Book title: Fallen
Author: Lauren Kate
Genre: YA Fantasy
Publication Date: December 8, 2009
# in series: 1 of 4
Rating: Fair - Interesting read if you can get through the slow parts.
Suspected in the death of her boyfriend, seventeen-year-old Lucinda
is sent to a Savannah, Georgia, reform school where she meets two
intriguing boys and learns the truth about the strange shadows that have
always haunted her.
I read this book because I had seen several people talking about it and grew curious. In all honesty, I have to say that the book was a little difficult to follow through most of it as you had no idea what was going on. The only thing that kept me reading was trying to figure out exactly what it was.
The book opened with two unnamed people, a man who was drawing a picture of the woman. He's leaving and you get the idea that if he stays, it will be a bad thing, but it's not clear on why. Even at the end of the chapter, it never really details what happened to the girl.
The book itself starts with Lucinda starting at a reform school because of something that happened probably a few months or so before, but you can't really tell what it is until later.
As she goes through her first day, she finds herself enamored with two boys, making friends and of course making enemies. It seems that everyone but Luce (and the reader) is in on some huge secret, but there are very few clues as to what, if you pay enough attention, you might even catch them.
The book closes with some interesting twists, but you have to get through the rest of the book to get there. I get the point of the book was to follow Luce through the discovery, but while I was reading if people asked me what it was about all I could say is "I don't really know," which doesn't make it the best for recommendations at that point.
The book opened with two unnamed people, a man who was drawing a picture of the woman. He's leaving and you get the idea that if he stays, it will be a bad thing, but it's not clear on why. Even at the end of the chapter, it never really details what happened to the girl.
The book itself starts with Lucinda starting at a reform school because of something that happened probably a few months or so before, but you can't really tell what it is until later.
As she goes through her first day, she finds herself enamored with two boys, making friends and of course making enemies. It seems that everyone but Luce (and the reader) is in on some huge secret, but there are very few clues as to what, if you pay enough attention, you might even catch them.
The book closes with some interesting twists, but you have to get through the rest of the book to get there. I get the point of the book was to follow Luce through the discovery, but while I was reading if people asked me what it was about all I could say is "I don't really know," which doesn't make it the best for recommendations at that point.
Overall, I would say this book is fair. The series is an interesting read if you can get past the slow parts of the book. I always consider the first book in a series to be the worst because it's the setup before the action that follows in later books. I would say give the book a chance, if you can get through it, the second is more worth the read.
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