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A review by befsk
Opposition by Jennifer L. Armentrout
1.0
I understand the book's desperate need to tie everything up with a neat little bow, but to harp on and on about how threatening the new Luxen were and how difficult they were going to be to beat, only to prove that this is in no way true was some dumb shit. To have the big bad leader be someone Katy and company knew previously just goes to show how little was at stake. Another indicator that no one was going to die is that everyone was paired off with a love interest, and all the single people were killed in the previous book. Just because the author made a big show and tell of how Katy and Daemon's lives weren't actually tied together didn't for one second make me believe either would die.
This last book was just so pointlessly drawn out with needless drama. The Arum stuff, Dee's loyalty, Nancy fucking Husher. It all could've been cut down on, or cut out entirely in the latter two's case. I'm just disappointed I wasted this amount of time reading a book series with such a bloated word count. I never skim read, and yet I found myself skimming most of the (incredibly frequent) sex/make out sessions between Katy and Daemon. They were dull and added absolutely nothing to the story.
The first two books could've been rolled into one book with all the extraneous bullshit cut out, and the same with the next two, and then the author could've put an ounce of fucking effort in to this book and it could've been a trilogy. Doesn't that sound nicer?
An aside: Was Hunter and Serena's backstory/current story so vague because the author planned to write a spin-off series about them or something? All of the Arum seemed to hint that their story wasn't told, between the couple, the one evil triplet in Sin, and big gay Lotho. No one needs that book to be written though, because the author has written enough fucking spin-off's from this book, just based on the main characters. Shadows and Oblivion really did not need to exist.
Also this: "She's one of the first female Origins ever." About the baby. Um, are we forgetting Sadi, a female Origin who was literally introduced in this book? Such bullshit. This book seemed to be less well edited than the previous book in the series and the terrible slang made a resurgence. 'FML', 'That shit is banging', 'totes' and 'Rawr' all appeared in this trash book, and for some reason the author started using the word 'wee' in abundance. In a big emotional moment near the end, this was said: "What else would I've done?" Sigh.
This last book was just so pointlessly drawn out with needless drama. The Arum stuff, Dee's loyalty, Nancy fucking Husher. It all could've been cut down on, or cut out entirely in the latter two's case. I'm just disappointed I wasted this amount of time reading a book series with such a bloated word count. I never skim read, and yet I found myself skimming most of the (incredibly frequent) sex/make out sessions between Katy and Daemon. They were dull and added absolutely nothing to the story.
The first two books could've been rolled into one book with all the extraneous bullshit cut out, and the same with the next two, and then the author could've put an ounce of fucking effort in to this book and it could've been a trilogy. Doesn't that sound nicer?
An aside: Was Hunter and Serena's backstory/current story so vague because the author planned to write a spin-off series about them or something? All of the Arum seemed to hint that their story wasn't told, between the couple, the one evil triplet in Sin, and big gay Lotho. No one needs that book to be written though, because the author has written enough fucking spin-off's from this book, just based on the main characters. Shadows and Oblivion really did not need to exist.
Also this: "She's one of the first female Origins ever." About the baby. Um, are we forgetting Sadi, a female Origin who was literally introduced in this book? Such bullshit. This book seemed to be less well edited than the previous book in the series and the terrible slang made a resurgence. 'FML', 'That shit is banging', 'totes' and 'Rawr' all appeared in this trash book, and for some reason the author started using the word 'wee' in abundance. In a big emotional moment near the end, this was said: "What else would I've done?" Sigh.