Review: Fallen

Fallen by Lauren Kate
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I somehow knew what I was getting into. The truth being told this book is all you have read about: poorly paced, not so well written, and actually what it says could have been about 200 pages shorter because you never know 1) why were they cursed; 2) what are the shadows; 3) who casted the curse; 4) Who are they... So the book looks like a huge attempt of a cliffhanger. However slow the first half it is, the reading somehow gets compesated when we learn about the angels and that they are divided. Also how important is that Luce was rised as agnostic, because the mythology behind this story is never clarified.
Still I gave it 4 stars because the main idea is so tempting that I do want to continue reading. I think that Hush Hush has a more solid composition all in all, and surely Fallen goes along the way of Twilight, but I personally cannot refuse a fallen angels story. It is also true that I had to read about the story in a wikia to truly understand where this was going to.
Do not expect a masterpiece, this is the kind of stories you read when your mind is overload with information and you need to relax. I even skip some paragraphs and could follow the story perfectly. I will be reading the following books because it is going to be a movie and has a huge fanbase, but I agree that this could have been better.

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