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3.54 AVERAGE
3.54 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
This book was too repetitive, after reading the first 2-3 entries about Luce's past life I was bored. I would have been fine reading the last 100 pages and moving onto the final book. I just couldn't give up on it, because want to finish the series.
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Much better than torment, passion gives us what we all truly wanted - the history of the the epic saga-like love story of Luce and Daniel. It was sweet, charming, and the twist at the end was great, even if I bit on the nose.
dark
emotional
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
This is the best book in this series by a long shot. After two books of being frustrated that Luce (and thus us as readers) was still glaringly in the dark about why all of this was happening, we finally got some plot!
This one was INTERESTING. Maybe because I like historical fiction, maybe because I was so starved for any understanding about the curse that I willingly ATE up the small crumbs of plot that we got here. Who can say?
I appreciated that we got no new (main) characters in this one with the exception of Bill. Speaking of Bill, the following evaluation is based solely on his entertainment value as a character rather than his role in the story: I appreciated his addition. Ultimately, it would've been boring to just have Luce stumble through her past lives by herself so it was good to have somebody present for her to chat through her thoughts with. Also (and again, this may be a reflection of my age being higher than YA) some of his lines genuinely did make me laugh (like the one about the 2012 prediction, which read very differently from 2025 than it likely would have as a reader in 2011 when this was originally published)
Daniel also had a personality (and a fairly likeable one, too!) in this one, which was a nice change from book 2.
The thing I didn't love about this book was the implications of time travel. This isn't the author's fault; time travel tends to be one of my least favourite sci-fi plot lines because really, it's impossible to not write yourself into a knot with glaring plot holes. Honestly, she did a better job of addressing the impacts of the time travel than some other media; it was clear that when changes happened to the timeline, Daniel's memories of that specific life became blurred (which makes sense). I do think it's strange that he encountered his past self SO MANY times and yet had no memory in the present of these visits happening. I get that once or twice could get lost in the millenia, but dozens of times? Of course, when you think through the finer logistics of it all, the time travel plot hangs by a shoe string, but just don't look at it too closely and it will be just fine!
Giving a 3.5 (for real this time) for this one because I was excited by finally having enough plot/backstory to begin understanding/theorizing where we might be going with this. Again, read this one in one night. Again, borrowed all 4 books on Libby because none had a wait time so now I'm invested; this one was JUST good enough that it made books 1 and 2 worth it. Stay tuned for my thoughts on book 4.
Oh also,the book that Daniel wrote that we found out about in book 1 but never got to read and tbh which Luce has clearly forgotten about?I'm making a prediction that that will play a part in breaking the curse in book 4 based on a comment Bill made about the things Luce not knowing fitting inside a book. Tbh if thus prediction isn't right, I'll be annoyed about the missed opportunity.
This one was INTERESTING. Maybe because I like historical fiction, maybe because I was so starved for any understanding about the curse that I willingly ATE up the small crumbs of plot that we got here. Who can say?
I appreciated that we got no new (main) characters in this one with the exception of Bill. Speaking of Bill, the following evaluation is based solely on his entertainment value as a character rather than his role in the story: I appreciated his addition. Ultimately, it would've been boring to just have Luce stumble through her past lives by herself so it was good to have somebody present for her to chat through her thoughts with. Also (and again, this may be a reflection of my age being higher than YA) some of his lines genuinely did make me laugh (like the one about the 2012 prediction, which read very differently from 2025 than it likely would have as a reader in 2011 when this was originally published)
Daniel also had a personality (and a fairly likeable one, too!) in this one, which was a nice change from book 2.
The thing I didn't love about this book was the implications of time travel. This isn't the author's fault; time travel tends to be one of my least favourite sci-fi plot lines because really, it's impossible to not write yourself into a knot with glaring plot holes. Honestly, she did a better job of addressing the impacts of the time travel than some other media; it was clear that when changes happened to the timeline, Daniel's memories of that specific life became blurred (which makes sense). I do think it's strange that he encountered his past self SO MANY times and yet had no memory in the present of these visits happening. I get that once or twice could get lost in the millenia, but dozens of times? Of course, when you think through the finer logistics of it all, the time travel plot hangs by a shoe string, but just don't look at it too closely and it will be just fine!
Giving a 3.5 (for real this time) for this one because I was excited by finally having enough plot/backstory to begin understanding/theorizing where we might be going with this. Again, read this one in one night. Again, borrowed all 4 books on Libby because none had a wait time so now I'm invested; this one was JUST good enough that it made books 1 and 2 worth it. Stay tuned for my thoughts on book 4.
Oh also,
I can tell you that I've never had a series of books piss me off and aggravate the shit out of me as bad as these have. I have never read a series that over the course of the last three books has raised three times as many questions as have been answered. I have never read books before where I had to fucking Google them because I was so sick of half assed explanations being made. I had to GOOGLE them! The major points are easy to figure out, and the holes in the story and the background facts are not. And I gathered that they remain that way through the fourth and final book which unfortunately I am invested in and obligated to read now. All I can say is there better be some answers.
emotional
mysterious
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Siempre te elegiré a ti. En todas y cada una de mis vidas, te elegiré a ti. Igual que tú me has elegido siempre.
Mis libros favoritos de esta saga son este y el último. Amo amo AMOOOOOOO ver las vidas pasadas. Me encanta este concepto de almas que se reconocen en cualquier lugar, da lo mismo el idioma, el continente, la raza o qué tan distintos parezcan físicamente, siempre van a encontrarse. Y bueno, eso es lo que necesita Luce en este libro, necesita ver por ella misma cómo es su amor, poder entender cómo se da, poder presenciar los momentos que compartieron y ver lo destrozado que queda Daniel a través de los años para lograr entender que realmente sí lo ama y desea que acabe su sufrimiento.
Aquí se nos presenta un nuevo personaje, Bill, una gárgola que encuentra Luce dentro de una de sus Anunciadoras quien la ayuda a hacer los viajes al pasado y parece saber mucho sobre cada una de sus vidas. Al mismo tiempo, Daniel va detrás de ella, pero por alguna razón no logra alcanzarla, así que decide adelantarse y esperarla en su primera vida... solo que las cosas no salen como deberían porque hay alguien detrás moviendo los hilos.
Desde el punto de vista de Daniel de lo que ocurre en la caída, podemos hacernos una idea de lo que pasa, aunque no se nos dice directamente. El solo pensar lo que se insinua, más el giro del final y ciertas revelaciones, eran razones suficientes para estar con ataque y con la mente a toda velocidad la primera ve que lo leí.