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A review by befsk
Origin by Jennifer L. Armentrout
2.0
Despite having two fairly long (and fairly decent) action scenes, this book achieved very little. Not much happened at all. It stunk of 'I'm the penultimate book and I'm going to draw this out as long as possible'.
By far the most disappointing thing that happened though, it seems the series may have finally got an editor. What's there to entertain me now? The contrived, lame attempts at witty conversations? Repetitive kissing scenes? Asshole characters who act like assholes all the time?
Even the awkward outdated slang was toned down on. The only thing left was potentially just a Kindle formatting issue where punctuation either disappeared or got smashed into surrounding words. For example: awkwardas-hell, cloak-anddagger, come-getsome and all-toofamiliar. And also, on 15 occasions, this happened: "Yes. "He leaned... 15 wrong placements of speech tags. I am now reduced to pointing out faulty punctuation. And this series used to have endless material. Sigh.
As for the dual narration, it worked well to start with because Katy wasn't her usual snarky self and Daemon was, but later on in the book Katy got more snarky like she used to be and I frequently got confused and couldn't tell which one was narrating until they mentioned the other one by name.
And I was majorly pissed that
Just sigh at this book.
By far the most disappointing thing that happened though, it seems the series may have finally got an editor. What's there to entertain me now? The contrived, lame attempts at witty conversations? Repetitive kissing scenes? Asshole characters who act like assholes all the time?
Even the awkward outdated slang was toned down on. The only thing left was potentially just a Kindle formatting issue where punctuation either disappeared or got smashed into surrounding words. For example: awkwardas-hell, cloak-anddagger, come-getsome and all-toofamiliar. And also, on 15 occasions, this happened: "Yes. "He leaned... 15 wrong placements of speech tags. I am now reduced to pointing out faulty punctuation. And this series used to have endless material. Sigh.
As for the dual narration, it worked well to start with because Katy wasn't her usual snarky self and Daemon was, but later on in the book
Spoiler
as Katy started getting over the whole Daedalus experience because it had been like a day and that's old news because Daemon healed her ~soul~ with his ~smoldering looks and kisses and sexy times~,And I was majorly pissed that
Spoiler
everyone who was expendable died. Matthew, Ash, Andrew, Paris, all dead because something shocking needed to happen because the book got slow again. To be fair, the reason it got slow is that Katy and Daemon's marriage was boring and pointless and the whole thing was weirdly preachy, like being married to someone is the best thing you could ever do with your life and nothing else matters. Also, who didn't see the 'twist' with Beth being pregnant coming from a mile off?Just sigh at this book.