Spoiler Sunday: Rapture

The final installment of the Fallen Saga!

You can find it here on Amazon.

• "The sky is falling-literally-in Lauren Kate's final novel (Delacorte, 2012) in the "Fallen" series. Timequakes, disguised as earthquakes, mark Lucifer's steady decent through the heavens, thereby collapsing the eternities and erasing the past. Luce, Daniel, an eclectic group of fallen angels, seedy Outcasts, and a whimsical transeternal have nine days to stop him by acquiring three relics scattered across the globe and assembling them at the location of the original Fall. During the course of their journey, Luce begins to recall her past, which provides key information to unlocking the mystery, including an amazing revelation-Lucifer, not Daniel, was her first true love. However, before Lucifer can reset the universe, the Throne brings everything to an abrupt halt. Ultimately, Luce and Daniel choose love, but the price is loss of immortality. This epic romance is a perfect blend of mystery, intrigue, and celestial imagery with a beautiful, bittersweet ending. A must-have for all libraries." -Cheryl Preisendorfer, Twinsburg City Schools, OHα(c) Copyright 2011. 

This final installment wowed and enraged me, which may have painted my overall impression of the series.

On the one hand. you have an incredibly time sensitive adventure, in which all of the characters finally come together and work as a team against the fall of Lucifer and an apocalypse.

Luce and Daniel's love reaches new heights as they journey together, seeking the relics needed to stop Lucifer. 

Luce comes to fully understand the meaning in her past lives,and just how timeless their love truly is.

On top of that, she comes to find she, too, is a Fallen Angel (shocker! NOT), but with the plot twist of a previously abusive romance with Lucifer, which in turn led her to flee into Daniel's controlling arms.

She's a perceptive one, that Luce.

For some reason, this makes her more sure that she must be soulmates with Daniel, leading up to a confrontation with God - literally - in which they choose an immortal life and risk never finding each other, rather than being eternally separated as seraphims. I guess in a way it's romantic, but it just seems irrational to me.

What really aggravated me to no end is that the author spends three and a half books alluding to sexual/romantic tension between Luce and Cam, which no one can blame her for because he's basically Damon from Vampire Diaries, (and what woman wouldn't want a piece of that?!) only to completely neglect all of it and just send him on his way to do angel things, with absolutely NO closure or explanations of their past.

THANKS FOR NOTHING. LAUREN KATE.

All in all the series was a fun, speed-read ride, with very well written visuals of scenery and actions. It definitely is easy to picture everything clearly in my head, and I could see this translating well to movies.

Did any of you nice people read this series?

What did you think?

Was I too harsh, too nice, or just right?

What would you like to see Spoiled?