Given that it had such a one-note story, it was also extremely predictable. It felt like an excuse to have some characters in this universe finally get to have some sex scenes in the forefront. This was even more simple that any of its YA counterparts. I would’ve thought that bringing the Lux universe into an adult setting we would have gotten a more complex, ‘adult’ multi-thread storyline. There is a lot of death and dismemberment, a lot of swearing, and bumping uglies… and I’m sorry but some of the descriptions of the intimate times had me roaring with laughter than feeling my feels. You know, that girl who’s hanging around for sex and clout because she doesn’t feel like she deserves any better. She reminds me of one of those supporting characters in a Mob Boss movie. She just keeps overlooking warning signs. I feel the heavy hand of the author weaving the threads of their fate. There is only a hint of a softer side as he develops feelings for Selena, but because of the nature of the tone in this novel, I am not convinced. Sexually aggressive, arrogant, and stays that way throughout the entire story. But are the aliens and the government the biggest threats to Serena's life.Told in two different perspectives – that of Selena, attempting to clear her murdered girlfriends name… where sometime through the narrative it turned into retaliatory justice. Soon he's doing the unthinkable - breaking the rules he's lived by, going against the government to keep Serena safe.
Hunter stirs Serena's temper and her lust despite their differences. Who would? But then she witnesses her friend's murder at the hands of what can only be an alien, thrusting her into a world that will kill to protect their secret. Serena Cross didn't believe her best friend when she claimed to have seen the son of a powerful senator turn into something.unnatural. That is, until he's saddled with something he's never had to do before: protect a human from his mortal enemy.
And the Department of Defense has him firmly in their grasp, which usually doesn't chafe too badly because he gets to kill bad guys. Armentrout, author of the Covenant and Lux series. A thrilling standalone novel from New York Times bestselling novelist Jennifer L.
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