Jennifer L Armentrout - Onyx

Ok, first of all, I have to say that this book had me going back and forth between shouting "what-the-hell-do-you-think-you're-doing!" and "OMG-yes-pleaaaaaseeee!!!!!" Kat was just so damn frustrating sometimes!!! She fought her feelings for Daemon for like 200 pages. Yea, I understand he hurt your feelings and you can't trust that his feelings are real because of the bond that you have now, but seriously!! You're going to keep that hot piece of a** who is obviously very sorry that he hurt you, waiting forever and even torturing him by dating another guy? WTF!!! Kat, honey, you don't even like Bill, or Blick, or...what was his name again? Hahaha (Yes, I know its Blake, just playin). I HATE it when books have love triangles. It's so stupid! All it succeeds in doing is hurting all the parties involved. Why do it? Cause honestly Kat, when else are you going to find a guy that 1) worships the ground you walk on, even if he doesn't show it 2) will forgive you even after you get his sister's boyfriend killed, 3) forgives you for not trusting him on the fact that the other guy is evil, 4) is so drool-worthy, smoking, has a six pack, and is so insanely hot that you melt at the sight of him? Can ya say it with me? One in a million, girl. Maybe billion. So Kat, get on the Daemon bandwagon and ride that man like you mean it or I will. Seriously. No joke.

So to actually give you guys a formal review, the book starts out with Kat feeling all feverish after Dameon healed her from a deadly wound inflicted by an Arum (nasty pieces of work, those). She gets taken to the hospital and stays there for a couple days recovering from the "flu". Little does she know, that Daemon's healing her changed her so that she now has the abilities of a Luxen without actually being one. Aaaaand, those abilities will grow to be more powerful than those of the one who changed you, meaning Daemon, and since hottie D is one of the most powerful Luxen, well...do you see where I'm going with this? Kat is eventually going to be a badass mofo. Of course, she first has to stop denying her attraction to Daemon, and soon, or I will go crazy, and she has to trust him. In this book, she meets the incredibly annoying Blake, who obviously has a hidden agenda, but Kat refuses to see that even after he continually hurts her physically (all in the name of her "training"). In the end, her misplaced trust ends up doing irrevocable damage and changes the dynamics of her relationship with Dee. At the end of the book, which is a mind-blower and a hell of a cliffhanger (seriously? You're gonna end it like that JLA?), Kat and Daemon finally get together and admit their feelings for each other (or rather Kat admits her feelings for Daemon)  

All in all, it was a great book, but it also had unoriginal and annoying aspects, which were introducing a third character to form a love triangle, thereby creating dissent between the hero and heroine, and the heroine doing something that creates a rift between her and her best friend. Even though the general plot of the story is original, the side plots are not, as they have been redone again and again. BUT, even so, I give the book 4.5 of 5 stars. The anticipation and build up of sexual tension between Daemon and Kat alone would have made me give it 4.5 stars. It's a rare thing that an author can create sexual tension like that without talking explicitly about certain body parts and what the hero/heroine would like to do to them. We got just enough from JLA to satisfy our romantic streaks without diving into explicit adult territory. Awesome job, Jennifer, I can't wait to see what else you have for us!!  

Book Love,

Lena