Fallen

This is by far the worst teen fiction novel that I have ever read, quite an accomplishment, considering some of the contenders. Next to nothing actually occurs in the story and what action there is takes place without the presence and often knowledge of the heroine. The heroine is the only vaguely developed character and yet one has to wish the author had failed to develop her as well. Ignorance is her primary characteristic, while stupidity takes a near second place. She is incredibly pathetic and my only sympathy is for any teens who relate to her. Despite all this, a teen fiction fan might hold out some hope for the romantic element of the novel, but to no avail. The romantic tension between the two protagonists is non existant, show more except when it feels incredibly contrived. What little desire I felt for their relationship was driven by a hope that, as suggested by the completely ridiculous plot, [spoiler alert] their eventual embrace might result in death. If only.
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Partiamo con il dire che la Rizzoli questa volta ha toppato. Ha, sì, scelto una bella copertina, per carità, ma tutto il resto dovremmo davvero appenderli per gli alluci al soffitto. Mi spiego meglio.

Abbiamo un testo di 500 pagine, circa, con una formattazione di almeno 14 se non 16 pixel (che tradotto per i non-nerd significa “TROPPO GRANDE”), un’interlinea impressionante e dei margini biblici. Come si tramuta tutto questo? Spreco. Spreco di soldi, spazio e alberi. Vergogna!

Non è detto che un libro “per essere figo” debba essere alto la metà dell’Antico Testamento e debba avere un formato per ciechi! Tutto questo per la modica cifra di 17,00€? Ma chi diavolo vi insegna marketing, all’università, una Barbie show more Stupida?

Formato normale, margini a 2,50cm, carta normale (avete per caso notato quanto diavolo è spesso UN singolo foglio di carta di questo benedettissimo libro?) più la copertina figa (che poi hanno messo) avrebbe venduto il 30% in più. I costi di produzione sarebbe stati ridotti (parliamo non più di 500 pagine ma, magari di 350 pagine) e, con una riduzione simbolica del prezzo a 14/15€, avrebbero incrementato i guadagni senza il MINIMO dubbio.

Sembra un paradosso ma, un lettore, se deve sborsare 14 o 17 euro gli cambia e non diteci che non è vero visto che per fare i furbetti spesso vendete libri a 13,99€. Lo sappiamo benissimo che è per non scrivere 14,00€!!!! Il tutto è incrementato quando ci viene venduto un bene scadente e questo, almeno all’apparenza non è che sia il massimo che, una casa editrice del calibro della Rizzoli, potrebbe fornire. Sembra, piuttosto, il caro e vecchio trucco dello specchietto per le allodole: vendo un prodotto figo perché i contenuto è scadente.

Sinceramente alla fine della lettura la mia mente ha urlato: che orrore!

Mi sono presa due giorni di riflessione per cercare di dividere le mie sensazioni. La delusione che provavo verso la Rizzoli non avrebbe dovuto influire sul giudizio del libro.

Bene! Eccomi qua con la mente sezionata in scomparti e pronta a non lasciarsi influenzare mentre recensisce questo libro evitando VOLUTAMENTE qualsiasi paragone con la Meyer ed il benedetto Twilight.

Fallen è un libro per ragazzi che segue la nuova moda del momento: gli angeli. Ringrazio il Dio santissimo e misericordioso per aver fatto cessare la VampMania, non la sopportavo più.

Ora iniziano gli angeli ed io li reggo ancor meno, anche perché fino ad ora non ho trovato nemmeno un singolo libro sull’argomento all’altezza delle mie aspettative o che mi abbia lasciato qualcosa.

Fallen non fa eccezione, purtroppo. L’idea è buona tutto sommato, peccato che sia rovinata dall’impostazione stessa del romanzo. L’autrice sa scrivere, precisiamolo, ha talento e la giusta dose di disillusa ironia che stimola la nostra psiche in ogni momento, ergo non ci annoiamo mai.

Il problema principale è che tutto il romanzo (che è il primo di una nuova saga, olè!) non è altro che una mega introduzione, priva di effettivi colpi di scena e di sviluppo.

Primo. Già alla fine del prologo un lettore con un po’ di spirito capisce quale sarà il problema su cui verterà tutto il romanzo. Daniel è un essere immortale (leggendo la quarta copertina si intuisce subito che è un angelo) e c’è una LEI che, non appena si avvicina a lui (più avanti capiremo meglio le tematiche) cessa di esistere. Che muoia, si polverizzi, rinasca, perda la memoria o altro non è importante: abbiamo capito che la protagonista del libro, Luce, passera TUTTO il libro nel tentativo di capire come mai, Daniel, le è famigliare.

Svelarmi l’inizio del libro alla fine del prologo, o quanto meno dopo un paio di capitoli, è stupido. Il lettore sa cosa aspettarsi e si perde di incisività e di suspense.

Secondo punto. Una volta intuito lo schema principale del libro è altrettanto intuibile chi sarà il marcantonio della situazione che farà da terzo incomodo (Oh Meyer mia… torna a casa tuaaaaa! Ti aspetterò dovessi odiare queste muraaaaa…).

Dopo 5 capitoli ci chiediamo quale sia il segreto del caro e vecchio Cam. Di certo buono non è, qualcosa nel nostro intimo ce lo urla a gran voce. Il mio, di intimo, urlava “Viscido!!!!” ma non stiamo a sottilizzare.

La figura di Arriane appare subito interessante, a differenza di Luce che non spicca particolarmente in nessun modo. È intrigante ed affascina anche se direi che è completamente fuori di testa. Ma alcune battute con Cam ci fanno intuire che è meno scema di quanto voglia apparire. In questo caso non capiamo davvero se sia una “buona” o una “cattiva”. Peccato che dopo una cinquantina di pagine l’autrice l’abbia lasciata un po’ a sé stessa fino a farla scomparire.

Penn era un altro personaggio abbastanza brillante, se non altro aveva “carattere” ed una vita propria. Non intendo che andasse in giro a spadroneggiare, non quel tipo di carattere. Intendo dire che aveva una personalità propria ed in grado di farsi ricordare, amare o odiare o che comunque suscitava qualcosa nel lettore. Questa volta l’autrice l’ha portata fino in fondo, come personaggio… Nel vero senso della parola.

Daniel e Cam sono carini ma sono stereotipati da impazzire. Daniel con il suo carattere ballerino e torbido che nasconde una gran cuore e Cam con il suo carattere rassicurante e solare… che nasconde una fregatura. Tutto già letto e già visto.

Terzo punto negativo. Zero trama. La vita all’interno della scuola correttiva è interessante… Per le prime 200 pagine, poi viene sulle scatole. Non succede nulla di rilevante ai fini della trama ma, evviva, ci sorbiamo le turbe mentali di Luce e di Daniel che non riesce a far altro che starle intorno per poi respingerla. Uffa! Cambiamo un po’ modus operandi! Magari prima le è amico ed alla fine la tradisce per spingerla ad odiarlo così sarà al sicuro, lontana da lui. Wow, ho scritto un libro!

L’idea di dare un tocco originale ad una trama di per sé ormai troppo “battuta” c’è stato e di questo devo darne atto all’autrice. Peccato che la stessa Luce sembra l’incarnato della perfetta “protagonista di young fantasy”. Incompresa, abbandonata da tutto e tutti, dura contro sé stessa e, ovviamente, attira ragazzi come il miele le api (i più fighi del luogo, ovviamente)… Non spicca. Non la si ama , non la si odia… né si prova pietà per il suo stato di ignoranza che la porta a commettere un sacco di casini o di azioni imbarazzanti.

Come dicevo inizia benino ma poi si trascina a fatica in un lento e inesorabile valzer con se stesso fino a spingere il lettore a chiedersi: “E ora? Dove andrà a parare…?”.

E come sembrano esserci pronte per noi delle risposte… Puff! Libro finito, e arrivederci alla prossima puntata! Non l’ho scagliato dal quarto piano perché mi piace la copertina e perché se avessi accoppato il vicino mi avrebbero chiesto i danni. Che non avrebbe certo pagato la Rizzoli.

Un grandissimo prologo che lascia insoddisfatti in modo incredibile. Ci viene spiegato poco (o almeno ci viene confermato tutto quello che avevamo capito da soli ma, delle domande vere e proprie, nisba) e ci lasciano a chiederci: ma i genitori di questa Luce sono idioti? Ora che è sparita come la prenderanno?

Concludendo devo ammettere che mi aspettavo di meglio, molto di meglio ed è un peccato perché, come ho già detto, Kate Lauren ha stile, sa scrivere e sa prendere il lettore con le sue descrizioni gotiche decisamente affascinanti. Speriamo che vada meglio…


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I have always been a voracious reader. But I have not always been a critical one. I used to read books, love them while I was reading them, then more or less discard them - give them back to their owner or put them back on the shelf, never to be thought of again unless they REALLY made an impression on me. Fallen was a book I read five years ago at age fifteen. At the time I gave it four stars. Unfortunately I did not include a review, which may have enlightened present day me to why I seemed to enjoy it so much. I can hazard a guess - forbidden love story off the back of Twilight, paranormal elements, yadda yadda yadda.

My choice of Fallen for my blog's first Series Binge Read came from the fact I never actually finished this series. show more Goodreads said I read books two and three, but I can't remember them at all. Given the high rating my 15 year old self gave the books, I thought, what could go wrong?

A lot, it seems.

I was only a couple of pages in when I knew that I wasn't going to enjoy this. The writing was a bit all over the place, clumsy phrases, sentences I had to say out loud to see if they actually made sense. And the introduction of our judgmental heroine, who on her first day of reform school is making comments to herself and making passing judgments on other students she hasn't even spoken to, despite the fact that she herself must look an absolute treat with her hair half burned off and cut raggedly. I knew then that my reread of Fallen was not going to go well.

To keep track of my thoughts I made numerous status updates and tweeted as I was reading, something I'd never really done before but unfortunately this measures could not keep in check the frustration I felt at having to read such poorly written rubbish about an uninteresting and plain stupid heroine, a dude who gives her all the signs to piss off and her creepy stalker-like obsession with him for absolute no reason except that she's 'drawn to him'. And he's meant to be the good guy!

Need some context? Lucinda, or Luce, Price is sent to reform school Sword & Cross after a tragic accident involving a classmate from the prep school she used to attend. No evidence, no tangible proof, but she was there so she must be involved, so the solution is obviously to send her to reform school though nobody actually knows what she did. Who needs logic, right? In her first hour she meets the almost kind of wonderful Arianne, who needed more presence in this book, and spots Daniel, a gorgeous guy who gives her the finger. She doesn't even know him but yet, suddenly, she is obsessed. He flips her off and fifteen minutes later she's wondering where he is. To most people this sort of behaviour would shout "JACKASS" but not to Luce, who proceeds over the next week to stalk him obsessively, with the help of poor Penn who did nothing but just want to make a friend and instead got stuck with Luce.

Despite Daniel's repeated warnings that he wants nothing to do with her, Luce refuses to get the hint. She does stupid and dangerous things like get into cars with people she doesn't know to see a (different) boy she says she doesn't like but also thinks about when not obsessing over Daniel, and is just a pain to read about. There is also nothing significant that happens over the course of the book, except the drawn out revelation that Daniel is a fallen angel (not even going to bother writing SPOILER because honestly you should have worked that out already. You're not Luce) and then some angel fighting and stuff.

Daniel is an absolute idiot. He is the cause of all of this and he could stop it. Take himself far away to the ends of the Earth where his love won't cause Luce to die and reincarnate every seventeen years and he could stay the hell away from her and maybe not kiss her? But nope. It's like he doesn't even try. Surely if you loved her that much - for reasons unknown - maybe you would want to keep her alive by staying away! That's the other thing - we do not know why they're so in love, except for the fact that they were in love in Luce's previous lives. Both are obsessed with how good looking the other is and we are never given any tangible reason why their love should last, why it's better than anything else. But it's okay - he's hot.

What frustrates me most is that at times, Luce realises she is crazy and a stalker and stupid. But this does not cause her to change her behaviour in any way. She notices that he is 'aggressively rude and uninterested' in her so why does she pursue it? And it also becomes alright and forgotten about once the revelation that they're so in love. But it's not okay! She is crazy and needs to go to a real reform school. Why the hell are angels in reform school anyway, don't they have better things to do?

Like a lot of other readers who have given this book a low star rating, I too would have liked to see Luce killed by the villain because every word she spoke was 100% true. I don't know why the angels care about an insignificant human and to be honest, I don't care. I am really regretting this choice for my Series Binge Read but I will soldier on, like I did with Hush, Hush. Although my rating for Hush, Hush was higher even though I disliked both Patch and Nora, at least they had a cool fallen angel storyline. This book, so far, has nothing.

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So to summarize how this actually is, every SEVENTEEN years she explodes and is reborn. It's violent and often grisly to think about.

Also they fall in love within two days!

Also a kiss from him makes her explode too!

So how my mind works, is it there are people just witnessing these angels explode into flames, and erupt like bombs, and it's just the thing that happens. Nobody is questioning this. Nobody is shocked by this. And for some reason this isn't reported by the news or anything.
My suspension of disbelief died right there.
This is book 1/4, I am in trouble.

Also, there's like this plot line that she wasn't baptized in this life so if she dies it'll be it. Just go get baptized. It's not that hard to be baptized.

Young adult books are show more riddled with these giant times skips and also so much happening in such a short amount of time, this one might take the cake. So much happens in such short amount of time that I actually had to do a timeline mentally to realize how they scheduled their days and got this much done. It's the equivalent of saying they had graduated in a month kind of thing. A lot happens and so little time, and it's just rapidly flashing by.

Also the main character makes Bella Swan look quirky and interesting.

This is not an angel book, to clarify almost 3/4ths of this book are without any talk of the angel stuff, the wings, this was advertised as angel romance but I can't find it. If I want angels in my books I'm going to have angels in my books. This is false advertising. We only get it around page 300/450. Plus she still hasn't figured out her love interest is a fallen angel by the end of this book. It's all around her and she's that dense!

Thanks. I hate it.

I hate false advertising.

Underneath all of this is this message of Don't take your medicine, and don't medicate, you're not crazy medicine is just making you blind to Magic and god. I really wasn't into that but it kept happening and I kind of cringed at it. I firmly recommend anybody who's reading this review, if you have medicine, remember to take it, stay medicated, stay hydrated.

This girl is having violent hallucinations constantly throughout this book and she's like I'm not crazy, and I'm like what if she medicated herself and it all stopped?

I forgot there's a movie too. All I remember from it is: "Even if it means being locked up I'd rather be me than pretending to be someone I'm not." Excuse me, that's not how medication works.

This pushes The stereotype and belief that if you go on antidepressants you will lose your creativity. An old myth spread around back in the day to fear monger.

Thanks, I hate it more.

There's a love triangle but it all amounts to two guys bothering the girl and bickering with each other to see who she'll get with. But she just sort of exists.

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Oh Fallen. I remember why I offloaded this book a decade ago. I shouldn’t let myself fall victim to unreliable, foggy memories of the things I’ve read and not reviewed.

First of all, I will give it to Lauren Kate that her use of language is softly lovely, like rose petals or quiet fountains. I rediscovered this when I read The Orphan’s Song earlier this year and it was that beauty in the writing that nudged me back to Fallen after so many years. Her writing has improved as a whole, and going back to Fallen after reading something newer was a bit jarring. The foundation is still there, but well? Fallen is very much a product of the era in which it was written.

Shall we start with the love triangle? It’s not just a love triangle – show more it’s a love triangle with two carbon copy boys and whichever one Luce choices could change the outcome of future and the well-being of the universe. You know. As happens in early 2010s YA. It’s exhausting and it doesn’t even try to be subtle. The world building is constantly interrupted by one love interest or another demanding they must talk to Luce, or have a picnic, or give her a necklace. Luce has to stop going to class (or so it seems) because she needs more time to go to the library to undercover all the world mythology because boys are sneaking her to dive bars and taking her swimming in lakes. Fortunately her parents are told that she’s thriving in classes. So! Apparently the teachers don’t notice.

Luce herself is flat as a buttermilk pancake. Her history is a secret because that’s part of the unfurling plot. What we’re left with is a girl who slides easily into situations, that people fight over to befriend when they first meet her, and has no distinguishable personality traits. She does, however, have a hobby. She likes to daydream about Daniel Gregori. It’s not that Luce is an unrelatable character… it’s that she’s as interesting as a paper doll. Fragile and pretty and absolutely insubstantial.

There’s a lot of harmful language and situations around mental illness and facilities and individuals who assist in that sort of management. I know this is the product of the time it was written, but it’s nevertheless unfortunate and did not age well. There’s also a scene near the beginning where characters were trying to identify a teacher’s gender that sent up quite a few red flags for me. I would like to think in the last decade, Kate has learned better, but it made me cringe while reading.

The entirety of Fallen is a very slow climb up an uninteresting hill to reveal a possible plot of the next book, Torment. It’s like a very long prologue. This is the type of book I would call an indulgent read – you know it’s not a work of art, but you read it for the naive, ridiculous romances and the supernatural elements. The enjoyment of Fallen will highly depend on the reader. It’s a light, easy read (I read most of it on a plane… and finished before the end of my flight). It falls into step with books like Marked and Die For Me and other indulgent YA supernatural romances of the era. These were my favourite thing fifteen years ago! Now? Not so much. show less

What in the bleep did I just read?

Seriously, that was my reaction for most of this book. I don't know how in the world Lauren Kate made fallen angels seem bland and uninteresting, but she succeeded spectacularly.

I couldn't stand the character of Luce. She is obviously boundary-challenged, and she doesn't even feel like she's a person. She just lets some guy kiss her because, well, that's fair since she kissed some other guy, and if she kisses this other guy, he'll leave her alone. What? And she stalks people. Like, sneaks around and looks in their files and stuff like that. Are you serious? She's supposed to be a protagonist?

And Daniel, the love interest, is just as bad. He waxes hot and cold, and even if Luce and Daniel ended up show more together, there is no way in any world that they could have anything resembling a functional relationship.

This book was a whole lot of nothing. Nothing happens. Absolutely nothing. Luce mopes. Daniel spurns her but then gives her some hope that someday in the future he won't. She mopes some more. Weird stuff happens. And then she mopes about the weird stuff. Nothing.at.all.happens.

How does utter crap like this get published? And how does it get an average of a 3.5 star rating on this site? Why did I get all four books before reading the first one? Why do I feel a little obligated to keep reading this horrible series?

Some things I will never understand. show less

Didn't like it. It was boring. The End.

Gee, wouldn't that be a great review? Rain Misoa (said friend) should you want proof. That being said, my patience did not only swiftly dwindle, but my interest, attention, and care perished right along with them throughout this book. It took about fifty pages for me to be bored senseless. It took about one hundred for me to tilt my head to the side, roll my eyes, and drool lifelessly. Once a hundred and fifty pages hit, I was ready to discard the book into the recycling box and never notice it again, because at that point, it was about as unnoticeable to me as air on a daily basis.

Then things shifted. They got increasingly... annoying. Obnoxious? Persistently vicious. I can come up with a thousand show more descriptive terms. Save me from building up my frustration through trying to vent my emotions.... But no, that's impossible, because it took not halfway through the book for all my non-interest to turn completely around into antagonistic rage. As vehement and rabid, wild-eyed and feral as a caged beast ravaged by injustices of freedom and health, withering sanity and goading destructive, vicious urges on into outbursts of cursing and blatant wishes for the main character's death and torment: I became wild and inane. I lost it. I completely lost it.

This book was a poorly written, lust-driven, self-loving, feigned-hurt and needy, thin, scraggly, pathetic little scoundrel lightly veiled in the faux skin of a "story."

But what is the story here? Let's be critical, because that is what a review demands: an honest and unbiased opinion, evenly influenced by the reader's experiences. Let's break it down then, shall we?

Plot: To pair the female with the male. Why? Because they were chosen by the author. Based on no personality compatibility, intellectual aspects, similar interests, or other relations. Simply: because.

Characters: Not self-sustaining if not tied into the main character. Main character: Not self-sustaining if not tied into lust for selected mate. Mate: Not self-sustaining if not tied in to main character. Thus: Cyclical and invalid cast, based on nothing initial or basic as foundation. Without foundation, none have anything to base themselves on: story falls apart.

Setting: Invalid, filled with inconsistencies. Swamp versus beautiful cliff-side lake in midst of clean forest. Reform school with top notch security versus security never seen, teachers never mentioned or spoken of but rarely, and students allowed to do/go/act how they wish without reprimand (except in one or two minor situations that do not hold up to lasting evidence against this). Characters placed there to revoke old manners and improve themselves versus nothing ever being done that mildly warms up to usual boot camp styled "schools" resembling this one. Location: Unknown because too many town names mentioned without slightest consideration that readers will not know the area unless they've been in it before. Curfews and rules as always strictly maintained in most facilities of high containment strength versus literally none mentioned, let alone enforced in the slightest. End Result: Failure.

Story Progression and Climax: Female meets male. Female and male end up together. The end. Any climactic moments were only begun, then cut off, and finally never brought up again. End Result: Failure in rising action, climax and falling action. Conclusion: Story progression nonexistent and irrelevant.

Final Result: No story, no consistency, plot holes galore, and poor attempts to piece together reasoning leads me to conclude that while Kate has an ample vocabulary, her story telling skills are below that of a newborn baby's: in other words, nonexistent. On another note, all characters are cyclical and have no lives outside of the main character, meaning they do not hold up as real characters at all. The main character herself is only important so long as her purpose of being with the male lead continues, which means since there is no purpose besides their feelings, which are not supported by anything concrete and real (such as similar interests, hobbies, personality traits that either mirror or feed off one another, etc.), this means that there is no purpose to her being with the male lead besides physically wanting to have sex with him since he's pretty, they've been physically attracted to each other for millions of lives before, and they are attracted to each other physically yet again. Thus leading me to the suggestion that you should all put down this 452 page book, go watch an hour's worth of Animal Planet when they're doing a special on animal reproduction, and save yourself the bother of dealing with someone whose personality resembles a bucket of thumbtacks thrown into a blender and yet also simultaneously that of paint drying and peeling. It'll be the same thing, much less painful, much more beautiful, and far less time consuming.

To get back to my actual comments: Kate, we all know you're making millions of dollars off of this, thanks to you having read the Toilet series and deciding to rip off the idea. But you no doubt thought you could do a better job because you actually consumed a dictionary to increase your vocabulary. However, without taking the time to grow a brain that knows how to use that vocabulary to create something worthwhile, you have done no better than Stupid Stephanie, your predecessor. You have wasted my time, and worse: thousands and thousands of pages of paper that could have been used to make something far more valuable than your "story": toilet paper.

My last words are this: With all the poor attempts you made throughout this book to try to create interesting moments, or to keep people engaged as your main character incorrigibly stalked some random male human being (don't you dare bring up the angel bit, because we all know details do not apply to those inconsistent in their arguments, written or otherwise), you still showed us nothing besides your feeble writing skills in this book. Do you have a wealthy vocabulary? Yes, you do. Congratulations on that. But can you piece together a beginning, middle, and end in a satisfying, truly literary way? No. No, you cannot. Your story is filled with plot holes, you toss aside every character at a whim without concern and bring them up again when it's most convenient for you. You have no concern for anything outside your attempt at a plot, which doesn't hold up even with everything stacked up to create this ridiculously and unnecessarily lengthy read. Your character, while you claim her to be intelligent, does everything possible to prove you wrong through her simplest of actions, which you clearly thought to write off as her being innocent, but which just come off as her being deluded and false. Your attempts at romance are enough to warrant a restraining order in real life, and you do not base them on any of the real things that create a relationship. What arguments and misunderstandings you include in the relationship between Daniel and Luce, even to the point of making Cam a secondary love interest, fall apart at the seams because they show through as nothing but vague words without facts to back them up, or blunt personality traits on Luce's part that only further illuminate how selfish and backstabbing she really is. You, like Luce, use anyone and anything in this book until the need satisfies an end to further Luce's eminent togetherness with Daniel, and then you throw it away. You did it with Trevor, with Callie, with Arriane, with Cam, and with Penn. Every person is just a pawn for you and Luce, and it's sad how clearly your personality shows through in Luce just based off of your writing.

It's a sorry day when people like you get so much adoration and popularity. Clearly, based off of this creation--your child, as my own writing is mine--you do not deserve the love you receive. When Luce said those things in your book, that was your guilt and hers shining through. You realize how unworthy you are, yet you still take the gushing of praise offered you. That's just one of the gamut of reasons why you get a one out of five from me. Your book is pathetic. I am not foolish enough to believe that someone who imagines up a story like this goes very far from their creation. Us artists never do.

One more thing I must add that I forgot to mention: Predictability. Kate's book about beats the predictability level for children's television as they wait for you to point out where the obvious item is on the screen taking up a good fourth of it. Except: it's even MORE predictable than THAT. I already know that Daniel and Cam are [Insert Spoiler Here] which isn't "revealed" until apparently the third book in this series. I also knew every angel, both of the Student body and the Teacher kind... I don't even have words to describe how dull this read was. Not a single thing surprised me. Not even what happened with Penn and Miss Sophia struck me as remarkable. It all made far too much sense. It was all far too obvious. You really do fail in story-writing, Kate. Just thank your lucky stars--should those actually exist for you considering what your end product here was--that you chose to write in a laughably poor quality category and didn't try your hand at mystery. You'd be thrown out on the street for your frail attempt at a "plot."

Now, to my Readers. If you want to bash this book, take it up. It'll be a torturous and dull read. But, at least you know what not to do in a book. To those of you who liked it: don't be fooled. There are better things--far better things--out there. Put it down. Don't give it a try. It's not worth it. Pick up anything else instead. Unless, of course, it's Toilet. *Smiles wryly and warmly* As a last word: I hope you all enjoyed my review~ Let's meet again in a better book. show less