Fallen

Fallen
Lauren Kate
452 pages
Publisher: Delacorte Press
★★☆☆☆
Source: Bought for myself

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I wanted to love this book, I really did.  It looked like something I would really enjoy getting into, hoping for some romantic tension between two well-developed characters.  Unfortunately, that's not what I found.  Halfway through I was mostly underwhelmed.  I don't know if that's because I'm burned out on the YA Paranormal Romance genre, or if this book is just underwhelming on its own.  It seemed like the same old thing to me: angst-y teenage girl who is out of her element, mysterious teenage boy who intrigues the girl for some unknown reason, girl tries to be with boy, boy is hesitant, the un-probable truth comes out... well you know how it goes.  And how it ends before the book is even over.

The story is about Luce who is scented to a reform school (out of her element) after a mysterious fire kills her almost-boyfriend.  She can't remember what happened.  At her new school she meets Daniel (mysterious boy) who goes hot and cold towards here until the truth comes out... (SPOILER) he's a fallen angel, so are most the students at the school, and they're about to embark on an epic battle... which doesn't come until book two.

And when the book was over, nothing was resolved.  Can I just say that I dislike authors who end books, not merely on a cliffhanger, but with nothing resolved to the point where you feel like you have to read the next book?  I feel like it's a scam to sell more books.  Why can't anyone put their whole story into one book?  This book was four hundred pages, but if it had been published in a normal sized font and format, I bet more a conclusion would have fit.