Fallen by Lauren Kate
Luce, a seventeen year old girl who felt she was losing everything when she was transferred to Sword & Cross Reform School. She just didn’t realize that it was the beginning of a whole new life for her. Her first day at S & C, she meets two guys, Cam the good looking sweet guy and Daniel the broody silent type and both have motives behind knowing her. When moved she not only has to give up her best friend and family, she also has to give up her cell phone and freedom upon entry in the boarding school from hell. All her life she has been followed by shadows that have haunted her, they only seem to be more present in her life since the move. They not only bring a coldness that chills her to her bones, but they also seem to bring bad omens. As she continues her short time at Sword & Cross she gets to know her love triangle more intimately. She is happy to have the affection of Cam, but is always drawn to the dark and mysterious Daniel. She makes a few friends and a few enemies, and she finds out more than she knew was possible as the story progresses. There is another world out there that she never knew existed, or did she?
This book was very disappointing to me. I read many fabulous reviews on this book online and I have been looking forward to reading it for at least a year. There was much lacking in the story line and in details. The area of lack is in the details and description in the action of the story. I found myself having to reread sections because I was lost from not knowing exactly what was taking place. Another disappointing factor in this book was that I didn’t have a deep attachment to any of the characters. The author could have killed them all and I wouldn’t have cared, actually it could have made the story better if more people would have died. I also didn’t have a deep attachment to either of the guys in the book. I didn’t care if she ended up with Cam or Daniel. She gave me no reason to like Daniel more than Cam and therefore I didn’t care who she was with in the end.
I have decided to continue to read the rest of the series just in case it gets better. Stay tuned for more developments on the second book, Torment. Thanks for reading.
