2009 Delacorte Press
452 pgs.
YA Fantasy
Finished 9/25/2014
Goodreads rating: 3.75
My rating: 1 - Yuck
Purchased at the TPPL Friends book sale
Set in a reform school (?) in Savannah, GA
1st sentence/s: from prologue: Around midnight, her eyes at last took shape. The look in them was feline, half determined and half tentative -- all trouble.
from 1st chapter: Luce barged into the fluorescent-lit lobby of the Sword & Cross School ten minutes later than she should have.. A barrel-chested attendant with ruddy cheeks and a clipboard clamped under an iron bicep was already giving orders -- which meant Luce was already behind.
from 1st chapter: Luce barged into the fluorescent-lit lobby of the Sword & Cross School ten minutes later than she should have.. A barrel-chested attendant with ruddy cheeks and a clipboard clamped under an iron bicep was already giving orders -- which meant Luce was already behind.
My comments: There are so many smart, savvy, thoughtful, meaty YA dystopian/ other-wordly novels out there, and this isn't one of them. It's tedious, repetetive, and ridiculous. I wish I hadn't wasted my time.
Goodreads book summary:
17-year-old Lucinda falls in love with a gorgeous, intelligent boy, Daniel, at her new school, the grim, foreboding Sword & Cross . . . only to find out that Daniel is a fallen angel, and that they have spent lifetimes finding and losing one another as good & evil forces plot to keep them apart. Get ready to fall . .
17-year-old Lucinda falls in love with a gorgeous, intelligent boy, Daniel, at her new school, the grim, foreboding Sword & Cross . . . only to find out that Daniel is a fallen angel, and that they have spent lifetimes finding and losing one another as good & evil forces plot to keep them apart. Get ready to fall . .
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