Fallen books series by Lauren Kate

    
 
'Fallen' 'Torment' 'Passion' 'Fallen in Love' and  'Rapture' by Lauren Kate

A series of books about fallen angels and forbidden love.
Fallen, On her first day at Sword & Cross boarding school, Luce Price feels like she know the mysterious Daniel Grigori. She is pulled towards him, he is the only good thing about Sword & Cross, an unfriendly place were mobile phones are banned and security cameras watch the students every move. Even though he captures her attention from that first moment, he wants nothing to do with her, he is rude and unkind to her. But she can’t let it go, even though she doesn't want to, she is drawn to him - wanting to find out what Daniel is hiding. 
Torment, It took them an eternity to find each other, but now Luce is forced to be apart from her fallen angel boyfriend, Daniel. He must leave to hunt down the Outcasts - immortals who want to kill Luce. Daniel hides Luce at Shoreline, a school on the California coast with unusually gifted students, Nephilim - offsprings of fallen angels and humans. While at the school, Luce learns what the Shadows are - things that have haunted her most of her life. She learns how to use them as doorways to her previous lives. While at Shoreline she starts to suspects that Daniel is hiding things from her, about their past together. What is he hiding? Are they meant to be together? 
Passion, Luce learns that she has died over and over again in the past, every time she and Daniel have found each other, only to be painfully torn apart, leaving Daniel heartbroken and alone. Luce wonders if it doesn't need to be that way. Luce begins the most important journey of this life looking for someone in one of her past life's who can help her in her present one - save her and Daniel. Throughout this journey going back through eternities, she witnesses firsthand her romances with Daniel, finally unlocking the key to make their love last. Daniel and his angle friends chase Luce through their shared pasts, trying to catch her before she rewrites history. 
Fallen in Love, This book tells the story of four love stories over the course of a romantic Valentine's Day in Medieval England. And in a twist of fate, four extraordinary love stories combine  Miles and Shelby find love where they least expect it. Roland learns a painful lesson about finding-and losing love. Arianne pays the price for a love so fierce it burns. Luce also while visiting this past life, spends her only night with Daniel - together.
Rapture, The sky is dark with wings... Time is running out for Luce and Daniel, Lucifer wants to erase their past. The angels must find the place where the angels fell to earth in the beginning, but this isn't as easy as it seems as dark forces are after them. Can they succeed? Together they face a great battle that will end with great sacrifices. Luce knows what must happen, as the curse is only about her, brought on by the love she cast aside, the love for someone else. 

I have mixed feelings about the Fallen series. I do wonder if Lauren Kate was trying to do a Twilight thing - 3 books, a mini in between book and then the ending book. I think she could have cut the amount of books and maybe told the story in two or three. Overall I did enjoy the books but for example the third book did go on a bit, I kind of thought the story could have been told in half the amount of time, I found in some places I went 'sigh', yes I get it!! I did enjoy how Lauren Kate allowed us to understand why some of the characters (the angels) acted the way they did - an insight into the lives in heaven, why they fell and the reasons behind them choosing heaven or Lucifer and their relationships with each other - even though they should have been on opposite sides. The books are full of romance, danger, hope and love.

The ending was not what I thought was going to happen so that was a shock - I was a little disappointed, I won't say anything about the ending so not to ruin it for you. I just wish it had been a little more. But then again did Lauren Kate do that so to shock us readers who thought we knew how it was going to end - was it brilliant because no one expect it at all!

Overall I would recommend the series. If you get bored a little in book three just keep going - it will be worth it in the end!

Just adding if you only wanted to choose either the Fallen series or the Twilight book - I would recommend leave these alone and read Twilight - they are written better and keep you gripped throughout them all.