Title: Obsidian (Lux #1)
Author:Jennifer L. Armentrout
Length: 361Pages
Synopsis:
Starting over sucks.
When we moved to West Virginia right before my senior year, I'd pretty much resigned myself to thick accents, dodgy internet access, and a whole lot of boring.... until I spotted my hot neighbor, with his looming height and eerie green eyes. Things were looking up.
And then he opened his mouth.
Daemon is infuriating. Arrogant. Stab-worthy. We do not get along. At all. But when a stranger attacks me and Daemon literally freezes time with a wave of his hand, well, something...unexpected happens.
The hot alien living next door marks me.
You heard me. Alien. Turns out Daemon and his sister have a galaxy of enemies wanting to steal their abilities, and Daemon's touch has me lit up like the Vegas Strip. The only way I'm getting out of this alive is by sticking close to Daemon until my alien mojo fades.
If I don't kill him first, that is.
When we moved to West Virginia right before my senior year, I'd pretty much resigned myself to thick accents, dodgy internet access, and a whole lot of boring.... until I spotted my hot neighbor, with his looming height and eerie green eyes. Things were looking up.
And then he opened his mouth.
Daemon is infuriating. Arrogant. Stab-worthy. We do not get along. At all. But when a stranger attacks me and Daemon literally freezes time with a wave of his hand, well, something...unexpected happens.
The hot alien living next door marks me.
You heard me. Alien. Turns out Daemon and his sister have a galaxy of enemies wanting to steal their abilities, and Daemon's touch has me lit up like the Vegas Strip. The only way I'm getting out of this alive is by sticking close to Daemon until my alien mojo fades.
If I don't kill him first, that is.
(Cover Photo, Information and Synopsis from Goodreads)
Review:
4/5 Stars
Katy is feisty and strong
willed. Daemon is protective, and a jerk. Dee is just the right amount of
bubbly. These three characters are the main players in the story, and they are
all wonderfully dynamic. None of them are one sided, and since Katy moves in
next door to these two, nothing is quite as simple as it may look on the
surface.
The story is from Katy’s
point of view, and Jennifer L. Armentrout did a great job at giving her a back-story
without it being an information dump. She also does a very good job at weaving
Daemon and Dee a back-story.
If you read the synopsis,
there’s no attempt to hide from you that Daemon and Dee are aliens—but watching
Katy learn and figure it out is very interesting. The pacing is perfect, and at
a very logical speed.
Now the more you learn
about these aliens, and what they have to deal with the less Daemon looks like
a total jerk. Because in this story the author managed to weave a powerful
enemy, huge secrets, and a forbidden romance—who doesn’t love a forbidden
romance?—into a very conclusive, well written story.
Like I said, nothing in
this story is simple or straightforward—at least not in the beginning. This
just adds to the fun, and the story.
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