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A review by haley_j_casey
Opal by Jennifer L. Armentrout
3.0
Original Review:
I liked the first two-thirds of the book okay, and I did love the end. I unfortunately knew it was coming (even though I didn't know how), but I thought it was extremely well-written and I could feel exactly what Kat AND Daemon were feeling in those last dozen paragraphs. That part was brilliant, but overall this book took me longer than the first two.
Second Read:
Okay, coming into this one a little older and with some more solid opinions on tropes I like and am tired of in YA lit, this book was fine overall but not great. I like the characters, the plot, the dialogue, I do, and I totally believe all the emotions and frustration except for one:
Literally whenever something terrifying and scarring and emotionally-wrought happens, Daemon and Kat make out.
Come. On.
She has a terrifying revelation? Makeout with Daemon. She feels overwhelmed by one of her friends going darkside in her bedroom? Makeout with Daemon. She kills someone and cries all evening? Ends in a makeout sesh. I don't believe it. Every. Single. Time. It would go from Daemon holding her and comforting her to her reaching out to kiss him to the kiss turning into something "more", etc, etc. That should not be the fallback for how to deal with your emotions. Good God, have a conversation.
Okay, rant over. Again, overall pretty good book in the series, but that's the worst trope.
I liked the first two-thirds of the book okay, and I did love the end. I unfortunately knew it was coming (even though I didn't know how), but I thought it was extremely well-written and I could feel exactly what Kat AND Daemon were feeling in those last dozen paragraphs. That part was brilliant, but overall this book took me longer than the first two.
Second Read:
Okay, coming into this one a little older and with some more solid opinions on tropes I like and am tired of in YA lit, this book was fine overall but not great. I like the characters, the plot, the dialogue, I do, and I totally believe all the emotions and frustration except for one:
Literally whenever something terrifying and scarring and emotionally-wrought happens, Daemon and Kat make out.
Come. On.
She has a terrifying revelation? Makeout with Daemon. She feels overwhelmed by one of her friends going darkside in her bedroom? Makeout with Daemon. She kills someone and cries all evening? Ends in a makeout sesh. I don't believe it. Every. Single. Time. It would go from Daemon holding her and comforting her to her reaching out to kiss him to the kiss turning into something "more", etc, etc. That should not be the fallback for how to deal with your emotions. Good God, have a conversation.
Okay, rant over. Again, overall pretty good book in the series, but that's the worst trope.