Title: Obsidian Author: Jennifer L. Armentrout # of Pages: 335 (paperback) Genre: YA, Paranormal, Fantasy Rating:★★☆☆☆ Synopsis: 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. Review:
I mean, seriously? This is the kind of book I get that has an average rating of 4.31 stars? I have definitely over-estimated it's quality.
To sum it up, it's Twilight all over again, but with aliens. And Twilight, if I may add, only got a 3.57 average rating. Doesn't seem quite fair to me.
Here's how it goes down:
Katy = Bella
Daemon = Edward
Dee = Alice
Ash = Rosalie
The other aliens = the other vampires
Katy's human friends = Bella's human friends
Etc.
Katy/Bella move to a brand new place. She meets a guy named Daemon/Edward. He saves her from a getting hit by truck. Katy/Bella talk to Daemon/Edward in the forest where she figures out that Daemon/Edward is an alien/vampire (which happens to be my favorite scene in Obsidian. Here I am, ranting in my head about how bad the book is and then Armentrout puts a Twilight references in the middle of it all. It really made my day...). All the other aliens/vampires are pissed about a human finding out about them. A bad guy ends up attacking Katy/Bella, and Katy/Bella is forced to face the guy by herself until Daemon/Edward saves the day. The end.
Alright, maybe that's the extremely over-simplified version of the story. There were these so-called "sexy" scenes, but to me, they fell short. Katy and Daemon only kissed twice (if you count the make-out session as one) in the whole story. And that isn't enough to call the book "sexy".
Daemon could be considered sexy, but I don't find the whole "perfect, model-like" description. Why do that have to be gorgeous? If they make a movie from this book (which wouldn't surprise me), I can almost guarantee that I will not consider the actor to be "perfect". It was the same thing with Twilight's Edward. Pattinson didn't create a character that I thought was overwhelmingly powerful, and the same would be for Daemon.
I do think that this book is better than Twilight, but Clare's books are better than Obsidian. I gave The Mortal Instruments three stars, so it would only be fair if I have Obsidian a lower rating.
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