ISBN 13: 9780983157229
Average Goodreads Rating: 4.37 stars
My Rating: Ergh. This is a hard one. 2 out of 5 Nutella jars
These kinds of books are so hard to rate! I am entertained by them. The characters are fun and light but the plot is soo predictable. Do I like it? Yes. Is it well written? An actual 'good' book? No. That right there. Is my relationship with most YA books. I love them and hate them at the same time. It's like watching a crappy low budget TV show with good jokes, strategically placed explosions and just enough cliffhangers to ruin you life.
The first of many overused literary tropes in this novel was the dang love triangle! *long drawn out sigh* Boy meets girl. Girl and boy like each other. Boy is all like, 'bae I can't'. New Boy comes in like 'ayyyy'. *cut to make out scenes*Girl is like 'Oh mai gawd. Like...what do I do?' *Dirty Little Secret by the All American Rejects starts playing* <---- Every. Teen. Book or movie. Right there. When I read the back cover summary I was ever so slightly embarrassed for the species of teenagers. Here, I'll give you a taste:
"Being destined to become some kind of supernatural electrical outlet isn't exactly awesome- especially when Alexandra's 'other half' is everywhere she goes. Seth's in her training room, outside her classes and keeps showing up in her bedroom -so not cool-[..] But it has no effect on what Alex feels for the forbidden, pure-blooded Aiden."
Please tell me some 18 year old, intern at the publishing company with a certain fondness of marijuana wrote that! Jennifer Armentrout if you wrote that you automatically lose 10 brownie points right there.
But at the same time the characters made me laugh. The tongue and cheek banter between Seth and Alex was amusing. The fast paced mix of drama and action made my inner teenage girl go all: O_O 'cute boys, demons, and forbidden love! Must continue.' Plus I have this extremely annoying habit that once a start a series I have to finish it even if I don't even like it. (Not just books. I watched all of Marvel's Agents of Shield on netflix in a day)
Anyway! I've been reading a lot of YA lately. There's two series's I want to finish but after that I think I'll read a couple 'grown up' books. I'm getting to a point where I can't just read YA anymore it gets boring.
Thanks For Reading!
-R
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