Rapture by Lauren Kate
Pages: 448
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers
Release Date: June 12, 2012
Rating: 2/5
Warning! Rambing and Possible Minor Spoilers That Don't Really Matter!
So, we have the conclusion of Lauren Kate's Fallen series.
I have to say: as much as I trash this series, it does hold a place in my heart. It's like that annoying sibling you love, but want to punch so damn bad.
I stared out LOVING this series so much, I shoved it onto my friends (sorry guys). They didn't like it as much as I did, and all I had to say was "Whaaaat?"
The second book, I still liked, but not as much as I remember loving the first. It took me a couple tries to get into.
Third is where I started to see why so many people hated this series. It was between Torment and Passion where I started to get into the mythology of angels and demons, and saw the terrible flaw in Kate's mythology.
I have to say, though, Rapture was a teeny bit better than Passion!
Okay, so now that Luce and Daniel are back in the present, they have to stop Lucifer from once again falling from Heaven and sending time back to before the fall. In order to do this, the team must split up into three groups to find the three ancient relics. In doing so, they will find the site of the Fall and will be able to stop Lucifer.
Short summary, but that is the main point of the final novel. Pretty interesting, no?
Well, unfortunately that brings our main problem. Remember those three groups? Well, it turns out that Daniel and Luce are in a group of their own (shocker). You know what that means~!
Boring, sappy romantic time!!! Woo!
Oh, wait, that's bad.
Luce and Daniel make the most insipid couple ever! They are so boring together, I felt myself wanting to just outright skip most of the scenes (I didn't, though).
They are alone together for about a third of the book. Ugh.
My second complaint: Cameron. Cam is not a bad character, not at all. Cam is the best piece of work Kate has come up with. It's the LACK of him I have a problem with! He wasn't really even there until the last third, and even then, he rarely spoke.
It's like Kate realized that most of the people reading this series are doing so, so we can see Cam, therefore took him out of most of the series. Makes no sense considering he was a crucial part of the first book.
I'm pretty sure that was my ultimate downfall with the series--when I realized Cam was barely in it.
Now, the mythology still bugged me, a lot, but I will not go into detail on it. I did enough of that in my review of Passion and I don't want to get too repetitive.
What I will say is that her change of the people in the archangels really, really bothered me. *twitch*
It seemed that Kate tried to make Luce "tough" in this novel...It didn't work.
There was one scene where Cam was in trouble. They made it seem like she was the one to save him, when all she did was, well...get up and nearly got hit with a starshot. It was Roland and Cam who really solved all this.
Yes, Cam saved HIMSELF before Luce could do anything.
"You're so brave."~The single most stupid thing I have EVER heard Cam say...
And one other thing...when did Cam and Luce become BFFs? She HATED him through the first three books, and all of a sudden she couldn't stand to lose him?
Girl has issues.
The "big reveal" was also pretty dumb. I won't spoil it for you (surprising, right), but I will say that it made me scratch my head and roll my eyes.
Oh, and God is female in this book. Right. So THAT'S why us women bleed through our woman areas ever month and go through painful childbirth. Because God is a WOMAN!
Spiteful, I tell you.
The ending was sweet, though. Like, the very ending. By the ending, I mean the last two chapters and the epilogue.
Just one question...WHERE'S CAM?!
Honestly, the way the ending was left, I could see a spin-off for Cam. I hope that happens.
Then again, he may end up like...*shudder*...Daniel.
I have to say: as much as I trash this series, it does hold a place in my heart. It's like that annoying sibling you love, but want to punch so damn bad.
I stared out LOVING this series so much, I shoved it onto my friends (sorry guys). They didn't like it as much as I did, and all I had to say was "Whaaaat?"
The second book, I still liked, but not as much as I remember loving the first. It took me a couple tries to get into.
Third is where I started to see why so many people hated this series. It was between Torment and Passion where I started to get into the mythology of angels and demons, and saw the terrible flaw in Kate's mythology.
I have to say, though, Rapture was a teeny bit better than Passion!
Okay, so now that Luce and Daniel are back in the present, they have to stop Lucifer from once again falling from Heaven and sending time back to before the fall. In order to do this, the team must split up into three groups to find the three ancient relics. In doing so, they will find the site of the Fall and will be able to stop Lucifer.
Short summary, but that is the main point of the final novel. Pretty interesting, no?
Well, unfortunately that brings our main problem. Remember those three groups? Well, it turns out that Daniel and Luce are in a group of their own (shocker). You know what that means~!
Boring, sappy romantic time!!! Woo!
Oh, wait, that's bad.
Luce and Daniel make the most insipid couple ever! They are so boring together, I felt myself wanting to just outright skip most of the scenes (I didn't, though).
They are alone together for about a third of the book. Ugh.
My second complaint: Cameron. Cam is not a bad character, not at all. Cam is the best piece of work Kate has come up with. It's the LACK of him I have a problem with! He wasn't really even there until the last third, and even then, he rarely spoke.
It's like Kate realized that most of the people reading this series are doing so, so we can see Cam, therefore took him out of most of the series. Makes no sense considering he was a crucial part of the first book.
I'm pretty sure that was my ultimate downfall with the series--when I realized Cam was barely in it.
Now, the mythology still bugged me, a lot, but I will not go into detail on it. I did enough of that in my review of Passion and I don't want to get too repetitive.
What I will say is that her change of the people in the archangels really, really bothered me. *twitch*
It seemed that Kate tried to make Luce "tough" in this novel...It didn't work.
There was one scene where Cam was in trouble. They made it seem like she was the one to save him, when all she did was, well...get up and nearly got hit with a starshot. It was Roland and Cam who really solved all this.
Yes, Cam saved HIMSELF before Luce could do anything.
"You're so brave."~The single most stupid thing I have EVER heard Cam say...
And one other thing...when did Cam and Luce become BFFs? She HATED him through the first three books, and all of a sudden she couldn't stand to lose him?
Girl has issues.
The "big reveal" was also pretty dumb. I won't spoil it for you (surprising, right), but I will say that it made me scratch my head and roll my eyes.
Oh, and God is female in this book. Right. So THAT'S why us women bleed through our woman areas ever month and go through painful childbirth. Because God is a WOMAN!
Spiteful, I tell you.
The ending was sweet, though. Like, the very ending. By the ending, I mean the last two chapters and the epilogue.
Just one question...WHERE'S CAM?!
Honestly, the way the ending was left, I could see a spin-off for Cam. I hope that happens.
Then again, he may end up like...*shudder*...Daniel.
Rapture. Such an appropriate title. This book absolutely stole my breath away and made me cry while my throat was clenched tight. In other words--I was raptured, reading the fourth and final installment in the Fallen series.
ReplyDeleteLuce has just come back from the past bearing bad news. Lucifer is planning to wipe away millions of years of history. To bring them back to the one event that started it all--the Fall. But if that happened, Luce and Daniel wouldn't fall in love over centuries. Everything would come apart. So they, along with their angelic (and demonic) friends are on a race against time to find the three relics that will lead them to the site of the Fall where everything and anything is revealed. Including the secret revelation that sparked Lucifer's rebellion in the first place.