Monday, October 11, 2010

Torment: a Fallen novel by Lauren Kate

"These questions were all detours, which eventually flowed back to the most important one: Would love be different with someone else? Was love even possible with someone else? Love was supposed to be easy, wasn't it? Then why did she feel so tormented?"

SPOILER ALERT!!! Please do not read any further if you haven't read the first book Fallen in the series. I don't want to ruin the ending for you.

Torment immediately picks up where Fallen stops. The angels and demons are caling a truce for eighteen days to protect Luce from The Outcasts: "a sect of spineless, waffling angels, shunned by both Heaven and Hell." News of Luce's mortality is spreading and it is decided that she will leave Sword and Cross in Georgia for the Shoreline school in California. For eighteen days at Shoreline, Luce must figure out everything about her past and Daniel on her own.
At Shoreline, Luce is an instant celebrity. It seems everyone there knows her and Daniel's history, except for her. Once again, she is in the dark about herself. But as she attends special clases with the Nephilim, Luce soon discovers what the shadows are and how they can help her glimpse into her past lives. And in doing that, begins to question her relationship with Daniel. Is he really the love of her life and what is he keeping from her?

There is an unbelieveable twist at the end that I didn't see coming. The ending explains why the author Lauren Kate is writing the third book in the series, Passions the way she is. It is literally a prequel to Fallen. Passions is due out the summer of 2011.

Visit Lauren Kate's website.


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