Published: May 8th, 2012
Publisher: Entangled Teen
Pages: 335
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 nneighbour 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.
This review is not spoiler free, so beware!
Jennifer Armentrout really disappointed me with her Half Blood series, so I was ready to read the first half of this book and put it down. But, I was pleasantly surprised!
To start off, I’ll say that if you’re looking for an fast, easy read that doesn’t involve too much brain power (That’s really not a bad thing) then this is a good book for you.
I was a small bit apprehensive about the alien aspect, because I haven’t read an alien book before, so I was expecting a really cheesy alien. But the aliens in this book are really neat! They are literally light, and they can harness and manipulate the light around them. Plus, they can travel via light? Yes please.
I feel like Jennifer Armentrout wasn’t writing this to win any awards or create the next master piece, but she was just writing it for fun. I could tell that she loved writing it, and in return I loved reading it!
The main character, Katy, was a character I could relate to, because duh, I’m a book blogger? She was snarky, and wasn’t really afraid to stand up for herself against Damon. The moment in the cafeteria when she dumps pasta on top of Ash? I actually laughed out loud at this and I would love to see that on a TV or movie screen.
But, I docked a star because I absolutely HATED the relationship between Katy and Damon. This relationship was the textbook definition of an emotionally abusive relationship. The way that Damon knew Katy was attracted to him, and he used that to manipulate her into making out with him, and to make her squirm. I don’t care how many people defend Damon because of Dee, he was a piece of shit. The only thing that saved this for me, was the way that Katy stood up for herself in the last few paragraphs of the book. She straight up told Damon that she doesn’t want him, because she needs it to feel special to her. She understood that she was being used, and she stopped it in its tracks.
I hope the relationship aspect recovers in the next instalment, ‘Onxy’, because I’ll be reading and reviewing that book before the end of september!
4/5 Lightsabers.
Darling Bibliophile 