Onyx (Lux, #2) in Addicted to YA

Dec 01, 2018 Vanessa Gayle ⚔️ Fangirl Faction rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: reviewed, book-girlfriends, i-will-go-down-with-this-ship, love-it-to-the-moon, own-audiobook-read, young-adult, all-the-feels, dealing-with-heavy-issues-or-crisis, death, all-the-stars-five-are-not-enough

05/06/2022: Reread! Listened on audio.
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11/20/2020: Reread!

This review MAY contain spoilers. Read at your own risk.

I can only imagine that reading this book is the closest feeling to the high a person gets from injecting drugs. You know, without all the nastiness of side effects and such. If I could melt this book down I bet I could sell it like heroin. I'd be set for life and would want for nothing ever again. -sigh- I don't want this high to end. Thank goodness there are three more books in this series to slick my lust!

This author writes characters that consume you. They sink into you and ravage through your veins like the newest designer drug leaving you all but hanging onto reality. The backstories, the chemistry between characters, and the character progression all flow with each other to make these characters truly exceptional. The reading experience with this cast of characters is one of the best that I've read.

The plotting of the story was cleverly concocted and pretty tantalizing. As things progressed in the story, I was constantly trying to piece things together in my mind and figure out the plot twists. It was almost like reading a murder mystery. I was on the edge of my seat, so to speak. The foreshadowing was threaded into the story adeptly. I was very impressed.

The romance in this book far outpassed the first book. I love the hate-to-love slow burn romance. It really digs in deep and makes you feel so many emotions. I fell so in love with the complicated romance between the main characters. I love how there are so many factors surrounding their romance. Things that they fight, things that they have to overcome, and things outside of their power to change. Their journey is so impactful. And Daemon is freaking hot, so there's that. Prepare your bookshelf for a new book boyfriend. Just saying.

Overall, this is one of the best book experiences I've had. For real. The writing is so masterful and the characters will find a special place in your heart by the end. I definitely have a new favorite author, and luckily there is a backlist of titles waiting for me! If you enjoy suspenseful plotting, characters with depth, and a romance that will give you heart palpitations then this book (and this series) is the drug that you are looking for. Please read responsibly.

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Jun 10, 2015 Melissa rated it really liked it

Shelves: 2015-library-books

I have been wanting to get back to this series for some time now. I finally made a bit of time for it. I have to say though, it took me a while to really get into the book. The first half of the book was rehashing their "romance" but I just couldn't get into it. I don't know if it is because it was so long after the first book or if it just didn't capture my attention.

Then the second half of the book came...

When Katy spies someone she shouldn't have seen I was totally into the story. I wanted to ...more

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Mar 23, 2013 Tressa (Wishful Endings) rated it it was ok

Shelves: 2013, ya-scifi, series

I started skimming before I even got half-way through. Too much redundancy with Katy trying to push Daemon away, putting up with Blake, then loving Daemon, and Daemon not doing anything except being upset and rude. Great kissing scenes, but there were a ton of those two, so they lost some of their affect. Lots of language and some talk about sex (Dee and her boyfriend are involved). I saw what was going to happen a mile away. Thought Katy was being pretty unintelligent about a lot of things and ...more

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Jul 31, 2014 Katerina rated it really liked it

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"Do you have any idea what you do to me?" he asked gruffly.
"I'm not doing anything."
Daemon shifted his head just enough that our lips brushed once... and then twice before he increased his pressure.

Ok... Ok... give me a second or two to cool down after reading this book. I don't know how much more my heart can.... Ok I am ready to write this review! So when I read the first book, I had fallen in love with Daemon and Katy. They are two characters that make up one a From my blog: The Realm of Books

"Do you have any idea what you do to me?" he asked gruffly.
"I'm not doing anything."
Daemon shifted his head just enough that our lips brushed once... and then twice before he increased his pressure.

Ok... Ok... give me a second or two to cool down after reading this book. I don't know how much more my heart can.... Ok I am ready to write this review! So when I read the first book, I had fallen in love with Daemon and Katy. They are two characters that make up one another so well. Yet at the same time they like to hit each other with sarcasm and words like "dickdom." I cracked up after reading that word, it was too funny. I was wrong when I said Obsidian brought out more emotion in me, It was Onyx that did most of the work. Onyx has so many twist and turns that you sometimes feel like you can't keep up.

Jennifer Armentrout yet again succeeds my expectations of this series. She has created something to beautiful for words. If I did not love her before, after reading Onyx, I love her now more than ever.

In Onyx you definitely see the sexual tension between Daemon and Katy. Where in Obsidian it was the constant hate, it is the constant sexual tension in Onyx. That doesn't mean that Katy doesn't give out her famous phrases, she does trust me, but it is her inner battle with herself and her wants that take presents. Of course we can't forget our sexy neighbor Daemon either, because he is just too yummy to forget. Daemon has his fair share of spot lights... of course any time he steps into a room the spot light is on him. Daemon's character evolves just like Katy's does just a different way. You can't help but fall in love with his sarcasm and wit, nor can you help but fall in love with this new side of his either.

Even though I concentrated more on the characters this time around, I must say that the pace of Onyx was great. You know how you get those books that start out with a bang and the climaxes build but then you get the middle part that suffers from sluggish disease. Well, Onyx never had that problem it was witty, nerve wrecking, and full of endless remarks. You are not given a sequel that is slow just so it can get to the third book. If anything Jennifer wrote a home run with this sequel. It surpassed Obsidian by a long shot. Never once did I set this book down in boredom or dismay.

Jennifer never strays from her ideas as she is writing. She has one main purpose of the book and never adds in more detail than one can manage. I hate it when books stray from one idea to the next never hinting what the book is truly suppose to be about or what is supposed to be accomplished by the end. Yet Jennifer knows what she wants and strives for it.

My only reason for four royals is that Katy got me really aggravated in this book and was pulling really dumb moves, even though I understand why she did it, it still pushed my buttons. Also another thing is I am not much of a love triangle person, never really have been. I get that it adds drama to books but this book is already full of drama it doesn't need the extra boost. But that is just me, some people do like there love triangles. Other than those few tidbits I had no other issues with this read.

In the end Onyx just like Obsidian captured my heart. If it wasn't the unsaid romance it was the sense of adventure that drew me in. It took my heart and rearranged it into to different pieces: frustration, love, hope, anger, and soppy. The ending though hit me the hardest and even though I understand why it happened it still left me a bit crestfallen. Not many authors can achieve what Jennifer did for me.

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