Summary from GoodReads:
How many lives do you need to live before you find someone worth dying for? In the aftermath of what happened at Sword & Cross, Luce has been hidden away by her cursed angelic boyfriend, Daniel, in a new school filled with Nephilim, the offspring of fallen angels and humans. Daniel promises she will be safe here, protected from those who would kill her. At the school Luce discovers what the Shadows that have followed her all her life mean – and how to manipulate them to see into her other lives. Yet the more Luce learns about herself, the more she realizes that the past is her only key to unlocking her future…and that Daniel hasn’t told her everything. What if his version of the past isn’t actually the way things happened…what if Luce was really meant to be with someone else?
My Review:
I am so angry right now! Thoroughly disgusted with what was done with Luce in this book. I’m beginning to think that I’m expecting too much by expecting a three-dimensional character that I actually LIKE and want to sympathize with.
Now that I’ve gotten that little rant out of the way I will say this. I enjoyed Torment infinitely better than I did Crescendo, and I 100% credit that to the supporting characters in the book. Without the cast of characters at Luce’s new school (and I do miss the old, Gothic cemetery), this story would have, basically, been exactly the same type of story I read in Crescendo.
Now, if you are wanting to get some answers, be prepared to join the disappointment train with me. There is SO MUCH BACKSTORY I want to know about, Lauren Kate!! Please, flesh it out, give us the story, talk to us about the outcasts and the fallen and the history you’ve created. Luce is not the only girl in the dark here – we need and want to know what’s happening!
That said – I’ll be picking up Book 3 just to find out if we get some answers. Oh, now I’m all frustrated again. There were so many pages and still.. no answers! Okay, I’m done ranting now. The book is interesting but, if you want my advice, wait to dive in until the story has been completed or you too might end up like me right now.
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(This book was received from Angela at Dark Faerie Tales in connection with an ARC tour)
