Review: Dark, Angry Alien finds Lust turns to Love...
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 1, 2013
Finally an Armentrout book I could afford!  At .99, I was finally willing to give this popular author a try and she is really talented.  She is very similar to the NA/YA authors M. Leighton, Samantha Young and Abbi Glines in terms of bad boys, sexual description and profanity.Characters:  Human Serena Cross seems like a good friend who wants to find out what happened to her "crazy" best friend, Human Mel.  Alien "Arum" Hunter is resentful and angry since his sister was killed and his grumpy attitude is filled with profanity and anger. He kills Luxen, the Aliens that killed Mel.  When he is assigned to temporarily protect Serena, he finds that watching her changes him and he starts to feel "human" thoughts about and for her.Writing Style: This is my first book by this author because it was .99 affordable, so I am not sure if it is a continuation story of her previous works or not.  I do know it was somewhat confusing in the beginning as the POV would change and we didn't really even know the characters very well yet.  Serena is talking in first person to her best friend, then Hunter is talking to Zombro and it takes a little while to realize not only the characters have changed but so has their gender.Plot: Serena is in danger because her friend confided in her about the existence of aliens before her death and because the aliens are planning something called project Eagle that puts humans in danger.  The DOD (Department of Defense) is protecting Serena at present, but that could all change depending on their agenda.  The Luxen have an alien as a US Senator who wants Serena dead for what she might know.  Hunter has been assigned to protect her, but he is a predator and at first, doesn't want the job.  Then he finds he doesn't want to let Serena go despite how she is messing with his "feelings" and his position with his kind.Romance: Well, it was hot and there was a lot of it in the second half.  There was a lot of danger for Serena because Hunter had to overcome his desire to kill her by eating all her energy, but his feelings for her helped him master his desire to kill her.Oddly, the bad guys were "Light", the hero and his people are "Dark" and the girl that makes the dark change and be filled with light/warmth is named Cross.  The mixed-up religious metaphors along with the anti-religious profanity had me really wondering "if/what" the message was/are.Sex and Violence Rating: Rx - Oral Sex, Descriptive Sex, F-word, MF, JC, GD, Gory bone cracking deaths4 Stars - It was a Good read, might buy the sequel