Passion (Fallen) [Hardcover]

Lauren Kate (Author)

Book Description

Release date: June 14, 2011 | Series: Fallen (Book 3)

Luce would die for Daniel.

And she has. Over and over again. Throughout time, Luce and Daniel have found each other, only to be painfully torn apart: Luce dead, Daniel left broken and alone. But perhaps it doesn’t need to be that way. . . .

Luce is certain that something—or someone—in a past life can help her in her present one. So she begins the most important journey of this lifetime . . . going back eternities to witness firsthand her romances with Daniel . . . and finally unlock the key to making their love last.

Cam and the legions of angels and Outcasts are desperate to catch Luce, but none are as frantic as Daniel. He chases Luce through their shared pasts, terrified of what might happen if she rewrites history.

Because their romance for the ages could go up in flames . . . forever.

Sweeping across centuries, Passion is the third novel in the unforgettably epic Fallen series.

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"spanning 5,000 years, this endeavours to explain every important moment of Luce and Daniel's relationship" -- Fiona Noble The Bookseller 20110128 --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

About the Author

Lauren Kate is the internationally bestselling author of the FALLEN novels: Fallen, Torment, Passion, Rapture, and Fallen in Love, as well as The Betrayal of Natalie Hargrove. Her books have been translated into more than thirty languages. She lives in Los Angeles. Visit her online at laurenkatebooks.net.

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Product Details

• Age Range: 12 and up
  
• Hardcover: 432 pages
• Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers; First Edition edition (June 14, 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0385739168
• ISBN-13: 978-0385739160
• Product Dimensions: 6.1 x 1.4 x 8.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (286 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #44,793 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Lauren Kate is the internationally number one bestselling author of The Betrayal of Natalie Hargrove, and the Fallen novels: Fallen, Torment, Passion, Fallen in Love, and Rapture. Her work has been translated into over thirty languages. She lives in Los Angeles.

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68 of 74 people found the following review helpful

2.0 out of 5 stars When will it end? Not soon enough... June 20, 2011

By Kris

Format:Hardcover

I loved Fallen. I mean really thought it was great. I wanted more info so I didn't feel so very lost about certain things, but I still really thought it was a great book. It pained me to read the second (Torment). It was not a great follow-up. Despite the epic failure that I thought Torment was, I still had high hopes for Passion. Shame on me. Don't get me wrong, I will read Rapture - if for no other reason than the text on the page facing the last page states: "Rapture - The Final Book int he Fallen Series - Spring 2012" and I can close the book on a series that had so much potential but fell flat fast.

Here, virtually all the characters we got to know in the first two books were non-existant. The promise of a "team Cam vs team Daniel" - shattered. Primarily by the fact that Cam was in all of like 3 chapters and he was peripheral. And expendable. And he didn't really influence the plot or the characters in any way. The only characters that really mattered in this installment were Daniel, Luce (both, in all their incarnations) and the new Bill character. And while this is a petty, nit-pickey, tiny little annoyance - was it really necessary for ever version of Luce to be named some version of Luce? Really? Before we get to the Mayan civilization or Chinese one, we couldn't get a different name? With Bill as the guide, it wasn't really necessary for that to happen. But anyway... onto bigger complaints.

First, the entire plot annoyed me. Luce needed proof that their love was real? This book felt like an unnecessary detour through time just so the author could try writing about time travel. Bill could have gone all "3D" Luce with the first step back and Luce would have felt it right away. But that would have cut out at least half the book. Because Luce gets a hint that "choice" is important, but there really isn't any context to help the reader guess why and the time traveling got old. Fast. And there were still all these rules around the curse, but even after learning what the curse was and where it came from, where'd the rules come from? The little we learn about the characters all happens in the last 30 pages. And there isn't enough meat to the rest of the pages before that to keep a reader really engaged. I constantly felt like "get on with it, where'd the curse come from?" and was relieved when a chapter was over because it meant I was getting closer to the end to figuring out what the end game of this installment was.

The characters were flat. Everything about them came from the first two books and the prose, which was decent in the first book, was just as bad as it was in the last. There are plot holes, unnecessary time traveling, changes to time lines with out any consequences (even though they are all about making sure nothing too drastic changes, but they need to create the loophole in the first place - so, it's like an oxymoron in a way), and the descriptions of the scenery and setting are bloated and felt like a way for the author just to show off some historical research. The time frames really didn't do anything other then play window dressing and after a little while, it got annoying having to read 3 or 4 pages of setting description before really having any clue why those particular lifetimes were chosen.

I am ready for this series to end. All the romance has been sucked out of the series for me, the way Luce's doubt came about in Torment and the way it was "resolved" here didn't do anything to bring that romance back. And, I don't even really want to think about the theology that must be coming in the last book.... This book was really more of a transition from love story in the first two books to what ever battle of good vs evil is coming in the last one (at least that's what it seems to be setting up for). The first books weren't really ever about saving the world, but about Luce and Daniel's love story. Now, all of a sudden we are shifting to the need to save the world. I don't know why it took that (mis)direction, but it spoiled the story. We had to get through the anti-climax of where the curse came from so we can get to the angels battling satan so we can get to the end of the series. We learn nothing about the annoying Announcers. We get introduced to "the Scale" but what a waste of words that was. There was no real action here. No real depth to the plot. No real romance between the characters. No real elegance to the dialogue. That leave no real hope for the last, except for the fact that it will be the last!

41 of 47 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Finally Getting Some Background! June 14, 2011

By A. L. Myers

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After the last book, Torment, I was pretty excited to see more of Luce and Daniel's story and how her past lives played into their current love. Passion does not disappoint. The reader is taken through many of their different romances and you learn along with Luce how much they really do love each other.

It was a nice change of pace to have the chapters alternate between Luce and Daniel and get his perspective on different situations, considering we didn't know very much about him for the first two books. We finally get more of his personality and his feelings for Luce.

One of the things I was a bit disappointed about is that there wasn't much room for any of the supporting characters that I know many of us have come to love: Arianne, Shelby, Steven/Francesca, etc. However, considering that this is Luce's journey through her past lives, there isn't really much room for others beyond her and Daniel and some cameos from the others.

The ending perfectly sets up the final installment, Rapture, and leaves you rather frustrated that we have to wait until NEXT YEAR to get the last book. Passion is definitely a great read and a natural progression of Luce's story and never feels forced or as if the author was just looking to stretch out the series. I'd recommend this book to anyone who enjoyed the first two books!

28 of 33 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars Passion? Meh...not so much June 16, 2011

By ssjenny1

Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase

Passion is the third book in the series (behind Fallen and Torment) that will be four books in all. This book tells the story of Luce going back through her past lives to try to prove if Daniel really loves her (or is just a pawn of the curse) and if there is a way to break the curse altogether.

The problem I think, for me anyway, was that for most of the book Luce is an observer of her past incarnations falling in love with Daniel over and over again. So essentially the reader is an observer watching another observer of a story, and so almost all of the emotion is taken out of it. There is some emotion given off by "our" Luce (usually jealousy or envy) but all of the so-called passion is twice removed from the reader. Some of the settings are interesting, as well as the historical significance of a few of the encounters, but for the most part this book loses all of the great chemistry and romance that is found in the first two books of the series. Others have mentioned that this is a typical filler book in the series, and I unfortunately agree.

***SPOILERS BEYOND THIS POINT***

Perhaps one of the greater injustices of the book is the scene at the race track that pretty much gives away "Bill's" true identity. I think this scene was completely unnecessary and it would have been better if the identity of Bill was discovered at the end instead of with this silly "smoking hoof prints" on the bleacher's give away. As almost all of the interaction in this book is between Luce and Bill, I would have enjoyed it more had I not really known that he was going to come out of the closet (so to speak) as the villain in the end.

The climax of the novel between Luce and Daniel (ie. where she is supposed to kill her soul with the starshot) is the only real emotional scene in the whole book, but it was over so quickly that Kate really didn't capitalize on it. I think that scene could have been built up a bit more so that the reader could finally feel attached to the characters at the end.

This story wasn't terrible, but it certainly wasn't great like the first two books in the series were. I think the concept was good, and it was nice to get the history behind Luce and Daniel's previous lives. Perhaps it would have been better if Luce had gone "3D" in all of her previous lives so that we could have felt her emotions first hand rather than as an observer for most of the book. In any case, I will be reading the last book in the series because of course I want to know how it ends!