Fallen(Fallen #1)
By Lauren Kate
Length: 10 hours and 56 minutes
Narrator: Justine Eyre
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 . . .
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My Review:
My early teenage-year-old self really liked this series but having re-read it as a twenty-something-year-old I don't have many good things to say about it. Even the world-building was lacking and the mythology behind everything was so vague due to the heroine's circumstances.
Daniel was a disappointment. For a guy who claims to love this girl from past lives why the heck doesn't he treat her like a person? I understand having issues and being angry but at the same time, everyone deserves to be treated with respect regardless. No one is at fault for your traumas, anger, etc.
I actually started liking Cam until he started acting all possessive and obsessive around and about Luce. It was like the author realized that things were going too well with Cam but Daniel was the main guy that everyone needed to root for so she just broke both Cam's legs after the race had just started.
Lucinda was an OK character. She was oblivious and a little too enamored with a guy who spent the better part of this novel giving her dirty looks and flipping her off. Is the history she learns about with Daniel interesting, of course. I just disliked the way it was presented because it was so vague to the point that I didn't care about it enough to put up with the characters.
This was also a rather slow-paced novel. The ending was the most interesting part of the whole book because things actually started happening and then they were over. I don't think I'll be moving on in the series.
When you take a slow-paced novel and have the person who narrates it also read on the slower side in a monotone voice you get a reader who speeds up the narration because it started to feel like a chore to listen to the book. All the character voices were distinct enough that I didn't get lost in conversation but this narrator is not one of my favorites.
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