Passion (Fallen Book 3) (utgåvan 2011)

Thank you Lauren Kate for making this book 10 times better than the first two. I really can't explain why it is that I even continue to read this series. I'm quite happy that there is only one more and hopefully ALL of the questions are actually answered in the last book because very little (if anything) was answered or explained further in this book.

THANKFULLY this book was SO MUCH MORE interesting than the first two. This one didn't go ON AND ON trying to explain the way Luce felt about Daniel and whether or not their love was something real or comparable to eachother's. This plot was actually quite interesting in the ways through which we traveled backwards through time with the characters and were able to see different versions of Luce and Daniel. One thing that I had a hard time with was the idea that Luce was able to speak the language of anywhere she went where her past lives had lived. She knew the words to stay and how to say them in French, Chinese, whatever language they speak in Tibet, plus languages that don't exist anymore that people aren't able to speak (Mayan... really?). If she was so magically able to speak ANY or ALL of these languages, she should (in my opinion) be able to remember just a little bit more information about ANY of her past lives. Plus, I still don't quite understand the concept of 'cleaving' because they did such a poor job describing the act and all that it entailed and honestly all I could think about whenever the word was brought up was "cleavage".

So with all that said, I give this book a 3. The plot was really interesting and I almost wish there were more different versions of herself that we could have seen and encountered with Luce. Obviously it wouldn't make sense to make the book much longer than it was, but I think I most enjoyed the whole concept that the book had (moving backwards through time to try and understand the love of Luce and Daniel throughout the ages... the when, where, why, what, and how). Sadly a lot of the questions you had at the end of book 2 (dear God book 2 was so awful, so maybe it was actually book 1 that you had tons of questions after)were not answered to much if any satisfaction and in some cases, this book might have opened up a whole NEW batch of questions for you (as it did for me). With that said, the characters were INSANELY shallow and there was little to no character development. Luce might have been able to figure out a little more about the way she felt about Daniel... but duh, she loves him forever and always and there's no way that you couldn't have caught that from the first two books. I think Daniel figured something out about himself throughout his own travels backwards through time, but his thoughts and their significance were extremely difficult to follow so I pretty much gave up on that and tried to focus on the time period and the random interesting tid bits of information the author had. ( )

I'll keep this review short. This is my all time favorite book series!!! I've read these books over a dozen times already, and have yet to tire of them, I think they're amazing and well worth the read! ( )

The best book in the series so far. It was full of action and cleared most of the things like the beginning of the curse. Totally worth to read and I can't wait to read the last installment in the series.
There was a few new characters and I have to say that even though Bill was a very nice guy all the time there was always something suspicious about him and look how that turned out.

Looking forward to finally hearing rest of the story and what happens in the very end.
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This was another book where I wanted to ask the main character what she was thinking numerous times. I kept wanting to tell her to wait and think and probably stop being an anxsty (yeah, I get that she's a teen, but she doesn't have to sit there going "I don't KNOW if Daniel loves me!") It was definitely a pick-up after book two, however. ( )

Tons of time travel! At first, I tried to keep track of where I was going but it became so fast and furious that I was just along for the ride. Luce and Daniel search for each other over the times that they have lived and Luce has died. A little too much traveling for my taste but it is certainly what this book series is about. The lives lived and died. ( )