The saga that changed my life (Passion, Fallen Saga by Lauren Kate)

Breathless...Breathless is the right word for the feeling that brought me the book Passion (third sequel of  the"Fallen Saga" written by Laure Kate). It literally left me in awe. I know it may sound ridiculous to some of you but it also made me feel more adult, more grown up to be more precise. 

I wanted to write a quite short review of this book cuz I know how much I can write about things I love. I've started  to write down only key-words that my mind just "errupted" after finishing reading this masterpiece and caught myself end up with 2 A4 size paper fully written with no space for anything else... So then, lets get to the good stuff..
Masterpiece.. It truly is a Masterpiece (I HAVE to write it with the capital to emphasize the importance and uniqueness of this book)
Passion..Some of you may think it necessarily need to be connected with love.. Okay, it is.. But Passion is also a kind of torture, a long one, with something big in the end. 

Beginning of my huge affection towards the "Fallen Saga" I came across this book a year ago and the title + the picture on the cover were magnetizing. They instantly drew my attention and instantly I was reading the short synopsis on the back of the book. Then, I'd read the reviews, to get to know more about the book and the general opinion about it. Reading the reviews saying "these books are going to bury vampires six feet under" made me feel confused, more rejecting the book because of my affection towards vampires. I started to read and finished it with so many thoughts and feelings. Total die-hard feeling toward this book. Love. Confusion. Amazement.  I was absolutely convinced that the name this book received from its readers "total blinder", fits to it more than anything..

I read a bunch of reviews and blogs about the sequel novel, Torment, they'd been even more positive so it was more than clear I had to read it.

Another boom. I liked it even more than the first one. Even cried several times.

I had to wait for the third one, the biggest „diamond“ of these three. Lauren Kate showed us something, that other authors can only dream about to achieve in their books. Wide spectrum of knowledge (when it comes to history, culture and traditions of America, Mesoamerica, Europe in general, Italy, Great Britain, Prussia but even the Asian world,such as China, then Jerusalem, Russia). 

There was force, creative imagination, the plot was thickening with every page turned, with every chapter read. Mrs. Kate got the opportunity to jump in whichever history event, battle, ritual she'd chosen and never failed (I have to mention 1st World War in Italy, 2nd World War in Russia, ancient dynasty in Egypt after Pharaoh Meni's death, Britain in the late 19th century, The Sun King epoch in France, and I could go on and on and on)

Author never failed in forgetting what is the plot about, what is the importance and was "brave enough" to open much more stories and connect it and get back to the main one. 

One of the main themes, or, the main pillar of the plot is religion told in a unique way. It's not the same old story we all know, not the one connected with Church but its basis, freed of sacred acts. Even though it's a story of this era, 21st century, 2009, the religion mentioned in the books has its own way to describe itself in a historic way. The present is connected right away with The Fall of the Angels (described in the Holy Bible, Old Testament). I got the feeling Mrs. Kate intented to do this, bring this historical present into her books. Such a intelligent move. I bow down.

I was truly mesmerized when I saw that each character was developing, moving forward, showing its good and bad habits. Especially, I loved the way Cam (one of the so-called demons, fallen angel who decided to consort with "the bad" on the Earth) was shown as a loving brother of Daniel (the main character). I always loved those moments in books when someone purely evil (in fantasy books, of course) showed love which seemed to me even more intriguing than the love coming from someone good. His brother-love towards Daniel made me so happy like I know them personally. Pure innocence of love is sometimes one of the lead motives of the plots.

Daniel Grigori, is the most interesting and fascinating character of the book so far. A fallen angel, who decided that love is more than anything, even more than life in Heaven and eternal life of an angel and was cursed by both Heaven and Hell. His curse was loving a girl and losing her right after she got to know he was an angel. The girl's soul was reincarnated for millenia after her death (instantaneous combustion turning her into ash) into an another girl. So Daniel kept struggling throghout the millenia to find the key to break this curse. Luce, was the love of his life, the soul that was being reincarnated every time she died. This Luce, from 21st century, survived the fact Daniel was an angel because of a tiny loophole in the way she was brought up... She wasn't....... Let's just leave it this way. They keep fighting their fate, against the history they've been sharing together, against the Hell and other sides of Heaven and Hell we haven't even heard about.

The two last chapters about Luce's encounter with Satan is astonishing, totally left me stunned and my mind could NOT stop thinking of how big is the author's imagination, creativity that never steps past the boundaries of boredom or stupidity. Everything makes sense, a perfect sense to be more precise.

The last chapter reveals the strenght and depth of the main quote said by Daniel „Maintain hope“. The only hope is working together, side by side, fallen angels with so-called demons, the Nephilim and mortals, just as Luce.

If you got lost in names and plot, only thing I can say is, „Go and get yourself a copy! You will never regret buying this book".

Lauren Kate is a genius when it comes to Bible and religion. She knows every detail and can write about a single detail using so many words that a reader can easily imagine it.

Lightness of Mrs. Kate's own describing things that doesn't exist, making us, readers, yearn for more. I've never stopped being eager to read more and more and more.

This saga brings a mixture of awe, pleasure and sadness after reading the last sentence of each of them (sadness because of the END of the book)

If I made you hunger for this saga, just as I hunger for the fourth and unfortunately the last sequel of it, called Rapture (coming out in spring 2012) there is nothing more I could tell you than "buy the book". A b-o-o-k, to be more precise, because any of ebooks or printed faux versions could NEVER give you that much as a real book.

Mrs. Kate, I bow down and want to thank you for the one of the most magnificent books I've ever read.

PS: I chose to combine reading the book with listening to an audiobook.

Ms. Justine Eyre if you ever read this, I want you to know, that your talent of narration is an absolute top of everything I have ever experienced since the very first reading a book with an audiobook. THANK YOU for doing the work that fit you SO INCREDIBLY MUCH. If there was a contest called THE BEST NARRATOR of XY year ( I would say, of all times) I would vote for you zillion times. Without a doubt.