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Obsidian by Jennifer L. Armentrout
4.0

There was a time on Booktube where this book was RIDICULOUSLY popular. Everyone and their mom was reading it. I feel like for a straight six months I couldn't watch a wrap-up video without seeing people talk about it. I absentmindedly added it to my TBR list in 2013 thinking that I would *eventually* get to it. Fast forward to yesterday, when I was looking for a book that was available on my library's digital loaning service. I found this one and rolled my eyes.

"I haven't read a paranormal romance in years," I thought to myself. "I am totally over it ugh."

I totally thought of just skipping over this one, but I recently have DNF'd four books in a row and I really didn't want to give up a book without giving it a chance. Ten pages. That was all that I was going to give this book. I would read ten pages and when I decided that I hated it I was going to put it aside and move onto the next book. Well...I was up until midnight reading this book last night. I could not put it down. I totally thought that I had grown out of paranormal romance. I used to LOVE it when I was in high school. I literally have not picked up a paranormal romance book since my freshman year of college, and the only reason I read that was because it was a part of a series I loved when I was younger. I thought that I was done with paranormal romance, but apparently paranormal romance wasn't done with me.

DAEMON IS A JERK AND IF HE WERE IN FRONT OF ME I WOULD SMACK HIM. Our "hot shot" main dude is kind of a dick. He was manipulative and didn't really value anything that Katy said. I'm not excusing anything that he does in this book by saying that I liked it. It's interesting to me though, because I've been around guys like him. The cocky, arrogant, asshole who know's that people are attracted to him and used that to get what he wants. Now that I am older, I realize how awful this is, but growing up that was my normal. Those guys were always the most sought after. He's awful, but in some weird twisted way, I felt like I was able to connect with Katy better because I totally have met and crushed on guys like Daemon.

I was a total TRASH while reading this book. Fangirling, squealing, the whole shabang. Why, you ask? I HAVE NO IDEA. I mean the story was pretty interesting, the characters were cool, but like nothing monumental happened. I think this book just got to me at the right time where consumed something that allowed me to be in fourteen-year-old fangirl state again. (What am I kidding, I'm in that state quite often, but not with books quite as often as I used to be.)

So, I am willingly going to read the next book. (I already have the next two checked out on my library's ebook lending service.) I'm going to continue the series. (Even though series over four books are like my biggest fear.) And, I guess we'll see what happens. Only time will tell...