Origin (Lux #4) REVIEW

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By: Jennifer L. Armentrout
Pages: 366
Publisher: Entangled Publishing

Daemon will do anything to get Katy back.

After the successful but disastrous raid on Mount Weather, he’s facing the impossible. Katy is gone. Taken. Everything becomes about finding her. Taking out anyone who stands in his way? Done. Burning down the whole world to save her? Gladly. Exposing his alien race to the world? With pleasure.
All Katy can do is survive.
Surrounded by enemies, the only way she can come out of this is to adapt. After all, there are sides of Daedalus that don’t seem entirely crazy, but the group’s goals are frightening and the truths they speak even more disturbing. Who are the real bad guys? Daedalus? Mankind? Or the Luxen?
Together, they can face anything. 
But the most dangerous foe has been there all along, and when the truths are exposed and the lies come crumbling down, which side will Daemon and Katy be standing on? 
And will they even be together?


SWEET BABY JESUS WHAT A RIDE!
Where did all that intensity come from?! WOW I'm still in chock. I can't even believe I finished this book in one sitting, Origin had my jaw dropping over and over again, and the best thing? THIS IS FROM BOTH DAEMON'S AND KATY'S POV!!!!! 

So freaking much happened in this book, I'm not kidding, I had super duper high hopes on this book, but Jen really stepped out from her comfort zone when writing this book, things I would NEVER imagine happening happened in Origin, and may I tell you that it just made this book so much better. It's no secret that Jennifer L. Armentrout is the alien Goddess and this book just proved what we already know - Alien is the new Vampires. 

Aside from that we got to know the other characters from Lux series better, such as Bethany, Dawson, Dee, Luc, Paris etc. and we even got to know a whole new character called Archer who I grew to love quickly!

And I could not write this review without mentioning Daety (Daemon + Katy wink wink ;) ) could I? Do you guys remember the ending in Opal? Yeah, totally crushed my soul too.
  This between them changed very much in this book, they have been trough so much together, everything that happened in the previous Lu book should have crushed them but didn't, And they would both go trough it all over and over again if it meant that they could be together in the end, they have that relationship that's just been trough too much to ever fade. 


I'f you've read the other three books in this series I see no point in not reading this one, you obviously read them because you love the series, and trust me when I say that you will love this one even more!

~stay smart, stay chic
xoxo Lihini

Den Femte Vågen / The 5th Wave REVIEW

“Some things you can never leave behind. They don't belong to the past. They belong to you.”

Av Rick Yancey
Sidor: 493
Förlag: Rabén Sjögren

 Efter första vågen finns bara mörker. Efter andra vågen är det bara de som har tur som överlever. Efter tredje vågen är det bara de som har otur som överlever. Efter fjärde vågen finns bara en regel: lita inte på någon.
Nu är det gryning efter den femte vågen och Cassie flyr från De andra. De som ser ut som vanliga människor men som dödar alla de ser. De andra, som har splittrat jordens få överlevande. Cassies föräldrar är döda och hennes lillebror tillfångatagen. Nu flyr hon för livet, hon flyr från De andra. Cassie har valt att inte lita på någon. Hon vet att ensam är stark inte bara är ett slitet uttryck, utan det kanske enda sättet att hålla sig vid liv.

Den här boken vart det en stor hype utav rätt fort, och låt oss inte neka det faktum att det var utav just den anledningen jag valde att läsa denna bok.

Grejen med dystopi böcker är att de oftast är så SJUUUKTTT sega. Man bara sitter där och vänder blad, för att man vill avsluta boken så fort som möjligt så att man kan skriva en recension man kan glömma bort boken helt. Detsamma gäller denna bok.
   Jag tyckte även att det var förvirrande i början hur de presenterade mig för nya huvudkaraktärer, eftersom att dessa karaktärer hade inte något med varandra att göra i början, vissa fick inte ens ett NAMN försen typ 50 sidor senare. Det var då man kunde börja koppla lite, men man förstod varför dessa karaktärer fanns med mot slutet. de fanns inte där av en slump.

Men en historia om aliens kan inte var hur dålig som helst.

Fast det är ONDA aliens.

Boken vart spännande efter 250 sidor, och efter 350 sidor blev det en riktig page-turner.



Rick Yancey har gjort ett mycket fint jobb när det handlar om att konstruera sina karaktärer. Karaktärerna fick inte en typisk kroppsbeskrivning, dvs. hur de såg ut så fort vi träffade dem, utan det handlade mer om att lära känna dem som individer. Allt hände i sin takt, för varje sida lärde man sig något nytt om karaktärerna. Det som gör den här boken lite speciell för mig var det faktum att jag inte kände att karaktärerna tvingades på mig. Jag tvingades inte till att älska dem, ingen beskrevs som "så söt och älskvärd" som t.ex. Prim beskrivs i Hungerspelan.

Efter att ha tänkt och tänkt har jag valt att ge denna bok 3/5, boken hade sina brister, men annars var den bra.


By Rick Yancey
Pages: 457
Publisher : Putnam Juvenile

After the 1st wave, only darkness remains. After the 2nd, only the lucky escape. And after the 3rd, only the unlucky survive. After the 4th wave, only one rule applies: trust no one.

Now, it’s the dawn of the 5th wave, and on a lonely stretch of highway, Cassie runs from Them. The beings who only look human, who roam the countryside killing anyone they see. Who have scattered Earth’s last survivors. To stay alone is to stay alive, Cassie believes, until she meets Evan Walker. Beguiling and mysterious, Evan Walker may be Cassie’s only hope for rescuing her brother—or even saving herself. But Cassie must choose: between trust and despair, between defiance and surrender, between life and death. To give up or to get up.

This book became a hype fast, and let's not deny the fact that I woule never pick it up if it wasn't for that reason.

The thing with Dystopian books is that a lot of them are REALLLLYYYYYY slow. You just sit there turning pages, only because you wan't to finish it and get it over with. Same goes for this one.
   I found it confusing in the beginning how they Always introduced us to new main characters, because these new characters didn't really have anything with each other to do in the beginning, they didn't cross roads until a... while.

But a story can't be that bad when it's about aliens.

Even if they are BAD aliens.

The book became fairy intresting after 250 pages, and after 350 pages it became a real page-turner.

Rick Yancey have done a Beautiful job when it comes to construct great characters, They didn't get the whole body description one might get, but you got to know a bit about everyone as you got deeper into the story. He didn't throw it all at your face, he didn't force me to love the characters either; Everything was a work in process.

After thinking and thinking, I decided to give this book 3/5, the book had its flaws, but otherwise it was good.


~stay smart, stay chic
xoxo Lihini