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Lauren Kate, you broke my heart!
Trust me, I do read books of a higher calibre, but Fallen was a guilty pleasure (and if you must read a supernatural young adult romance, it's way better than Twilight). I was eager to find out what finally happens to Lucinda and Daniel. There's a saying that goes something like readers will follow an author anywhere...through bad writing and plot holes, as long as you give them an ending they want. In this fourth and final book in the Fallen series, readers cross continents, thrill and sigh as Lucinda and Daniel try to defeat Lucifer and break the curse that has trapped them in a crazy eternal love struggle for thousands of years. The premise of the book is so cheesy, but the supernatural romance and passion between the two made it worth seeing to the end.
I could accept a lot of things in the books, from the slapdash Biblical history to the way Lucinda revisits her past selves, but I can't accept the ending where the Lucinda that the reader has come to grow and love, along with her friends and family, ends with the star crossed lovers returning to earth and starting over again. No accounting for her best friend Callie, or her parents - the Lucinda of the past three books becomes a missing person as she starts her life anew, only to run into a new, mortal, Daniel. They should have stayed angels, or Daniel could have just returned as a mortal. I'm inexplicably crushed. I would have rather Lucinda wake up and discover that it was all a dream, instead of losing all the knowledge that she's lost about herself. Maybe that is what's bothering me the most.
Trust me, I do read books of a higher calibre, but Fallen was a guilty pleasure (and if you must read a supernatural young adult romance, it's way better than Twilight). I was eager to find out what finally happens to Lucinda and Daniel. There's a saying that goes something like readers will follow an author anywhere...through bad writing and plot holes, as long as you give them an ending they want. In this fourth and final book in the Fallen series, readers cross continents, thrill and sigh as Lucinda and Daniel try to defeat Lucifer and break the curse that has trapped them in a crazy eternal love struggle for thousands of years. The premise of the book is so cheesy, but the supernatural romance and passion between the two made it worth seeing to the end.
I could accept a lot of things in the books, from the slapdash Biblical history to the way Lucinda revisits her past selves, but I can't accept the ending where the Lucinda that the reader has come to grow and love, along with her friends and family, ends with the star crossed lovers returning to earth and starting over again. No accounting for her best friend Callie, or her parents - the Lucinda of the past three books becomes a missing person as she starts her life anew, only to run into a new, mortal, Daniel. They should have stayed angels, or Daniel could have just returned as a mortal. I'm inexplicably crushed. I would have rather Lucinda wake up and discover that it was all a dream, instead of losing all the knowledge that she's lost about herself. Maybe that is what's bothering me the most.