That's what I'm thinking - why are all these angels going to that high school? Why would they want to go to high school?! At least Twilight had the decency to make up some dumb relocation cycle.
@@EFX5452 I mean twilight's excuse really just made it feel like they were waiting for prey that were younger than them in my eyes. A bunch of adults of a couple thousand years chilling in a high school waiting for food and trying to blend in really doesn't reassure me. It's kind of creepy if you think about it. So all these books that follow I'm just like this is weird this is creepy they're being weird.
@@silverkyre they clarify that multiple other vampires do, and they can't possibly be the only vampire sitting in schools. So other vampires likely do it and use it as a way to get food. Plus the Cullen's did used to eat humans. A dead method still in play.
@@silverkyre The Cullens have casually “slipped” enough that their insistence on going to high school and surrounding themselves with teenagers is very creepy and feels sinister. Jasper can barely hold it together and they just let him sit in a room full of kids? One paper cut and literally everyone in the school is dead because they can’t even leave witnesses
You should def read the second book. It does not get better, but it's so funny. Especially when they're dancing in the sky and this freaking angel **DROPS HER**
Girl, mass respect for you, I couldn't even begin the second book, and I unfortunately bought all the 4 of them at once so now they just sit THERE in the corner. 😭
The funny thing is that I thought I remembered reading this book and just forgot all of this plot only to realize I read the “Hush Hush” series and not this.
I always used to call this series "Budget Hush Hush" 😂 (I used to really like Hush Hush, but really couldn't get into this, probably because of the similarities 🤣)
@@izzisart to my memory, Hush Hush slapped. Not sure if it holds up today bc it’s been so long since I’ve read it, but it’s still gotta be better than this hot mess.
@@pennyraehawkins9788 Reckon I've still got my copy somewhere- half tempted to dig it out and give it a reread now 😆 I remember that series being great
This video was 10x more entertaining than the entire Fallen series, and yes in my misguided youth I did read ALL SIX OF THESE BOOKS. God, I haven't thought about these books since the 2010s what a trip down memory lane!
@@eleanor123218 yeah there were the first three that came out between 2009-2011 and then the last three 2012-2015. If I’m not mistaken the last one is on Cam and kind of a side story.
Conspiracy Theory: Luce is so dense to really drive home how much of a child she is compared to the immortal "love interests". Same for every single fantasy romance with grooming undertones
I'm pretty sure the explanation (the one given in the movie) comes in one of the later books. Luce spends 75% of the series clueless and it was sooo annoying.
I remember reading the first book in high-school and absolutely loving it. Then when the second one came out it really didn't like it at all and never finished the series. I think I just loved the gothic atmosphere and the way the author described the settings. I remember trying to watch the movie a few years ago and being bored out of my mind lol. Still adore the covers of the books though.
I read the first book and hated it. Years later I bought used copies of the second and third book for like $4 a piece with absolutely zero intention of reading them. I just really love the covers 😂
Not me having been SUCH a big fan of this series when I read it. I'm too scared to ever reread it and face my supernatural romance shame. Thank you for this video, so I can revisit this dark part of my past without subjecting myself to the writing again 😔🙏
I'm not gonna lie as a 14 year old I loved these books, I read all of them. I still think the third book was good, because it was about all their different lives which was an interesting look through time.
This video saved my day I love having this memory lounging in my nana’s den eating chocolate, angel food cake and sparkling cider and watching this video
I tried to read this book in high school and couldn't finish it. About a year later my dad asked me about the book as he remembered seeing me read it. I was confused as he's not really a fan of YA fiction, particularly paranormal YA romance. I told him I didn't like it and couldn't finish it and inquired why he was asking. Turns out he had to read it as part of the murder/arson case he was working on (he was lead detective at the Sherriff's office at the time). I believe it was mostly to get a grasp on what kind of mental state the kid who committed the crime was in while he was planning the crime, but a lot of similar imagery and themes in the kid's writing pointed to Fallen having had some influence on how the crime was committed. There were a lot of other reasons why it happened of course, but Fallen did have some influence on it. I am still upset that a book that bad had some influence on a crime of that nature.
Thank G-d. The main in HushHush was selfish & stupid. 99% of the bad things could have been fixed if she wasn’t an ässhøle who made assumptions about EVERYTHING & refused to ask questions.
The only thing I remember about "Hush, Hush" was that the endlessly tiresome main character had iron-deficient anemia like I did and I did not find the descriptions of that accurate or relevant lol
At my age, I can't read another book about men being like five hundred years old falling in love with a teenager without being truly disgusted. I'm 27. If I get to have children, I promise to guide them into nice, well-written teenager love stories and discuss all of the weird stuff.
As a sixteen-year-old girl, yes!!! I'm now cringing and repulsed by how these ancient beings are choosing juveniles, the human brain doesn't become an adult until 25 so if someone is 100+ plus, they ought to be with someone that's 30+.
she's actually an angel too and the same age as him but you don't know that until like book 3 or something, but I get what you mean with how creepy that trope is. twilight and TVD both do it
@@ealuesytain in TVD they at least mostly sort of kind of explain it. Same for Twilight. Their brains are sort of… semi-frozen at their current ages so mentally they don’t even really mature.
@@alpacasaurusrex idk if that’s completely true for tvd as it’s brought up many times that older vamps have more life experience and knowledge n stuff but I suppose the main casts action make you hope that their brains are frozen in time 😂
@@alpacasaurusrex yeah in tvd it never says that. Stefan is supposedly to be 17 but he acts way older and Damon is 23 but he doesn’t even act human a lot of the times much less his age
YES! I’m so excited to see your reaction to “Beautiful Creatures!” For some unexplainable reason, the movie had me in an absolute chokehold during high school. I couldn’t bother to finish reading the series since I found the book to be rather dull, but the movie still holds a place in my heart. I would love to see your fresh perspective on it!! ❤️
Y'all talk about bad YA books, but I am waiting on the day someone talks about the House of Night books. The fact that you can't talk bad about that series without the fans getting so mad, has had me in tears for years.
This era of YA lit was so much... because I hopped onto this thinking it was a Different YA paranormal romance with a love triangle involving fallen angels - but no. That was Hush, Hush. It got so oversaturated *so* quickly, it's genuinely hard to tell these apart.
Don't forget when we got that time in YA when dystopia was all over. God that was just the worst time to read YA. And now we have New Adult and I am already sick of it. Bring back fun YA
omg i read the first book and had to dnf the second years ago back in the day when angel/demon YA love stories were at their pinnacle- i remember the *moment* i put it down and refused to read anymore: the h and H were separated for ~reasons~ but she was admitted into this pretty cool school and was excited to go to class, and i was like yay we love an academic girly!! but no, she said she couldn’t wait to get to class so she could sit, uninterrupted, and daydream about the hero all day and not do anything else🧍 even teenage could smell the weird codependency from a mile off. i never finished the rest because that one line was my final straw.
Just found your channel and loved the video, can’t wait for your I am Number Four episode. Really felt all these movie adaptations were dealt a bad hand because they always stray too far from the source material. The one thing Twilight did right was trust that the fans of the book would ride for it if they got a faithful adaptation and they did. As someone who watched the I am Number Four movie before reading all the books, I felt if some right it could have been a legit phenomenon
Okay, I've had the misfortune of reading the entire series, plus the spin off so I'll tell you what I think. At the beginning I was confused about the angel thing because when I first got this book (Xmas gift) I, idk, assumed it was a vampire book? So it was pretty far into the book before I questioned the vampire not being a thing. This series is wild (not good) they don't mention the baptism until the end cuz Daniel and Luce were supposed to kiss first. Also it's not until later that it's not always kissing that sets her off. It's always the meet, fall in love, and in some lifetimes they kiss and she burst into flames. It's not until book 4 that you find out how their first meeting goes that makes them fall in love. (It's stupid and I hate it.) Daniel is immortal and lives in a linear fashion but Luce is the only one reincarnated so she's the one not knowing him. The movie differs because she DOESN'T know her past lives it's not until book 3 when she starts learning them. Also they don't tell her BECAUSE her starting to know about her past triggers her to her fiery death.
!!!SPOILERS!!! In book 2 she goes to a boarding school with nephilims (half human/half angels) where she learns the shadow things are called announcers who record events and she learns to manipulate them into traveling into the past and sees her previous family (17 years ago self's sister). There's also another love triangle between Luce, Daniel, and nephilim Todd. They're (fallen angels from book 1) hiding Luce from other angels (undecided blind ones) who are also trying to kill her plus whatever group Miss Sophia was in. It ends with Luce not trusting the angels for keeping her in the dark about her past and using an announcer to just into the past. Book 3 is her traveling back in time seeing her past lives with Daniel to "figure out" how to stop her curse. She meets Bill the stone gargoyle to help her go back in time to the beginning. Daniel and gang follow after her to stop her from messing up the timeline. We learn more about the backstory of their "Love". Bill tries to convince Luce to kill her immortal soul so Danny boi doesn't deal with the loss of her dying over and over. She almost goes through with it but her love for him and the hope stops her. Bill then takes her to the beginning where they see the angels fall and he captures them as they fall through time. Bill is revealed to be Lucifer. Danny goes back to the fall and ask for mercy of the original punishment and a loophole is created where if Luce isn't baptized into a religion she can live and decide what she wants to do. Book 4 is the angels race against the clock to find where the angels originally fell so they can stop Lucifer from wiping apparently 5000 years since the fall. They go look for stuff to help them find the map. Luce finds out she's no ordinary human but actually an angel! They find the place (where Troy used to be) try to stop Lucifer and God shows up. God stops Lucifer, ask Lucinda and Daniel who they choose, Heaven or Hell, they chose each other (love). And they're rewarded by being reincarnated as humans where IF they meet can fall in love for the last time. 18 years later in the epilogue they met up in college and they fall in love for the last time as their old friends watch on. (Sidenote: apparently Lucinda and Lucifer were a thing but then Lucifer got power hungry or whatever and set the rebellion into motion, Luce fell out of love with Lucifer as he got more into his plan and one day was in heaven crying about it or something, idk, when Daniel showed up and basically wiped her tears away. They fell in love right then and there. Lucifer was salty that Lucinda left him for Daniel. The end.)
I read the entire series and probably loved it back in the day😂I was clearly not into critical analysis of fiction, not even comparative studies of the Twilight phenomenon! But yes there was an era with a series of Angel fantasy books, with the Blue Bloods by Melissa de la Cruz being the very best!
@@onarosebeam Omg do not remind me of Blue Bloods. I still got beef with the author after book 4. Like she was writing such an amazing series and then it just went way left. Like why 🤦♀️
Also Daisy Head (aka Genya in Shadow and Bone and the name I don’t want to try to spell here) is also in the Netflix adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s Sandman. She’s only in one episode but it’s so funny that she’s in so many adaptations!
When I saw the stills with her in it, I was so excited to get to that episode. She was so good in the Sandman (albeit just one episode) and she's my favorite in S&B.
I have read Fallen and seen the movie and yet watching this video it’s like I was experiencing it for the first time because it was that forgettable LMAO. I like distinctly remember hating the movie because there was like a lot of “edgy” humor like suicide and ED jokes that caught me off guard. I distinctly remember this one scene where Luce refuses to take her meds and I’m blanking on the exact quote but she says some wack ass shit like “I’d rather be crazy than be someone I’m not” which like as someone who has to take meds for bipolar disorder it’s a yikes lmao I really hate the whole “your psychiatrists are lying to you because they’re trying to hold you back and your medications are just suppressing your true self” narrative because it’s super harmful! *also side note I did not remember Cam being that creepy LMFAO you said what you said about Anthony Bridgerton!!!
I’ve read the first book, but that was because I literally judged the book by it’s cover. The paper cover was really smooth and I liked the aesthetic. 🤣
I did not remember watching this movie until I saw this review - and it cracked me up because my exact thought watching the movie was that I felt like I missing a chunk of the story. Your facial expressions literally were mirrors of my own. This had me cracking up; thank you.
I loved these books in like middle-ish school and never realized they were just twilight??? So I’m super pumped for this. I also remember maybe 1% of the plot 😅
Brooo I just recently remember Beautiful Creatures existed, I owned the graphic novel version when I was younger. I've been wanting to rewatch the movie.
Your reincarnation bit reminded me of the book Reincarnation by Suzanne Weyn… it follows a couple from Neanderthals to contemporary times. I remember liking it, but I was also a young teen when I read it- it may be worth revisiting
Love your videos girl 💖 Here is a suggestion for you - *Starcrossed by Josephine Angelini* It's a trilogy and it's sort of reincarnation story about Greek gods. The books are really interesting, too bad they didn't make a movie. I really think you're gonna like them.
So a love triangle with a reckless individual and an angel? Why couldn't it be a Destiel knock off? (Actually I remember a YA fallen angel/vampire series called Blue Bloods)
There was this werewolf romance novel I wanted to recommend, called Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klaus, that got a movie adaptation later on. It felt like a quick read, but I thought it was fun to read once. I’ve never met anyone who’s read it, and I wanted to get your opinion on it if you wanted. Sorry for this huge comment, but I really enjoy your videos and opinions on these books. Have a nice day
I enjoyed the book and I was looking forward to the movie. And then I watched it. They used real wolves and made them get in real fights - they really injured each other. In fact, there wasn't even an 'no animals were harmed in this movie' credit, it read 'all the animals were treated with respect'. There was some real animal abuse in this picture.
I have both read- and actively own- this entire series. I was also a twilight teen before twilight was popular (I was OBSESSED- like stupidly- before eclipse the book came out). I’m so hyped for this🤣
I tried reading Fallen when I was younger. I think I got through the first few chapters before I got very bored of it and never picked it up again. The cover was so pretty, and I thought it would be more exciting than it was. I think the author leaving all of the exciting info dropping for the end really was to its detriment. I also tried to read City of Bones, and really loved it until the "plot twist" at the end between the two main love interests. I threw the book on the ground and never read any more. Even after my friend told me that it wasn't actually true, I was still too mad to read it. I like that the movie left that part out. Beautiful Creatures and Shiver were my shit as a teen. I still enjoy re-reading them. The BC movie was pretty disappointing though. I'm curious what your opinion will be. You got a new subscriber from me. I'm fascinated with this series you'll be doing.
The book cover sends me. It just adds to the depth that the other author is in their emo phase. I feels like she just spent an entire day listening to Evanescence.
I'm a new subscriber. I can't believe UA-cam hasn't recommended you before now, considering the amount of Jane Austen and other Me content you have. Do you even know me at all, UA-cam???? I read Fallen as an adult many years after it came out, and my general feeling was, "Meh, it's fine." I think at that point I'd read enough of this sort of YA that I could turn off my brain and just go with it. The movie was So Bad. It took a mediocre book and threw in bad acting and Hit You Over the Head plot progression. I think my favorite quote from this video sums it up nicely - "But why???"
I read the first book when I was in high school. I was really drawn in by the cover but once I read it, found it to be like a lot of the books at the time post-Twilight that centered around angels and immortal beings like Evermore and Hush, Hush. I lost interest in the second book and never finished the series. Looking back on it, a lot of these books focused on staying celibate lest you ruin your future chances, which is interesting.
If you want a good recommendation, mercedes lackey's last herald mage trilogy is great. It's a much older book, but very ahead of its time. I believe it even won an award for LGBT representation.
I'm sorry. I know it's a thing that the main girl has a nickname but Luce? Luce? All though out this all I thought that it was spelled Loose. Just use your full names, I'm calling you out Isabella, Teresa, Clarissa, and any other ya protagonist.
I actually like it because it has (likely unintentionally) subtextual undertones to it. Like, she's not Lucy or Lucinda or whatever, in a book about the war between god and Lucifer, who is canonically the most beautiful of all angels and the master of temptation who draws angels and humans alike away from god to love him instead, this girl goes by 'Luce'. Not one angel feels weird about this or even comments on it. Next up: a story where Judas is the immortal antagonist and the main character is the perpetually reincarnated gf of a thinly veiled Jesus metaphor who dies in every lifetime because of said gf, who is called Judith but goes by Jude. Credit also has to be given for avoiding calling her some version of Eve or Maria or something
I am begging you, pleading, from the bottom of my heart that you read the hereafter series by Tara Hudson and do a video review. It falls in with the rest of the cheesy supernatural teen love era like fallen and twilight, but I feel its under appreciated.
I loved the first 3 books as a teen. I hated twighlight and couldn't get past chapter 1 but read the entire first book "fallen" in one day. Cam was toxic hot lol
The plot holes in later books just… they’re too ridiculous. They’re so ridiculous that they’re almost hilarious. For instance, there are these special arrows that only harm angels, not humans. Well, Luce is not concerned about being struck by one because she’s human and will be unaffected, yet the angels on her side are actively protecting her from these arrows. Somehow, she doesn’t realize that she’s also an angel. Later, despite still believing she’s human and cannot be hurt by the arrow, she threatens to kill herself… with the arrow. Meaning she has to now know that she’s an angel, right? Nope. She doesn’t discover that until even later. There’s another part where she cuts her hair and bleaches it blonde. This inadvertently causes her to look like another girl. Due to their physical resemblance, the characters then use the other girl as a dummy distraction to smuggle Luce to safety. That’s great and good and all, except it’s already been established that the angels hunting Luce are completely blind and can only identify Luce by her unique aura, meaning the whole look-alike trick couldn’t have possibly worked. Granted, I only read the series once, and that was YEARS ago when the books first came out, so I could be misremembering some of the details. However, assuming I recalled any of that with even slight accuracy… 😬
I remember. I think that I still have the books in a box somewhere. I actually bought them because of the cover art. I couldn't figure out what they were for a bit.
I remember this distinctly as the first YA novel I read - sort of my step out of the middle grade series like Charlie Bone, etc, into the whole YA “sexy” fantasy (for middle school me, anyway lol). It’s so wild to see this. I had no idea they did a movie.
I was so irritated she didn't choose cam. I despise how ya authors seem to think that girls shouldn't pick the obviously good guy 🙄. God forbid a girl date an actually good boy who likes her and she likes back
dude I’m cryinggg, I didn’t know they made a movie for this book but lemme tell you the way Cam looked in my head was ENTIRELY different from the film’s portrayal. it’s been a minute but god I remember that boy lived rent free all expenses paid lmaoo
If I remember correctly, the second book she goes through her past lives or something and it makes her and Daniels love make more sense. Like you get more why they like each other. And it's funnier. But it was also like 10 years ago and I was 13 so I don't remember too well lmao
also explains why they are consistently drawn together without any real romance. they're literally cursed to always be together even when Luce was a really rude and snobby girl in one incarnation. their original relationship actually makes some sense tho
Not me staring at the covers of Fallen and Hush Hush at :18, trying and failing to remember a single difference between these two books 😂 Hush Hush had… a barn scene, maybe? If you liked paranormal romance in the mid- and late 2000s, you definitely weren’t lacking for options. Also does anyone remember Once Dead, Twice Shy?! I was obsessed with the grim reaper concept! This video is hilarious and thank you for reading this so I know not to try as reread this myself in a fit of misplaced nostalgia 😂 I enjoyed this book, thought I was fun, but I was also a baby teen who had JUST left Catholicism so I was the prime audience lol. I remember being really frustrated with Luce, too! This movie adaption and your reaction is hands-down the funniest thing I’ve ever seen. I feel like they know how absurd the source material is and they’re just having fun with their story. There is literally no reason for ANYTHING to happen; everything is just the plot chugging along for no real reason. Things just happen to Luce!
The fact that I watched this movie (and probably would've read the books, too) purely because Jeremy Irvine is in it is something that I can relate to so much.
I cannot imagine how do you percieve the story while knowing what happened only in book one. It's sad to see people being ashamed for reading it. The books were certainly frustrating at places, but damn they got me back into reading fantasy so I will forever be grateful. I also love time-travel, so that's that. It's a light read if you are in a mood for something silly. I agree that there should have been more in book one, Lucinda is in the dark for too long. She is this stupid just so the "mystery" can take place, but it's too obvious. The romance is also not good, like pls give me a reason why their love is so important. I would like to see him falling in love with this version of her, but it's too hot&cold for my taste. I remember I also liked Cam a lot. I have to say I do not see it as a copy of twilight, idk. But seeing your reaction to book one(in my opinion the weakest one together with the last one-i did not like the ending), I'm kind of sad you did not do the whole series 😁. I remember back in the day the book two and three were my favourite. More lore, more active Luce, more reveals about their past. And there is no demon/hybrid baby here, so that's a plus 😂.
I had a friend in hs that loved this series and lent me the books so I read like three or four of the series, but not only I didn't remember this series even existed up until I came across this video- I cannot remember a single event happening in those books, not a single scene, not a single character name. That's how forgettable they are. And now to forget they ever existed again!
I love books but as a very movie oriented person, I'm very much on the 'the book isnt always better' train and ill always champion book adaptations in the hopes that they'll be good (and if its not good at least itll be entertaining to make fun of)
I remember this book being everywhere where I lived, but I didn't have the time to read it and it didn't seem as urgent as other reads. When the movie came out I was excited that I would know what thw story was about, but damn... what a lackluster. Never seen a romance as empty of romance and chemistry (sorry ;-;).
I will be coming back to this video later! (Just don't have the time to watch it all r/n^-^) But I love the sound of this new series of videos for your channel!!!! 💜 (Also, I'm always curious when anyone other than me has actually heard of this particular Fallen series, not to be confused with the other Fallen series that possibly even fewer people ever seem to have heard of. Lmfao) But, I just wanna say, the fact that this book was Twilight but not-Twilight was kinda exactly what I liked about it..because I didn't really like Twilight myself, yet somehow I liked this a little better, except for the very end of book one(but that may have just been a purely 'me' issue .. 'cause I was just personally SUPER burnt out on fate-of-the-world / cosmically-high-stakes type stuff right then)....but then I never actually finished reading the rest of this Fallen series. 😅😅🙃😁🤣 But I really want to go back to it one of these days though, just to see how I feel about it or not nowadays; and no one else I know ever actually read it, so I never really got any perspective on it outside just my own before. ^--^ 🤔🤷♀️ 🤣🤣🤣
BEAUTIFUL CREATURES HAD 4TH GRADE ME IN A CHOKEHOLD! I refused to watch the movie on principal but especially after reading the wiki and learning all the changes they made
I only saw the movie on a ‘Cheap Tuesday’ at the cinema- I didn’t necessarily think it a waste of money; cute guys are cute guys, what can I say? And I got to play ‘Spot the Aussie’, so there’s that... (Cam) The book series sounds like an absolute dumpster-fire...
I read it when I was like 12 and I ATE THAT SHIT UP. Like i read all the books and I for some reason really liked the angel theme so I think I had all YA angel theme books under the sun. Then few years ago I saw that they made this film and some memory in me was like - i really need to see this but when i watched it, i found it extremely bland, it was like eating while having covid, you can see the thing, you can sorta remember what it tastes like but ends up tasting like nothing. Anyway, I think i liked it so much because my underdeveloped congition was not aware of any cliches in the books and also being in love just because why not felt like a good enough reason for me :D looking back I feel betrayed. Those are my two cents on the matter, thank you for coming to my ted talk.
I remember reading the Fallen series once I finished my 6th full readthrough of the Twilight series back in the day LOL I did really like Fallen back then
I tried so many times in middle/high school to get into these and I just couldn't. good vid edit: literally laughing through your whole movie review rn
Only two minutes into the video but i need to comment this before i forget, now that you've said it it's so clearly a mashup of Twilight and City of Bones. I'm pretty sure i was into this as a teen, less because i thought it was good and more because i was desperate for anything new to read (this explains all the truly terrible fanfiction i read too 😅). Also reminds me of the Hush, Hush series by Becca Fitzpatrick, which from what i recall (which is almost nothing) seemed marginally more interesting.
I remember reading Fallen as a teen during my Twihard years when I'd basically devour anything with a supernatural element to it. I never finished the series, so even considering the low literary standards I had back then, clearly I didn't like them that much. My hazy memories of the movie is watching it maybe 5 or 6 years after reading the book and thinking it was absolute garbage. How the production value was atrocious, the chemistry between the leads terribly fake and forced and how the girl they cast to play Luce looked way too old to be pretending to be a 17-year-old. I don't think you mentioned it, but maybe do a book-to-movie comparison for Vampire Academy. I remember absolutely loving that book saga (and its spin-off), although the movie was a huge disappointment.
oh my DAYS. I read these books as a young teen and honestly it was one of those things that I was like “there are multiple books - screw it im gonna read them all” and the ONLY one I even remember was the 3rd one cause it had the most interesting (if you can even call it that) plot to it where they actually went through the different times together. I remember when the movie was announced me and my friend could not wait to see how BAD it was and honestly it wasn’t good but Jeremy Irvine made it better than the book for me lmao. That said I cannot imagine how crap I would find it if I went back and read or watched it in its entirety now 🤣
When Luce dies and stops being reincarnated, would she not also go to Heaven? Why wouldn't that be an easy solution to their problem, and they could just be a couple there?
when angels die they don't go to heaven or hell, they just stop existing I think. oh btw, turns out she's an angel and Lucifer loves her and is part of the reason they're all cursed as she chose Daniel over Lucifer. it's a bit of a mad book series and is very similar to the seven deadly sins (anime) at times.
I got about half way through the first book. I just got so frustrated about how long it was taking to reveal that the love interests were angels that I couldn’t continue. It’s called FALLEN, like, come on! Glad to have a video to find out what I missed though 😆
I read the first 2 or 3 books of this series and I remember almost 0 of what you said. Aside from her name is Luce and the Luce keeps dying plot. Like... I usually remember books I read, especially bad ones, but my brain deleted that info so I would never finish the series I guess? 🤷🏾♂️
I read the first 3 books in the Fallen series. I’m not planning on watching the movie but it sounds like they included some info from the later books if I’m remembering correctly.
Holy crap! They made a movie off the book? I remember reading the first 3 or 4 books and then dropping it because Luce was too unbearable. Also, the "bro, where are the fucking wings?!" is such a mood for me whenever there's a book or movie cover with someone that has wings and they either never show or do it for like 5 seconds and never again.
I thought “it’s weird that these angels are portrayed as teens not adults” but I guess that’s just proof that I’m definitely not 17 anymore.
That's what I'm thinking - why are all these angels going to that high school? Why would they want to go to high school?!
At least Twilight had the decency to make up some dumb relocation cycle.
@@EFX5452 I mean twilight's excuse really just made it feel like they were waiting for prey that were younger than them in my eyes. A bunch of adults of a couple thousand years chilling in a high school waiting for food and trying to blend in really doesn't reassure me. It's kind of creepy if you think about it. So all these books that follow I'm just like this is weird this is creepy they're being weird.
@@Topdoggie7 waiting for food? The Cullens don't drink human blood
@@silverkyre they clarify that multiple other vampires do, and they can't possibly be the only vampire sitting in schools. So other vampires likely do it and use it as a way to get food. Plus the Cullen's did used to eat humans. A dead method still in play.
@@silverkyre The Cullens have casually “slipped” enough that their insistence on going to high school and surrounding themselves with teenagers is very creepy and feels sinister.
Jasper can barely hold it together and they just let him sit in a room full of kids? One paper cut and literally everyone in the school is dead because they can’t even leave witnesses
You should def read the second book. It does not get better, but it's so funny. Especially when they're dancing in the sky and this freaking angel **DROPS HER**
I'm reading the series once I have time just for this.
@@Saphia_ we stan a time management bestie
what
What! hahaha I'm going to read it just for that
Girl, mass respect for you, I couldn't even begin the second book, and I unfortunately bought all the 4 of them at once so now they just sit THERE in the corner. 😭
The funny thing is that I thought I remembered reading this book and just forgot all of this plot only to realize I read the “Hush Hush” series and not this.
That's what I was thinking for a hot sec. I was like "am I lying to myself that I liked these books" but no hush hush I loved lol
I always used to call this series "Budget Hush Hush" 😂 (I used to really like Hush Hush, but really couldn't get into this, probably because of the similarities 🤣)
@@izzisart to my memory, Hush Hush slapped. Not sure if it holds up today bc it’s been so long since I’ve read it, but it’s still gotta be better than this hot mess.
@@pennyraehawkins9788 Reckon I've still got my copy somewhere- half tempted to dig it out and give it a reread now 😆 I remember that series being great
Hush Hush is even worse. Holy crap. Patch? What a lame name. I just can’t really get into it. I quit reading them.
This video was 10x more entertaining than the entire Fallen series, and yes in my misguided youth I did read ALL SIX OF THESE BOOKS. God, I haven't thought about these books since the 2010s what a trip down memory lane!
Wait there was six I thought there was only three 💀💀💀💔
I’ve only seen the movie lol no idea they were books first but that makes so much sense
@@eleanor123218 yeah there were the first three that came out between 2009-2011 and then the last three 2012-2015. If I’m not mistaken the last one is on Cam and kind of a side story.
@@eleanor123218 Theres 4 books for the main story. 1 book of short stories. 1 is a side story about the character, Cam.
There’s 6?!? It wasn’t stand alone? I read one before hs
i laughed very hard when you mentioned that "ao3 is built on the back of coffee shop AU" bestie sooo true!!
What is ao3 though?
@@randomme3095 Archive of Our Own (also AO3), one of the biggest (probably the biggest) sites for fanfiction up now.
@@zaramikazuki8374 The AO3 fanfic authors are true heroes/heroines.
ao3 was actually built off the back of wincest and mpreg but whatever helps yall sleep at night
Conspiracy Theory: Luce is so dense to really drive home how much of a child she is compared to the immortal "love interests". Same for every single fantasy romance with grooming undertones
By the end of the book we discover that Luce, Daniel and Lucifer are the original love triangle and that's one of the reasons all the angels feel
I once saw a review that said “a book so bad it face palms itself on the cover” and it still holds true.
I'm pretty sure the explanation (the one given in the movie) comes in one of the later books. Luce spends 75% of the series clueless and it was sooo annoying.
I thought it was interesting when she kept jumping into the shadows to her previous lives. I liked the gargoyle too until he turned out to be Lucifer.
@@ealuesytain That was the biggest shock for me, omg. I can't remember much of the series but I do remember that
@@cripsypan6140 icl I haven’t finished reading the series past that book and i lowkey think she had more chemistry with lucifer than daniel
I remember reading the first book in high-school and absolutely loving it. Then when the second one came out it really didn't like it at all and never finished the series. I think I just loved the gothic atmosphere and the way the author described the settings. I remember trying to watch the movie a few years ago and being bored out of my mind lol. Still adore the covers of the books though.
I read the first book and hated it. Years later I bought used copies of the second and third book for like $4 a piece with absolutely zero intention of reading them. I just really love the covers 😂
Not me having been SUCH a big fan of this series when I read it. I'm too scared to ever reread it and face my supernatural romance shame. Thank you for this video, so I can revisit this dark part of my past without subjecting myself to the writing again 😔🙏
I'm not gonna lie as a 14 year old I loved these books, I read all of them. I still think the third book was good, because it was about all their different lives which was an interesting look through time.
Honestly same
The third book honestly slaps
Same, I really like this books, 17 year old me was happy 'cause she loved angels.
i feel like the only one who hated the third book....
I was so obsessed with the books in middle school 😹😹❣️❣️
This video saved my day I love having this memory lounging in my nana’s den eating chocolate, angel food cake and sparkling cider and watching this video
I tried to read this book in high school and couldn't finish it. About a year later my dad asked me about the book as he remembered seeing me read it. I was confused as he's not really a fan of YA fiction, particularly paranormal YA romance. I told him I didn't like it and couldn't finish it and inquired why he was asking. Turns out he had to read it as part of the murder/arson case he was working on (he was lead detective at the Sherriff's office at the time). I believe it was mostly to get a grasp on what kind of mental state the kid who committed the crime was in while he was planning the crime, but a lot of similar imagery and themes in the kid's writing pointed to Fallen having had some influence on how the crime was committed. There were a lot of other reasons why it happened of course, but Fallen did have some influence on it. I am still upset that a book that bad had some influence on a crime of that nature.
Forever mad that they made this into a movie and not my TRUE high school angel-based series, Hush, Hush
Thank G-d. The main in HushHush was selfish & stupid. 99% of the bad things could have been fixed if she wasn’t an ässhøle who made assumptions about EVERYTHING & refused to ask questions.
The only thing I remember about "Hush, Hush" was that the endlessly tiresome main character had iron-deficient anemia like I did and I did not find the descriptions of that accurate or relevant lol
Ah yes, my favorite thing is when the love interest is named something I’d name my dog 😂
@@missxfaith I really need to revisit this series 😂
OOOH HUSH HUSH WAS AMAZING
At my age, I can't read another book about men being like five hundred years old falling in love with a teenager without being truly disgusted.
I'm 27. If I get to have children, I promise to guide them into nice, well-written teenager love stories and discuss all of the weird stuff.
As a sixteen-year-old girl, yes!!! I'm now cringing and repulsed by how these ancient beings are choosing juveniles, the human brain doesn't become an adult until 25 so if someone is 100+ plus, they ought to be with someone that's 30+.
she's actually an angel too and the same age as him but you don't know that until like book 3 or something, but I get what you mean with how creepy that trope is. twilight and TVD both do it
@@ealuesytain in TVD they at least mostly sort of kind of explain it. Same for Twilight. Their brains are sort of… semi-frozen at their current ages so mentally they don’t even really mature.
@@alpacasaurusrex idk if that’s completely true for tvd as it’s brought up many times that older vamps have more life experience and knowledge n stuff but I suppose the main casts action make you hope that their brains are frozen in time 😂
@@alpacasaurusrex yeah in tvd it never says that. Stefan is supposedly to be 17 but he acts way older and Damon is 23 but he doesn’t even act human a lot of the times much less his age
YES! I’m so excited to see your reaction to “Beautiful Creatures!” For some unexplainable reason, the movie had me in an absolute chokehold during high school. I couldn’t bother to finish reading the series since I found the book to be rather dull, but the movie still holds a place in my heart. I would love to see your fresh perspective on it!! ❤️
Y'all talk about bad YA books, but I am waiting on the day someone talks about the House of Night books. The fact that you can't talk bad about that series without the fans getting so mad, has had me in tears for years.
"Mmm....it's definitely heated" 🤣🤣🤣 this is my first video I'm watching of yours my guy and ya got me. subbed.
This era of YA lit was so much... because I hopped onto this thinking it was a Different YA paranormal romance with a love triangle involving fallen angels - but no. That was Hush, Hush.
It got so oversaturated *so* quickly, it's genuinely hard to tell these apart.
Don't forget when we got that time in YA when dystopia was all over. God that was just the worst time to read YA. And now we have New Adult and I am already sick of it. Bring back fun YA
omg i read the first book and had to dnf the second years ago back in the day when angel/demon YA love stories were at their pinnacle- i remember the *moment* i put it down and refused to read anymore:
the h and H were separated for ~reasons~ but she was admitted into this pretty cool school and was excited to go to class, and i was like yay we love an academic girly!! but no, she said she couldn’t wait to get to class so she could sit, uninterrupted, and daydream about the hero all day and not do anything else🧍
even teenage could smell the weird codependency from a mile off. i never finished the rest because that one line was my final straw.
Just found your channel and loved the video, can’t wait for your I am Number Four episode. Really felt all these movie adaptations were dealt a bad hand because they always stray too far from the source material. The one thing Twilight did right was trust that the fans of the book would ride for it if they got a faithful adaptation and they did. As someone who watched the I am Number Four movie before reading all the books, I felt if some right it could have been a legit phenomenon
Okay, I've had the misfortune of reading the entire series, plus the spin off so I'll tell you what I think.
At the beginning I was confused about the angel thing because when I first got this book (Xmas gift) I, idk, assumed it was a vampire book? So it was pretty far into the book before I questioned the vampire not being a thing.
This series is wild (not good) they don't mention the baptism until the end cuz Daniel and Luce were supposed to kiss first. Also it's not until later that it's not always kissing that sets her off. It's always the meet, fall in love, and in some lifetimes they kiss and she burst into flames.
It's not until book 4 that you find out how their first meeting goes that makes them fall in love. (It's stupid and I hate it.)
Daniel is immortal and lives in a linear fashion but Luce is the only one reincarnated so she's the one not knowing him.
The movie differs because she DOESN'T know her past lives it's not until book 3 when she starts learning them.
Also they don't tell her BECAUSE her starting to know about her past triggers her to her fiery death.
!!!SPOILERS!!!
In book 2 she goes to a boarding school with nephilims (half human/half angels) where she learns the shadow things are called announcers who record events and she learns to manipulate them into traveling into the past and sees her previous family (17 years ago self's sister). There's also another love triangle between Luce, Daniel, and nephilim Todd. They're (fallen angels from book 1) hiding Luce from other angels (undecided blind ones) who are also trying to kill her plus whatever group Miss Sophia was in. It ends with Luce not trusting the angels for keeping her in the dark about her past and using an announcer to just into the past.
Book 3 is her traveling back in time seeing her past lives with Daniel to "figure out" how to stop her curse. She meets Bill the stone gargoyle to help her go back in time to the beginning. Daniel and gang follow after her to stop her from messing up the timeline. We learn more about the backstory of their "Love". Bill tries to convince Luce to kill her immortal soul so Danny boi doesn't deal with the loss of her dying over and over. She almost goes through with it but her love for him and the hope stops her. Bill then takes her to the beginning where they see the angels fall and he captures them as they fall through time. Bill is revealed to be Lucifer. Danny goes back to the fall and ask for mercy of the original punishment and a loophole is created where if Luce isn't baptized into a religion she can live and decide what she wants to do.
Book 4 is the angels race against the clock to find where the angels originally fell so they can stop Lucifer from wiping apparently 5000 years since the fall. They go look for stuff to help them find the map. Luce finds out she's no ordinary human but actually an angel! They find the place (where Troy used to be) try to stop Lucifer and God shows up. God stops Lucifer, ask Lucinda and Daniel who they choose, Heaven or Hell, they chose each other (love). And they're rewarded by being reincarnated as humans where IF they meet can fall in love for the last time. 18 years later in the epilogue they met up in college and they fall in love for the last time as their old friends watch on.
(Sidenote: apparently Lucinda and Lucifer were a thing but then Lucifer got power hungry or whatever and set the rebellion into motion, Luce fell out of love with Lucifer as he got more into his plan and one day was in heaven crying about it or something, idk, when Daniel showed up and basically wiped her tears away. They fell in love right then and there. Lucifer was salty that Lucinda left him for Daniel. The end.)
I read the entire series and probably loved it back in the day😂I was clearly not into critical analysis of fiction, not even comparative studies of the Twilight phenomenon! But yes there was an era with a series of Angel fantasy books, with the Blue Bloods by Melissa de la Cruz being the very best!
Omg I need to finish blue bloods!! Melissa De La Cruz just came out with a new one and they came out with new covers!
@@onarosebeam Omg do not remind me of Blue Bloods. I still got beef with the author after book 4. Like she was writing such an amazing series and then it just went way left. Like why 🤦♀️
Also Daisy Head (aka Genya in Shadow and Bone and the name I don’t want to try to spell here) is also in the Netflix adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s Sandman. She’s only in one episode but it’s so funny that she’s in so many adaptations!
When I saw the stills with her in it, I was so excited to get to that episode. She was so good in the Sandman (albeit just one episode) and she's my favorite in S&B.
And one of the later Underworld movies!
I have read Fallen and seen the movie and yet watching this video it’s like I was experiencing it for the first time because it was that forgettable LMAO. I like distinctly remember hating the movie because there was like a lot of “edgy” humor like suicide and ED jokes that caught me off guard. I distinctly remember this one scene where Luce refuses to take her meds and I’m blanking on the exact quote but she says some wack ass shit like “I’d rather be crazy than be someone I’m not” which like as someone who has to take meds for bipolar disorder it’s a yikes lmao I really hate the whole “your psychiatrists are lying to you because they’re trying to hold you back and your medications are just suppressing your true self” narrative because it’s super harmful!
*also side note I did not remember Cam being that creepy LMFAO you said what you said about Anthony Bridgerton!!!
I know I loved this series back when I first read it. Can’t wait to see what I think about it now.
I’ve read the first book, but that was because I literally judged the book by it’s cover. The paper cover was really smooth and I liked the aesthetic. 🤣
Oh my god your description of the paper cover awoke a buried memory! It was the perfect paper texture.
Lol yeah I remember wanting to read this when I was 10 because the cover looked pretty. Thankfully my dad didn't let me get it.
I did not remember watching this movie until I saw this review - and it cracked me up because my exact thought watching the movie was that I felt like I missing a chunk of the story. Your facial expressions literally were mirrors of my own. This had me cracking up; thank you.
I loved these books in like middle-ish school and never realized they were just twilight??? So I’m super pumped for this. I also remember maybe 1% of the plot 😅
Brooo I just recently remember Beautiful Creatures existed, I owned the graphic novel version when I was younger. I've been wanting to rewatch the movie.
Your reincarnation bit reminded me of the book Reincarnation by Suzanne Weyn… it follows a couple from Neanderthals to contemporary times. I remember liking it, but I was also a young teen when I read it- it may be worth revisiting
Love your videos girl 💖
Here is a suggestion for you - *Starcrossed by Josephine Angelini* It's a trilogy and it's sort of reincarnation story about Greek gods. The books are really interesting, too bad they didn't make a movie. I really think you're gonna like them.
I remember this one.
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@@crazysmall.artist thanks. It was autocorrect.
@@katarinababic9197 np!!
So a love triangle with a reckless individual and an angel?
Why couldn't it be a Destiel knock off?
(Actually I remember a YA fallen angel/vampire series called Blue Bloods)
There was this werewolf romance novel I wanted to recommend, called Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klaus, that got a movie adaptation later on. It felt like a quick read, but I thought it was fun to read once. I’ve never met anyone who’s read it, and I wanted to get your opinion on it if you wanted. Sorry for this huge comment, but I really enjoy your videos and opinions on these books. Have a nice day
Blood and Chocolate is one of my favorite quick comfort reads. As soon as I pick it up I feel like I’m 15 again.
I read the book and watched the movie. I think I still have them because I collect werewolf media in general.
And the movie has Hugh Dancy in it!!!
I enjoyed the book and I was looking forward to the movie. And then I watched it. They used real wolves and made them get in real fights - they really injured each other. In fact, there wasn't even an 'no animals were harmed in this movie' credit, it read 'all the animals were treated with respect'. There was some real animal abuse in this picture.
@@gwenivercall oh really?? I didn’t hear about that, how awful!
The highschoolers crying in the bathroom is the accurest thing in this kind of books that ive ever heard of. Setting 15/10
I have both read- and actively own- this entire series. I was also a twilight teen before twilight was popular (I was OBSESSED- like stupidly- before eclipse the book came out). I’m so hyped for this🤣
42:28 FACTS. Anthony Bridgerton can somehow get away from the most unhinged fool in love behaviour. It is sick 😭
Oh nooo I think I’m going to end up binging your videos this was so entertaining. Subscribed!
New subscriber here, thanks to this video. Can I just say I'm 10 minutes in and I ADORE your lisp! This was so fun to listen to!
I tried reading Fallen when I was younger. I think I got through the first few chapters before I got very bored of it and never picked it up again. The cover was so pretty, and I thought it would be more exciting than it was. I think the author leaving all of the exciting info dropping for the end really was to its detriment.
I also tried to read City of Bones, and really loved it until the "plot twist" at the end between the two main love interests. I threw the book on the ground and never read any more. Even after my friend told me that it wasn't actually true, I was still too mad to read it. I like that the movie left that part out.
Beautiful Creatures and Shiver were my shit as a teen. I still enjoy re-reading them. The BC movie was pretty disappointing though. I'm curious what your opinion will be.
You got a new subscriber from me. I'm fascinated with this series you'll be doing.
Just found your channel through this video! Really enjoyed it! Definitely subscribed!
The book cover sends me. It just adds to the depth that the other author is in their emo phase. I feels like she just spent an entire day listening to Evanescence.
I don't know why but the phrase 'regular jegular' absolutely knocked me out lol
Oh my gosh, you’re gonna do I Am Number Four too??? That book (the entire series, really) was my sh*t back in the day!
me, 29, having read fallen & half of the 2nd b4 dnf-ing in hs, clicking on this vid going: WAITTTTT! THEY. MADE. A. MOVIE.... SINCE WHEN?!
I'm a new subscriber. I can't believe UA-cam hasn't recommended you before now, considering the amount of Jane Austen and other Me content you have. Do you even know me at all, UA-cam????
I read Fallen as an adult many years after it came out, and my general feeling was, "Meh, it's fine." I think at that point I'd read enough of this sort of YA that I could turn off my brain and just go with it. The movie was So Bad. It took a mediocre book and threw in bad acting and Hit You Over the Head plot progression. I think my favorite quote from this video sums it up nicely - "But why???"
I read the first book when I was in high school. I was really drawn in by the cover but once I read it, found it to be like a lot of the books at the time post-Twilight that centered around angels and immortal beings like Evermore and Hush, Hush. I lost interest in the second book and never finished the series. Looking back on it, a lot of these books focused on staying celibate lest you ruin your future chances, which is interesting.
Thank you for this!! "Just swing and ask questions later." 😂 this MADE. MY. DAY.
If you want a good recommendation, mercedes lackey's last herald mage trilogy is great. It's a much older book, but very ahead of its time. I believe it even won an award for LGBT representation.
I'm sorry. I know it's a thing that the main girl has a nickname but Luce? Luce? All though out this all I thought that it was spelled Loose. Just use your full names, I'm calling you out Isabella, Teresa, Clarissa, and any other ya protagonist.
Katniss uses her full name, thank goodness.
teresa??? where’s she from?
@@paigestubbs9718 I think they're referring to Tessa from The infernal devices series
@@michelle1794 ahhh makes sense
I actually like it because it has (likely unintentionally) subtextual undertones to it. Like, she's not Lucy or Lucinda or whatever, in a book about the war between god and Lucifer, who is canonically the most beautiful of all angels and the master of temptation who draws angels and humans alike away from god to love him instead, this girl goes by 'Luce'.
Not one angel feels weird about this or even comments on it.
Next up: a story where Judas is the immortal antagonist and the main character is the perpetually reincarnated gf of a thinly veiled Jesus metaphor who dies in every lifetime because of said gf, who is called Judith but goes by Jude.
Credit also has to be given for avoiding calling her some version of Eve or Maria or something
I am begging you, pleading, from the bottom of my heart that you read the hereafter series by Tara Hudson and do a video review. It falls in with the rest of the cheesy supernatural teen love era like fallen and twilight, but I feel its under appreciated.
I loved the first 3 books as a teen. I hated twighlight and couldn't get past chapter 1 but read the entire first book "fallen" in one day.
Cam was toxic hot lol
The plot holes in later books just… they’re too ridiculous. They’re so ridiculous that they’re almost hilarious.
For instance, there are these special arrows that only harm angels, not humans. Well, Luce is not concerned about being struck by one because she’s human and will be unaffected, yet the angels on her side are actively protecting her from these arrows. Somehow, she doesn’t realize that she’s also an angel.
Later, despite still believing she’s human and cannot be hurt by the arrow, she threatens to kill herself… with the arrow. Meaning she has to now know that she’s an angel, right? Nope. She doesn’t discover that until even later.
There’s another part where she cuts her hair and bleaches it blonde. This inadvertently causes her to look like another girl. Due to their physical resemblance, the characters then use the other girl as a dummy distraction to smuggle Luce to safety. That’s great and good and all, except it’s already been established that the angels hunting Luce are completely blind and can only identify Luce by her unique aura, meaning the whole look-alike trick couldn’t have possibly worked.
Granted, I only read the series once, and that was YEARS ago when the books first came out, so I could be misremembering some of the details. However, assuming I recalled any of that with even slight accuracy… 😬
6:32 "He spontaneously combusted."
me: *the loudest choke of laugher I've managed this year*
omg i'm so excited for the beastly video!! i loved that movie/book as a kid but i'm sure it didn't age well😭
I remember trying to read the book as a teen. I couldn’t get through it. I DNF’ed it so many times
The Anthony Bridgerton part had me dead, had to rewind 10 times.
Say what you want about the series but I remember LOVING the book in which she timetravelled and took on fake identities, it was so unique and bad ass
Love your personality and take on this book 🥰
I remember. I think that I still have the books in a box somewhere. I actually bought them because of the cover art. I couldn't figure out what they were for a bit.
I remember this distinctly as the first YA novel I read - sort of my step out of the middle grade series like Charlie Bone, etc, into the whole YA “sexy” fantasy (for middle school me, anyway lol). It’s so wild to see this. I had no idea they did a movie.
I was so irritated she didn't choose cam. I despise how ya authors seem to think that girls shouldn't pick the obviously good guy 🙄. God forbid a girl date an actually good boy who likes her and she likes back
dude I’m cryinggg, I didn’t know they made a movie for this book but lemme tell you the way Cam looked in my head was ENTIRELY different from the film’s portrayal. it’s been a minute but god I remember that boy lived rent free all expenses paid lmaoo
Turning on notifications bc it's a crime I didn't see this video the moment it came out
Girl your book /movie channel has me completely booked
Bella was so awkward but she had character 😅💜
Bella was into necrophilia.
If I remember correctly, the second book she goes through her past lives or something and it makes her and Daniels love make more sense. Like you get more why they like each other. And it's funnier. But it was also like 10 years ago and I was 13 so I don't remember too well lmao
also explains why they are consistently drawn together without any real romance. they're literally cursed to always be together even when Luce was a really rude and snobby girl in one incarnation. their original relationship actually makes some sense tho
Not me staring at the covers of Fallen and Hush Hush at :18, trying and failing to remember a single difference between these two books 😂 Hush Hush had… a barn scene, maybe? If you liked paranormal romance in the mid- and late 2000s, you definitely weren’t lacking for options. Also does anyone remember Once Dead, Twice Shy?! I was obsessed with the grim reaper concept!
This video is hilarious and thank you for reading this so I know not to try as reread this myself in a fit of misplaced nostalgia 😂 I enjoyed this book, thought I was fun, but I was also a baby teen who had JUST left Catholicism so I was the prime audience lol. I remember being really frustrated with Luce, too!
This movie adaption and your reaction is hands-down the funniest thing I’ve ever seen. I feel like they know how absurd the source material is and they’re just having fun with their story. There is literally no reason for ANYTHING to happen; everything is just the plot chugging along for no real reason. Things just happen to Luce!
The fact that I watched this movie (and probably would've read the books, too) purely because Jeremy Irvine is in it is something that I can relate to so much.
I cannot imagine how do you percieve the story while knowing what happened only in book one. It's sad to see people being ashamed for reading it. The books were certainly frustrating at places, but damn they got me back into reading fantasy so I will forever be grateful. I also love time-travel, so that's that. It's a light read if you are in a mood for something silly.
I agree that there should have been more in book one, Lucinda is in the dark for too long. She is this stupid just so the "mystery" can take place, but it's too obvious. The romance is also not good, like pls give me a reason why their love is so important. I would like to see him falling in love with this version of her, but it's too hot&cold for my taste. I remember I also liked Cam a lot.
I have to say I do not see it as a copy of twilight, idk. But seeing your reaction to book one(in my opinion the weakest one together with the last one-i did not like the ending), I'm kind of sad you did not do the whole series 😁. I remember back in the day the book two and three were my favourite. More lore, more active Luce, more reveals about their past. And there is no demon/hybrid baby here, so that's a plus 😂.
So excited for these videos 🥳
I had a friend in hs that loved this series and lent me the books so I read like three or four of the series, but not only I didn't remember this series even existed up until I came across this video- I cannot remember a single event happening in those books, not a single scene, not a single character name. That's how forgettable they are. And now to forget they ever existed again!
I read the whole series not knowing what was going on 😭😭
I was such a huge fan of this book series when I was in middle school lol
I love books but as a very movie oriented person, I'm very much on the 'the book isnt always better' train and ill always champion book adaptations in the hopes that they'll be good (and if its not good at least itll be entertaining to make fun of)
I remember this book being everywhere where I lived, but I didn't have the time to read it and it didn't seem as urgent as other reads. When the movie came out I was excited that I would know what thw story was about, but damn... what a lackluster. Never seen a romance as empty of romance and chemistry (sorry ;-;).
I read the first 2 books a long time ago and all I remeber is I really liked that dress on the cover
I watched it, at one point thought I missed something, rewinded and found out I didn't
I will be coming back to this video later! (Just don't have the time to watch it all r/n^-^) But I love the sound of this new series of videos for your channel!!!! 💜 (Also, I'm always curious when anyone other than me has actually heard of this particular Fallen series, not to be confused with the other Fallen series that possibly even fewer people ever seem to have heard of. Lmfao) But, I just wanna say, the fact that this book was Twilight but not-Twilight was kinda exactly what I liked about it..because I didn't really like Twilight myself, yet somehow I liked this a little better, except for the very end of book one(but that may have just been a purely 'me' issue .. 'cause I was just personally SUPER burnt out on fate-of-the-world / cosmically-high-stakes type stuff right then)....but then I never actually finished reading the rest of this Fallen series. 😅😅🙃😁🤣 But I really want to go back to it one of these days though, just to see how I feel about it or not nowadays; and no one else I know ever actually read it, so I never really got any perspective on it outside just my own before. ^--^ 🤔🤷♀️ 🤣🤣🤣
BEAUTIFUL CREATURES HAD 4TH GRADE ME IN A CHOKEHOLD! I refused to watch the movie on principal but especially after reading the wiki and learning all the changes they made
I only saw the movie on a ‘Cheap Tuesday’ at the cinema- I didn’t necessarily think it a waste of money; cute guys are cute guys, what can I say?
And I got to play ‘Spot the Aussie’, so there’s that... (Cam)
The book series sounds like an absolute dumpster-fire...
I read it when I was like 12 and I ATE THAT SHIT UP. Like i read all the books and I for some reason really liked the angel theme so I think I had all YA angel theme books under the sun. Then few years ago I saw that they made this film and some memory in me was like - i really need to see this but when i watched it, i found it extremely bland, it was like eating while having covid, you can see the thing, you can sorta remember what it tastes like but ends up tasting like nothing. Anyway, I think i liked it so much because my underdeveloped congition was not aware of any cliches in the books and also being in love just because why not felt like a good enough reason for me :D looking back I feel betrayed. Those are my two cents on the matter, thank you for coming to my ted talk.
I remember reading the Fallen series once I finished my 6th full readthrough of the Twilight series back in the day LOL I did really like Fallen back then
aside from dylan, i KNOW this is gonna be one of my favorite fallen videos
YAAAAAAAS
42:09 - Sniffed her? girl I thought he straight up gave her a little lick 😟😂
Read and watch Purple Hearts!
I tried so many times in middle/high school to get into these and I just couldn't. good vid
edit: literally laughing through your whole movie review rn
I remember having this book but being unable to finish the first chapter every time I tried to read it
Only two minutes into the video but i need to comment this before i forget, now that you've said it it's so clearly a mashup of Twilight and City of Bones.
I'm pretty sure i was into this as a teen, less because i thought it was good and more because i was desperate for anything new to read (this explains all the truly terrible fanfiction i read too 😅).
Also reminds me of the Hush, Hush series by Becca Fitzpatrick, which from what i recall (which is almost nothing) seemed marginally more interesting.
yo same, i thought of hush hush immediately too
I remember reading Fallen as a teen during my Twihard years when I'd basically devour anything with a supernatural element to it. I never finished the series, so even considering the low literary standards I had back then, clearly I didn't like them that much.
My hazy memories of the movie is watching it maybe 5 or 6 years after reading the book and thinking it was absolute garbage. How the production value was atrocious, the chemistry between the leads terribly fake and forced and how the girl they cast to play Luce looked way too old to be pretending to be a 17-year-old.
I don't think you mentioned it, but maybe do a book-to-movie comparison for Vampire Academy. I remember absolutely loving that book saga (and its spin-off), although the movie was a huge disappointment.
oh my DAYS. I read these books as a young teen and honestly it was one of those things that I was like “there are multiple books - screw it im gonna read them all” and the ONLY one I even remember was the 3rd one cause it had the most interesting (if you can even call it that) plot to it where they actually went through the different times together. I remember when the movie was announced me and my friend could not wait to see how BAD it was and honestly it wasn’t good but Jeremy Irvine made it better than the book for me lmao. That said I cannot imagine how crap I would find it if I went back and read or watched it in its entirety now 🤣
When Luce dies and stops being reincarnated, would she not also go to Heaven? Why wouldn't that be an easy solution to their problem, and they could just be a couple there?
when angels die they don't go to heaven or hell, they just stop existing I think. oh btw, turns out she's an angel and Lucifer loves her and is part of the reason they're all cursed as she chose Daniel over Lucifer. it's a bit of a mad book series and is very similar to the seven deadly sins (anime) at times.
@@ealuesytain I remember reading it, and owned the book until very recently. Couldn't tell you a single thing about the plot other than angels
@@lemonily9645 😂 I don't blame you, this book series still has a special place in my heart tho
I got about half way through the first book. I just got so frustrated about how long it was taking to reveal that the love interests were angels that I couldn’t continue. It’s called FALLEN, like, come on!
Glad to have a video to find out what I missed though 😆
Entirely off topic but you're sooooooo pretty and I mean that in the nicest way 🌻
I read the first 2 or 3 books of this series and I remember almost 0 of what you said. Aside from her name is Luce and the Luce keeps dying plot. Like... I usually remember books I read, especially bad ones, but my brain deleted that info so I would never finish the series I guess? 🤷🏾♂️
I read the first 3 books in the Fallen series. I’m not planning on watching the movie but it sounds like they included some info from the later books if I’m remembering correctly.
This reaction was hilarious! More, please :)!
Daria out here wanting ya girlies to become crime bosses and I support her
Holy crap! They made a movie off the book? I remember reading the first 3 or 4 books and then dropping it because Luce was too unbearable.
Also, the "bro, where are the fucking wings?!" is such a mood for me whenever there's a book or movie cover with someone that has wings and they either never show or do it for like 5 seconds and never again.