But towards the end of the series the characters are thrust out of their safe world, find themselves on the run, and caught up in a very real war. The story takes places while they are in senior year of high school and for a large part of the series the events happen in the small town. I love when authors write about characters who love to read or write, it’s like the author just can’t help but give the characters their own passions and as a book lover myself it’s totally relatable and enjoyable. Daemon wants Katy to stay away from Dee and both Katy and Dee basically just tell him to suck it.Īlso Katy is a book blogger and talks about it often throughout the series and I would be a big fat liar if I said reading this wasn’t the reason I decided to finally stop procrastinating and start this blog. Daemon was instantly an ass to Katy which did what it was supposed to by making us want to win him over and find out what’s up with his asshole act. Dee attempts to befriend her and become all bff-y right away which was a little weird but I went with it. Katy moves in next door to Daemon and Dee Black. With young adult stories in this genre it’s always interesting to see how the author takes care of the pesky parents in the books so they don’t prevent the teenagers from having all the freedom they need to run around on their adventures but have a legitimate excuse for why they aren’t around – the mom being a nurse choice didn’t make me roll my eyes. Katy’s mom is a nurse and works long hours and overnight often so Katy is given a lot of freedom while she’s not around, basically allowing for most of the plot in the series to happen without interference from her mom. This story starts with Katy moving to very small town in West Virginia with her mom to start over as they try to move on from her dad passing away from cancer. I stayed up all night binge reading this under the covers and knocked out all five books in about a week.

This is the first book/series I’ve read by Armentrout but I will definitely be heading back for more. But this series reminded me why, when done right young adult like this can be so good. Recently I’ve been leaning more towards adult and new adult books in this genre and steering away from young adult, partly due to my age because it feels weird being all hot and bother by a teenage character and also because I’ve been wanting the more explicit sexy smut scenes. There are five primary works: Obsidian, Onyx, Opal, Origin, and Opposition.

This is a young adult paranormal sci-fi romance series by Jennifer L.

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