to talk" he said. "And sing. And all the other things you've wanted to do. I thought I could give you that. (...)" 
 "I didn't need the voice. I just needed the boy who wanted to give me the voice". 
 Rafael and Skylar's story finds it's end in Why the Star Stands Still (book #4 of the series), which is told in a few years ahead, when they are already Adults... I'm so Gonna Read it! I Definitely Have To See their Future together :D