Torment by Lauren Kate
Lucinda Price is on the move. Daniel is moving her to a safe school in California called Shoreline. With so much baggage following her she’s excited about getting away and spending some time with Daniel, except for Daniel is just dropping her off and Luce doesn’t know what he’s up to. She wakes up to a horrible roommate, surprises with who her classmate and teachers are, and no Daniel. As it becomes clear that Luce has many enemies and she’s only made a few friends, the outlook of how her life has changed is not good. She learns about a new power that she has and decides to go against her teacher’s wisdom and starts to learn about her past lives through the Announcers. She also learns that there is something going on with Daniel and Cam, something that she doesn’t know about and Daniel won’t open up to her. Trouble doesn’t stop there, she also realizes that she really likes her new friend Miles and he likes her more than just a friend as well. Will Daniel come back and save the day? Or does Luce even want him too?
At the end of Fallen, I was upset, I had been misled and lied to by all of the blogs I follow and I was upset. I didn’t care about any of the characters and I thought the book lacked an overall depth. But, Torment was a different book all together. I couldn’t believe how much depth came into this story where the other lacked so greatly. I also cared about the characters. Kate explained more Luce’s feelings about Daniel and about how strange it was that she didn’t know him, that she didn’t have a real relationship with him, but something from their past keeps them together. She still can’t understand how or why they are supposed to be together.
There were a lot of unanswered questions in this book, I don’t see how the author can answer them in a new book, but we’ll see. I don’t think I’ll be totally in love with this series, but I was really upset at the end of Torment when it finished, I wanted to follow Daniel into that announcer and go get Luce out of the shadow. I also loved Miles. He was such a better character than the others and he also got to know Luce and spent as much time with her as he could. I didn’t get that from Daniel because he was trying to stay away from her in this lifetime.
I am looking forward to seeing how this whole life started. How did they fall in love and not only fall in love but how he fell. Which side he will choose and what is the consequence to his choice? If he chooses Luce does that mean he has to be a demon? If he chooses good does that mean he has to stay away from her forever?
Well, let me know what you think about this book, series, or my blog. Thanks for reading!
