Fallen - Lauren Kate

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65 of 65 Ciao users found the following review helpful

sarahbarrow

Member since 11/05/2007

Reviews written: 730

Not so much "fallen" but stumbled to this book! 18/04/2010

User recommends the product

Advantages This is a fun thriller-esque book, that is the perfect read for teens.
Disadvantages Not enough revealed, ready for the book in September.

I have to say, the book that I will now review was bought as it was thought to be a vampire book…….by my husband, so him being the sweetheart he is he got it for me immediately. After the first few pages though, it became more than apparent that this was going to be completely different to what was first assumed. The book I will now review is - “Fallen by Lauren Kate”. The story starts with a scene from the mid 30’s, involving a dashing and very scared seeming young man who knows he should leave before “she” finds he trying to bolt, but too late as she finds him and he can’t resist her. After ... more
46 of 46 Ciao users found the following review helpful

chugglebunny

Member since 18/10/2007

Reviews written: 147

Fallen For A Pretty Cover 28/06/2010

User doesn't recommend the product

Advantages Great Cover, Good First Chapter To Pull You In
Disadvantages Weak Characters, Bad Plot, Lack Of Readability, Easy To Guess The "Twist"

While walking around my local Tesco and having a nose down the book aisle as I usually do, I was struck by this book due to its very nice cover. I always like buying random books and this was in a buy 2 get one 1 deal. I already had another book I intended to buy and my other half brought one also. Its usual retail price was £8.99 and it falls within the fantasy fiction genre. Story ------- The story follows Lucinda, or Luce to her friends, as she is sent to the “Sword and Cross” a school for deviant or crazy school children. She has been sent here because she may or may not have been involved ... more
50 of 50 Ciao users found the following review helpful

LAURALILIA

Fallen - Don't Judge This Book By Its Cover! 11/02/2010

User doesn't recommend the product

Advantages Nice front cover illustration
Disadvantages Poor plot, poor characters - unimaginative

Fallen I felt like I really ‘fell’ for this one and should have known better. I was suffering from Twilight withdrawal and saw this recommended on Amazon. It has a mixture of reviews, including quite a few 5 star reviews, so I thought it would be worth giving a go. Plot The story is about 17 year old Lucinda, who has been sent to Sword and Cross boarding school, which looks after ‘troubled’ teenagers. A friend of Lucinda’s – Trevor – was killed in a fire, whilst in the company of Lucinda and she can’t remember anything that happened. So consequently, her parents sent her to this school ... more
29 of 29 Ciao users found the following review helpful

linzee_loulabelle

Member since 26/11/2004

Reviews written: 951

Fallen - Lauren Kate 29/06/2010

User recommends the product

Advantages Interesting story
Disadvantages Some inconsistancies

Fallen is a fantasy novel that was released at the end of 2009 by Lauren Kate. After a terrible accident, Luce is sent to the Sword and Cross, a corrective school in an attempt to make her better. No one really knows what happened that day including Luce but she does know she wasn't responsible. Since she was younger, Luce has been followed by shadows and she has no idea why or if she is even sane. On her first day at Sword and Cross, she realises that the school is more like a prison than a school and the other students are either extremely strange or have been dangerous before. Arriane takes ... more
16 of 16 Ciao users found the following review helpful

medgenie

Member since 07/05/2008

Reviews written: 163

Fallen 27/02/2010

User recommends the product

Advantages Good supernatural read
Disadvantages Lack intense emotion and developement on characters

I picked up this book from the library as I was intrigued by the cover. The story starts with a prologue of a man who was about to leave the woman he loved. Then we are transferred back to the modern day with Luce/Lucinda who is having her first day at the reform school. This is her court judgment after an accident which killed her boyfriend. Luce has been seeing the shadows since she was young and has to cope with her past. Apart from that, she also has to get to know the other teenagers at the school, with each of them having his/her own history. She gets to know Penn and Arriane and two ... more
12 of 12 Ciao users found the following review helpful

Raimy_Readaraptor

Member since 15/04/2011

Reviews written: 63

Great book but only the beggining.. 05/04/2012

User recommends the product

Advantages great start to the story, interesting characters, will make you want to read the rest of the serie
Disadvantages suffers from first book syndrome - needed more events rather than set-up

I’ve put Fallen off for many many months, I won a giveaway for both Fallen and Torment last year and they have both sat there looking at me longingly ever since. I don’t know why but I was scared that what I would find between the pages would be too cheesy, to insta-love and too, well not me. I was intrigued by the story and knew it was one I wanted to read but I still put it off... now I’ve read it, I’m glad I’ve got Torment there straight away! The story is only just beginning in Fallen and I think this is the one thing that I didn’t really like about the book. This book definitely suffers ... more
3 of 3 Ciao users found the following review helpful

iheartbooks80

Member since 16/07/2010

Reviews written: 57

Fall in love with this... 17/04/2011

User recommends the product

Advantages Beautiful cover, fascinating storyline
Disadvantages A lot of unanswered questions

I fell in love with the cover on Fallen, and I won't rant about that because I know that it's already been ranted about, like, a million times so I won't bore you because I am nice like that. One minor flaw Fallen had was that it started quite slow. I tried not to let it put me off because as I started read (properly), I noticed that the words showed every motion Luce was going through and that was just something quite extraordinary. Plus the unexpected twist at the end made up for the pace. It took my breath away and that was when I knew the book would have potential. Angels are a ... more
3 of 9 Ciao users found the following review helpful

ging.ging93

Member since 16/06/2012

Reviews written: 1

if you love paranormal romance, this is a must to read! 16/06/2012

User recommends the product

Advantages Easy to read
Disadvantages You can't put the book down

If you love all the paranormal stories or trying to fill a big Twilight hole then this book is definately a must. Fallen is the first book of a quadrilogy about a girl who falls in love with an angel, only to realise this has happened more than once but has met a fiery ending each time. However, this time round things have changed and now she must find out their past in order to save their future. The story is gripping, addictive, enticing and leaves you wanting more! At first I did find it difficult to get going as I am used to reading in the first person and this book has been written in the ... more
0 of 4 Ciao users found the following review helpful

jade9533

Fallen, a fast paced book you want to put down 22/06/2010

User recommends the product

Advantages Excellent Characters
Disadvantages Not enough romantic encounters, which you would expect from a romance novel

Fallen by Lauren Kate is an excellent read, a perfect novel to fill the young adult section. The characters in this story are written brilliantly, you can get into the main character Luce’s head and really get a feel for the story, this story kept me guessing the whole way through and I could never guess what was about to happen as I can with so many novels, This book is very easy to read and definitely is targeted at young adults, but saying that I’m 24 and loved it. Fallen is a dark romance novel with a romance that has an outstanding effect on the reader. The super-natural happenings in the ... more
0 of 11 Ciao users found the following review helpful

KittyHeartz

Fallen by Lauren Kate Review 15/01/2012

User recommends the product

Advantages Its easy to get lost in, you'll want to read the next book.
Disadvantages Another supernatural romance book, last book not out yet.

Fallen written by Lauren Kate is one of those books you could just get lost in! I'm not going to spoil it for anyone so I wont write in too much detail. Basically it's a book about this girl named Luce, a girl who see's black masses which she calls ' Shadows'. Luce gets sent to a boarding school named ' sword and cross', she thinks she'll hate it and make no friends ( as you would). She falls for two guys, one named Cam , who seems to be the friendly one of the two and Daniel who is more mysterious, aloof and seems to be uninterested in her, Cam and Daniel both have a secret, will Luce find ... more