Unforgiven (Lauren Kate's Fallen Series)

by Lauren Kate

Overview

Every story has a dark side, and this story belongs to Cam, the brooding, bad-boy dark angel FALLEN readers love.
 
High school can be hell.
 
Cam knows what it’s like to be haunted. He’s spent more time in Hell than any angel ever should. And his freshest Hell is high school, where Lilith, the girl he can’t stop loving, is serving out a punishment for his crimes.

Cam made a bet with Lucifer: he has fifteen days to convince the only girl who really matters to him to love him again. If he succeeds, Lilith will be allowed back into the world, and they can live their lives together. But if he fails . . . there’s a special place in Hell just for him. Tick-tock. 

Spread your wings and cry as bad boy dark angel Cam finally reveals his anguished heart in the epic FALLEN novel, UNFORGIVEN. 

And don't miss FALLEN on the big screen! The first book in the worldwide bestselling FALLEN series is now a motion picture — currently available for streaming and releasing in theaters September 8th, 2017.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780375990687
Publisher:	Random House Children's Books
Publication date:	11/10/2015
Series:	Lauren Kate's Fallen Series
Pages:	368
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 8.20(h) x 1.20(d)
Age Range:	12 - 17 Years

About the Author

LAUREN KATE is the internationally bestselling author of the FALLEN series: Fallen, Torment, Passion, Rapture, Fallen in Love, and Unforgiven. Her books have been translated into more than thirty languages. She lives in Los Angeles. Visit Lauren online at laurenkatenovels.com.

Editorial Reviews

“Kate delivers for her fans.”—Kirkus Reviews
 
 
“A true high-school romance novel—complete with an archenemy, a prom, and a battle-of-the-bands subplot . . . Will delight fans and win over new readers.”—Booklist

From the Publisher

Unforgiven delivers the next installment of Kate’s Fallen series. This title follows fallen angel Cam as he makes a deal with the devil. In the vein of quintessential teen drama, the boy makes a bet that he can get the girl to fall in love with him in two weeks or suffer under Lucifer’s rule. The girl, Lilith—the only girl Cam has ever loved—is stuck in a perpetual purgatory. It is a race against time and Lilith’s surly attitude and historical hatred to save them both. Offering a male perspective, Unforgiven may renew an interest in the series (the last title in the series was released in 2012) just in time, as the re-imagining of Twilight from a male perspective has recently hit shelves. The plot moves rather quickly, yet this is in contrast to an overwhelming amount of character development, making the story progression seem a little forced and often too hasty. The strong points lie in Kate’s description of Lilith’s purgatory and the setting, with beautiful imagery and a creative take including snow globes and a mall food court. Readers who have followed the series from the beginning may enjoy this title, but it may be a hard sell as a stand-alone title. This would be a good purchase for libraries that have an audience with a continued interest in the genre. Reviewer: K. Malix; Ages 12 to 18.

VOYA, February 2016 (Vol. 38, No. 6) - Ole Meyer

Some love stories are fraught with struggles, but love always prevails, right? What if heaven and hell held stakes in your happiness? What if hell had a stronger hold? Lilith’s life has always seemed to go wrong. Her brother, Bruce, is sick. Her mother is mean, and their cupboards are empty. All Lilith has is her music. It seems everyone at school hates her, and then Cam arrives. He’s perfect, slick and handsome, and acts as if he already knows Lilith and as if he’s attracted to her. Strangely enough, the more attention he shows to her, the more she inexplicably hates him. Even she cannot understand why her emotions are so strongly against him. No matter what he does she just does not seem to remember him; which is good and bad. She does not seem to remember when he broke her heart thousands of years before; she just knows that so many of the bad things that happen to her can be linked to Cam. He has a secret that he should have told her and now it may be too late, especially since Lucifer now has a stake in their happiness and Cam has fifteen days to make Lilith fall back in love with him. If he does, she can live out her mortal life without hell on her doorstep, but if he can’t, Cam must become Lucifer’s right hand fallen angel. Do they have a love that they can bet on? Or will a fallen angel and the love of his life never find happiness? A twist on epic romances, setting love in both modern day and 1,000 BCE. The fallen angel twist makes this love story unique and the reader cannot help but invest their emotions in the struggle of good versus evil. Reviewer: Toni Jourdan; Ages 12 up.

Children's Literature - Toni Jourdan

2015-10-06
The long-standing Fallen series continues with bad boy fallen angel Cam trying to win back his lost love from ancient Israel, entering into a deal with the devil to do it. In 1,000 B.C.E. Cam and Lilith fell in love, but Cam broke Lilith's heart. Now he learns something he has been unaware of for millennia: Lilith has been in Hell all this time. He meets with Lucifer, who shows him via endless snow globe-style worlds how Lilith has been in one Hell after the other for millennia. Cam accepts a deal: if he does not win Lilith's heart in two weeks, he will become Lucifer's slave for eternity. The difficulty is that Lilith hates Cam, so he will have to break through that hatred to turn things around. In her current Hell, Lilith lives in poverty and attends a horrible high school that runs seven days per week with no holidays and where she is bullied by students and teachers alike. Cam joins in as a new student and uses Lilith's deep musical talent to try to win her love. However, Lucifer turns up in the form of Luc, a music promoter, to deceive Lilith into believing that Cam is untrustworthy. Nevertheless, Cam continues his efforts to win her over, despite the fact that Lucifer is aging him from a handsome boy into a dumpy, balding, unattractive guy. Will Lilith be able to see through Lucifer's deceptions and regain the love she felt for Cam so long ago? It's all pretty soapy, but Kate delivers for her fans, her snow-globe world plausible if not entirely original, and keeps suspense high enough to keep readers turning pages. Engaging enough to keep Kate's legions of fans happy. (Paranormal romance. 12-18)

Kirkus Reviews