We all want a love story that lasts over time, written by Lauren Kate, Fallen is a love story between Lucinda Price and Daniel Grigori. In Fallen, Lucinda Price arrives at a new school: Swords and Cross after an incident at the old one. She meets and falls in love with a boy at school, Daniel Grigori. Another older boy, Cameron Briel, tries to break Lucinda and Daniel’s relationship. After a series of events, Lucinda realizes that Daniel is not who he appears to be: he and Cameron are fallen angels, and Lucinda has fallen in love. with Daniel every time for a thousand years.
After the second book, Torment, Lucinda is taken to a new school, Shoreline, which houses normal humans and Nephilim: humans with angel blood. As Lucinda becomes increasingly frustrated with Daniel’s secrets, and how the whole class knows about her story but she isn’t allowed to tell it. Surrounded by the Nephilim, Lucinda learns a few new tricks and, in a panic, she flees when a group of outcasts, immortals who are neither angels nor demons, arrive to take her by force. In her panic, Lucinda managed to escape by traveling to the past, and in the process she decided to learn about the relationship she had with Daniel in previous incarnations.
Passion, the third book explains to the readers why the previous incarnations of Lucinda did not live past the age of seventeen, what happens after she dies. As Lucinda travels through time, a mysterious stranger appears who offers to help her better understand her past. With the help of the unknown Lucinda, she bears witness to the strength of Daniel’s love for her; while Daniel is desperately trying to reach her, fearing that her accidental meddling in the past will alter her future. In the end, the reader would learn why Lucinda would spontaneously combust, but with the answer comes more questions. The book is heartbreaking, but the hope that love will prevail will have the reader anticipating the final book in the series: Rapture.
Lauren Kate has managed to create an interesting and romantic love story. She reminds the reader that although love makes people do great things, it is worth fighting for. It’s not just a love story between two people, it’s also a story about faith and free will, about doing the right thing. Lauren Kate also emphasizes the importance of friendship when writing about betrayal and how people can overcome differences to work together.