The Fallen Star Themes

A great deal of Gemma's isolation in The Fallen Star comes from the fact that she feels abandoned by the people around her. Her parents supposedly died when she was just an infant, and Gemma's been...

Not everyone is as they seem in The Fallen Star. Laylen is a vampire who is neither bloodthirsty nor evil, and Stephan—the leader of the Keepers—isn't as good as he's supposed to be. Throughout...

The characters in The Fallen Star don't always tell each other the truth, though this doesn't necessarily signal bad intentions. Alex and Aislin are keeping Gemma's mother's disappearance when she...

The Fallen Star isn't the kind of fantasy novel where it's all rainbows and unicorns. There's a war on the horizon because the Death Walkers are hunting down Gemma so she can't stop them from bring...

Gemma is a pretty brave leading lady in The Fallen Star, but now that she's feeling real human emotions, she has fear to contend with—big time. See, there's plenty to fear after Gemma meets Alex...

What if you woke up one day and everything you knew about yourself was turned upside down? That's what happens to Gemma in The Fallen Star. All her life, she's been completely unemotional and belie...

Fate is definitely something that Gemma and her friends are up against in The Fallen Star since they're trying to fight a prophecy that predicts the end of the word. The Foreseers have predicted th...

When we first meet Gemma in The Fallen Star, her entire past is pretty mysterious and she doesn't remember much of her early childhood since her background has been wiped from her memory and hidden...

Most of the characters in The Fallen Star have a duty to fulfill that they'll risk their lives for. It's an intense bunch, needless to say. The Keepers are all trying to keep Gemma alive so that sh...

There are plenty of magical and supernatural elements floating about in The Fallen Star, which makes sense since the main character is hosting the power of a fallen star inside her body. In Gemma's...