The Lux Series by Jennifer L. Armentrout (overall review)

Series Rating: 4.5 stars

    Let me set the scene. Olivia. Late at Night. A dead bookshelf with books laying everywhere. Grieving. The main character of the book I was currently reading is a book blogger. Why not?

*cue many days of template searching instead of actually reading*

    I saw this series on Booktube a lot as "Twilight but aliens" and finally gave in. I didn't expect to like it. Two Twilights can't coexist and both be good. But alas, it was sooo good. I didn't expect it to be so funny and I read the whole series in about 5 days. It took Katy a while to figure out the whole alien thing, which was frustrating, but afterwards the action never stopped and I was on the edge of my seat 95% of the time. The dialog was perfect and I found myself laughing in the most serious situations. My favorite was Opal (Lux #3) and my least favorite has to be either the first or last one.

     The main character, Kathy, was such a badass bitch and didn't take any shit I just want to be her. She was strong, a fangirl, and her refusal of falling into a damsel in distress position makes me love her so much. Daemon in the beginning was down right cruel to her and she never backed down. Daemon, the love interest, made me out loud and the banter he had with everyone, especially Katy, was perfect. To describe my love of the rest of the gang would give spoilers, but i'll just say a certain 15 year old is the reason for my existence. I was born to read him. I just want a whole book of just him. I could read him reading a phone book.

     The reason for the 4.5 stars instead of 5 was the opening and closing of the series. Altough i very much enjoyed the lack of insta love, in Obsidian and a little in Onyx Daemon was so hot and cold, his cold being downright awful to Katy, it was frustrating and sometimes I would set the book down because I didn't want to deal with him. However, once Daemon and Katy got together I was in love. In Opposition, the final book, I would find myself skipping whole paragraphs and skimming the page just reading the dialogue. It was, it hurts to say but,  boring. It seemed every three seconds there was a new conflict which was predictably solved in 50 pages. I still gave it four stars for the characters and the dialogue and I still enjoyed it.

    Overall, I loved it. The characters were fantastic. The narration was fantastic. The dialogue was fantastic. It made me laugh out loud then reread it and laugh again. It was cheesy, and it knew it, and it called itself out on it. It accepted it was a book where a girl literally falls in love with a alien and it embraced it. Go read it (I do suggest a library copy or an eBook though because those cover man, they're bad).