Khalisa ♥ Dec 14, 2012

did not like it bookshelves: the-dnf-zone, terrible-bullshit

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Just, ugh. I'm ashamed that I paid $10 for this book at the book store. That money could have gone to something infinity more entertaining like, a gallon of paint that I could've painted the walls with to watch dry.



Technically this review contains spoilers. These "spoilers" you find out in the first few pages of the book so, I don't consider them as spoilers but if you do please read on at your own risk.



I have 4 HUGE problems with this novel:



1. No character development



Every character in the book is stagnant. They all were written with basically one personality trait, and that personality trait is all you know about them through the entire read. Not only that, it's CONSTANTLY shoved down your throat. Luce is an even less decisive Bella Swan, Daniel is the pretend bad boy who's hiding a secret, Arriane is the bad bitch with no common sense, and Cam is the lover boy with a dark side. And that's all you learn about every single one of them until *BAM* the end of the book comes and SURPRISE you learn one new thing they all share but it doesn't count because you knew it from the beginning.



There isn't one character in this entire book that is likable, except maybe on occasion Cam because , you know what not even him. If you're looking to read a book with the most boring characters ever written, this is the read for you.



2. Entire plot given away in the first 2 pages



There's a preface at the beginning of the book that's around 4 pages long and it gives away the ENTIRE PLOT OF THE BOOK FROM BEGINNING TO END. If you read those three pages you will have read the entire novel: Daniel is a fallen angel and Luce is his reincarnated true love. I do NOT consider this a spoiler as you find this out within the first few pages.



3. The whole book is just a long exposition and a poorly written resolution.



The whole book reminded me of what took Twilight a few pages/chapters to explain: the girl doesn't understand why the mysterious boy at school wants nothing to do with her. That is the first 300 pages of this book, and the last few are all the sudden he's like "I love you and I'm a fallen angel and you're my reincarnated love and in every life when we kiss you die" and then there's a battle FOR NO REASON that ends WITH NO CONCLUSION and then the book is over.



WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK. Kate, you skipped over some key parts of the novel: everything except the introduction and conclusion!



There is NO story here!



4. Complete lack of research and connections



Kate obviously logged about 0 hours of research for this novel: about both religion and reform schools. Yes, I know that because it is fiction authors are free to create untrue aspects of real topics , but it just takes it to the point of ridiculousness. Does she even know what a reform school actually is or what it is like in the slightest? Does she know anything about angels, the Bible, or religion at all?



The answer to those questions is absolutely not, and it's so obvious it's gut wrenching. DO YOUR RESEARCH. The most annoying thing you could do as an author is write a book on topics you know nothing about, and she did it. HOW did this get published. You'd figure someone would've told her "hey Kate, you know basically all you've said about reform schools and religion is bullshit right?"



There's also such confusing details she makes about the setting. Okay, we're in Savannah and the school looks like a modern prison but also looks like it's from the gothic era but at the same time kind of is supposed to remind me of my freshman college dorm building? I don't know. I literally do not know what to think. I draw and paint in my free time and if someone sat me down and said "Lisa, draw any setting from Fallen" I couldn't do it.



Well,

I'm going to stop here because I'm about to rip my hair out from frustration writing this review. There are only a few books that I have read that I hated, and this is one of them. I genuinely like basically every book I've ever read minus a few, so it's saying something that I thought this one was garbage.



If you still want to read the book, let me know. I will send you my copy. Or just snap a photo of the first few pages and inbox them to you, same thing really.