Recent Reads

I finished the third book in the Fallen series by Lauren Kate - just one more book to go! I have it from a trusted authority that the last book, Rapture, is much better than Passion. In some ways Passion is a very lazy in its concept - Lucinda travels back in time to visit her past lives and tries to discover the link between her and Daniel. Twilight fans take note - maybe Edward has been pining a century for Bella, but Daniel has been suffering for millennia!

Lucinda revisits about ten or so past lives, which really, for the book, is just one past life too many. After she visits her Mayan self, I skimmed through the ones set in ancient China and Egypt. It's admirable that Lucinda and Daniel are portrayed in different ethnicities, but it just became so repetitive, especially after Lucinda, with the help of a dubious gargoyle named Bill, learns to inhabit these past lives. Ugh! What a stinker of an idea.

Yet Passion was just the thing to read after finishing Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood. Publication dates always surprise me. For example, I was amazed that Oryx and Crake was published in 2003, when I thought it was much more recent. People are poor judges of time.

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