Torment (Fallen #2) (2010)
Torment (Fallen #2) is a 2010 reincarnation book written by Lauren Kate.
Luce and her angel, Daniel, have finally found each other, and now they are forced apart to keep her alive. Hidden at a new school on the California coast, she trains among others like her and starts digging into her past lives, the loves she has lived and lost across centuries. The more she uncovers, the more Daniel's version of their history stops adding up. Lauren Kate writes moody, atmospheric, and romance-drenched, all sea fog and fallen angels and the uneasy question of whether a love written into fate can really be called a choice.
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What is Torment (Fallen #2) about?
Luce and her angel, Daniel, have finally found each other, and now they are forced apart to keep her alive. Hidden at a new school on the California coast, she trains among others like her and starts digging into her past lives, the loves she has lived and lost across centuries. The more she uncovers, the more Daniel's version of their history stops adding up. Lauren Kate writes moody, atmospheric, and romance-drenched, all sea fog and fallen angels and the uneasy question of whether a love written into fate can really be called a choice.
When was Torment (Fallen #2) published?
Torment (Fallen #2) was published in 2010.
Who made Torment (Fallen #2)?
Torment (Fallen #2) was written by Lauren Kate.
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Supernatural shares the fallen-angel lore and doomed-devotion mood. City of Angels tells the other side of the same wish, an immortal willing to fall for a mortal love. The 2016 Fallen film adapts this series' first book, the closest screen match for Luce and Daniel's centuries-long ache.
Loving an angel who was never allowed to keep you
Daniel cannot have Luce no matter how many lifetimes he's loved her, and these carry that impossible arithmetic. City of Angels runs the exact trade: an angel giving up eternity for a woman who won't remember the bargain. Supernatural and The Vampire Diaries build entire seasons around humans loved by something otherworldly and dangerous, Fallen leans into that moody, grace-and-demons atmosphere, and Beautiful Creatures keeps its forbidden romance as fated.
Partners who put distance between you to keep you safe
Daniel keeps trying to put an ocean between himself and Luce to keep her alive, and that same doomed impulse, love as something you protect someone from, runs through this list too. Twilight and New Moon build entire arcs around Edward pushing Bella away for her own good, while Your Heart Will Be Broken and Your Fault: London both promise the exact kind of romance their titles threaten.
More swoony fantasy series built around one all-consuming love
Torment keeps Luce and Daniel's bond as its emotional center through every plot twist, and these hand that weight to their central couple. A Court of Thorns and Roses and its sequel let romance reshape a fae court, Throne of Glass keeps its heroine's love life tangled with her survival, and Caraval, Once Upon a Broken Heart, and Serpent & Dove build their magic around one relationship readers ache for.