3½ out of 5 thumbs up.
Lucinda Price is a seventeen-year-old girl who is sent to a school for troubled teens called Sword & Cross. I’m not sure why she was sent there for sure, but I think it may have to do with some fire that she couldn’t explain that killed a classmate. While at this school, she is drawn to a boy named Daniel, who avoids her at first, but then they fall in love.
Luce finds out that Daniel is a fallen angel and that she is the reincarnated version of many of her former selves. She and Daniel have had an “on-again-off-again” relationship for centuries. She learns that in every lifetime, she meets Daniel, falls in love and then dies unexpectedly. Seventeen years later, the whole process starts all over again. Luce begins to discover more about herself and her past lives, and she and the fallen angels she has befriended band together to save all of history.
I thought that this series was alright. There are a few dramatic parts that are a little surprising and the story was good enough for me to want to read all four books to know what happens. There is also a book of short love stories of some of the characters in these books called Fallen in Love that I read which was okay as well. The story drags on at times, and only because the reader is dragged off into Luce’s redundant realizations of her love for Daniel (eye roll). Also, she goes on, and on, AND ON about the beauty of Daniel’s wings (double eye roll) to the point where it starts to get a little irritating. (If you though Bella carrying on over Edward’s sparkly skin in Twilight was bad…) Also, the end of the story seemed a teeny tiny bit anti-climactic. Overall, an okay read.
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