Onyx by Jennifer L. Armentrout

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…

Rating: 5 stars

Two books into this series, and I'm truly, madly, deeply in love with Daemon. Yes, he's an overprotective bastard, but he's got his charm. Well, he thinks so at least. On top of the swoon worthy romance, the action was pretty epic. I loved her training with Blake, although I did think he was kinda a douche bag.  Seriously, some of the stuff he did was flat out dangerous and stupid. I don't care if he would've fixed stuff before anyone died...*spoiler* that worked like hell in the ending, didn't it?

But, while the action was awesome and realistic (as in she didn't completely fail, or kick ass the first time) it was also well paced, and didn't happen every time you turned around. Because that in itself would've made the book get old really quick. While freezing stuff is great and all, an entire book filled with it can get old. I don't care how good of a writer you are, alien mojo is something that needs to be treasured, and not flaunted around every five seconds. So I was thrilled to find that every thing was spread around.

And Daemon, oh Daemon, why do you have to be so sexy? It kills you know, because I don't know one hot guy, and all these book characters are making me jealous. *unhappy sigh* And oh my God, the self confidence that boy had literally made me laugh every time. But while he was confident and jack-ass-y, he had a vulnerability that made him lovable, and kind of redeemed him for everything. Here's a quote from when they had been making out, and their alien mojo fried a computer:

 'And what the hell was I doing? I'd decided I wasn't going to let this happen with Daemon, which meant no kissing...or touching....
I pushed him. Hard. Daemon let go, staring at me like I'd kicked his puppy into traffic.'

Well, I left some lines out, but you still get the point. He looked at her like she'd kicked a puppy, can you picture that? Especially if you've read Obsidian all ready, you know how it--

It just--

I don't know, maybe I'm just an overdramatic fangirl at heart, but this really killed my fragile emotions. And there's more scenes like that too. And that's before he gets his challenge on, and starts presenting her with flowers and such.

I never thought Blake would be that big of a love intrest, and *spoiler* when they kissed, I was genuinely surprised. And he basically was no competition anyways, but I loved how jealous he made Daemon. But other than that, I didn't like him much.

Katy was sweet, caring, and sassy. Everything I look for in a protagonist, and she was fairly quick. A little rash, but she put two and two together better than most. I guess that's what you get with a book lover *wink wink...yeah I'm not funny.

I was a bit sad Dee wasn't in this book more, she was one of my favorite characters. And the way Katy treated her was a bit douchey, all though she did have a legitimate reason, which I can except. It wasn't just normal teen drama, it was legitamate.

I wouldn't (obviously) recommend this to people who haven't read Obsidian yet, and also if you like sweet and innocent love interests.

I need Opal, now. Just saying, I should just buy the whole series and be done with it, but I'm a little scared because I hear that it has 'the worst cliffhanger ending I have every read.' Oh dear. 

xxAvalon