I Love Lauren Kate: A Short Book Review

If I had to choose a secondary obsession after the Twilight Saga, It would definitely be the Fallen Series by Lauren Kate. I discovered Fallen at the library in audio book form, much like I did with Twilight. A little while later, I saw the book in an airport WHSmiths and bought it on whim, and because I absolutely love the story. Anyone who hasn't read it does not know what they are missing.

The series consists of three books, 'Fallen', 'Torment' and 'Passion', with the fourth, 'Rapture', coming out next summer. It tells the story of Lucinda Price (Luce for short), a teenage girl starting at a new school. That school just happens to be Sword & Cross, a reform school that she has been sent to after the mysterious death-by-fire of her sort-of boyfriend Trevor. The thing is, Luce doesn't remember if she actually started the fire or not. All she knows is that the shadows were there; the same eerie, frightening black shapes that she has been seeing since she was a child, which no one else can see. Once at the school, Luce meets the enigmatic and gorgeous Daniel Grigori, who she has never met but is sure she knows from somewhere. Of course, it's not long before she falls in love with him. Luce is plunged into the dark and dangerous world of the Fallen, a group of angels exiled from Heaven millennia ago, and finds herself caught between Daniel and the angels, who side themselves with God, and the equally gorgeous Cam and his band of demons, on the side of the Devil.
Oh, and she's been reincarnated every seventeen years for centuries, each time dying as soon as she gets close to Daniel.
Caught in a whirlwind of dangerous enemies and crazy friends, Luce struggles to come to terms with her past lives, while trying to build herself a future with Daniel, who won't tell her anything in case she vanishes in a column of flames.

I just started reading 'Passion' yesterday and I am already loving it just as much as I loved 'Fallen' and 'Torment'. Lauren Kate's writing style is no nonsense and to the point, while also holding back just enough information to keep you guessing without getting confused. The descriptions are vivid and detailed, the characters taking on a life of their own. When I finished 'Fallen', I couldn't wait to read more, and 'Torment' definitely didn't disappoint. The interesting thing is that you can very easily draw parallels between some of the characters; for example, I've always thought that Ariane, one of the angels posing as a Sword & Cross student, would get along very well with Shelby, Luce's best friend and part angel, who is a student at Shoreline (the school Daniel sends Luce to in 'Torment'). They have very similar attitudes and opinions, but there is enough difference in them that their personalities don't clash.

I would definitely recommend this book to Twilight fans, or anyone who enjoys a bit of fantasy romance from time to time.

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Until then, my lovelies
Glitterb