《堕落天使》系列2：《试炼》

The start of this book sees fallen angel Daniel take girlfriend Luce to a new school, Shoreline, to protect her. With many of the pupils there Nephilim — other angels, or people descended from angels — it’s a lot more pleasant than her old reform school Sword & Cross. There’s just the small matter of the hunters out to get her.

And while Luce thinks her main problem is avoiding the “bad” fallen angel Cam, the reader knows right from the prologue* that there’s far worse things than him, as we see Cam and Daniel draw up a truce* to deal with the mysterious* Outcasts.

While they expect Luce to sit quietly in Shoreline, she’s desperate* to find out more of her past lives, and to see whether she really can live happily with Daniel. As she learns to summon the mysterious Announcers, she may be able to find the answers she wants — or she may end up putting herself, Daniel, Cam, and her new friends Miles and Shelby in even more danger.

There are four books planned for the series, so this gets us to the halfway mark.

Author Lauren Kate is an American author of young adult fiction.(SD-Agencies)

prologue 序幕

truce 休战

mysterious 神秘的

desperate 不顾一切的