Onyx Review

Onyx Review
By Jennifer L. Armentrout

CONTAINS SOME SPOILERS FOR OBSIDIAN

Summary from Goodreads

Being connected to Daemon Black sucks…

Thanks to his alien mojo, Daemon’s determined to prove what he feels for me is more than a product of our bizarro connection. So I’ve sworn him off, even though he’s running more hot than cold these days. But we’ve got bigger problems.

Something worse than the Arum has come to town…

The Department of Defense are here. If they ever find out what Daemon can do and that we're linked, I’m a goner. So is he. And there's this new boy in school who’s got a secret of his own. He knows what’s happened to me and he can help, but to do so, I have to lie to Daemon and stay away from him. Like that's possible. Against all common sense, I'm falling for Daemon. Hard.

But then everything changes…

I’ve seen someone who shouldn’t be alive. And I have to tell Daemon, even though I know he’s never going to stop searching until he gets the truth. What happened to his brother? Who betrayed him? And what does the DOD want from them—from me?

No one is who they seem. And not everyone will survive the lies…

My Review

This book was really good, and I think I may have liked it more than Obsidian. I read the two in the bind-up edition, so it just kind of felt like one book, and the way they weave together, I think they are best read back to back. Onyx, I think, may have been better, just because I found it more surprising and shocking, and it was just completely captivating.

In this book, there was more of a mystery. I felt like I couldn't trust anybody, and it was exciting having no idea what was going to happen. I was so shocked when certain events in the book happened and I didn't expect it at all. The whole book was just a whirlwind of emotion and shock and surprise, and I loved all of it. So much happened in this book, and I have no idea where the next book is going to go from here. Onyx, while feeling like a continuation of Obsidian, had a completely different tone and story line. In Onyx, it felt like there was more at stake than in Obsidian, and everything felt more important, so the book was more serious, tense, and suspenseful because of this.

Both Obsidian and Onyx were really funny. I didn't discuss this much in my other review, but both books just have this lighthearted sense of humor, that can be sarcastic and sassy at times, and is always really funny. I always find myself smiling and laughing at the comments that Katy makes. The humor helps to make the books feel shorter and also makes them faster reads.

"[Daemon] stared out the window, one hand on the oh-sh*t handle. As if my driving was that bad." (Lux: Beginnings, p. 591)

I talked about this is my review of Obsidian, but I feel it needs to be mentioned again: I really love Daemon and Katy together. They are so good for each other in so many ways. They make make each other stronger and they balance each other out. It's also great that they both feel the need to protect each other. In some books, the female character can end up being a "damsel-in-distress," but Katy will do whatever it takes to protect Daemon (and Dee and anyone else she cares about, too), and she doesn't sit by idly and stay out of harms way if she knows she can help. Daemon and Katy are so funny together, they have great chemistry, and they are just such a good pair of characters. It's also nice that the two characters continue to exist and be interesting on their own, and they aren't completely co-dependent on each other.

"The tender touch was so at odds with what he'd just said. Deadly and sweet souls- that was what Daemon was; two very different kinds of souls rested in him, fused together." (p. 758)

Overall, I really enjoyed this book, and the Lux series as a whole, so far. I was a little concerned at first because the series has a lot of hype, but I think that this book lived up to its hype, and I think the rest of the books will, too. I gave Onyx 4.5 out of 5 stars.