Review: Fallen by Lauren Kate

There’s something achingly familiar about Daniel Grigori.

Mysterious and aloof, he captures Luce Price’s attention from the moment she sees him on her first day at the Sword & Cross boarding school in sultry Savannah. He’s the one bright spot in a place where cell phones are forbidden, the other students are all screw-ups, and security cameras watch every move.

Even Daniel wants nothing to do with Luce – he goes out of his way to make that very clear. But she can’t let it go. Drawn to him like a moth to a flame, Luce has to find out what Daniel is so desperate to keep secret...even if it kills her.

Dangerously exciting and darkly romantic, FALLEN is a page-turning thriller and the ultimate love story.

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Falen angels in love with mortals? Forbidden love? Fallen by Lauren Kate tells a story of a mortal, Luce who is reincarnated every 17 years to meet and fall in love with Daniel, a fallen angel. In this life, Luce and Daniel meet in a reform school where both try to fight their attraction to each other - with Daniel avoiding Luce and Luce fighting the attraction.

I thought this was going to be an interesting read but I was disappointed by the time I was reading the last three chapters. I was expecting that there would be a little back story about Luce and Daniel's "love story" from previous lives. Unfortunately, their relationship and how they fell in love was not as developed as I hoped it would. Even if there was a second book in the series (which I am reading right now), I think it still needed a little development with both the main character's relationship. I thought the story became ridiculous when some of the students at Sword and Cross (the reform school) were fallen angels as well. I did not expect that development in the story at all. The plot thickened when it was stated that the fallen angels are choosing sides e.g. good and evil, which I thought was pretty good.

I am now reading Torment, the second book in the series in hopes of finding answers. Fallen just left me hanging.

Rating: 2 Stars

Heat Level: 1