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3.54 AVERAGE
3.54 AVERAGE
this series is awful. the only character i liked was arriane and she's barely in this book so i no longer care
I really wanted to love this book. The premise seemed right up my alley since I love reading about history, time traveling, past lives and I had enjoyed the previous two books from the series. Instead, I ended up just liking it.
The plot felt rushed, incredibly rushed, and at the same time there were some past lives that seemed to be just fillers. Luce learned nothing from some of her time travels and neither did I. It looked as if the author just wanted to have some time periods in the book just because she liked the clothes or the palaces or whatever.
The bad guy... I saw it coming from miles away. The moment he showed up I knew who that would turn out to be. There's a difference between foreshadowing and point blank shooting a plot point at your readers. I don't enjoy the latter method too much. It makes me think the author thinks I'm stupid.
Luce got on my nerves more often than not. For someone who's supposed to be the incarnation that will finally make a change, she makes some really annoyingly repetitive choices.
As for what I liked: the love story is incredibly powerful and it was nice to see some of the highlights of Luce's and Daniel's eternal love. The cliffhanger was cleverly crafted. Will they really all side together or will someone defect?
All in all, it's an entertaining read. I didn't put it down until I finished it but I also found myself rolling my eyes quite often and that's not such a good thing for my eye's health, I suppose.
The plot felt rushed, incredibly rushed, and at the same time there were some past lives that seemed to be just fillers. Luce learned nothing from some of her time travels and neither did I. It looked as if the author just wanted to have some time periods in the book just because she liked the clothes or the palaces or whatever.
The bad guy... I saw it coming from miles away. The moment he showed up I knew who that would turn out to be. There's a difference between foreshadowing and point blank shooting a plot point at your readers. I don't enjoy the latter method too much. It makes me think the author thinks I'm stupid.
Luce got on my nerves more often than not. For someone who's supposed to be the incarnation that will finally make a change, she makes some really annoyingly repetitive choices.
As for what I liked: the love story is incredibly powerful and it was nice to see some of the highlights of Luce's and Daniel's eternal love. The cliffhanger was cleverly crafted. Will they really all side together or will someone defect?
All in all, it's an entertaining read. I didn't put it down until I finished it but I also found myself rolling my eyes quite often and that's not such a good thing for my eye's health, I suppose.
What the frack did I just read?
Was it supposed to be a book? Because it didn't read like one.
Okay, be prepared for a big-time rant 'cause right now I'm too pissed to even form a coherent thought.
I mean, "Fallen" wasn't all that bad. It didn't made sense most of the time, but knowing there were other books in the series, I stayed put and told myself everything would be revealed at the given time.
Then "Rapture" came by and still the only result was me growing an urge to kick Ms. Kate in the face. Like... with a Chuck Norris roundhouse kick.
In the first book at least the whole gothic-ish atmosphere was kind of interesting, different from the oh-so-boring-high-school setting. Keyword: kind of. But in "Rapture", snobby-nephilim school killed my mood and also my last hopes.
So when I started reading "Passion" I though: "Hey, this can't be worst than the last one. It's scientifically impossible".
Sigh. I was rotten wrong.
"Passion" is probably the worst book I've ever set my eyes on and I can assure you that I've read tons of junk in my life. But guess what, nothing compares to this... thing. Calling it a book is even insulting for the poor word.
Why I didn't like it:
1. The non-existent plot. The first forty pages were kind of cool. Time travel, different locations. That's new, right? So I was a happy reader. That was before understanding that the rest of the book would be the exact replica with a few variations of those forty pages.
You heard right. The whole book is a giant "Back to the Future", though not half as funny. Luce practically jumps from a time period to another (me air-quoting) "understanding her relationship with Daniel".
And we readers are supposed to understand something along with Luce but the only thing I understood was that there was nothing but nonsense there.
2. Daniel. The knight in shining armor, after acting like a dick nonstop in "Rapture", now chasessweet Luce. He stalks her through time but he's so lame and slow he can't even track her down. Daniel's always one step behind. What I found so amazing is that I went from liking him in the first book to hating him in the second to actually not giving a shit about the dude. I swear, if he died under an angelic bus in the third book, I would have just shrugged. No sleep lost over it.
Oh, and a question: is he supposed to have a personality? Or at least a trait that doesn't involve his love for Luce? No? Okay, just wondering.
3. The evil dude.
4. The plot. Oh, did I already mention it? Then maybe the repeat is because it deserves a little more ranting.
Lauren Kate, I'm talking to you. If I wanted to read about traveling the world, fancy dresses, strange cultures etc. I would be reading Jules Verne. Which I have and have found way more interesting and fascinating!
The plot, which wasn't a real plot, could be summarized in a single sentence: Luce meets creepy not-evil-at-all dude which helps her hopping on time-lane and meet all the previous Daniels she'd fallen for and watch herself die evey single time.
5. The answers. This was supposed to be the book in the tetralogy where things finally were going to add up , giving us the answers we've been dying for. Answers were the carrot at the end of the stick.
First of all, why are they in love?
And finally, the million dollar question comes. I was like: "Yesss", awkward chicken dance "Yess! Answer! Gimme, gimme! Tell me there's some explanation behind all this crap." And then Luce opened her little rosy mouth and she enlightened us all with her wisdom and profound understanding of the human nature.
Please, a minute of silence to brace for the great revalation that took her three books to formulate.
"I love him. I just do".
Now please take another minute to recompose and not slingshot the computer across the wall.
WHAT THE HELL, MAN! You love him because you love him? That's the explanation I used to give my parents about vegetables when I was five. "You know mom, I don't like spinach and there's no reason behind it. I simply don't". That was okay because I was five and you don't need a reason to dislike spinach beside its being green.
But you OUGHT to have a reason to love someone. To be IN LOVE with someone. The impression we all got by this statement is that you don't love him, girl. You may love his abs, his eyes, his golden locks. But him? No way.
6. The boredom. So, let's suppose you're a big fan of the series. Let's suppose you're willing to waste your money and time on this lily-smelling-heap-of-excrements... don't. Please. I'm begging you. Sometimes there are books which make no sense, have cardboard characters and still manage to be sufferable. This is not one of them. The writing is boring and from the beginning to the end it is the very same scene with different costumes or landscapes. It is boring, lick picking my nails is more interesting that this book.
We see Luce Haiti-version. We see her Russian-version. Then also Chinese-princess-version, and Italian-nurse version. And all the while the greatest part of the chapter revolved not about her quest for answers, but about her living in that world, or other things we definitely didn't want to read about. Oh, then there were all the past Daniels.
If Kate thought that showing his past-versions would give him some sort of tridimentionality, she thought wrong. It was the same love-struck, personality lacking dude with an amazing body. Which is cool, but not enough to actually build all this nonsense universe around.
Okay, now that I got it all out of my system, though there'd be a thousand other things to point out about how wrong it all was, I think I can rest in peace.
Was it supposed to be a book? Because it didn't read like one.
Okay, be prepared for a big-time rant 'cause right now I'm too pissed to even form a coherent thought.
I mean, "Fallen" wasn't all that bad. It didn't made sense most of the time, but knowing there were other books in the series, I stayed put and told myself everything would be revealed at the given time.
Then "Rapture" came by and still the only result was me growing an urge to kick Ms. Kate in the face. Like... with a Chuck Norris roundhouse kick.
In the first book at least the whole gothic-ish atmosphere was kind of interesting, different from the oh-so-boring-high-school setting. Keyword: kind of. But in "Rapture", snobby-nephilim school killed my mood and also my last hopes.
So when I started reading "Passion" I though: "Hey, this can't be worst than the last one. It's scientifically impossible".
Sigh. I was rotten wrong.
"Passion" is probably the worst book I've ever set my eyes on and I can assure you that I've read tons of junk in my life. But guess what, nothing compares to this... thing. Calling it a book is even insulting for the poor word.
Why I didn't like it:
1. The non-existent plot. The first forty pages were kind of cool. Time travel, different locations. That's new, right? So I was a happy reader. That was before understanding that the rest of the book would be the exact replica with a few variations of those forty pages.
You heard right. The whole book is a giant "Back to the Future", though not half as funny. Luce practically jumps from a time period to another (me air-quoting) "understanding her relationship with Daniel".
And we readers are supposed to understand something along with Luce but the only thing I understood was that there was nothing but nonsense there.
2. Daniel. The knight in shining armor, after acting like a dick nonstop in "Rapture", now chases
Oh, and a question: is he supposed to have a personality? Or at least a trait that doesn't involve his love for Luce? No? Okay, just wondering.
3. The evil dude.
Spoiler
Or a.k.a the lovely gargoyle who was so not suspicious at all. You know, I understand Luce in this. She was scared, confused about her relationship, not trusting even her friends and all that jazz. So it's understandable that when a creepy creature shows up grinning and whispering behind your back, you trust him completely, no questions asked and no reservations whatsoever. It's a no-brainer. That's the first thing they teach you in kindergarden, after all: "Trust strangers, with or without candies."4. The plot. Oh, did I already mention it? Then maybe the repeat is because it deserves a little more ranting.
Lauren Kate, I'm talking to you. If I wanted to read about traveling the world, fancy dresses, strange cultures etc. I would be reading Jules Verne. Which I have and have found way more interesting and fascinating!
The plot, which wasn't a real plot, could be summarized in a single sentence: Luce meets creepy not-evil-at-all dude which helps her hopping on time-lane and meet all the previous Daniels she'd fallen for and watch herself die evey single time.
5. The answers. This was supposed to be the book in the tetralogy where things finally were going to add up , giving us the answers we've been dying for. Answers were the carrot at the end of the stick.
First of all, why are they in love?
And finally, the million dollar question comes. I was like: "Yesss", awkward chicken dance "Yess! Answer! Gimme, gimme! Tell me there's some explanation behind all this crap." And then Luce opened her little rosy mouth and she enlightened us all with her wisdom and profound understanding of the human nature.
Please, a minute of silence to brace for the great revalation that took her three books to formulate.
"I love him. I just do".
Now please take another minute to recompose and not slingshot the computer across the wall.
WHAT THE HELL, MAN! You love him because you love him? That's the explanation I used to give my parents about vegetables when I was five. "You know mom, I don't like spinach and there's no reason behind it. I simply don't". That was okay because I was five and you don't need a reason to dislike spinach beside its being green.
But you OUGHT to have a reason to love someone. To be IN LOVE with someone. The impression we all got by this statement is that you don't love him, girl. You may love his abs, his eyes, his golden locks. But him? No way.
6. The boredom. So, let's suppose you're a big fan of the series. Let's suppose you're willing to waste your money and time on this lily-smelling-heap-of-excrements... don't. Please. I'm begging you. Sometimes there are books which make no sense, have cardboard characters and still manage to be sufferable. This is not one of them. The writing is boring and from the beginning to the end it is the very same scene with different costumes or landscapes. It is boring, lick picking my nails is more interesting that this book.
We see Luce Haiti-version. We see her Russian-version. Then also Chinese-princess-version, and Italian-nurse version. And all the while the greatest part of the chapter revolved not about her quest for answers, but about her living in that world, or other things we definitely didn't want to read about. Oh, then there were all the past Daniels.
If Kate thought that showing his past-versions would give him some sort of tridimentionality, she thought wrong. It was the same love-struck, personality lacking dude with an amazing body. Which is cool, but not enough to actually build all this nonsense universe around.
Okay, now that I got it all out of my system, though there'd be a thousand other things to point out about how wrong it all was, I think I can rest in peace.
It was pretty good. I really liked the time travel to their different lives. I wish we could've read their first encounter. Liked how Luce discovered her love & stuff for Daniel. Loved the different names & how they were as similar as possible to the present names. Good writing. I would recommend it.
I really liked this book, it was interesting and I think it's the best in the series so far. I don't even want to begin to imagine how much research would've had to have been done for this book o_o
It was ok. It was interesting to see their love through the ages. The ending was a little odd, I don't want to give anything away, but I just did not expect it to happen. I am looking forward to [b:Rapture|12716010|Rapture (Fallen, #4)|Lauren Kate|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1320674648s/12716010.jpg|14103064] but this wasn't one that I sucked me in until the end. It was a nice read to tide me over until Rapture.
I loved reading about all of Luce's past lives and how she learned something with each lifetime she visited.
And also I just want to say that MY FIRST GUESS WAS THAT BILL WAS SATAN!!!!! I mean I let go of that theory half way because he acted so nice, but after a while I started to believe it again. And then Bill is literally Satan/Lucifer! I am to good at guessing what happens in books.
And also I just want to say that MY FIRST GUESS WAS THAT BILL WAS SATAN!!!!! I mean I let go of that theory half way because he acted so nice, but after a while I started to believe it again. And then Bill is literally Satan/Lucifer! I am to good at guessing what happens in books.
I love this series and am looking forward to number 4.