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Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN num: 9780515144628
ISBN number: 0515144622
Label: Jove
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Page Count: 320
Printing Date: April 29, 2008
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“One of of [romance’s] brightest stars”( ROMANCE REVIEWS TODAY) shows off her dark side.
Forever cursed.
Forever FALLEN.
New Orleans, 1840s. Sent to watch over the decadent city, the angel Gabriel loses himself in the liquid pleasure of absinthe. So when his mistress, Anne, is murdered—and all evidence points to him—a foggy Gabriel cannot be sure he didn’t do it. His penance: to be forever denied love. Then in modern-day New Orleans he meets forensic scientist Sara Michaels...
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I was highly disappointed with the previous novel in this series, but after reading a few high reviews of this one I decided to pick it up from the library "just in case" there was some improvement on the second novel. I found it even worse than the first. I couldn't even finish this one I was so bored out of my mind.
I found the plot childishly easy to figure out. After reading only half of the story I already knew what was going to happen and after scanning the novel, discovered I was right and the pages in-between were only filler with no action to speak of. Needless to say I won't be reading any more from this author.
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I am new to Erin McCarthy she is a delight to read. I can not wait for her 3rd book for this series.
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This book was fairly well written, and the twists were unexpected and convincing. The plot of the story was good. Breaking up the story with news articles and interviews from the murders were a interesting literary device that I appreciated. I was compelled up until about half-way through the book, despite how slowly the story was moving.
By the end, it just dragged on and on. The sexual tension between Gabriel and Sara ended anti-climatically, with pages and pages of flowery nuances about their love, adoration, acceptance, devotion, etc etc etc, to the point where I was skipping paragraphs just to get to the subsequent scene.
The intensity of their love is not particularly believable, in the magnitude that the author speaks of it, which was frustrating to have to read over and over. The heady desire that is expected sort of dwindles as even during sexual scenes, they are expressing their love for each other constantly, over and over.
The characters themselves were interesting, especially Sara, who was fleshed out very well. Gabriel was never really fully formed. We get who he was, but don't feel much for him, and his physical characteristics were never described very well, so we're forced to pretend to know what we're seeing. The apartment they spend hours upon hours in was never set up very well either, while the Dauphine street house was explained very clearly.
I still think this book is worth reading, but if you're looking for excitement and sensual scenes, this isn't the book for you.
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I am a fan of Erin McCarthy's work but I felt this book was way too long. I was shocked how slow the pace was in this book compared to her others. I wish she would have explained why Gabriel was banished from Heaven (then again I could have missed it because I started skipping parts and quickly scanning others). I did like the tention/relationship between the main charaters.
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FALLEN, the second book in Erin McCarthy's Seven Deadly Sins series, shouldn't be mistaken as a continuation of the introductory book, MY IMMORTAL. This book stands alone and is written around an entirely different sin (gluttony), in the form of addiction. Angel Gabriel St. John is a watcher, whose purpose on Earth is to protect humans in the dark, sinful city of New Orleans. When despair and pain become too much to bear, he turns to the mind-numbing pleasures of absinthe and opium. One morning after an evening of excesses of the mind and body, Gabriel awakes to find his mistress, Anne Donovan, murdered in her bed. Gabriel has no recollection of the night and soon finds himself transformed into a fallen one, doomed to the immortal life of a demon.
The book moves forward in time to present day, with Gabriel sober and working on a book about Anne Donovan. He's determined to find out what happened to her. He joins forces with Sara Michaels, whose mother Jessie was killed in an identical manner to Anne. After her mother's violent murder, Sara turned to pain medication to mask her grief, so she too is familiar with addiction. Sara finds herself strongly attracted to Gabriel and he's equally attracted, but refuses to act on the undeniable passion between them, leaving Sara to feel the ache of rejection. Gabriel has his own reasons for denying them both pleasure; he knows that Sara will endure a lifetime of deep despair should they give in to their desires.
When it becomes apparent that someone intends to harm Sara, Gabriel realizes that he will do anything to keep her safe, even at the risk of losing his only chance at redemption. What Gabriel doesn't know is that Sara is keeping a secret of her own.
As one would expect of any book from Erin McCarthy's vivid imagination, FALLEN has an abundance of dark intrigue and intense sensuality. The dialogue between Gabriel and Sara draws readers into each and every scene and her descriptions allow the mind's eye to see every detail with clarity. Flashes from past to present together with old newspaper articles serve to give the story depth and set the foundation for Gabriel and Sara's passionate story.
I highly recommend this book to readers who enjoy a deeply emotional romance. Be sure to keep an eye out for the subsequent book in this series, THE TAKING, with the sin of choice being greed - guaranteed to be another winner!
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