Aussie Twilight Mum’s Book Club – January
January’s Book of the Month is:
Fallen by Lauren Kate
What if the person you were meant to be with could never be yours? 17-year-old Lucinda falls in love with a gorgeous, intelligent boy, Daniel, at her new school, the grim, foreboding Sword & Cross …only to find out that Daniel is a fallen angel, and that they have spent lifetimes finding and losing one another as good & evil forces plot to keep them apart. Some angels are destined to fall…
If you would like to take part in the Book Club, you need to have the book by the beginning of January and head over to the Book Club thread on the forum!
I have seen Fallen advertised at Big W, Kmart, Target and major bookstores or you can buy it online from The Book Depository. It is a good price and they have free shipping and we are affiliated with them!
As posted on my review site filmandbookreviews.blogspot.com/
A story of everlasting love with a handsome and aloof immortal male lead and a confused somewhat troubled mortal female lead, as well as a highschool setting with little parental input, it does bear some similarity to the Twilight novel and I can definitely see the appeal to the same audience. However instead of vampires, we’re dealing with angels.
The book opens with an emotionally and sexually charged prologue where a young woman, mid 1850s, finds herself inexplicably drawn to a handsome young man. She succumbs to the magnetic pull she feels towards him, desire flames brightly and she disappears.
We then turn to the modern day. Luce, a troubled teen who has seen ‘shadows’ most of her life, is sent to a reform school, the Sword and Cross, after the mysterious and somewhat suspicious death of a boy she liked at her previous, ivy league school. Her new school is filled with a motley assortment of hard-core reform cases and she is quickly ‘claimed’ by a somewhat crazy girl who guides her through her first days.
Within hours of arriving at the school, she sets her eyes on Daniel, a gorgeous boy who almost immediately acts coldly towards her. However, there is a pull towards him she can’t explain and she feels strongly that she knows him from somewhere.
As the story continues, Luce is befriended by a ‘normal’ fellow student who aids her sanity and need to find out more about Daniel, a boy with piercing green eyes attempts to romance her, she is involved in a suspicious death at the school and moments of closeness with Daniel that confuse Luce further while reinforcing the depth of her feelings for him.
Written for the young adult market, this is no great literary work. However it is a good story, rather hard to put down with stomach-twisting emotion that will appeal to girls and women who need a romantic/eternal love fix. (Yes, I’m one of them!)
Really great blog, thanks for taking the time to write it!