Author: Jennifer Armentrout
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Series or Stand-alone:
Book 2 in the Lux Series
How I got it:
Won it in a giveaway
Pages:376
Won it in a giveaway
Pages:376
Publisher: Entangled Publishing
Genre: Young Adult / Paranormal/ Aliens
Being connected to Daemon Black sucks…
Thanks to his alien mojo, Daemon’s determined to prove what he feels for me is more than a product of our bizarro connection. So I’ve sworn him off, even though he’s running more hot than cold these days. But we’ve got bigger problems.
Something worse than the Arum has come to town…
The Department of Defense are here. If they ever find out what Daemon can do and that we're linked, I’m a goner. So is he. And there's this new boy in school who’s got a secret of his own. He knows what’s happened to me and he can help, but to do so, I have to lie to Daemon and stay away from him. Like that's possible. Against all common sense, I'm falling for Daemon. Hard.
But then everything changes…
I’ve seen someone who shouldn’t be alive. And I have to tell Daemon, even though I know he’s never going to stop searching until he gets the truth. What happened to his brother? Who betrayed him? And what does the DOD want from them—from me?
No one is who they seem. And not everyone will survive the lies…
Thanks to his alien mojo, Daemon’s determined to prove what he feels for me is more than a product of our bizarro connection. So I’ve sworn him off, even though he’s running more hot than cold these days. But we’ve got bigger problems.
Something worse than the Arum has come to town…
The Department of Defense are here. If they ever find out what Daemon can do and that we're linked, I’m a goner. So is he. And there's this new boy in school who’s got a secret of his own. He knows what’s happened to me and he can help, but to do so, I have to lie to Daemon and stay away from him. Like that's possible. Against all common sense, I'm falling for Daemon. Hard.
But then everything changes…
I’ve seen someone who shouldn’t be alive. And I have to tell Daemon, even though I know he’s never going to stop searching until he gets the truth. What happened to his brother? Who betrayed him? And what does the DOD want from them—from me?
No one is who they seem. And not everyone will survive the lies…
OPINION:
Warning: Mild Spoilers from Book 1
Onyx, Book 2 of the Lux series, was like wish fulfillment
for all lovers of Obsidian. Think of everything you loved about Book 1 exploded a
million times multiplied by infinity. Sounds great, right? But like the old saying goes, be careful what you wish for because you just might get it. If I’m
going to use clichéd sayings then, sometimes too much of a good thing isn’t a
good thing, works too.
Before I get jumped by all the JLA fans out there,
let me explain what I mean. Onyx is a hundred pages more than Obsidian. That’s
a hundred more episodes of Daemon and Katy going at each other (throats and body parts), getting in
arguments and generally being hot and cold. This was the selling point of Book
1 to me. I loved their on and off relationship but, in Onyx, I felt like it was
really overdone. I don’t think there needed to be another hundred pages because
it just made everything seem redundant. It was like all the book lovers and
bloggers of the world said what they loved about Obsidian so JLA times it by
ten in the next book. The problem with that is that it was just the same thing
over and over.
Although the secret about Dee and Daemon is out,
there is still a mystery in this novel. The Department of Defense is in town
and the Luxen need to figure out why they’re there, who betrayed Dawson and got
him killed, and who is this new Blake kid? I liked the mysteries and subplots but still felt they could have been better by speeding up the plot overall.
There is also a bit of a love
triangle and I loved seeing Daemon jealous. It made the slow parts worth
reading. Daemon is definitely the same ol' Daemon but you get to see more of his soft side, which was nice. How much is cared about Katy and his siblings came through loud and clear. There was a few parts towards the end that were really emotional. They were probably the best parts of the book.
I thought that Katy was a little less independent
and a little more obtuse in this novel. She makes some obviously stupid choices
that forwarded the plot but weren’t really a part of her character. I hope she gets her gazoombs back in the next book.
OVERALL:
