Review: Loved Lily and Julian!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 4, 2013
I have been waiting what feels like an eternity for this book. From the moment I heard about it, I knew I wanted to get my hands on it. Angels and nephilim are one of my favorite paranormal beings, so of course I wanted to see how JLA did it. I'm happy to say that after more than a year of waiting, this book definitely lived up to my expectations. It may be one of my very favorite JLA books to date.Honestly this book is like a perfect storm for me. Every single element in it is one of my favorites. I adore adult paranormal romance and constantly wonder why I don't make time to read more of it. I love books written in the third person and how it allows the reader to easily see from more than one perspective. I love fallen angels and nephilim; they rank up with vampires for me. Then you add in the trademark JLA snark and wit and you have a winner. Everything that went into this book is something I absolutely love in a book, so really there was no way I couldn't love this book.Really, I simply loved the nephilim and fallen angel story line. Fallen angels are like the ultimate bad boys and therefore I love them. While nephilim and angels have been done before, JLA still managed to give it her own flair. The snark and witty dialogue we have come to expect from her was there and the story was fast paced and action packed. Oh and of course the romance was scorching hot and off the charts.Lily is my favorite kind of heroine. She is just so kickass and strong. She is funny and witty and determined. Nothing scares her and she doesn't back down from a fight. I loved her wit and humor and how strong she was. Really I just loved her. She. Is. Awesome.Then we have Julian. Oh how I loved Julian. JLA really knows how to write a guy that you will immediately fall in love with. He is oh so sweet and sexy. He also has his dangerous side and somehow that just made him more alluring. He pretty much defined "right kind of wrong."The writing style in Unchained is different from most of the other JLA books I've read (which is all of them). It is written in the third person and from varying perspectives. I actually loved this... like a lot. I personally tend to enjoy third person and I also really enjoy varying perspectives. Lily's perspective was by far my favorite of them all but I did like seeing a wider picture. I also liked all the action we get in Unchained. There are a lot of butt kicking scenes and I loved it. The book moved at a super-fast pace that kept me glued to the pages.Unchained is a book I looked forward to for quite some time and I am so glad it lived up to my ridiculously high expectations. JLA has done it again and I'm not surprised at all.