Torment: Lauren Kate

I enjoy the series, but not so much the writing.  I mentioned this in my review of the first book.  I do have a hate for love triangles, but they do make things more dramatic, which is a plus....BUT this one is just wrong.  In the last book she found out that she and Daniel were lovers in each life time and that she always died when she was 17, but this time is different, blah blah blah.  But she kinda falls for another, which I can actually understand, but I figured since she knew that her and Daniel were in love it wouldn't matter.

Anyways!  So Cam and Daniel have a truce, which gives them 18 days to work together. And the do work together, but Luce doesn't know about the truce and still thinks that Cam is evil and out to get her.  But really he and Daniel are really working together to eliminate the beings who are coming after Luce.  Daniel AND Cam are not supposed to see Luce at all during the 18 days, but they both kinda break that rule and see her.
Cam and Daniel also discover that the enemy is using special arrows called Starshots.  They are blunted ended arrows, but the material is deadly to angels, demons and the like.
Onward to the story!  Luce is forced to attend this school all the way in California.  It's this special private boarding school.  She finds out that it's full of nephilim students as well as some mortal students.  The honors program of the school is really just a cover for the nephilim students to learn more about their heritage.
She makes a few friends including Shelby her roommate, who is hard to warm up...and also had sort of a fling with Daniel back in the day.  And then Miles, who is a really friendly guy.
In one class her teachers talk about announcers and how they carry messages, which Luce recently learned, but now she wants to know how to uncover the messages.  She wants to know more about her past lives so she and her friends work on opening the messages, and she uncovers things she may or may not want to know.

Characters to know:
Luce:  She's in love with Daniel, and she knows this, but she wants to know more about her past lives.
Daniel: He would do anything for Luce, but he's keeping her in the dark about a lot of things, only to protect her, but Luce is restless.
Shelby:  Luce's roommate, she is kind a bit of a sarcastic bitch at the beginning, but she slowly warms up to Luce and they end up becoming friends.  You also find out that she and Daniel had a little fling.
Miles:  One of Luce's classmates.  He's totally crushing on Luce, but he is truly a sweetheart.f
Cam: He and Daniel team up to defeat the Outcasts and keep Luce safe.
Steve and Francesca:  They are her teachers.  Steve is demon and Francesca is an angel.  They actually love each other, although they do have different opinions on things.

Fallen: Lauren Kate

It's not a dystopian novel!!!  So I thought this was a book someone recommended, but it was another book called Fallen.  But I didn't find out until I had already read it.  This was alright.  It was a little hard for me to get into, but I went ahead and just trudged my way through and in the end it didn't end up half bad.  It was completely different than what I imagined from the cover.  One thing I didn't like about the book was the perspective it was written.  I don't know if that's because I'm used to reading first person books or strictly third person.  But it was written in third, but it almost seemed like it needed to be written in first because it includes Luce's thoughts.  I don't know, it just confused me at times.
Pretty much this girl, Luce, is in reform school after her last love interest died while she was with him.  Well not so much died as was burned to death.  She doesn't really understand what happened.  She was kissing him and then all of a sudden things went awry.  So she's at reform school, and really it's the type of school where juvenile delinquents go.  When Trevor, the boy who burned died, she had seen shadows and they have been haunting her since she was a little girl.  And she tried explaining it but no one really took her seriously, which resulted in the reform school.
While she's there she meets a lot of interesting people.   But from the first day she feels a weird connection with this guy named Daniel and for some reason she attracted to him.  But she also has another admirer, Cam.  He's quite charming and keeps beckoning for Luce to date him.  She keeps having weird dreams of Daniel, she kinda feels like a stalker.  She does all this research on him and with help from her only friend on campus, Penn, she sneaks a peak at his school records. She keeps trying to talk to Daniel and have a friendship with him, but he keeps pushing her away and then at other times he seems really into her.

Characters to know:
Luce:  She's the main character, she is in reform school because her (kind of) boyfriend died while she was there and she doesn't know what happened.
Daniel:  He's kind of Luce's love interest but he's constantly shoving her off.
Arriane:  Arriane takes a liking to Luce.  On the first day she (Arriane) takes Luce around the campus and just befriends her.
Penn: Penn quickly becomes Luce's friend. She's pretty much the only 'normal' AKA non-delinquent at Sword Cross.  She's there because her dad died and he was the groundskeeper there, and it was the only place she called home.
Cam: He's quite charming, but there's something about him that is too perfect.  He won't give up on trying to go out with Luce.

(I'll come back and edit the characters, but it's getting late and I have work in the morning.)