Fallen (Fallen #1) by Lauren Kate with SPOILERS

What if the person you were meant to be with could never be yours? 

17-year-old Lucinda falls in love with a gorgeous, intelligent boy, Daniel, at her new school, the grim, foreboding Sword & Cross . . . only to find out that Daniel is a fallen angel, and that they have spent lifetimes finding and losing one another as good & evil forces plot to keep them apart. 

 Get ready to fall . . .

My Rating: 1.5/5
Genre: Fantasy, Paranormal (Angels)
Read sometime in 2010 



Hardcover, 1st Edition, 452 pages 
Published December 8th 2009 by Delacorte Press (first published 2009)






MY REVIEW:

This review is going to be quick, and a bit messy, because as you can see it's been a long time since I read this book and I don't remember any details about it - to be honest, most of the mental notes about this book I made them because I disliked it. It literally fucked my logic just like Twilight and Hush Hush did.  
So, lets start from the only positive aspect of this book: The atmosphere. Yes, it was gothic, yes, there were a cemetery, a boarding school and a cathedral, and yes, there was a lake too! There is a ghostly aura in the outdoor settings and the library of the boarding school, and as those details where described early in it's progress I didn't dump it as my usual impatient self would do. What a mistake. 







Plot & Characters: 


 
Before you read this, beware: This book does not have a plot, but uses the recipe of success: there is love at first sight, the friendless heroine can be outsmarted by a weed and a proper love triangle "spices" things up. If you wish to continue, you are fully responsible for you choice!

All he kids in this book are pointlessly mean towards Luce, our classic innocent maiden who for some unexplained reason killed her ex-boyfriend when she kissed him. As everyone believes she is a pyromaniac, she is shipped to that boarding school with the mean kids - and oh, by the way, half of them are Angels, except for Penn who is human and becomes Luce's best friend. Penn is enrolled in that awful school because her dad works there (how logical). Penn is  portraited as having a squat build and wearing glasses, opposing no antagonism to our heroine, who - of course - doesn't have an opinion about her outer self (be sure, she is the kind that men see as beautiful but is ignorant about it).



Here is the point where love at first sight takes place: Luce lays eyes upon Daniel, an oh so beautiful boy with common golden hair and even more common violet eyes. Yes, violet. Daniel instantly feels the same way too, due to previous affairs that were going on between them during the last millennium. So, as is fitting for when you meet your true love reincarnated, he raises his middle finger in that universal insulting gesture and flips her off. That troubles Luce, and she wants to know more about him. (Be careful, if some guy you don't know raises the finger to you, you might want to know more about him too. Mmhhm. )

That's where the the third guy appears, because all popular YA books must have the love triangle. Cam is a bit of a stalker, but that doesn't stop Luce from almost kissing him when they had the chance. Still, she prefers Daniel because he is the most arrogant and rude between the two. And then, just like magic, when Daniel and Luce finally make out, Cam is the bad guy. Why? Probably it's the easiest way to solve your love problems when you don't have to make a choice.

And the rest of the story is yours to read. If you have already read it, then I hope you too grieve for the loss of your time.