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 … 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.
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I freaking love Cam. I always wondered what his story was and now I finally got a glimpse. Cam & Lilith are absolutely amazing together. I love everything about this book. The story was great and the characters were amazing. I miss this world and was thrilled that Cam got his own book.
3 Stars
Fallen (Book #1), Torment (Book #2), Passion (Book #3), Fallen in Love (Book #3.5), Rapture (Book #4), and Unforgiven (Book #5) make up the Fallen series by Lauren Kate. They are Young Adult, paranormal stories- with fantasy, angels, good vs evil, drama, angst, fate, hidden agendas, danger, mystery, a love triangle, reincarnation, and more.
This is another book/series that has been sitting on my book has been on my TBR for far too long. Another series that had got lost amongst the thousands of books on/in my TBR. This year part of my reading challenge was to reduce my TBR- both in paperbacks and on my kindle, by reading some of the older backlog. So, here we are….
After reading the entire series now, I have to admit that although the premise and world building was quite good, there were parts that really frustrated me, and fell a little short. I was expecting to be blown away- but it just failed to deliver on my expectations. That’s not to say that I didn’t like the series, I didn’t mind it- but I fear my expectations were much higher than the books could deliver. I do recommend reading the books/series for yourself and making up your own mind though, as there are plenty of people who absolutely loved them.
The story/series follows Lucinda (Luce), Daniel, Cam, (and many other characters) as we discover a world of fallen Angels, Nephilim, curses, reincarnation, and even some time travel. There is much more to the characters and the situation than first appears, and there were a few twists thrown in that I didn’t see coming- but a lot of the story was a little predictable.
I would read more of Lauren Kate’s work just to get more of a fell of what she’s capable of.
Thank you, Lauren Kate!
So Unforgiven is based on Cam and his love Lilith, Cam makes a deal with Lucifer to see Lilith once more. And he does but then he makes another deal. Cam has 15 days, two weeks to make Lilith fall in love with him again. She is being tortured through multiple versions of a reality where she hates it and hates everything. Including Cam. She doesn’t know what he did she doesn’t remember what he did but she hates him.
So Cam trying to make her fall in love with him, seems very impossible. Which you know it made great comedy. Seeing them both banter back and forth it made me laugh I loved it, it made the book more enjoyable. Along with the fact Lucifer begins to also mess in this current reality they are in, and to try and make Lilith hate Cam even more than she does.
Lilith does hate Cam a lot and when everything goes wrong for her, she tends to blame Cam and in some cases it is Cam’s fault. But other times she was just blaming him unnecessarily which still funny to see Cam’s reaction.
As you can say they are in a high school so they all have their own high school drama with your mean girl who just bullies Lilith but then like majority of these they are soon solved. Lilith is the one who helps the bully with creating a song. The song is for a competition battle of the bands that they are both competing on, so I thought that ending to the bully route was amazing. There was no spite.
Throughout the end of the book Lilith begins to remember why she hates Cam and it is revealed that he said he wouldn’t marry her in a church due to the fact he was a fallen angel. Only she did know that. So when he said no to marrying in the church she thought he meant no overall and she then makes a bet with Lucifer to try and win him back. I’m sure somewhere it said about her killing herself (Not sure if that happened or i imagined it… I think it definitely happened)
The ending! AHHH! The ending!!! I loved it, Cam managed to win her love and they got an explanation on what happened back then. And they both get to leave that hell and are free from Lucifer and then she obviously finds out he is a fallen angel and they just go off together. Happily ever after!
It wasn’t a sucky ending like the Fallen series. As I was on Goodreads looking at some of reviews, I thought people were really harsh about this story and some of them hadn’t even read it and just based their thoughts off maybe reading a few books of the Fallen series or just one book or not any at all. I think it is really unfair on the book and the author too. I mean if you have read this book or tried to read it, then I think fair enough put a review up of what you think but when you haven’t read it. I think it’s wrong.
Out of the Fallen series, Cam was a much loved character and I remember loads of people who wanted to know what happened with Cam. So Lauren Kate finally did it, and I loved it. I love Cam and I love this story.
The first thing about Unforgiven is that you don’t necessarily have to read the Fallen series in order to enjoy it, but if you plan on reading the Fallen books, you will want to read them first (there’s a bit of a spoiler in Unforgiven.) This story tells about Cam’s lost love and how he goes about trying to redeem himself of past wrongs. There is very little of Lucinda and Daniel in the story aside from a flashback here and there or a mention of them in thoughts or conversations. This story is all about Cam. We do get a visit from a couple of the other Fallen Angels though, so fans of the series will still enjoy the reading of this one.
I thought this story went quite differently than the stories of Luce and Daniel and I enjoyed the uniqueness of the tale. I also think that there’s a total possibility of carrying on with tales of the other fallen angels, if the author so desired. They are fun to read about and you find yourself rooting for them in every way.