It was just too much.Īll too often there is a love triangle featured in a YA novel, and Laylen the vampire was competing with Alex for Gemma’s attention, so I was just waiting for it.

Here are my thoughts why include all of the additional paranormal/supernatural details when the star angle/legend, and how it related to Gemma, was so fascinating? The addition of foresight, teleportation, witches, and the vampire was distracting, and took away from, what I assume, was the original plot. This is when the fantasy elements set it, because after she visits this spot, she is confronted by monsters, forseers, witches, and even a vampire! NOTHING is as it seems, and Gemma is responsible for the future of mankind. Her partner takes her into the woods, to reveal an ashy spot where according to legend, a star fell 20 years ago. The Fallen Star begins relatively believable, with a young high school loner, being forced into a group astronomy assignment. Systematically isolated, courtesy of her grandparents who she called by their first names, who could blame her for wanting to be anywhere else? I wanted to mention before I begin, that I liked Gemma, the girl with the violet eyes who lacked the ability to feel emotion, and longed to be up with the stars. “I had to save myself in order to save the world.” What Gemma is about to find out, is that the monsters in her dreams are real, and the boy that she believes hates her is her biggest ally… She can’t shake the feeling that her nightmares are coming true. To add to her stress, she has been experiencing reoccurring nightmares about monsters with yellow eyes chasing her in the woods.

Something was going on, and Gemma needed to find out… She overhears her partners Alex and Aislin discussing about her and a “prophecy”, behind her back. When forced to work in a group for an astronomy project, Gemma gets the notion that her partner Alex, hates her. Gemma feels invisible in high school, and doesn’t have any friends. The books in her The Coincidence series are also bestsellers.Genre: YA, Fantasy, Supernatural, Paranormal-Vampires, Urban Fantasy Sorensen also wrote the fantasy series The Fallen Star and Darkness Falls. Her novel The Secret of Ella and Micha was featured in the USA Today Bestseller List and was responsible for creating a new wave of New-adult fiction. Jessica Sorensen is an American novelist. JSTOR ( July 2013) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message).Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately, especially if potentially libelous or harmful. This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification.

The Fallen Star by Jessica Sorensen