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Fallen
by Lauren Kate
*2.5
On the contrary to what many people have said, this book isn't garbage. I mean, don't misread that statement there, because by NO means is this but 'golden literature', but, it was surprisingly, not terrible?
Basically our story starts with a girl called Lucinda or Luce, who is accused of accidentally killing her classmate, and she's sent to a reform boarding school in New Hampshire. Luce finds that she doesn't really fit in with this school, and she's been deemed as crazy by doctors, mainly because she sees 'shadows' and has weird dreams of what she thinks is the past. She is scared to reveal her past, until she meets Daniel. Except, Daniel hates her, right off the bat.
This book is probably the best, 'Twilight knock-off' I've ever read, and that's saying something. I love Twilight dearly, even if it is pretty trashy, and when I was younger, I read a bunch of paranormal romances pitched as 'like Twilight'. I never read this one, but it wasn't bad.
The writing was good, I think that this is probably some of the best writing I've ever read in a paranormal romance. The characters actually have hobbies, and activities that they enjoy, instead of...each other, and the plot was solid.
I just had a few problems. One of them being, the book is just really slow. The plot drags, and drags, and drags, and nothing really happens until the last 100-150 pages. Its all just kind of, Luce lusting off Daniel, and being creepy. Which, brings me to my next points. Luce, is well, creepy. She basically stalks Daniel the whole entire book because she's curious about him? I mean I guess that's pretty typical, 'early 2000s, YA paranormal romance' but it was really weird. And the insta-love is pretty bad. The author tried to play this off because "oh they've been in love forever, in each life" which, yeah I guess, but we don't really see there past lives together, unless were talking about Luce's dreams, Daniels explanations, or the prologue, so it doesn't really work if that makes sense.
But again, this book is a decent (or at least what you'd call decent in the sense of 'early 2000s YA, paranormal romance'), and not nearly as bad as a lot of my friends on Goodreads proclaim it to be.
On the contrary to what many people have said, this book isn't garbage. I mean, don't misread that statement there, because by NO means is this but 'golden literature', but, it was surprisingly, not terrible?
Basically our story starts with a girl called Lucinda or Luce, who is accused of accidentally killing her classmate, and she's sent to a reform boarding school in New Hampshire. Luce finds that she doesn't really fit in with this school, and she's been deemed as crazy by doctors, mainly because she sees 'shadows' and has weird dreams of what she thinks is the past. She is scared to reveal her past, until she meets Daniel. Except, Daniel hates her, right off the bat.
This book is probably the best, 'Twilight knock-off' I've ever read, and that's saying something. I love Twilight dearly, even if it is pretty trashy, and when I was younger, I read a bunch of paranormal romances pitched as 'like Twilight'. I never read this one, but it wasn't bad.
The writing was good, I think that this is probably some of the best writing I've ever read in a paranormal romance. The characters actually have hobbies, and activities that they enjoy, instead of...each other, and the plot was solid.
I just had a few problems. One of them being, the book is just really slow. The plot drags, and drags, and drags, and nothing really happens until the last 100-150 pages. Its all just kind of, Luce lusting off Daniel, and being creepy. Which, brings me to my next points. Luce, is well, creepy. She basically stalks Daniel the whole entire book because she's curious about him? I mean I guess that's pretty typical, 'early 2000s, YA paranormal romance' but it was really weird. And the insta-love is pretty bad. The author tried to play this off because "oh they've been in love forever, in each life" which, yeah I guess, but we don't really see there past lives together, unless were talking about Luce's dreams, Daniels explanations, or the prologue, so it doesn't really work if that makes sense.
But again, this book is a decent (or at least what you'd call decent in the sense of 'early 2000s YA, paranormal romance'), and not nearly as bad as a lot of my friends on Goodreads proclaim it to be.