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Rating Clarification: 0 STARS!!!!!


It's been about a year and a half since I've read Fallshit, aka the Anti-Feminist approach to angels, pediphiloish "bad boys", and annoying heroines, and I'm still pissed about it. I don't even know why I'm writing a review, considering that it forces me to think about this train wreck of a book.

Fallen is a book that still continues to surprise me, and not in a good way. Every time I look back on reading this, I cringe. Is there such a thing as a heroine worse than Bella Swan? Or a "hero" worse than Edward Cullen? The obvious answer should be no, there isn't. But Fallen changes that. It shows that you can in fact, make Twilight look like the best book in the history of the world. You just need a few cliches and a dumber-than-dirt main character and you're set!

Luce is annoying, needy, and just plain stupid. She's a doormat. Daniel flips her off the first time he sees her, and she continues to swoon over him and go, "Oh, I love you! Be with me! I just feel such a connection to you and your middle finger totally turns me on!" She is pretty much the saddest excuse for a character I have ever read. She only "loves" Daniel because he is semi good looking. Her actions have no reasoning behind them, and she pretty much just does things spur the moment. She's not even what you can call stubborn. I like stubborn characters; Luce is just a dumb ass.

Daniel, the supposed hot guy extraordinaire, is pretty much just an asshole who uses being an angel as an excuse for his assholeness. He says he loves and needs Luce, but continues to belittle her throughout the story. He acts like he and Luce are soul mates, but would you really treat someone you love the way he does? He's a jackass through out the entire book, and then at the end, he's magically redeemed and treated as the hero of the book. I kept waiting for Luce to stick up for herself, but no, she continued to allow this stranger to be incredibly rude to her and in fact found it adorable. Ugh!

Cam, the other one involved in the love triangle, is just as bad as Daniel. He's shallow, rude, and a sexist jerk who forces people to do things they don't want to do. You have to give Kate credit where credit is due. She managed to do the impossible. She made all her characters vain, dumb, annoying assholes. Now, with most books, even ones I despise, there is at least one character that I at least kind of like. For Twilight, I did like Alice, Jasper, and Emit. But I honestly don't like anyone in Fallen, except for maybe that teacher who turned out to be the villain.

Are you supposed to agree with the villain of a story when they call the main character out on being a whiny, spoiled bitch? Because I really did agree with the villain in this book. It's as though Kate was trying to make the villain seem like the stereotypical "bad guy", but the villain turned out to be the only one with any sort of depth! She was right when she started putting the ever annoying Luce down:

"You're nothing more than you appear to be: a stupid, selfish, ignorant, spoiled little girl who thinks the world lives or dies on whether she gets to go out with some good-looking boy at school. Even if your death wouldn't accomplish something long-awaited, glorious, and grand, I'd still relish this moment, killing you."

I actually wanted her to just kill Luce.

I still sadly have my copy of this book. In all honesty, I want to give it to a used book store or something, but I don't want to throw this shitty book on someone else's plate. I don't want someone else to waste their time reading the disaster that is Fallen when they could read angel literature that is actually worth their time like Unearthly. I'm actually considering recycling this book to get it off my hands. Or just plain shredding it.

So do yourself a favor and don't waste your time reading this book. It will actually make you feel like your IQ has gone down a few points. You can't even throw it at a wall when your done, because that would require to feel something about this book. All you feel when you're done is drained and annoyed, like you could have done something more worth you time than read this, like cutting out your brains and feeding them to a rabid dog.