Review: Below par compared to J Armentrout's later work
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 11 12, 2013
After reading the Acknowledgement section, it finally made sense. This was Jennifer Armentrout's first book, and she thanks her publisher for making it see the world. It made sense to me because it honestly didn't feel like a book by JA. Having devoured the Lux series (although I don't really enjoy YA) and inhaled Obsession, I felt quite disinterested and detached from the world she's building here.The heroine is up to par, but the male characters, the Nephilim, who are supposed to have been around since Adam and Eve felt very human, vulnerable and, well, not like immortal warriors should feel. What also bothered me was the weird POV allocation: in Lux, for the most part, we have a first person POV (makes sense since it's a YA novel), Obsession has two POVs, but here we have everyone's POV (including villains that die very soon in the book) apart from Julian's (the main male character's). Okay, Julian is hot, no doubts there, but in terms of character development he just loves Lilly. That's it. The way he's presented--secretive about his past, his daytime activities--the reader gets the impression that some major plot twist will eventually come up, but, no, Julian is just a hot Fallen (who shouldn't really be a Fallen) and he loves Lilly, has great sex with Lilly, turns Dom-ish from time to time (that was kind of weird) and then goes on to love Lilly. And since this appears to be the first of a series, I wonder, if the other Nephilim will eventually get their own book, will JA continue the trend and present their own POV in every book apart from the one where they become the main character?Having said that, I will give the next book a try to see if, after gaining experience from writing her other books, JA will take this series up to the level of her later work.