OMG!!!! I just finished reading the book, and i cannot wait for summer of 2011!!!!! IT HAD THE WORST POSSIBLE ENDING!!! It was such a huge cliff hanger! I screamed at it when i finshed the book! I even threw it down in frustration...! AHHHH!!! You can probably tell how mad i am at the book right now, i'm so full of adreniline that i can't even type straight... The last few chapters of the book was amazing! I couldn't put it down! It made me ignore some very important people that i was texting just so i can finish the freaking book! OMG IT was amazing! I'll porbably do a chapter by chapter breakdown so that i can know what happened... I'll probably read this again.
I'm doing the chapter by chapter breakdow/ summary because i want to remember what happened. I forgot what happened for Fallen, and that just made the beginning of torment so confusing! I just want to be able to remember, and since this book has 19 chapters, this will be a pretty lengthy post. I'm just scared that i won't remember this SUPER AMAZING BOOK!!! I give 5 out of 5 stars! Read it!!!
Goodreads summary:
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?
Prologue:
Here you see Daniel and Cam tying up a dead person that daniel killed with a stick. Cam is the demon, he is the one tying up the man. THey found a starshot, which could kill angels, but have no effect on the humans. Daniel and Cam drawn up a truce. The truce that lets angels and demons work together to protect the one person that daniel loves, Luce. He killed the man in order to protect Luce. But, when examining the starshot, the found out that the man was actually a middle man, he was delievering the starshots to a OUTCAST, who are the fallen, they are neither on heaven or hell's side. THey are the fallen who have been blinded by god and not accepted by Saten. At the end of the prologue, Daniel convinces Cam to let him take Luce to SHORELINE, a school full od Nephlim (people with both human and angel in their blood) hoping that they would be able to protect her while he was out killing people.
Chapter 1: eighteen days
Starts with Luce being on the plane from Georgia to California. She's leaving Sword & Cross, the place where her best friend Penn died for her, to go to Shoreline, her new beginning. Mr. Cole convinced her parents that she will still be at Sword & Cross. Luce has to convince her parents and her best friend Callie that she's still there. No one human was supposed to know she was leaving. When she got to California, Daniel was waiting for her. He was to take her to Shoreline. He first took her to a trailer park, where she once lived in one of her past lives. Then he took her to a clift and unfurled his wings. Luce loved his wings, He flew her to Shoreline (flying is an amazing experience for luce and makes her love Daniel more). Daniel left her there, no matter how much Luce wanted him to stay.
Chapter 2: Seventeen days
Luce wakes up in a dorm room, She vaugely remembers meeting Fracesca one of the teachers at shoreline. She meets her roomate named Shelby, who wasn't very fond of Luce. Shelby asks Luce to go to breakfast. When luce entered the terrace, she was amazing. Shoreline was nothing like Sword & cross! It was much more beautiful, with a steep cliff bordering one side. Then Shelby tells Luce about the Nephilim. While they were having breakfast, Jasmine and Dawn, who are other Nephilims. They tell her that the love story of her and Daniel have been in the history books. Then they all head off to class. Their class was taught by Francesca, an angel, and Steven, a demon. THey love each other, but they are quite a pair. In class, they played a game. The game where there are boxes with different facts and each student had to get another student to sign their name next to something they could do. Luce figures out that Shelby can glipse past lives, which interest her. Near the end of the game, Luce meets Miles, another Nephilim, although he says that his nephilim blood is really dialuted by human blood. At the end of the chapter, Miles invites Luce to dinner.
Chapter 3: Sixteen days
Luce is having breakfast with Miles. Then they go to class Francesca and Steven show the class an ANOUNCER, which is a shadow that holds past events. They glimps something terrible distrurbing. After that, the teachers let the students off for a break, since glimpsing takes a lot of energy and time. Instead of going to her dorm, Luce heads into the woods. She was planning on summoning an ANOUNCER. She found one and tried to form it into shape, but right as she was about to get it, her phone vibrated, It was Mr. Cole telling Luce to e mail her parents about how it was at sword and cross. She goes back to her dorm, and talks with Shelby. Shelby convinces her to dye her hair blonde so that she can have a change.
Chapter 4: Fifteen Days
Luce went to class and everyone noticed her hair. She was doubtful of her choice. Then class was over and she wanted to go find Francesca's office. She walked down the hall and she heard voices. Francesca, Steven, and Roland were talking about Luce and a truce. The they were getting up to leave and Luce hid. When Roland left, she followed him and inquired about what he was doing there. Roland invites Luce to a party and told her to bring friends. Luce brought Miles and Shelby. When she got to the beach below the cliff she was surprised to see so many people there. There were hundreds of people. Roland got Luce to join in on a game of limbo. After a few round, a hand grabbed Luce. It was daniel's hand. He wasn't supposed to be there, but the party attracted him (supposidly... i think he just wanted to see her). He flew with Luce in his arms. At the end of the flight, Daniel asked about Luce's hair. That sparked a BIG argument and Daniel flew away.
Chapter 5: Fourteen Days
It was a Friday. Class was moving so very slow. When class was over she went back to her dorm to find an envelop from Daniel (not really!). She followed the instructions and snuck off campus. When she got to the area Daniel wasn't there yet, and he was NEVER late to anything. She decided to walk back to town. She saw some fishermen, and amoung them was CAM! Cam saw her and asked her what she was doing. Luce explained some of it. Cam told her that the note was a trap. Then he looked behind her and there was an OUTCAST! That was the first time that Luce saw an Outcast! Cam killed the outcast. Luce asked who was the girl (since she didn't know about outcasts yet). Cam explained. Cam hotwired a car and took Luce back to her dorm.
Chapter 6: thirteen days
Jasmine and Dawn knocked on Luce's door and made her get ready for the Yacht trip. Luce texted her best friend Callie, and still didn't get an answer. Miles dropped by. Luce then went on the boat. Steven talked with Luce. It sounded like he wanted to warn her about glimpsing into ANOUNCERS. Then something horrible happened! Dawn fell overboard! Luce dived in after her. She found Dawn and Steven was on a life raft. He pulled up Luce and then in order to pull up Dawn, he had to unfurl his wings a little. Dawn said that something was pulling her down. Steven stared at her. Then he told Luce and Dawn to not mention anything about what Dawn said.
Chapter 7: Twelve days
Luce learned that Shelby broke up with her boyfriend (now refered to as SAEB or Sorry assed ex-boyfriend). Then Luce inquired about Shelby's ability to see past lives. She asks Shelby to help her glimps into an anouncer. They both went into the woods and the found an announcer. The announcer showed Luce her parents of a previous life. The lived in an old people's home nearby. Shelby took her SAEB's car and drove Luce to the place. Luce found their apartment and looked in the window. She saw them, and she just decided to leave. She didn't want to cause them more pain in their old age.
Chapter 8: Eleven days
Luce sent an e mail to her parents. She went to Francesca's and Steven's class. THey had a powerpoint going. Luce wasn't paying attention. She went on the class chat and found that Miles was IMing her. Then Francesca clicked off the powerpoint and made everyone get into pairs to practice mock interviews, Luce's partner was Shelby. Instead of working, Luce wanted to summon another ANOUNCER. She saw one, but then she noticed Cam. Cam told her to stay on campus and then he left. Luce got back to the shadow. They got caught by steven right as they were about to glimpse it. Luce was summoned to Steven's office. THey had a "nice" long chat. Steven told Luce about how the anouncer's images contain some truth, but some is distorted. Then Steven helped Luce summon another anouncer. Then Francesca walked in and Luce went back to her dorm. Shelby finally explained how her and SAEB broke up. Then there was a knock at the window. It was Daniel. It seemed like it was awkward between Shelby and Daniel. Luce thought nothing of it and went outside with Daniel. He took her flying again. During this flight, Luce FELL!! but Daniel caught her... like the angel that he is :) Then they got into another argument. Luce went back to her room. ( Bleh maybe chapter my chapter wasn't a very good idea.....) I'll do the rest..... EVENTUALLY!! K now i'm going to continue!
Chapter 9: ten days
Luce woke up and went to check her e mail. She finally got a reply from Callie. Callie wasn't mad at her.. yet. Then luce got 2 more e mails from her parents. She was about to reply when Miles asked her to breakfast. She felt normal, happy, and all around wonderful with Miles. Then they went to breakfast. She hasn't seen Shelby yet. On her way to class, she saw SHelby. Luce learned that Shelby and Daniel used to have a 'thing'. At that moment Luce starts doubting Daniel's and her's love. If he has "cheated" once, wouldn't he again? Later, near sunset, Luce went on the beach and thought of what would happen if they got into another fight and broke up. Then Daniel appeared. They they were about to get into another fight when Daniel just decided to take her flying again. When they landed Luce said Daniel lied to her. They had another fight and Luce said she didn't know what she wanted anymore. THen they kissed and Daniel left.
Chapter 10: nine days
Luce was in fencing class. SHe was watching Francesca and Steven fence. Then Francesca and Steven chose three pairs. Roland against Miles, Shelby against Dawn and two other girls. Dawn was an awesome fencer. Roland used his wings to help him win against Miles. Then Luce was up next with Lilith (who hates Luce). Luce was actually pretty good. Then near the end of their fencing battle, the Anouncers started hovering above Luce and she was starting to lose her concentration. Steven was staring at her an mouthed something to her. Then she screened out the noise of the Anouncers and one anouncer voice stood out. It told her what to do in order to win and Luce obeyed. Luce won her fencing match against Lilith.
Chapter 11: eight days
Luce called Callie while she was in the forest. Callie was so excited to talk to Luce. Then Callie suggeseted that she could come over to Luce's house for Thanksgiving. Before Luce could say a thing, Callie said she'll look up plane tickets and hung up. After that, Luce heard a noise. It was an anouncer. Luce ran, but the announcer followed. Then Luce decided to listen to it. The Anouncer showed her Luce from a past life. Daniel was about to dive down a waterfall, when he saw the cloud of shadows. Daniel knew that Luce would die, but he jumped down and kissed her anyway. Luce tried to save her past self by trying to jump into the Anouncer when someone grabber her. It was SHelby and Miles. They told her that Dawn was missing! Luce went back to the lodge and figured out that whoever took Dawn thought that Dawn was Luce. Dawn was taken BY MISTAKE!
Chapter 12: seven days
Luce woke up and thought about Daniel. Would she had a chance at a normal life if Daniel just kept away from her? Miles knocked on the door and told Luce and Shelby that Dawn was found. Steven went to get her. Then Shelby and Miles convinced Luce to glimpse some more shadows. She glimpse into an anouncer that showed her her sister from a past life. The sister was still alive and was working at Las Vegas. Miles and Shelby convinced Luce to travel through the shadow into Las Vegas. They all three traveled through the announcer and went to find Luce's sister. They found her table and sat down. Luce's sister asked for id and when they didn't show her, she told them to go to the circus. Miles gave Luce a 20 dollar bill. When Luce's sister gave it back, their hands touched and Luce went into a memory of her sister's. It was when she died in her past life. Luce's sister freaked out and called security. Then Adriana (another angel) showed up.
Chapter 13: Six days
Adriana took them outside of the casino. Then she took them to a Diner. Inside the IHOP, they ordered and began talking. They talked about the End times (epic battle between angels and demons that will possibly happen in the future). Luce learns that Daniel is the one angel that needs to decide between good and evil. Once he decides that will tip the "scale" and the battle would start. Then an outcast walked up to the table. Adriana took care of it in the kitchen and Luce, Shelby, and Miles went to go watch.Then Adriana killed the OUTCAST. Luce learned that she emmits a light that show people where she is. Adriana took all the teens back to Shoreline. When they got back, Daniel was waiting for Luce. Luce explained that she left because Daniel wasn't telling her anything. She told him about all the things that she's learned about the truce. then they got into an argument and she left him ourside.
Chapter 14: five days
Someone told on Luce and her friends and how they went off campus to Vegas. The three friends sat in Steven's and Francesca's office discussing why it was so complicated for Daniel to choose good or evil. Francesca and Steven walked in to give them their punishment. Shelby and Miles had to do community service for the Harvest Fest Food Drive. Luce was on lockdown (grounded). Luce went back to her dorm to see 3 e mails from her parents and 1 from Callie. Luce wrote an e mail to Mr. Cole telling him to tell her family that she can't go. The Shelby walked in with her some stuff for the Food Drive. Then they saw an ANNOUNCER. This one showed Luce the scene from the prologue (daniel killed the man!). She wanted to glimps it again, so she went out to the ledge. The shadow came back. She glimpsed it, tried to claw at the Announcer, it broke. She figured Daniel and Cam aren't enemies- they're partners!
Chapter 15: four days
Luce was at Harvest Fest. Luce met Mile's grandmother. She wanted to know where Miles was. Luce went to get him. She found miles and had a conversation with him (i believe he was going to tell her that he liked her!!!) Francesca interupted. Miles went to find his grandmother while Francesca escorted Luce back to her dorm. An hour later, Miles knocked on the window. He brought Luce flowers. Luce went out onto the ledge with him. Miles confessed that he liked her. Luce looked up at Miles and they KISSED!!!!!!!!! Miles left after and Luce sat there. She looked out one last time and she saw DANIEL!!!! He was watching her, and he saw her kiss miles! and then Luce called out to him. BUT HE LEFT!!!!!!! STUPID LUCE!! SHE HAD AN ANGEL! THAT LOVED HER!!! AND SHE KISSED ANOTHER GUY!!!!!
Chapter 16: three days
It was the last day of classes. Shelby caught up to Luce and they were having a conversation. They talked about Daniel and why he chose Luce and stuff like that (you know, the regular stuff that girls talk about ;) ) THen the students were heading to class. Luce saw Steven staring at her (creepy teacher alert!! At least he's hot!) When class was over, Luce watched everyone else leave. She then got a text from Mr. Cole saying everything was taken care of. Then she went back to her dorm. The Miles knocked on her door. He had board games and movies. They played the board games first. Then they watched the move. They both had to SIT ON LUCE'S BED in order to both see. (she's really leading people on here! because there is NO WAY that she can leave Daniel! I WON'T ALLOW IT!!)
Chapter 17: two days
Luce woke up. Adrianne was looking through her closet packing Luce's things. Adrianne told Luce that they were going to be able to go back to see her family and Callie for Thanksgiving. Then Roland walked in and Miles came with him. When he heard Luce was leaving, he packed his bags and went with Roland to Luce's room. Then Shelby walked in. Her SAEB was right behind her, but she closed the door on him. When she saw everybody, she started packing too. Then Roland and Adrianne opened an ANNOUNCER and they all walked through. They appeared at SWORD and CROSS. Luce went to visit Penn's grave. Adrianne and Shelby then helped Luce dye her hair back to the way it was. they were talking about why she did it. Adrianne is on Daniel's side, Shelby is on Mile's side.
Chapter 18: Thankgiving
Luce was FINALLY back home.Luce's parents didn't mind the extra guests. Then a car honked. It was CALLIE! and when Luce looked out, CAM AND DANIEL!!!! both got out of the cab with Callie. Luce went to open the door. She was suprised to find Gabbe and Molly standing out there. They went in and then Callie practically tackled Luce. After their hug, she looked at the guys. Luce's parents came out and Luce introduced everybody. Luce's mom could tell that Luce loved Daniel. Then they were all seated for Thanksgiving dinner. After dinner, Luce's parents left for a walk.
LUCE SAW A FLASH OF WING! Daniel came up behind her and told Cam to get hid Bow ready!!!! EVERYONE STARTED PANICING (you know when people ask what's going on, what's going on? well that was happening!) Everybody (all the angels and demons) were being gathered. Luce herd a scream. She thought it was CALLIE! so she ran to the back door. There she saw SAEB (who would have thought!!!! not me! NOT IN A MILLION YEARS!!) He was an OUTCAST! Cam told the OUTCAST to take things outside! Then all the angels and demons unfurled their wings (I WANT WINGS!) and walked out. Luce looked out the kitchen window and SAW EVERYTHING! IT WAS AN ARMY OF OUTCASTS!!! Luce ran out the door. The OUTCAST had dirty hole riddled wings. The guys had short cropped hair and the girls had white ponytails. Daniel saw her and told her to get inside! She refused! (who would REFUSE when she had arrows pointed at her?! NOT ME FOR SURE! unless it was alan out there...)
The outcasts pointed their arrows and shot! Molly flew down with rakes and she was twirling them like batons. The STARSHOTS bounced off. Then Phil (SAEB) said that they would not hold back. Cam told everybody to gather the starshots and to get Luce inside. Adrianne and Roland were using their wings to gather up the STARSHOTS. Then Gabbe jumped up on the railing of the deck. She focused on the OUTCASTS and pointed her right wing at the ground under the OUTCASTs. A HUGE crvice opened and at least twenty OUTCASTs fell in! Then another stream of Starshots rained down. One landed by Daniel and he took it and threw it. It killed an OUTCAST. Luce was about to go back inside when she saw outcasts in her house. Daniel told her to find somewhere else to hide. She was going to go to the storage shed.
When they were almost there, Luce herd a whizzing and Callie cried out. The outcast had hit Callie, but since she was a human, the starshot hadd no effect on her. They continued to the shed. Then Miles decides to try and be a hero and takes a Kayak, put it over his head, and rushed out into the battle. Luce tried to go after him. She saw him ramming the Kayak into PHIL (still SAEB). Miles managed to pin Phil to the ground, but then a stranger girl walked out. She said no mercy and was about to shoot. Luce told everyone to STOP. Luce told her not to shoot and she was the one that they wanted.
Chapter 19: The truce is broken <--- i'll finish later :)
The OUTCAST girl lowered her bow. She told Luce that if Luce wanted the boy to live, then she will obey. Then the OUTCAST told Luce that they would never kill her. That she was the key so that they can get back into heaven. Luce asked Daniel to explain the truce. THen the OUTCAST girl said that she could take Luce away if she wanted to. The some people said stuff and then Molly killed the OUTCAST before she could kill Shelby.
Then Phil (SAEB) rose up behing Molly and pointed his bow at Daniel. Luce jumped infront of Daniel. Then she saw Miles staring at her. All of the sudden her voice said that she would go with the outcasts. Miles had projected Luce to Phil's side. (WHICH MEANS HE FREAKING LOVE HER! SINCE HE CAN ONLY PROJECT PEOPLE THAT HE LOVES OR LIKES A LOT!!!) Luce realized what Miles was doing and stepped back into the shed. The mirror Luce said that she would go and took the hand of Phil. The outcasts took off.
Daniel was SOOO heartbroken, he thought that he lost the real Luce (didn't realise the one went was a mirror). Then Cam took a STARSHOT and fired it at Luce. Daniel was just a shell of himself. (He thought he lost Luce, the one love of her life! and that Cam had killed her.) Luce was about to step out of the shed, when she noticed an Anouncer. She touched the Anouncer, and it made a sizzling sound. Daniel heard the sound and saw Luce. Then Luce said "time to go" and opened a shadow door. Roland shouted that it was dangerous. Daniel jogged towards her. Luce said "Guess i'll just have to find out", BY NOW DANIELL WAS RUNNING TOWARDS HER. Luce was about to say I love you to Daniel, but she didn't. She lept into the shadow door.
Epilogue: Pandemonium (notice that it has the word demon in it?)
Everyone was talking. It was mostly about where Luce went, but Daniel was not. He was an island, closed off to everything but his own pain. He thought that he had failed her. Then everyone was arguing because Miles asked why the ANNOUNCER couldn't be put together. Then Daniel told everyone to stop. He said he was going after her. Everyone wanted to help him. Then they heard a dog yipping, it was Luce's parents coming back. Daniel looked at Gabbe and Gabbe told him to go.
He found an ANNOUNCER and he opened a portal (he hasn't traveled back in ages). He walked into the ANNOUNCER. Behind him, everyone was still talking but he didn't care. All he cared about was finding Luce.
Last lines:
Would he find her?
Without a question.
Would he save her?
Always.
This book was absolutly amazing! It made me cry, laugh, everything! I just love stories with Angels in them :)
I CANNOT WAIT FOR PASSION
SUMMER OF @)!! 2011!!!! EVERYONE! BE PREpARED FOR AN EPIC STORY! :)
Read books.... THEY'RE GOOD FOR YOU!
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