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.
My opinion: It has spoilers!
Torment is the second book of Fallen's sequel writen by Lauren Kate.
It is indeed an interesting story, however (in my point of view) this writer still has a long path to blaze through her writing career.
As odd as it sounds, her writing skills remind me of my own.
I'm really disappointed with the general male's personality - they all seem like little puppies trying to protect the main character.
However just like everything in life, this book has its perks.
Before anything else I would like to highlight a few quotes of Torment (This is me trying to translate quotes):
* "You need to trust that the ones that surround you will be faithful to their natures. Even when it may seems like they are betraying who they are."
* "The feeling of lonelyness in a big group of people is the worse kind of lonelyness, but I can't help it."
* "Luce already trusted in the wrong people. A thoughtless occupation at best. At worse, is a good way of being killed."
* "Daniel had adviced Luce to trust her instincts. But her feelings seemed very unreliable."
* "The fact of being connected to him forever, like a puppet to its puppetman."
What really caught my attention was the huge amoung of concepts between angels and demons.
I read this book in my idiom (shamely) so I'm not sure about its right terms in English.
Anyway, we have God and we have Lucifer. Lucifer is a fallen angel that rebelled against God - creating the free will.
Between the fallen angels, there's the ones that are actually angels (white wings) and there's the demons (golden wings).
The shadows are like 'portable videos'. They're appear to be irregular clouds of darkness that record important historic events. Later we get to know that we're able to travel through space and time by them.
Also, we find the Nephilim - half angel and half human creatures. Genious mortals that have been offered special gifts.
Finally we have creatures that were banished from heaven, as well as from hell. They are blind and their wings are painfully degenerating.
The supernatural world is facing an ancient war, that started with a forbidden love between a fallen angel and a mortal. Both of them were curse to endure a love that will never be.
In this book, Luce (the mortal girl) basically finds out more about her other lifes with Daniel (the fallen angel white winged).
All in all, the lesson is: how many lifes does we have to live to find someone that's worth dying for?
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