Review of Jennifer L Armentrout's Lux: Obsidian
Release Date: May 8th, 2012
Synopsis as found on GoodReads.com:
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.
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As always, Jennifer L Armentrout has written another beautifully poignant tale. Kat is a girl who is moved from her home in Florida to a rural town in West Virginia by her mother who only wants to get away from the memory of Kat's father who passed away 3 years ago from Brain Cancer. They just so happen to move in next door to a family with 2 children her age: Dee is immensely welcoming and quickly becomes a close friend to Kat, but Daemon, Dee's incredibly gorgeous twin brother, is anything but. He quickly forbids Dee from seeing her, saying she is not worthy of being her friend, but Dee doesn't take what he says with more than a grain of sand.
Dee forces Daemon to befriend Kat, if only to appease his sister, so that she can have 1 "normal" friend. While they begin to hang out, Kat begins to notice many odd things about the siblings, but she can't quite put her finger on what is going on. Daemon's personality & the chemistry between he and Kat become so hot and cold, that during a walk they take together he finally tells her to leave his sister alone and they would all be better off. Kat doesn't want him to see her cry & runs off, not paying attention to where she is going... right into the path of a speeding truck. When it seems like she has taken her last breath, she realizes that the truck is no longer moving. Daemon has stopped it with his mind.
He can no longer hide the truth from her... he & his sister are Aliens, along with a large amount of the population in their town. He expects this jaw dropping realization to send Kat running, but she defies all logic by not running anywhere. These Aliens, known as Luxen, are only known by eachother and the Department of Defense, who give them the money to live in secret. They live by a certain standard amount of rules, among which are: no humans can know about them & they are not allowed to have romantic relationships with humans. He also tells her about the race of Aliens, called Arum, who destroyed his home planet & are hunting his kind on Earth. Hell bent on stealing their life force & powers.
This knowledge would bring forth the beginning of an adventure in keeping herself & her new friends alive, as well as the realization that there is something more between Daemon & Kat than just the love/hate relationship they have known so far. There might just be some sexual frustration & attraction between them. But there love is forbidden.
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I love everything that Armentrout writes. She has a way of drawing the reader in & making you fall in love with her characters. I see much of myself in the character Kat (even if she is female & I am not) & I could easily fall in love the character Daemon. I love the snarky brooding type, I guess.
This series reminds me in some ways of Becca Fitzpatrick's Hush Hush, even if it isn't about Angels. So if you were a fan of Hush Hush, check it out. Also for fans of Eve Silver's The Game series, Melissa Landers' Alienated, & Rick Yancey's The Fifth Wave... just to name a few.
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