Review: Rapture (Fallen #4)

Rapture (Fallen #4) by Lauren Kate

Publisher: Doubleday; 2012

464 pages, Paperback

Source: Purchased through Dymocks

Synopsis (from Goodreads):

The sky is dark with wings...

And time is running out for Luce and Daniel.

In order to stop Lucifer from erasing the past, they must find the place where the Fall began. Only Luce can break the curse, and its is her choice alone that will decide all of their fates.

But as Dark Forces gather, great sacrifices will have to be made in this final, epic struggle...

In the fight for Luce and for Love, who will win?

The astonishing conclusion to the FALLEN series. Heaven can't wait any longer.

My Review:

If there is any epic love story, then it could be one from Luce and Daniel. Fallen was one of the first books I read after Twilight and I loved the series some stages the books need work but overall it was good. Funny enough enough I fell in love with Daniel the minute he flipped Luce off when they first met in Fallen at Swords & Cross school. This series broke my heart  , I cried and I swooned so many times I literately lost count. Finally with Rapture we all get the closure we are all looking for. We had a wonderful time together.

Last books are always hard. There are so many loose questions that now finally need to come to an end so that the reader gets closure, so that we can finish this series and feel satisfied. Lauren Kate gave us all this – she went beyond from what I first expected when I picked Fallen up a few years ago. The mythology behind Daniel’s and Luce’s love story was so incredible and epically heartbreaking. During every book throughout the series we learned more and more, new layers and mysteries were revealed and each left us breathless with the enormity of this epic love story.

Rapture indeed gave us so many answers and went even beyond about what I imaged. We finally get to the bottom, to the very beginning of Daniel and Luce’s tale. How they fell in love and the background of their love and also of their curse. Discovering and getting all those answers was thrilling and exciting. I was speechless and astonished by the sheer enormity of this story. Never, did I imagine what was finally revealed. The whole series slowly builds to this final showdown and.. it was well worth the ride and the tears!

This story is all about love. Sure, there is the Angel and the Fall of the Angels mythology but in the end it’s a love story. Readers whit a deep affection for epic love stories need to read these books. A Love that spans million of years and countless lifetimes. Lovers that find each other anywhere and anytime is truly the most heartbreaking and heart melting story to tell. In Rapture this love finally is judged and we are on edge the whole time, dreading the final outcome….

In Rapture brings Lauren Kate the epic tale of love to a breathtaking ending. Some twists I suspected, some totally took me by surprise. However, Rapture was a fitting ending to an beautifully woven love story that is beyond everything I read before … I’m glad and sad its over! This was an emotional roller coaster and my heart needed Luce and Daniel story to come to and end, I was ready.

My Rating:

Review: Passion (Fallen #3)

Passion (Fallen #3) by Lauren Kate

Publisher: Doubleday; 2011

420 pages, Hardcover

Source: Purchased through Dymocks

Synopsis (from Goodreads):

"Every single liftime, I'll choose you. Just as you have always chosen me. Forever."

Before Luce and Daniel met at Sword & Cross, before they fought the Immortals, they had already lived many lives. And so Luce, desperate to unlock the curse that condemns theirs love, must revisit her past incarnations in order to understand her fate. Each century, each life, holds a different clue.

But Daniel is chasing her through-out the centuries before she has a chance to rewrite history.

How many deaths can one true love endure? And can Luce and Daniel unlock their past in order to change their future? 

The thrilling sequel to the international bestsellers Fallen and Torment.

My Review:

Luce stepped into the Announcer, leaving her Daniel behind, trying to understand everything, and destroy the curse. From Moscow to Milan, she travelled alone, had no idea of Daniel following her. Daniel was always a step late. In Moscow, Luce found out that all the angels, Cam Gabbe, Arriane, Roland and Molly were also there. They had good knowledge of her fearful fate.

In Helston, England, 1854 she met Bill, a tiny gargoyle inside her announcer. Bill helped her adjust herself with the current situation, with outfits and bits of information. But Bill hid himself when the angels were around. One thing that was confusing. Roland seemed to sense Bill while Arriane did not. Luce continued with her Journey to Tahiti and Prusia. In Pursia, she witnessed Daniel's pain. Daniel ignored the whole world and fell to sleep after Luce's death.

In Lhasa, Tiber, Luce was devastated watching Daniel try to kill himself after Luce's demise. It was the worst experience for Daniel, to watch Luce meet her demise by only talking to him. Daniel's agony made him jump from a cliff, broke all his bones and stayed motionless until Gabbe found him, made him vow to never lose hop, to never destroy himself again.

Luce was in Memphis, Egypt, 3100 BC. She was Layla, who fell in love with Daniel, the army commander, her princess' fiancee. Bill told her to kill her soul with a starshot, to free Daniel from his misery, for their cursed fate. The starshot will kill her immortal soul and will return her into her old self. But Daniel's love has prevented her from doing so. Daniel's love made her believe that one day they would be free from the curse. Bill was furious with that and was changed into something bigger. His true self was Lucifer and he was so furious of Luce's failure.

Daniel came to the Heaven Gate, where the angels were gathering, where the roll call was conducted. That was a very important time when the angels had to choose their side, Heaven or Hell with Lucifer, when Daniel old self had chosen Lucinda. He was punished for that. Lucinda, his love will never meet her adolescence, will die again and again.

Daniel then begged for clemency, saying that some millennium had passed and he now asked for mercy. The Throne granted his plea and Lucifer was so mad with that.

Will Daniel be able to save Luce? What will Lucifer do? What will happen to all the angels?

My Rating:

Fridays Finds #1

Welcome to my first "Friday Finds" post!!!!!

This is a meme hosted by Should Be Reading what ya do is post up books that you discovered through bookstores, friends, goodreads etc whichever way you discovered them. But only post up the books you discovered during that FRIDAY week only. 

Books I discovered this week:

Title: Snow Like Ashes
Author: Sara Raasch

Synopsis (from Goodreads):

 A heartbroken girl. A fierce warrior. A hero in the making.

Sixteen years ago the Kingdom of Winter was conquered and its citizens enslaved, leaving them without magic or monarch. Now, the Winterians' only hope for freedom is the eight survivors who managed to escape, and who have been waiting for the opportunity to steal back Winter's magic and rebuild the kingdom ever since.

Orphaned as an infant during Winter's defeat, Meira has lived her whole life as a refugee, raised by the Winterians general, Sir. Training to be a warrior - and desperately in love with her best friend, and future king, Mather - she would do anything to help her kingdom rise to power again.

so when scouts discover the location of the ancient locket that can restore Winter's magic, Meira decides to go after it herself. Finally, she's scaling towers, fighting enemy soldiers, and serving her kingdom just as she's always dreaded she would. But the mission doesn't go as planned, and Meira soon finds herself thrust into a world of evil magic and dangerous politics - and ultimately comes to realise that her destiny is not, never has been her own.

Title: A Thousand Pieces of You
Author: Claudia Gray

Synopsis (from Goodreads):

Every Day meets Cloud Atlas in this heart-racing, space-and-time-bending, epic new trilogy from New York Times bestselling author Claudia Gray.

Marguerite Caine's physicist parents are known for their radical scientific achievements. Their most astonishing invention: the Firebird, which allows users to jump into parallel universes, some vastly altered from our own. But when Marguerite's father is murdered, the killer - her parent's handsome and enigmatic assistant Paul - escapes into another dimension before the law can touch him.

Marguerite can't let the man who destroyed her family go free, and she races after Paul through different universes, where their lives entangle in increasingly familiar ways. With each encounter she beings to question Paul's guilt - and her own heart. Soon she discovers the truth behind her father's death is more sinister than she ever could have imagined.

A Thousand Pieces of You explores a reality where we witness the countless other lives we might lead in an amazingly intricate multiverse, and ask whether, amid infinite possibilities, one love can endure.

If you've read any of the books above, tell me what you think about them by leaving comments - but don't forget - NO SPOILERS!!!!! please.

Review: Torment (Fallen #2)

Torment (Fallen #2) by Lauren Kate

Publisher: Doubleday; 2010

452 pages, paperback

Source: Purchased through Dymocks

Synopsis (from Goodreads):

Love Never Dies...

It took Lucinda a eternity to find her beloved angel, Daniel. But he waitied for her. Now they are forced apart again, to protect Luce from the Outcasts - immortals who wan her dead. During their separation, Luce learns about her mysterious past lives. But the more she discovers, the more she suspects Daniel is hiding something.

What if Daniel's version of the past isn't true?

Is it really their destiny to be together?

Or is Luce actually meant to be with somebody else?

My Review:

It was good. By the end Luce had all the guys lusting over her *rolls eyes, always happens in books* which makes you wonder what she's got that we ain't . 

Daniel was a more developed character in this one; I like him. I found him very real. 

Luce got o my nerves, and I wanted to slap Arianne/Arianna (can't remember), because she is sooo annoying. She bosses people around and is extremely loud. I know people like this in real life and God do I want to strangle them to get them to shut the hell up and stop bossing people around.

Again, like the first book nothing happens because the author writes pages upon page of narrative that doesn't seem to go anywhere. Nothing really happened in this book - I know my rating seem a little much but its a matter of difference of opinion.

But the description near the beginning of Daniel lifting her up in the sky and then taking off for the good painted a very vivid picture in my mind. Some scenes I could imagine so clearly, it was as if I was actually there. So that's the reason bumped it up a rating.

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Review: Fallen (Fallen #1)

Fallen (Fallen #1) by Lauren Kate

Publisher: Doubleday; 2009

452 pages, paperback
Source: Purchased through Dymocks

Synopsis (from Goodreads):

Seventeen-Year-Old Luce is a new student at Sword & Cross, an unwelcoming boarding/reform school in Savannah, Georgia. Luce's boyfriend died under suspicious circumstances, and now she carries the guilt over his death with her as she navigates the unfriendly halls at Sword & Cross, where every student seems to have an unpleasant - even evil - history. It's only when she sees Daniel that her life looks a little better. But Daniel has a secret which will put their lives in danger.

My Review:

Lucinda Price is a trouble teenager. In her last boarding school there was a fire and the boy she liked died - in very mysterious circumstances. Circumstances for which she was blamed, the shadow of which has hung over her since. Almost as literally as the shadows that follow her wherever she goes, shapes only she can see and hear.

Her past has lead her to Swords & Cross reformatory school where she has to navigate a new place, a new system and friends who aren't what they seem. Right until the moment she finds herself ground zero in a heavenly war and at the heart of tragic love story that has been repeated every 17 years for centuries on end and that it. Im good at spin, but I cant really summarise much more. You know usually to summarise plot there actually has to be some plot there.

I had to check several times to remind myself this book was Urban fantasy. By 80% in I was getting desperate, seriously. A vampire, a witch, a fairy - gods, a weremole for crying out loud, give me something!!! Instead we have Luce seeing shadows and having deja vu over the cute guy. That is the mystical extent of this book to that point. After that everyone goes "woooo angels! We fight!" and the book ends. Im serious.

The plot is largely high school drama, for all the different setting. Standard going to classes, talking to friends, hating this class, liking this one. And yes, there's a Mean Girl (there's always a mean girl). Luce herself annoyed me most of the time - she acts isolated and alone when she has penn who is a virtual servant to her, Arianne who welcomed her the first moment and remained friendly (though Luce made little effort to reciprocate the friendliness), Cam who clearly wants a date - and she has several pseudo-dates with him and like him but it generally feels like she's keeping him in reserve. There's Gabe who Luce hates because she had the temerity to speak to the guy she's interested in - Which brings us to Daniel. Daniel who has never indicated the slightest interest in her, avoids her and generally wants to be left alone. But no, Luce gets penn to dig up his confidential file so she can look into his past, looks for a book in the library because it's written by someone with his surname, stares at him for a mind boggling amount of time - That to me is just straight up creepy and kind of stalkerish.

Even with that rating it still made my favorite series fandom. Read the book give your own opinion (some might hate, some might love, you never know).

My Rating:

Finished during the week

During the week I finished a few books I wrote reviews for them, but they are published in goodreads, I'll link them to back my blog (wow I can finally say my blog, fingers, arms, toes and legs crossed I succeed in blogging).

Im pretty nervous about this whole blogging only because Im new to the community. But everyone has to start somewhere right?

To name a few of the books I finished during the week.

Fallen by Lauren Kate

Torment by Lauren Kate

Passion by Lauren Kate

Rapture by Lauren Kate

Wanted by Kelly Elliott

and last but not least Saved by Kelly Elliott there are a few more books to Kelly Elliott's Wanted series.

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