This took me far too long to read. FAR too long. I bought this at the recommendation of a friend, and I honestly can't say I'm terribly anxious to move onto the second in the series, which is currently on my bookcase. It's quite obviously a book for young teenagers, perhaps nobody over the age of 14 and definitely no boys should read it - far too many hormones of a stressed teenage girl. As I said, it took me a while to read this, so please excuse any inaccuracies about the early chapters of the book, because I really don't want to go back and read them again.
BLURB: SOME ANGELS ARE DESTINED TO FALL. Instant. Intense. Weirdly familiar... The moment Luce looks at Daniel she knows she has never felt like this before. Except she can't shake the feeling that she has... and with him - a boy she doesn't even remember setting eyes on. Will her attempt to find out why enlighten her - or destroy her? Dangerously exciting and darkly romantic, Fallen is a thrilling story about forbidden love.
Okay, lets start off by pointing out the pathetic (and wrong) statements in the blurb. Working backwards, it is not "dangerously exciting". Dangerous, I'll give you, but only because the main character, Luce, does some pretty stupid things, like getting into a car alone when she has absolutely no idea where it's going or who's driving, just because some boy she barely knows asks her to. It's not a romance. I can see why some people might think so, but it's a poor excuse for romance when all it is, is a boy with a crush on the main character, who is in love with some other boy who seems dark and dangerous, but who won't talk to her. Sound familiar? Because to me it sounds oddly like Twilight. I'm not implying that either of the authors copied one another, and I can be bothered to check which was published first so I can even begin to form an argument for that point, when my actual point is that this pattern of a love triangle is becoming ridiculously over used.
The entire book is a slow and painful build up to the climax. Everything that happens could have happened with a lot less detail and in a lot less time, and I think we all would have been much happier if it had. A few hints at the ending are more than hints, they're just obviously pointing out things as well as the opening line to the blurb. I wouldn't complain, but other than about one time, angels aren't even mentioned. It's like the author has seen the technique of using foreshadowing and thought "oh, as long as I mention angels once or twice, it'll be fine," but no, sorry, but that doesn't work. Although it was still painfully obvious what Daniel was, you completely failed at foreshadowing. It wasn't even building up to anything good. A lot of characters went through major unprovoked character changes at the drop of a hat, and hardly anything is explained. I expect it all to be explained fully in the sequel, but to be quite honest I can't see myself reading it. This book did nothing to engage me. One of the signs of a good book is that you don't want to put it down, but I didn't really want to pick this book up at all after the first few chapters.
Not a good book. Decent to some extent, but nothing special. I shall not pick it up again. I'll rate this as one and a half stars, or 3 out of ten, because I really can't remember how I started rating these.
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