I liked this enough just as with the previous books the pace is very slow, by this point I had really hoped it picked up some but unfortunately no. I love the overall story, this curse that Lucinda and Danielle must end, call me a hopeless romantic or tortured soul and I enjoyed it. I was able to take my time reading and soak up the story and their journey. I will say this it definitely is a hard read because of the slow pace but it is a fairly great love story. The series could probably have been condensed into 3 books but hey I'm not a writer or publisher so who knows the reasoning behind the extended books.

✔️ Slow pace
✔️ Romantic Journey
✔️ Fallen Angel saga
✔️ Character Driven

I recommend if you are a patient reader, you just enjoy a story unfolding without dissecting every little thing that could have been better. ( )

**BEWARE OF SPOILERS!!!** (In the 2nd half of this review):
The ending of this book is just a mixed bag of emotions for me. I liked it, but I didn't like it and I still have some unanswered questions. For me a lot of this book was just ok, but things get really interesting towards the end of the book because that's when everything is being revealed and all the questions you've been wondering about since the first book finally get answered. There's also some major plot twists that I didn't expect and some that I did. Overall, I liked this book. Kind of hoped for a better ending but it was ok, but my favorite will always be the first one, Fallen. Now on to the spoilers!

**SPOILERS** (You have been warned):
So the ending...man what an ending. First off, I didn't expect Luce to turn out to be an angel, that was a surprise twist for me. Though once I found out she was an angel and I found out she loved someone else before Daniel, I immediately thought it was Lucifer and I was right. Lucifer using his and Luce's love to overpower the throne was an interesting part of his story. Couple of things that bugged me about the ending: Luce and Daniel chose each other the first time when they did roll call and then as punishment had to endure this curse for thousands of years only to make the same choice the second time around and now they can be mortals and be together (if they find each other)? Why couldn't they skip the whole curse and just been made into mortals the first time around? It's obvious their choice wasn't going to change so why even bother with the curse? Also, if the throne is supposed to be God (which by the way she's depicted in the end makes it sound like she's more of a fairy than God, what's up with the wand? Why does God have a wand? It's God not a fairy, anyway enough of my rant) then she should have known from the beginning that Luce and Daniel's choice wasn't going to change, God is supposed to know the end from the beginning. Also why couldn't Luce and Daniel chose the side of Heaven but still be together? Are couples not allowed in Heaven? Also God is supposed to be love, why would she curse them like that in the first place? I guess my main issue with this is trying to wrap my mind around the type of "God" portrayed in this book. Also the ending left me with some unanswered questions. What happened to Cam? Where did he go? Is he in hell with Lucifer? What about Luce's parent's from this life and her friend Cali? Are their memories of Luce just erased? What will happen this time when Luce and Daniel die as mortals? Will they go back to Heaven, if so will they see their angel friends and recognize them?
Why did Luce and Daniel even have to lose all their memories and be reborn again? Couldn't they have just been made into mortals and sent to Earth but still keep their memories of their friends? So many questions, so many mixed feelings. I wish there were a better ending but as far as series endings go it was ok, at least it didn't turn out like Allegiant.
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Nessuna sorpresa da quest'ultimo capitolo della saga Fallen. Non essendomi piaciuti per niente i primi tre, il quarto non si è smentito. Quello che non mi è piaciuto è il modo in cui l'autrice ha sviluppato i protagonisti, Luce e Daniel, e la loro storia. Chi sono Luce e Daniel? Sinceramente non saprei dirlo.

Daniel è tutto un "io credo in te", "ti amo", "ti sceglierò sempre". Luce è tutta un "sei il mio angelo", *senza parole: il mio angelo è troppo bello*, "ti amo". Ma al di là dei baci idilliaci (minimo un paio da paragrafi per un casto bacetto... meno male non si va oltre, non oso immaginare quanto spazio avrebbe occupato la prima notte d'ammore) non sappiamo niente di questi due - o comunque niente di rilevante. Non hanno vita, sogni, speranze al di là della loro storia d'amore. E questo non mi piace. Rende i personaggi piatti, senza vita, stereotipati protagonisti di un amore impossibile che sappiamo troverà il modo di essere possibile. Se il finale è noto, dateci almeno una via che meriti di essere percorsa.

In Rapture, Daniel non fa praticamente niente. Luce prova a ricordarsi di quello che deve fare (tipo me che vado al frigorifero e non ricordo cosa dovevo prendere) ed è frustrata quando non ci riesce (ragazzi, ma quanto è brutto stare davanti al frigo aperto senza ricordarsi il perché?). Ogni tanto si ricorda qualcosa (sempre e rigorosamente al momento giusto) e agisce di conseguenza - e dietro di lei tutti gli angeli. Quando non si ricorda (o non è tenuta a farlo), tranquilli! Ci sono gli altri che le dicono cosa fare.

Il momento più assurdo di questo processo è stato raggiunto con la faccenda di Dee. Da quando è comparsa si è capito quale sarebbe stato il suo scopo. E a chi tocca ucciderla per scoprire dove sono caduti gli angeli? A Luce. Ecco. Ora. Non esiste che una ragazza così pura e innocente accoltelli una sua amica a sangue freddo. Neanche per il Bene Superiore (o per il suo Amore, se è per questo). Se è proprio necessario (e nel romanzo pare che lo sia per qualche imperscrutabile motivo), ci si aspetta un forte dilemma interiore. Bene. Il tormento di Luce dura 3 pagine e mezzo (e nel frattempo ci sono dialoghi tra gli altri personaggi). Wow.

Tutti i personaggi secondari sono piuttosto sbiaditi. Alcuni sono poco incisivi (Arriane), altri spariscono (Cam, il personaggio dal quale, tutto sommato, mi aspettavo di più).

Naturalmente, come nei precedenti episodi, i piccioncini hanno numerosi nemici. La Bilancia. Oddio, mi vien da ridere solo a ripensarci. Sembrano un branco di vecchietti fuggiti dall'ospizio. Poi abbiamo gli Anziani. La terribile Sophia. Liquidata in meno di un capitolo, nonostante sembrasse essere uno degli ostacoli maggiori alla felicità della coppietta. Mah. E, dulcis in fundo, Lucifero. Oh, mamma mia, Lucifero! Appeal zero. E questo dovrebbe essere il Grande Tentatore? Per favore... Eva gli avrebbe riso in faccia... ( )

So this book is mostly location descriptions and (finally) the angel lore. It's book four and it's the final book technically.

So it's very late in the game to be establishing all of this lore building it up. This should have been done within the first two books, but they were too busy being weird for three books. Instead, we get book four as we start to build our lore and explain the world and the world building comes in.
I wish I had a gif for exactly how my face looks right now because it is so displeased.

Fundamentally you need to establish the rules of the world within the first three books, it's preferable if you have them stated or even taught within the first two. But to drop, in the final book, this. Who encouraged this?

We now have a fetch quest laden with lore. Sometimes when I'm reading I wonder why I do it, because there are so many books out there that disappoint me. I'm a very simple person I like xeno-fiction and I like paranormal stuff, I like angels and demons and all that stuff, but these books just cannot deliver. I'm not asking for a lot, I'm easily amused by simple titles like Stellaluna and Silverwing. And this author can't deliver with a four-part series anything besides one book that might be good? My bar is on the ground, and these books are in the basement.

I think this is all a quest for Troy but my brain began to turn off. "She was an angel called Lucinda" interesting how and her latest life her parents named her close to the first life's name. Odd coincidence.

I realize that this plot is technically been done better in the anime: the Seven Deadly Sins, yes Meliodas is a creep towards Elizabeth when she's a teenager, but they are forever faded to be together and it is done less creepy then Daniel and Lucinda. I don't know what that says because the anime and manga are both pretty creepy.

God gets so annoyed by these guys fighting at the end, that he yells enough at them and walks in as a woman, and takes them all to heaven to basically scold them. I don't know that felt really shitpost.

The ending is that they both choose to be reborn as humans who don't know each other, and see if they find each other despite having the connection that they have removed. So we end with seventeen years in the future the meeting and talking to each other while the Angels watch in the background.

So, what about satan?

Like this whole thing was Satan fighting and planning to like kill all the angels and stuff, and then at the end God just stepped in. Is Satan in heaven now? What's going on?

Apparently hell still exists even though God had this huge plan and stuff? So that didn't get resolved at all by this? I don't understand how God got involved, took everyone to heaven, and then it's just still going on.

My takeaway is that God stepped in reset everything to do with these two people, stepped out, and everything went back to how it was but these two got together. What the fuck?!

0.5 stars.

Literally nothing changes except these two people get together, there's no great resolve over God versus Satan or any of the rest of the problems. I don't know how this is an ending that is happy for anybody but these two people. No one should like this ending this ending is just self gratitude for Lucinda and Daniel and nobody else.

Especially the people who knew them and now grieve and miss them. I'm actually disgusted by this. ( )

The best of the series! Although I felt this series lagged in places, it was well worth the hours spent in a fascinating world of mystery, adventure, and love. ( )