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3.93 AVERAGE
3.93 AVERAGE
3 letters: J.L.A x)
2 words: READ IT...
1 word: NOW!!!
Jennifer is a god when it comes to writing. NEVER disappoints! :)
Also there is a song by my fave band called ANIMAL by THE CAB. It so reminds me of Hunter and dem steamy scenes... woooo! ;D You should listen to it...
Also "Intoxicated" by The Cab... X)
2 words: READ IT...
1 word: NOW!!!
Jennifer is a god when it comes to writing. NEVER disappoints! :)
Also there is a song by my fave band called ANIMAL by THE CAB. It so reminds me of Hunter and dem steamy scenes... woooo! ;D You should listen to it...
Also "Intoxicated" by The Cab... X)
What can I even say? Jennifer has an innate ability to get me hype for a series. I'm supposed to hate the Arum, but here I sit wanting to call dibs on Lore. He's mine, ladies, and he hasn't even done anything yet. I have to be honest, I'm still a lux girl at heart (I LOVE YOU, DAEMON!), but only for the good ones. I was like a giddy fool when the story had those crossover moments, and the setup for Origin has me considering committing a felony to get my hands on an arc. Can I please get a 12 hr. purge?! (Reference to the new Ethan Hawke movie, duh!)
Omläsning 2021 - 5 stjärnor
Först läst 2013 - 4 stjärnor
Först läst 2013 - 4 stjärnor
http://katnissbraid.blogspot.it/2014/02/obsession-review.html
3.5
mi è piaciuto, insomma è Jennifer Armentrout guys!
ma non è stato perfetto, e mi aspettavo molto molto di più.
comunque Hunter è perfetto, ma non mi aspettavo di meno dalla penna della Armentrout: un book-boyfriend degno di nota e swoon worthy e la prospettiva del mondo dagli Arum è molto affascinante e ho trovato risposta a molte delle domande che mi ero fatta sui Luxen e su cosa li spingesse a fare tutto quello che fanno.
il principale problema è stato Serena, ce la vogliono far passare tutti per una badass simpatica e sarcastica ma non è riuscita a conquistarmi, ormai a scrivere un personaggio maschile che conquisti non ci vuole molto: bad boy che in realtà è un good boy unito a qualche dramma familiare e situazioni in cui si auto flagella mentalmente, ma una buona eroina? quella è difficile da creare, non ci sono tante Hermione Granger, Rose Hathaway e Katniss Everdeen in giro e senza dubbio ce ne sarebbe bisogno.
ah, e secondo me c'era la necessità di inserirlo come Lux 3.5 (dopo Opal, prima di Origin) perchè per quanto si possa benissimo leggere senza aver letto nessun libro della saga, non ha molto senso senza di essi, inoltre ci vengono spiegate delle cose che spoilerebbero un po' Opal e ci da' un accenno su cos'è "origin" quindi va letto in mezzo secondo me. Anche perchè ritroviamo Luc (che mi piace, voglio un libro per lui Jennifer, sappilo) e Paris e un certo Luxen bruno, diciottenne, con gli occhi verdi e incredibilmente attraente nel suo ufficio che cerca la sua ragazza persa, chissà chi è *coff coff*
FULL REVIEW COMING SOON ON ;DIAVS katnissbraid.blogspot.it
3.5
mi è piaciuto, insomma è Jennifer Armentrout guys!
ma non è stato perfetto, e mi aspettavo molto molto di più.
comunque Hunter è perfetto, ma non mi aspettavo di meno dalla penna della Armentrout: un book-boyfriend degno di nota e swoon worthy e la prospettiva del mondo dagli Arum è molto affascinante e ho trovato risposta a molte delle domande che mi ero fatta sui Luxen e su cosa li spingesse a fare tutto quello che fanno.
il principale problema è stato Serena, ce la vogliono far passare tutti per una badass simpatica e sarcastica ma non è riuscita a conquistarmi, ormai a scrivere un personaggio maschile che conquisti non ci vuole molto: bad boy che in realtà è un good boy unito a qualche dramma familiare e situazioni in cui si auto flagella mentalmente, ma una buona eroina? quella è difficile da creare, non ci sono tante Hermione Granger, Rose Hathaway e Katniss Everdeen in giro e senza dubbio ce ne sarebbe bisogno.
ah, e secondo me c'era la necessità di inserirlo come Lux 3.5 (dopo Opal, prima di Origin) perchè per quanto si possa benissimo leggere senza aver letto nessun libro della saga, non ha molto senso senza di essi, inoltre ci vengono spiegate delle cose che spoilerebbero un po' Opal e ci da' un accenno su cos'è "origin" quindi va letto in mezzo secondo me. Anche perchè ritroviamo Luc (che mi piace, voglio un libro per lui Jennifer, sappilo) e Paris e un certo Luxen bruno, diciottenne, con gli occhi verdi e incredibilmente attraente nel suo ufficio che cerca la sua ragazza persa, chissà chi è *coff coff*
FULL REVIEW COMING SOON ON ;DIAVS katnissbraid.blogspot.it
Mi problema con este libro es que no he llegado a conectar del todo con él. Los protagonistas no me han encantado, a lo mejor porque no me ha dado tiempo a conocerlos tanto como me habría gustado. La trama es un poco simplona y bastante lenta hasta la página 170, porque el libro se pasa la mayoría de las páginas tratando de construir "tensión sexual" entre Hunter y Serena, pero que en mi opinión fracasa.
Entiendo que es una novela complementaria y que no va a tener la profundidad de personajes y trama que tienen las de la saga LUX, pero hay cosas que se me han quedado colgando, como los hermanos de Hunter (sobre todo el que aparece de forma random para tocar un poco los cataplines y luego se pira), saber un poco más acerca de la vida de Serena antes de toda esta movida o que explicaran un poco más sobre los Arum y su cultura. Solo me queda esperar que algunas de estas cosas se aclaren un poquito en el último libro de LUX. La mejor parte, desde luego, está al final, cuando aparece you know who de la saga principal, pero es que yo siempre he tenido debilidad por ese personaje, qué le voy a hacer.
El estilo es clásico Armentrout: muy coloquial y fluido, con mucho sarcasmo y referencias culturales que amenizan la lectura.
No es un libro para mí, pero es una lectura ligera para ampliar el mundo de LUX y pasar un par de tardes entretenidas.
Entiendo que es una novela complementaria y que no va a tener la profundidad de personajes y trama que tienen las de la saga LUX, pero hay cosas que se me han quedado colgando, como los hermanos de Hunter (sobre todo el que aparece de forma random para tocar un poco los cataplines y luego se pira), saber un poco más acerca de la vida de Serena antes de toda esta movida o que explicaran un poco más sobre los Arum y su cultura. Solo me queda esperar que algunas de estas cosas se aclaren un poquito en el último libro de LUX. La mejor parte, desde luego, está al final, cuando aparece you know who de la saga principal, pero es que yo siempre he tenido debilidad por ese personaje, qué le voy a hacer.
El estilo es clásico Armentrout: muy coloquial y fluido, con mucho sarcasmo y referencias culturales que amenizan la lectura.
No es un libro para mí, pero es una lectura ligera para ampliar el mundo de LUX y pasar un par de tardes entretenidas.
At first I was Luxen team all the way..we hate Arum right?? But then..OMG...I really do hate Luxen..what do they think they are...?? But ok..it's not al black and white...we have a lots of gray :)
I really did love Hunter..and Serena I would just slap her sometimes..stay in the room..means..stay in the room..not just wander around..
I would like some mora Hunter please..and his two brothers :)
I really did love Hunter..and Serena I would just slap her sometimes..stay in the room..means..stay in the room..not just wander around..
I would like some mora Hunter please..and his two brothers :)
SPOILERS WILL BE CONTAINED IN THIS REVIEW. DO NOT WANT, DO NOT READ.
Right, now we’ve got that out of the way, I’m going to preface this review with a statement: after I shut my old book blog down I *did* say I wouldn’t write any more reviews.
But then I read this book, and hoo boy do I have thoughts! I came pootling over to Goodreads to see what everyone else had to say and was met with a wave of excellent reviews and I had to wonder; was I reading the same book? Anyway, as a result I figured I should share my personal thoughts.
So, for anyone familiar with fan fiction and the ‘Cabin Fic’ trope, this is sort of like reading the worst cabin fic ever. Literally, girl gets essentially kidnapped by government-employee alien, locked away in cabin and despite the fact he’s generally pretty awful (more on that later) they fall in love and have lots of sex.
Literally, that’s it. That’s the storyline… except there are a whole bunch of things I couldn’t deal with and I honestly should have DNF’d this book several times throughout the course of listening to the audiobook in my car, but I am not one to be defeated. I’ve read listened to JLA’s other works in the past (although admittedly not the Lux series, to which this was a spin off… yeah, I know, but this one was free as part of my Audible subscription so I thought I’d give it a go as a standalone) and I’ve found some enjoyment. As such, I kept waiting for this to get better and it just… didn’t.
So, what were my issues?
Okay, so firstly, Serena gets essentially kidnapped and taken into hiding with Hunter (who is an Arum - an alien race) because her friend Mel (who has been killed) saw some Luxen (another alien race) and overheard some things she shouldn’t have.
Now, you’d think that Serena would be a bit bothered about the trauma of watching her friend die, or being ripped away from her entire goddamn life… but no. She’s more bothered about the ~mysterious~ Hunter and his sex appeal. Right, yeah, okay… but it gets worse.
The first two days that Serena is with Hunter he literally knocks her out by ‘feeding’ on her without her consent and when she comes to he’s lurking in her bedroom and has taken her trousers off.
What?
Yeah, exactly.
What else could have happened when she was out cold? I dread to think, especially given some other things Hunter gets up to.
Now, they apparently have some apparent sexual tension - not sure if I missed it due to my asexuality but I really didn’t feel like that was the case - which clearly leads to Hunter touching her up whilst she’s asleep. Yep folks, you read that right. It’s presented as being ‘sexy’ and gave Serena pants-feels in her dreams but honestly in the real world that isn’t going to be seen as anything except sexual assault.
Ew.
Should have DNF’d there, right?
But I didn’t. I’d got too far in.
The one thing this book had going for it is that the heroine(and I use the term lightly) isn’t virginal so that felt a bit less icky than it could have, but the sex was… well. As I’ve said I listened to the audiobook rather than reading the book so I can’t give whole quotes which really is probably for the best or this review would be even longer. But the phrase ‘womb twitching’ and lots of references to twitching cocks and touching cores and whatever seem to stick out in my mind. I mean, hats off to anyone writing smut, because I couldn’t do it - but the womb twitching had me whispering “What the Fuck?” In my car.
Whilst we’re on the subject of language choice, Hunter also swears like a sailor in a storm which I suppose is to perpetuate his ‘bad boy’ image, and he also uses the word “vagina” as an insult which… no.
Ladies, let’s think of what exactly our vaginas are capable of - personally I think they’re amazing. Certainly not the insult that this book makes them out to be.
Besides that it’s fairly misogynistic, right? Not sure he called anyone a ‘Penis’ or even a ‘Dick’.
Anyway, at some stage the government catch up with Serena and decide she’s no use and they should kill her. So Hunter kills the dudes and they go on the run.
This is the stage where suddenly Serena remembers that her friend died and might have one important info on the Luxen - so important they’re willing to kill. Bravo, Serena.
So of course, she decides that the sensible thing to do is to go haring off back to Colorado without any of the following things:
- money
-resources
-weapons
-means of transport.
Wondering how she was even planning to get there? Yup, me too.
Anyway, at this stage we also meet arguably the only interesting character in the book - a kid who’s definitely something else that’s not human or Arum or Luxen called Luc. I wish there was more Luc honestly. If there’s more Luc in the Lux Series, I might actually read ‘em.
But all is well that ends well; despite showing no signs of wanting anything other than rough rumpy-pumpy with a nice blond human with nice boobs and swooshy hips, Hunter has apparently fallen in love which is why he’s gone rogue against his previous employers… so of course he’s going with her.
I mean, that wasn’t predictable at all, right?
Anyway, cue some more gratuitous sex scenes and mentions of Hunter’s leather trousers (though really guys, am I wrong in thinking that IRL leather = sweaty balls, not sex appeal? Does nobody remember the Spaghetti Incident?) and then everything gets resolved.
Seriously, I’m sorry for this verbal vomit of everything I thought whilst reading this but sheesh. Not one for me I’m afraid and I actually did a little happy dance when this problematic mess of a book was over.
Would advise skipping this one and trying another JLA novel.
Right, now we’ve got that out of the way, I’m going to preface this review with a statement: after I shut my old book blog down I *did* say I wouldn’t write any more reviews.
But then I read this book, and hoo boy do I have thoughts! I came pootling over to Goodreads to see what everyone else had to say and was met with a wave of excellent reviews and I had to wonder; was I reading the same book? Anyway, as a result I figured I should share my personal thoughts.
So, for anyone familiar with fan fiction and the ‘Cabin Fic’ trope, this is sort of like reading the worst cabin fic ever. Literally, girl gets essentially kidnapped by government-employee alien, locked away in cabin and despite the fact he’s generally pretty awful (more on that later) they fall in love and have lots of sex.
Literally, that’s it. That’s the storyline… except there are a whole bunch of things I couldn’t deal with and I honestly should have DNF’d this book several times throughout the course of listening to the audiobook in my car, but I am not one to be defeated. I’ve read listened to JLA’s other works in the past (although admittedly not the Lux series, to which this was a spin off… yeah, I know, but this one was free as part of my Audible subscription so I thought I’d give it a go as a standalone) and I’ve found some enjoyment. As such, I kept waiting for this to get better and it just… didn’t.
So, what were my issues?
Okay, so firstly, Serena gets essentially kidnapped and taken into hiding with Hunter (who is an Arum - an alien race) because her friend Mel (who has been killed) saw some Luxen (another alien race) and overheard some things she shouldn’t have.
Now, you’d think that Serena would be a bit bothered about the trauma of watching her friend die, or being ripped away from her entire goddamn life… but no. She’s more bothered about the ~mysterious~ Hunter and his sex appeal. Right, yeah, okay… but it gets worse.
The first two days that Serena is with Hunter he literally knocks her out by ‘feeding’ on her without her consent and when she comes to he’s lurking in her bedroom and has taken her trousers off.
What?
Yeah, exactly.
What else could have happened when she was out cold? I dread to think, especially given some other things Hunter gets up to.
Now, they apparently have some apparent sexual tension - not sure if I missed it due to my asexuality but I really didn’t feel like that was the case - which clearly leads to Hunter touching her up whilst she’s asleep. Yep folks, you read that right. It’s presented as being ‘sexy’ and gave Serena pants-feels in her dreams but honestly in the real world that isn’t going to be seen as anything except sexual assault.
Ew.
Should have DNF’d there, right?
But I didn’t. I’d got too far in.
The one thing this book had going for it is that the heroine(and I use the term lightly) isn’t virginal so that felt a bit less icky than it could have, but the sex was… well. As I’ve said I listened to the audiobook rather than reading the book so I can’t give whole quotes which really is probably for the best or this review would be even longer. But the phrase ‘womb twitching’ and lots of references to twitching cocks and touching cores and whatever seem to stick out in my mind. I mean, hats off to anyone writing smut, because I couldn’t do it - but the womb twitching had me whispering “What the Fuck?” In my car.
Whilst we’re on the subject of language choice, Hunter also swears like a sailor in a storm which I suppose is to perpetuate his ‘bad boy’ image, and he also uses the word “vagina” as an insult which… no.
Ladies, let’s think of what exactly our vaginas are capable of - personally I think they’re amazing. Certainly not the insult that this book makes them out to be.
Besides that it’s fairly misogynistic, right? Not sure he called anyone a ‘Penis’ or even a ‘Dick’.
Anyway, at some stage the government catch up with Serena and decide she’s no use and they should kill her. So Hunter kills the dudes and they go on the run.
This is the stage where suddenly Serena remembers that her friend died and might have one important info on the Luxen - so important they’re willing to kill. Bravo, Serena.
So of course, she decides that the sensible thing to do is to go haring off back to Colorado without any of the following things:
- money
-resources
-weapons
-means of transport.
Wondering how she was even planning to get there? Yup, me too.
Anyway, at this stage we also meet arguably the only interesting character in the book - a kid who’s definitely something else that’s not human or Arum or Luxen called Luc. I wish there was more Luc honestly. If there’s more Luc in the Lux Series, I might actually read ‘em.
But all is well that ends well; despite showing no signs of wanting anything other than rough rumpy-pumpy with a nice blond human with nice boobs and swooshy hips, Hunter has apparently fallen in love which is why he’s gone rogue against his previous employers… so of course he’s going with her.
I mean, that wasn’t predictable at all, right?
Anyway, cue some more gratuitous sex scenes and mentions of Hunter’s leather trousers (though really guys, am I wrong in thinking that IRL leather = sweaty balls, not sex appeal? Does nobody remember the Spaghetti Incident?) and then everything gets resolved.
Seriously, I’m sorry for this verbal vomit of everything I thought whilst reading this but sheesh. Not one for me I’m afraid and I actually did a little happy dance when this problematic mess of a book was over.
Would advise skipping this one and trying another JLA novel.
I found it hard to like the main character because he is one of the "bad guys," but I think it is an interesting spin off from the Lux series.