Hell on earth.
That’s what it’s like for Luce to be apart from her fallen angel boyfriend, Daniel.
It took them an eternity to find one another, but now he has told her he must go away. Just long enough to hunt down the Outcasts—immortals who want to kill Luce. Daniel hides Luce at Shoreline, a school on the rocky California coast with unusually gifted students: Nephilim, the offspring of fallen angels and humans.
At Shoreline, Luce learns what the Shadows are, and how she can use them as windows to her previous lives. Yet the more Luce learns, the more she suspects that Daniel hasn’t told her everything. He’s hiding something—something dangerous.
What if Daniel’s version of the past isn’t actually true? What if Luce is really meant to be with someone else?
The second novel in the addictive FALLEN series . . . where love never dies.
So Torment...well, I must say in terms of plot, it had me hooked. Luce now goes to a new school and discovers that, with the shadows, she can see into her past lives and realizes Daniel, the love of her life that she meets in every one of her reincarnations, may not be completely telling her the truth and, despite his orders, she rebels.
This is where I start to develop an issue with this novel.
It appears that she is trying to help herself and be able to do things on her own, but the thing is, it feels more like a child rebelling against its father, not a teenager trying to figure out her past and how to protect herself.
I constantly found myself annoyed with Luce and how she never seemed to grow up. I felt this almost childlike vibe from her narrative.
Oh, but she's not the only reason I still refuse to read the third book, Passion. Daniel and, well, the majority of the fallen angels gang are involved too. Instead of telling her what's going on or telling her more about her past, they leave her in the dark, like a child. Daniel seems controlling and, in many ways, annoying. He doesn't let her do her own thing and, for me, I just could not handle that. I could not handle that they helped create and MC, who in the first book, seemed promising, into this child. This girl who makes me think of a teenage girl rebelling against her father.
Now, with me, I am very character-oriented when I read. If I hate the characters, I can't enjoy the book. So, today, I must rate this novel two stars, which is a shame since the series seemed so promising when I read Fallen.
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