Rapture by Lauren Kate book review - conclusion to the Fallen Novels

Most every reader of YA fantasy novels knows the connection between Lucinda Price and Daniel Grigori. Fans of the Fallen series have been waiting almost three years to discover the link between these lovers and their curse: what exactly it is, what its limitation are, what transpired to bring it about, and how to break it. They have all been waiting -very patiently, or as patiently as readers can get- to see Luce and Daniel's Happily Ever After.

I'm sure they were all as shocked as I was to discover that Daniel was not Luce's original first love - that she was meant to be with another.

And I'm sure many books hit the wall when readers discovered this fact.

If you've read Rapture, then I am sure that you have read the three preceding novels and I do not have to explain their ideas. So I'm going to get right into it.

Lauren Kate's Fallen Novels were never my favorite books. I was initially drawn to Fallen because of its cover, as I'm sure most of its readers were. I was a little disappointed with its contents, especially the battle scene, but I was curious to see what was in store for Luce and Daniel. So I read Torment. And then Passion. With each book, my appreciation for the series declined more and more. With the conclusion of Rapture, I am now free to admit to placing this series into my "Hate it" list. And I really do hate to put things into my "Hate it" list just as I hate to say anything bad about a book, especially a best seller. But I never did fit in with the rest of the crowd.

The beginning of Rapture was fine, as was the case with all the rest of the series. I even found myself drawn into the story a little bit, wondering what the next item that they needed to find was, where it was, what they were supposed to do with all these items, etc. But then things began to get a little more complicated and technical. Miss Kate did not spare anything in describing details - which I have to appreciate in an author. But it was all just so complicated that I couldn't keep up. But whatever, you know? I just kept reading.

Then things started to get a little sacrilegious.

I am a Christian. Obviously I knew this book was not accurate in any way shape or form, but I put up with it just because it was a book and I was reading it for entertainment, not knowledge. But then there was the whole thing with portraying God as a woman? I'm sorry, but if you're going to write about this kind of stuff, at least get the Creator of the universe's gender right! He is the Father, not Mother. C'mon!

I like the covers of these books. That's about all.

On a happy note, the last two chapters of Rapture were nice. And no, that is not because I was happy that it was over. I'm not that childish.