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myinvinciblesummer's review against another edition
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.25
Content Warnings
Graphic: Murder, Kidnapping, Grief, Racism, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Cancer, Toxic friendship, Stalking, and Death of parent
Minor: Car accident and Confinement
Racism trigger warning due tot he racism against the Luxen population. Not in regards to our real world specific racism.ravensandlace's review
dark
emotional
funny
tense
medium-paced
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
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I am going to preface this review by saying I absolutely adored this book! I’m going to be honest, when I read the synopsis and saw that it was about aliens, I was a bit hesitant. I haven’t read a lot of books about aliens. The last one I can recall is The 5th Wave. I don’t even watch movies about them. I’ve only enjoyed one alien movie and I can’t quite recall what it was called. What I’m trying to say is I haven’t delved into the alien world a lot. But because of this book, I would like to change that.
What surprised me about this book was how modern it was. I didn’t expect there to be mentions of Snapchat and other social media. Evie was a normal teenager and she did every day normal teenager things. It actually worked quite well with the story as normally, when one tries to insert modernism into stories like these, it doesn’t always quite work out.
One thing that did bother me was the dialogue. Evie was a bit cringy with the way she talked. Of course, I really have no room to talk as I say things like “what the higgity heck” or “that’s the bee’s knees' '. Evie did get better in her dialogue at the end, it just took a little bit. She reminded me of a middle aged woman trying to sound hip and modern. I had to really force myself to read her dialogue.
What really kept me reading through Evie’s cringy dialogue was the absolutely scorching scenes of intensity between Luc and Evie. I LIVED for their banter. Evie was so snarky toward Luc and he was such a smart ass. Their chemistry was on point and I couldn’t help but smile with glee every time they interacted. My heart swooned.
Overall, this was not what I expected it to be but I did not mind one bit. Turns out I might be a fan of alien books. Who knew? It was a good introduction to Jennifer Armentrout as I own one of her books although it’s not the next book in this series unfortunately. I am most definitely going to be continuing with this series.
Content Warnings
Minor: Blood, Bullying, Child death, Death, Kidnapping, and Grief
There is mention of parental death throughout the book.
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