Luce accepts Daniel's treatment of her (the fact that she does this causes ME to agree with Daniel's assessment), internalizes it, agonizes over it and still goes back for more. She's a useless, stupid idiot and he's a selfish, moronic asshole. GET A HINT, WOMAN! HE DOESN'T LIKE YOU! Only he does, and why they fall in love or want anything to do with each other is probably the only fucking mystery in this whole book. After that he ignores her, rejects her, accuses her of stalking him, ditches her, suggests that she is annoying, accuses her of being an intruder. Luce's first encounter with Daniel results in him flipping her off. I have never read such a useless, pathetic, tragically stupid female protagonist IN MY LIFE. Lucinda Price - If I ever saw this girl in the street, I would probably punch her in the face.
Here we go, but this is going to be painful and filled with profanities. They have to react to situations within their character or in relation to their personal growth and they have to reflect the plot and the changes in your story.Ĭharacterization. But they have to be interesting, worth reading and fleshed out. This doesn’t mean that your characters have to be likable at all times – or likable at all. The sentences were choppy, they flowed poorly and the word choices were sometimes just plain weird. Perhaps the copy-editor had a hard time focusing on the text while her brain hemorrhaged as well. The writing in this novel is terrible, by the way. It is painful to read badly written literature so just get it right the first time, please. *Kat's attempts to pierce her own eyes a la Jocasta*Ģ.ĝon’t cover up bad writing and plot with a sexy, smoldering character.Ĭhances are they won’t be nearly sexy, or smoldering enough. Other than a vague explanation as to the true function of the shadows - that is it. You never learn more than this by the way. Having your main character come to a conclusion almost four hundred pages after the reader is just an insult. yet 389 pages later, Lauren Kate pulls this out like it's some kind of massive reveal. That Daniel is a fallen angel and the Lucinda Price is his loved one reincarnated. Anyone with half a brain already knows the gist of this story. The title of the book is Fallen, and at page 51 Daniel's last name is revealed to be Grigori. The prologue basically immediately informs the reader that Lucinda Price has been reincarnated and that black shadows follow her around ready to engulf her and take her away. Statistically speaking, you’re probably sitting on a fat, old average like the rest of us. For posterity I'm going to list exactly which ones and why.ġ.ĝon’t assume that your audience isn’t as smart as you. Kind of like a checklist to ensure that their novel is going to be good. I'm sorry, was I supposed to agree with absolutely everything the evil villain said and wait, with baited breath, for her to kill Lucinda Price painfully on my behalf? Even if your death wouldn't accomplish something so long-awaited, glorious, and grand, I'd still relish this moment, killing you." Even if your death wouldn't accomplish something so long-awaited, glorious, and grand, I'd still relish this moment, killing you." I'm sorry, was I supposed to agree with absolutely everything the evil villain said and wait, with baited breath, for her to kill Lucinda Price painfully on "In this lifetime you're nothing more than you appear to be: a stupid, selfish, ignorant, spoiled little girl who thinks the world lives or dies on whether she gets to go out with some good-looking boy at school. "In this lifetime you're nothing more than you appear to be: a stupid, selfish, ignorant, spoiled little girl who thinks the world lives or dies on whether she gets to go out with some good-looking boy at school.
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