I have to give Armentrout her due on the aliens thing. You don't see a whole lot of alien books these days. It's all about the vampires and zombies or vampire zombies and the few books not about those two things are about pirates. So I do like that she says, "hey, remember when we liked aliens?"
And I like that it throws back to Superman. They have awesome powers and come from a far away exploded planet and they're just trying to make it work here on Earth. Awesome concept, awesome ideas, and to be honest, the execution wasn't even that terrible. There was a huge focus on friendship. Dee and Katy are good friends and a lot of the story focuses on them. Katy has NON alien friends that have their own personalities separate from aliens (who... just all happen to be perfect, which is a little irksome, but ok.) So score one for people having descriptions and personalities.
However, it is a little... Twilight-esque. Super hot aliens, specifically a super hot alien GUY telling human girl who, for some reason, he can't seem to stay away from, that she has to stay away from him and his family because they're no good for her. Sound a little familiar?
There are some twists though. For one, even though Katy likes Daemon (lead sexy alien male) she has a backbone and is not falling all over him ever second. Armentrout WRITES pretty decently. I won't say well, but enough that I don't hate it. And the book ended in a little bit of suspense. Enough that I might, one day, pick up the second book.
I love that sometimes Cassy and I share a brain. This book is Twilight with aliens. For those of you who actually read/watched Twilight, remember how Edward is a complete jerk to begin with? (Presumably in the name of protecting the weak squishy human female from his big scary life.) That's the entire beginning of Obsidian. But Cassy's right... Katy holds her own (though she's kind of a jerk in return) so it's a little better. I just feel like the first couple chapters are a thesaurus exercise, finding as many ways to call him a jerk without swearing.
I made the mistake of leaving town without bringing the book with me, so I couldn't finish it, so I can't speak to a large part of the book, but after you muddle through the beginning, the pace picks up a little and it's much easier to read. I probably won't pick up the next book unless Cassy tells me we're reviewing it, but I have a solid idea of the kind of library patron I might want to recommend the series to.
I made the mistake of leaving town without bringing the book with me, so I couldn't finish it, so I can't speak to a large part of the book, but after you muddle through the beginning, the pace picks up a little and it's much easier to read. I probably won't pick up the next book unless Cassy tells me we're reviewing it, but I have a solid idea of the kind of library patron I might want to recommend the series to.
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