Fallen (Fallen, #1) in SOS: Serious Overload of Series

Nov 20, 2010 cc rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: pt, young-adult, 2012-read

Honestly I was expecting this one to be a lot worse, meaning, I knew this was contemporary YA and angels themed (not my favorite combination, although I LOVED Unearthly; and if you’re asking why I had Fallen in the first place, well, I won it in a giveaway), so I feared I would eventually give up, put the book down and never look at it again, but that never happened, I actually wanted to finish it, wanted to see where the author was going, and what the final events would bring to the protagonist Honestly I was expecting this one to be a lot worse, meaning, I knew this was contemporary YA and angels themed (not my favorite combination, although I LOVED Unearthly; and if you’re asking why I had Fallen in the first place, well, I won it in a giveaway), so I feared I would eventually give up, put the book down and never look at it again, but that never happened, I actually wanted to finish it, wanted to see where the author was going, and what the final events would bring to the protagonists. In the end it was just an Okay read, with a few confusing moments, and a leading female I wanted to hurt in a couple of scenes.

Speaking of her, Luce is quite the boring heroine, she basically does 4 things during the whole book, she gets scared of the shadows, she acts awkward around school, stupid around Cam and obsessive over Daniel.

The rest of the story is about Luce and Daniel falling in love over and over again, but she dies when they kiss, and he has to wait for her to be born and grow up again. Meh.

One thing that bothered me above all else in this book was the love triangle (what else...), Luce likes Daniel, but thinks Cam is nice too *barfs* and right after a kissing session with Daniel she goes to Cam to tell him she’s with Daniel and all that, but Cam snaps, grabs her, and tells her he’s going to kiss her -- she doesn't want to, but he promises to let her go after the kiss so she agrees ... WHAT THE F*CK?? No really, WHAT-THE-ACTUAL-F*CK? Luce... do you have any idea of why you have knees in your legs? And no, they are not just to allow you to bend your legs and sit, they serve a lot of other purposes, like help you KICK ASSHOLES RIGHT IN THE NUTS WHEN THEY TRY SOMETHING AS SUCH!! Jesus Christ… seriously, you don’t simply allow a guy to kiss you when you don’t want to just because he’s stronger and he’s grabbing you and putting his stupid face in yours, no! You kick him in the nuts, with all your strength!! I... I can’t even...I just wanted to slap her face over and over after that scene. Okay, I need to calm myself down.

*sigh* Overall I don't think this is an awful book, but it's not great either.
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Jul 04, 2010 Eaden rated it did not like it · review of another edition

This book i thought had some promise to it the main character Luce is sent to a reform school sword and cross because she is mentally insane and because everyone thinks she killed this guy that she was interested in.
This book starts off really really really really..really lol slow i was about to stab myself in the eye wondering when it was going to pick up or if it was going to at all. The main character is frankly very annoying she whines and sulks over this guy Daniel Grigori for most of the ...more

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May 11, 2010 Alyssa rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: books-i-own, demons, read-in-2011, a-z-characters-2011-vampire-lovers, march-2011-shifter-love, sos-r2-group-bingo, part-of-a-series, angels

I couldn't decide whether I thought this book deserved 4 stars or 5 stars, so I'm just going to split the difference and give it 4.5 stars.

Fallen was good. I enjoyed it. I haven't read many stories with angels. So, I would say this was a good one to read to dip my toes into the water.

I was kind of unsure about what was going on during the first half of the book. I guess now that I've finished it I get why. I wondered why things didn't get explained earlier, but since we're following Luce's thoug ...more

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Dec 19, 2010 Dru rated it it was ok · review of another edition

I DID NOT like this book. I liked the setting, but the characters, Blah. Plus I always like the character that the character is in love with. but I'm TEAM CAM, Daniel.....>:P The story was slow at the begining and not all that interesting at the end. I read all the book until around the 110 page, after that i skimmed but read all of it too, after the 150 page I speed-read, when I got to about page 200 I skipped everything that did not have dialogue which is the only reason I finished the whole b ...more

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Oct 18, 2010 Daffodil rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: young-adult-fantasy

The bones for a terrific story are here, unfortunately it fell a little short. I think the author intended us to follow Lucinda's footsteps on the path of discovery. Unfortunately, I got there before Luce and felt that for a supposedly smart girl, she was a little oblivious. Luce and Daniel's love is a tragic romance. How do I know that? Because the author, through Daniel, told Luce so. Not because I felt or saw it in any of their interactions. Overall there is great potential here, enough that ...more

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