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【Review】Passion『Original review in German here』
AKA probably full of grammatical errors, spoilers and all this.
I never expected I'd ever have to say this, but here we go, before you tell me I didn't warn you.
You liked the book? Don't read this review. I know how it feels to read bad reviews for books I liked.
Also, everything on here is my own opinion. This review may be very negative, but it's no hate against Lauren Kate or the series altogether. You can always have different opinions.
So, that should do it. Let's get this started!
I originally wrote this review (in German) on my birthday. Why? Because it was very fun to write. Really, as much as I despise bad books, the reviews are the best I ever wrote. Simply because you can let it all out.I WANNA SCREAM AND SHOUT
I only went through this book for two reasons. First, I NEVER quit a book. Never ever ever. It's very unlikely that I quit a series, but quitting a book is downright impossible for me. My brain hates me, I guess. And second, I wanted to write this review.
I liked Fallen. Torment was on the edge of okay. But Passion, Passion lives up to its name, since I hated it with burning passion. I was ANGRY with this book. Seriously, you can be angry on a few parts because it didn't turn out how you wanted. But something is wrong if you hate the whole book simply because it exists.
After, like, half of the book, I smashed it on my table, couldn't sleep for two hours and had the great urge to hit something - my poor pillow looked really damaged after this - and to put this book in a case you can lock up, destroy the key, burn the case, put the ash into a barrell full of acid, and throw the barrell into the ocean.
This is no good reaction on a book.
You always should start with the positive things, right? Okay, I never really did that, but whatever.
The writing style was okay. Sometimes it was really cheesy, but it didn't annoy me. It was pretty quick to read.
Also, you get to know things. Not many things, and most of them are pretty f*cked up, but you get to know it. You learn why Cam became a demon (WTF was that?), you learn about the angel fall (is it called that in English? I dunno), and of course there are Luce' former lifes.
That's pretty much it.
It was a nice idea to have Luce travel back in time and meet her former lifes. But three or four times would have been fine. And so, we suffer through I-did-not-count-how-many times full of 'OMG, I love you. I know your character in this time for, like, 5 minutes, but I still love you more than anything else' and after a while it really becomes too much.
The lovestory *coughcough* was even worse than in the first books - which I didn't review on GR (yet). At one point, Luce is actually jealous on the sand and water touching Daniel's feet. I mean, really? It's sand, and it's water. They touch him because PHYSICAL RULES. Turn into a stone, I don't have a problem with it, but if you are jealous on the damned NATURE, it's not love, it's addiction.
This addiction shows off more times in this book. At one point, in the globe - which burned down just because of her. Great, Luce, you did an awesome job with that! - present Luce meets past Daniel and what does she do? Throws herself into his arms, not even thinking about how it could be that he doesn't even know her yet in this time. If we add Roland, telling her in another time that her actions could effect everything in the present and future, this isn't even naive, that's stupid.
At the very end, the OMG-SO-EEEEEVIL-GUY!!! asks her why she loves Daniel.
Her answer?
"Es gibt eine Million Gründe. Ich liebe ihn einfach."
Which translates to:
"There is one million reasons. I simply love him."
Hey, Luce, you know what? I do NOT accept that as an answer. You should at least be able to say at least one thing. You know why you can't? Because you love him just because of a CURSE. Love which just exists because a curse forced it to exist is not love.
Okay. You can excuse that with saying that Luce is always the same person. But she isn't.
In every life, Luce' attitude is different. In one time she is a caring, cute girl with a big heart, in another one a selfish brat who only thinks about herself. The only thing staying the same is, as far as I remember, her appearance.
Which leads to the next point: logic.
I would have agreed to Luce looking different in every time. Since she always has different parents. She doesn't, which is equally fine. So, where is my problem?
It's Daniel.
No - okay, yes - I don't mean HIM as a person / non-person. I mean his appearance. He is the one always changing his exterior. Sometimes he is blond, sometimes he looks asian, sometimes he is extremely tall. Unless angels have a built-in beauty surgeon, this is not possible. Daniel is always the same guy. He never dies. Luce does.
Also, somewhere at the end it is said that all good angels have white or silver wings and all demons have golden ones. Which is okay. But, you know, Roland's wings are black with a bit of gold in it. Molly has cupper-colored wings. Arrianes are the color of the rainbow...
Recognize something?
Now, the dialog. The only bearably conversations where the ones with Bill (funny guy) and the one where both sides try to get Daniel to join them. The rest of them... Well, they were so cheesy, I swear I could smell them. (Badumm dss.) Particularly at the end every word between Daniel and Luce hurt. It was nearly unbearable. I don't have anything against love, you know, I like fluff and everything. Actually, I enjoy reading cheesy stuff. But this was even too much for me.
I won't say anything to the whole Cam-demon-thing and the angel fall, other than stating they both pissed me off. Also, I won't tell you what I thought about the characters. I can't even put in in words. If I wrote that down now, I would probably die from bad memory.
'Cept for Cam and Bill. They were awesome.
Fine, then let's sum this up.
It's actually a shame. Regarding how I liked Fallen - it was not the best book ever, but it was fun - and how I thought things could only get better after Torment, I'm beginning to wonder if a fun first installment was worth this pain. If Lauren Kate would have concentrated more on the whole angel-war thing, Fallen would be a pretty epic series. Instead, we get a not-really-love-story and cool side characters who get pushed into the background to make more place for Daniel and Luce.
*sigh* It could have been so good.
AKA probably full of grammatical errors, spoilers and all this.
I never expected I'd ever have to say this, but here we go, before you tell me I didn't warn you.
You liked the book? Don't read this review. I know how it feels to read bad reviews for books I liked.
Also, everything on here is my own opinion. This review may be very negative, but it's no hate against Lauren Kate or the series altogether. You can always have different opinions.
So, that should do it. Let's get this started!
I originally wrote this review (in German) on my birthday. Why? Because it was very fun to write. Really, as much as I despise bad books, the reviews are the best I ever wrote. Simply because you can let it all out.
I only went through this book for two reasons. First, I NEVER quit a book. Never ever ever. It's very unlikely that I quit a series, but quitting a book is downright impossible for me. My brain hates me, I guess. And second, I wanted to write this review.
I liked Fallen. Torment was on the edge of okay. But Passion, Passion lives up to its name, since I hated it with burning passion. I was ANGRY with this book. Seriously, you can be angry on a few parts because it didn't turn out how you wanted. But something is wrong if you hate the whole book simply because it exists.
After, like, half of the book, I smashed it on my table, couldn't sleep for two hours and had the great urge to hit something - my poor pillow looked really damaged after this - and to put this book in a case you can lock up, destroy the key, burn the case, put the ash into a barrell full of acid, and throw the barrell into the ocean.
This is no good reaction on a book.
You always should start with the positive things, right? Okay, I never really did that, but whatever.
The writing style was okay. Sometimes it was really cheesy, but it didn't annoy me. It was pretty quick to read.
Also, you get to know things. Not many things, and most of them are pretty f*cked up, but you get to know it. You learn why Cam became a demon (WTF was that?), you learn about the angel fall (is it called that in English? I dunno), and of course there are Luce' former lifes.
That's pretty much it.
It was a nice idea to have Luce travel back in time and meet her former lifes. But three or four times would have been fine. And so, we suffer through I-did-not-count-how-many times full of 'OMG, I love you. I know your character in this time for, like, 5 minutes, but I still love you more than anything else' and after a while it really becomes too much.
The lovestory *coughcough* was even worse than in the first books - which I didn't review on GR (yet). At one point, Luce is actually jealous on the sand and water touching Daniel's feet. I mean, really? It's sand, and it's water. They touch him because PHYSICAL RULES. Turn into a stone, I don't have a problem with it, but if you are jealous on the damned NATURE, it's not love, it's addiction.
This addiction shows off more times in this book. At one point, in the globe - which burned down just because of her. Great, Luce, you did an awesome job with that! - present Luce meets past Daniel and what does she do? Throws herself into his arms, not even thinking about how it could be that he doesn't even know her yet in this time. If we add Roland, telling her in another time that her actions could effect everything in the present and future, this isn't even naive, that's stupid.
At the very end, the OMG-SO-EEEEEVIL-GUY!!! asks her why she loves Daniel.
Her answer?
"Es gibt eine Million Gründe. Ich liebe ihn einfach."
Which translates to:
"There is one million reasons. I simply love him."
Hey, Luce, you know what? I do NOT accept that as an answer. You should at least be able to say at least one thing. You know why you can't? Because you love him just because of a CURSE. Love which just exists because a curse forced it to exist is not love.
Okay. You can excuse that with saying that Luce is always the same person. But she isn't.
In every life, Luce' attitude is different. In one time she is a caring, cute girl with a big heart, in another one a selfish brat who only thinks about herself. The only thing staying the same is, as far as I remember, her appearance.
Which leads to the next point: logic.
I would have agreed to Luce looking different in every time. Since she always has different parents. She doesn't, which is equally fine. So, where is my problem?
It's Daniel.
No - okay, yes - I don't mean HIM as a person / non-person. I mean his appearance. He is the one always changing his exterior. Sometimes he is blond, sometimes he looks asian, sometimes he is extremely tall. Unless angels have a built-in beauty surgeon, this is not possible. Daniel is always the same guy. He never dies. Luce does.
Also, somewhere at the end it is said that all good angels have white or silver wings and all demons have golden ones. Which is okay. But, you know, Roland's wings are black with a bit of gold in it. Molly has cupper-colored wings. Arrianes are the color of the rainbow...
Recognize something?
Now, the dialog. The only bearably conversations where the ones with Bill (funny guy) and the one where both sides try to get Daniel to join them. The rest of them... Well, they were so cheesy, I swear I could smell them. (Badumm dss.) Particularly at the end every word between Daniel and Luce hurt. It was nearly unbearable. I don't have anything against love, you know, I like fluff and everything. Actually, I enjoy reading cheesy stuff. But this was even too much for me.
I won't say anything to the whole Cam-demon-thing and the angel fall, other than stating they both pissed me off. Also, I won't tell you what I thought about the characters. I can't even put in in words. If I wrote that down now, I would probably die from bad memory.
'Cept for Cam and Bill. They were awesome.
Fine, then let's sum this up.
It's actually a shame. Regarding how I liked Fallen - it was not the best book ever, but it was fun - and how I thought things could only get better after Torment, I'm beginning to wonder if a fun first installment was worth this pain. If Lauren Kate would have concentrated more on the whole angel-war thing, Fallen would be a pretty epic series. Instead, we get a not-really-love-story and cool side characters who get pushed into the background to make more place for Daniel and Luce.
*sigh* It could have been so good.