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Origin by Jennifer L Armentrout
Published by Entangled
Publishing
Released: August 27th 2013
Paperback, 364 pages
2/5 Stars
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Daemon
will do anything to get Katy back.
After the
successful but disastrous raid on Mount Weather, he’s facing the impossible.
Katy is gone. Taken. Everything becomes about finding her. Taking out anyone
who stands in his way? Done. Burning down the whole world to save her? Gladly.
Exposing his alien race to the world? With pleasure.
All Katy can
do is survive.
Surrounded by
enemies, the only way she can come out of this is to adapt. After all, there
are sides of Daedalus that don’t seem entirely crazy, but the group’s goals are
frightening and the truths they speak even more disturbing. Who are the real
bad guys? Daedalus? Mankind? Or the Luxen?
Together,
they can face anything.
But the most
dangerous foe has been there all along, and when the truths are exposed and the
lies come crumbling down, which side will Daemon and Katy be standing on?
And will
they even be together?
Synopsis from Goodreads
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Review
This is what I got out the book:
- Daemon loves Katy (duh)
- Katy loves Daemon (double duh)
- They can’t keep their hands off each other (are we stupid?)
- Jennifer Armentrout should stick with writing from a girl’s POV because the writing from Daemon’s POV sucked (badly)
- Everyone in the book is pretty, beautiful, hot, or gorgeous (of course! Who would want to read a book about an average looking person and their life?)
- Onyx, as well as Daedalus and Arum are bad, and Luxen are good
- I think that’s about it (sorry JLA)
Lines that were repeated more than
ten times in this book:
- "I love you"
- "It's not/wasn't your fault"
- "I don't deserve you" or something along those lines
- "I'm sorry"
Honestly, I’m not exactly sure why
I gave her other books such high ratings. The plot line is entertaining in the
first few books, but after a while, the stories just get boring and repetitive (The
same goes for Richelle Mead’s Vampire Academy books.). Basically, the
action portion of this novel was not the problem, it was the romance. YES WE
ALREADY KNOW THEY LOVE EACH OTHER, GET ON WITH IT. All they did was kiss, kiss some
more, and then have sex. I do not want to read about that, thank you very much.
It’s not that I don’t like romance, a little is ok, but when nothing happens in
the relationship, that’s when it gets boring. And there are only so many ways
you can describe kisses, right? Also, why is that all they do even though they
are in constant danger? So unrealistic, but so is the circumstance and the
book, I guess.
I feel like, Daemon and Katy
(especially Katy) should be more traumatized. The reasons? They were taken in
by the government, experimented on, forced to see people die because of the experiments,
and scared for each other. In Katy’s case, she was tortured and beaten by other
Hybrids, killed someone she was (semi) close to because of it, and put into
seclusion for months… But as they escaped Area 51, Daemon was being cocky? Not
the time. It seemed like there was never a recovery time in the book, except
for that one time Katy cried. But I wanted to see some break in Daemon too.
What did this experience do to him? His character is so stereotypical, because
like every good-looking alien guy with super powers, he’s so confident that he
doesn’t get scared/doesn’t show it, and never has bad moments. But is that
really true? I don’t think so.
Anyways, these are some of my
thoughts on Origin. Please if you have any comments, share them! Good or bad, doesn't matter.
-Zoe
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