Luce Price can’t take her eyes off of Daniel Grigori. There is something about him that is achingly familiar. He is mysterious and the one bright spot at Sword and Cross, the boarding school in Georgia, that may as well be a prison. What else would you call a place where no cell phones are allowed, security cameras watch the students' every move, and the students are all screw-ups? Daniel has made it clear that he wants nothing to do with Luce but she is unable to let him go. Much like a moth that is drawn to a flame, Luce needs to find out what Daniel is hiding, even if she loses her life in the process.
This is my second time reading Fallen but the first time that I am writing a review about it. Before I do review it however, I do want to say that this book does have religious undertones to it which I will not be commenting on. The only things that I will be talking about is the storyline. I thought the concept of this story was interesting. I have never heard of any other story like this one and as far as I know it is pretty unique.
The plot and the action of this story was pretty good. There was a lot of confusion, a lot of unanswered questions which kept me reading. I wanted to know why certain characters were acting weird, or normal in circumstances that they shouldn’t have been acting normal. The balance between creating more questions and answering just enough questions was struck really well by Lauren Kate. It was because of this balance that I read this book fairly quickly. Hopefully the next book will answer many of the questions that were raised in this one.
Even though I have read this book before, I had forgotten quite a bit of it. I was not able to predict the twist that took place prior to the ending. It is a pretty common type of twist and looking back there are many hints that are given but I totally missed them. I only realized that there was foreshadowing when I thought about it after I finished reading the book. The epilogue is amazing. It’s honestly like the post-credit scene in an MCU movie. It sets up the next book while also creating mystery and changing everything we think we know. Okay that last part may be a bit of an exaggeration but you know what I mean. I think it is the epilogue that made me want to read Torment (the next book) more than the storyline of the book. Overall I’d give Fallen 3 stars because it is a good book but there wasn’t anything too exceptional about it other than the uniqueness of the concept. I am looking forward to reading the next book.
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