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Origin (A Lux Novel #4) by Jennifer Armentrout

I am in love with this series!  I love the characters, I love Daemon and Katy’s relationship, and I love aliens.  When I had just finished this book and I could not stop saying “Oh my gosh, I cannot believe this book!”  I just kept repeating this as my mantra.  Simon has no idea why I’m freaking out and neither do you if you have not read this book. 

So, again we don’t miss a lot of time between book #3 and book #4.  The only difference is we are seeing the book not just from Katy’s perspective, but also from Daemon’s.  I usually do not like dual point of view books, but Daemon is such a great character that I didn’t skip a beat.  Usually when I get to the next person’s chapter I take a break, I put the book down, but this time I just kept reading because I love Katy and Daemon so very much! 

I had made the decision to wait for the library book, oh my gosh, what an excruciating wait it was.  When I requested the book I thought I was second in line for the book, either way, it felt like it took forever!  Good thing I was super busy and had no time to read.  Once I got this book it took me 3 days to finish it, of course that’s with working 8 hours a day, it’s just that good.

I’m not sure what to talk about within this specific book, besides there are some good times, some bad times, lots of characters die and there are some surprises.  I cannot wait until August when the fifth book comes out.  I want it now!  I think I will read Shadows (a book about Dawson and Beth) and then there is an adult book about an Arum named Hunter who I believe is going to have a larger part to play in the Fifth book of the Lux series. 

There was a cover change before this last book, the picture I have chosen is not what the book cover looked like that I borrowed from the library, but this one is the original model (or at least it looks like it to me).  I have read that Armentrout had to make some changes because of her publishers which is better for her, so good job JA.  I loved the original models and thought they went along with the idea I had in my head.  Well I know this blog wasn’t that great, just excitement overflowing to my fingers.  Sad I can’t discuss more because I hate spoilers.  If you have not looked into this series, please do!  Excellent read!

Keep Reading my Friends!

The Best Side of Daemon yet!

Opal (Lux #3) by Jennifer L. Armentrout

Have I mentioned that I heart the Lux series?  I cannot get over how much it warms my heart to read about Katy and Daemon.  This book has done it again.  I fell for Daemon in Obsidian, I got to know him a little better and start to see through his tough exterior in Onyx, but Opal is by far the best side of Daemon yet.  We get to see his sweet, romantic, loving side without losing his confident, cocky, arrogant side.  I loved this book. I could start reading it over again right now and not be upset.

I’m not sure that I could sum up this book in a paragraph without losing some readers so I’ll go straight into what I loved about this book and I probably won’t even try to say what I didn’t like (because the only things I didn’t like were characters that were supposed to get on my nerves, i.e. Blake-ugh, hate that guy and Dee’s falling out with Katy- sad that friendship was gone.  I hated Will-so glad he is out of the picture.  I hated what happened with Carissa).    But I loved so much, so let’s start there.

I loved Prom and the picnic by the lake.  So sweet and romantic.  I loved that there was a fire and food and it was in a special place for both Daemon and Katy.  I love that he still calls her Kitten.  Have I said that before in these blogs?  I love the nickname Kitten.  So glad he calls her that and not Kitty Cat, that nickname sends the bad chills down my back (and not in a good way).

I cannot wait for Origin.  Requested from the Library and I can’t wait!

Read this series!  It’s an excellent YA series and suddenly I am very interested in Aliens! Keep Reading my Friends!

Onyx- Not such a good Rock to have around

Onyx (A Lux Novel, Book Two) by Jennifer L. Armentrout

Spoilers from Obsidian, book one!

I know this is a separate book from Obsidian, but without even pausing, I picked Onyx up directly after finishing Obsidian, because I couldn’t wait to see what was going to happen next.  Obsidian left us with Katy walking right out of Daemon’s arms, she blames their freaky alien connection from Daemon healing Katy for his new found feelings.  Daemon healed Katy after she killed her second Arum by actually tapping into Daemon’s powers and striking that evil alien scum down, but she also almost lost her life in the process.  But I digress.  The point is, that I think I loved book the Onyx even more than I loved the book Obsidian.  Obsidian did a great job of introducing the characters, the premise of what’s going on and of course it gives us Daemon Black.  Onyx expands the story and shows us a little bigger picture of what is really going on with the Department of Defense.  What the Blacks have believed all of their lives is what the Luxen elders have told them, now through the help of the new kid in school, Blake they are learning more and more about what the DOD is really after.  So, what are they really after?  I think I will let you read the Onyx to find out.

I love the names of the Lux Series.  The different kinds of rocks and what they can be used for in this new alien world that Katy has stumbled into is absolutely genius.  Armentrout leads us into this foreign world that she has created and makes us fall head over heels in love with the Blacks.

This book has some steamy scenes and all throughout the book I am longing for Daemon and Katy to get over the hurtles set in front of them and finally be together.  Of course you know what that means, in walks the love triangle, Blake.  He’s the new, drool worthy, boy in school and he focuses his attention on Katy much to my dislike and also to the chagrin of Daemon.  You can see the jealousy rolling off of him and it makes me like his character even more.  Daemon doesn’t like Blake or trust him from the first time he sees him.  Katy needs him to help her through this new life that she is being introduced to.  And also, she just wants to have a normal date with a normal boy, is that too much to ask?  Poor Katy, I think that it is too much to ask because Blake is just like Katy, a mutated human.  He also was healed by a Luxen and has absorbed powers and learned to use them. 

I loved the ending to this book, I cannot wait to read Opal, so I probably won’t.  This series so far is worthy of a read and I hope that you will read it soon!  Keep Reading my friends!   

The First Man Crush Monday Blog, Daemon Black!

Obsidian by Jennifer L. Armentrout

Let’s talk about “Man Crush Monday,” shall we.  I’m not sure that I can consistently complete a weekly blog where I talk about the best written, swoonable book guys, but I’m going to try.  I have to clarify here that these are my fictional crushes, and therefor not real, but I only have one real MCM and that is every day not just Mondays, which of course is the love of my life, my husband, Simon.  So back to the fiction, let’s start with Daemon Black.  Daemon is the bad boy example of a MCM.  He has the dark hair and the dark look with the penetrating eyes that has Katy ready to slap him and kiss him all at the same time.  Of course he can’t be bad boy 24/7, we start to see the cracks in his hard, muscled exterior pretty quickly as he gets closer to Katy while trying to protect his sister.  Daemon has all the great qualities of a bad boy, from the protective big brother, the rescuer from all things evil, and the smart mouth that has the reader giggling.  Daemon is MCM worthy, probably for more than just one week.    

I loved this book.  Correction, I LOVED THIS BOOK!  I know that a book is going to receive 5 stars on good reads, when I can’t put it down, that was Obsidian.  I started reading it Wednesday night and finished it Friday night with working eight hours, commuting about an hour, and still completing my wifely duties of cooking, but probably not cleaning (because I was reading).

Obsidian is about a girl named Katy that moves from sunny Florida to small town West Virginia after she and her mother could not move past her father’s death three years previous.  As she tries to find a grocery store, who shows up?  The “can’t believe he’s that hot” neighbor and his twin sister, but this book would be totally boring without a huge plot twist.  Within the first day of her arrival she sees the missing poster of a girl her age along with the creepy men in black that seem to lurk around the town and she knows that something is different about this town.  Katy also realizes that there is something different about her new neighbors.  She loves Dee, the sweet sister that is soon becoming Katy’s best friend, but she cannot stand Daemon, Dee’s cocky, arrogant, quick witted twin brother.  But she also can’t stop thinking about him either.  Well I can’t go into a lot of details because this book is so fun to read, you’ll just have to jump in and read it yourself to see what is going on, once I picked it up I couldn’t put it down, I hope you feel the same.

So, I have to say that I loved Katy, what an excellent lead character.  Her pain was so real from her father’s death, her unwillingness to start over in a new town and to make friends was tangible.  I hated the move for her.  I also loved Daemon, what an excellent antagonist.  I mean that in every sense of the word, he pushes Katy’s buttons from day one and his smart-alecky attitude and his arrogance make me love him even more.  Even though Katy has this anger in her heart against him, we all know that she is hot for him.  I also love that you can feel the tension between Katy and Daemon from the very beginning.  He wants to hate her, and she can’t stand him, but you can feel the yearning right under the current of the story. 

So, I have mention the great big pink elephant in the book, so beware: Spoiler Alert!!! 

Aliens, who doesn’t love a good sci-fi young adult novel?  I’m not sure, maybe idiots… just kidding, probably people who don’t like the paranormal, but that is not me.  I am always up for some hot alien action.  I loved how Armentrout invented what the alien’s true selves looked like.  I loved the picture of light vs. dark with the Luxen being the embodiment of light and the dark shadowy character of the Arum being the inky shadows lurking in the dark.  The Arum is the alien race that is out to kill the Luxen to take their powers.  Did I mention that Daemon and Dee along with their other alien friends have powers?  Of course I can’t leave our that the American government knows all about the Alien race and their seems to be more about the Department of Defense lurking in the background that I am sure we are going to hear a lot more about in books to come.

Well, not sure what else to say, except, this book is action packed, romance/hate filled and once you start, you can’t stop reading this book.  So, do it!  Keep Reading my Friends!