kkrez 's review for:

Bitter Sweet Love by Jennifer L. Armentrout
3.0

A NEW SERIES BY JENNIFER ARMENTROUT!!!!

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Instead of the typical, overused and overdone angels vs. demons JLA does gargoyles vs. demons? OMG, LOVE IT. What an awesome idea. Angels are boring anyway.

Bitter Sweet Love is the prequel to JLA's new Dark Elements series. So, while this novella follows Dez and Jasmine, the series will be following Layla, a character we meet for like 2 seconds at the end. I liked this novella, it was fast-pace and it was pretty action-packed!

I love JLA. She always creates really awesome characters and I’m always impressed. I really liked the main characters of this novella, Dez and Jasmine. They were really awesome separately and were seriously really cute together.

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Jasmine wasn’t as kick-ass or as awesome as most of JLA’s female leads are but I still liked her. And of course JLA struck gold when she wrote Dez. He is just awesome….and swoon worthy, obviously!

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We also briefly met Layla, the main character for the series. I don’t have anything particularly good to say about her. She seemed a little…“blah”….for lack of a better adjective. And she seemed a little shy and to put it bluntly, boring. We also met Zayne, who will also be in the series. He seemed weird-ish…I didn’t like him....and he’s weirdly possessive…so I guess we’ll see how big of a role he has in the book.

So, like I said, The Dark Elements series will be following Layla’s story…and while I’m intrigued and will definitely be reading this series, Layla seems kinda lame as far as kickass heroines go. Which makes me disappointed and freaks me out a little but. What if her character really is stupid and she ruins this series for me!?

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This novella was sorta a teaser for the series and I’m so pumped to see where this series is going to go. It makes me sad that I’m less than thrilled about Layla and Zayne being in the series because I really liked Jasmine and Dez but I’m hoping Layla’s way more awesome than my first impression of her. But, regardless, I will never write off a JLA series because I’m always pleasantly surprised! Can’t wait to read the first book!!