Darkphoenix

NEED ORIGIN NOW!!!!!!!!Brand new Origin Teaser:“We can’t lose you,” she said after a few moments of awkward as hell silence. “You have to understand that we aren’t doing this because we don’t care about Kat. We’re doing this because we love you.”“But I love her,” I said without hesitation.Dee’s eyes widened, probably since it was the first time she’d heard me say it out loud, well, about anyone other than my family. I wished I had said it more often, especially to Kat. Funny how that kind of shit always turns out in the end. While you’re deep in something, you never say or do what you need to. It’s always after the fact, when it’s too late that you realize what you’ve should’ve said or done.It couldn’t be too late. I knew that. The fact that I was still alive was testament to that. Like Dee said, though, there were worse things than death. After reading the new release date of August 27th:After reading that blurb:here's the first chapter :http://www.scribd.com/doc/160695527/Origin-by-Jennifer-L-Armentroutbut be warned, it doesn't really help..UPDATE:I am finally done and it was a lukewarm experience at best.I had high hopes for Origin and sadly the book did not live up to them. Origin seemed a little disjointed to me, like the author wasn't sure how she wanted the story to progress. Be warned, there will be spoilers below.Origin begins where Opal left off, with Katy in the clutches of Daedalus while Daemon, Dawson and Beth managing to escape. As Daedalus' captive Katy is subjected to a bunch of physical, medical and psychological tests, she is basically their resident guinea pig. We are introduced to some new characters, though only one of them, Archer, is of any significance. Plus we also finally meet Nancy, who pretty much runs the facility along with General Dasher. While at Daedalus, Katy learns that perhaps all that she thought of the Luxens was not completely accurate, apparently evil Luxens do exist (surprise surprise!) On the other side, Daemon is busy rampaging in his search for Katy. He finally gets help from Luc who tells Daemon where Katy is being held and agrees to help them for a price. Daemon's big plan is to turn himself over to the DOD and then improvise (great plan genius.) On his capture, he demands that they let him see Katy. They eventually do take him to Katy and this is where the book pretty much fizzled out. The minute Daemon entered the facility, I felt there was a definite drop in tension (and no, growling and glowering at other characters is not the kind of tension I'm talking about) They finally escaped Daedalus with Archer's help (turns out he was working with Luc, no surprise there) and make a run for it. The other thing that really bothered me was that Katy went through some traumatic shit, but the minute Daemon showed up, it was almost as if she suddenly got over everything she had been through. Sure, there were moments of uncontrollable sobbing but very often they seemed as if they were an afterthought. If you read just last quarter of the book, you'd think her stay with Daedalus was more like a picnic than a painful, torturous experience.There was little to no character development here and if you really look at it, the story didn't progress much either. The events of this book could have easily been incorporated into the fifth and final book making for a much tighter and precise storytelling. I thought that in Origin, we would get to a kick-ass avatar of Katy and she would finally come into her powers and be awesome, even that did not happen. For all that talk of her being able to handle things on her own, she was woefully out of her league. There were some death, most notably Blake's, and I have never been happier about a character's death. Sadly Ash and Andrew also met their end and while I didn't particularly care much for Andrew, i will miss Ash. She was a fun character. But I also felt that their deaths were a little too convenient. Here were two characters who had never been fans of Katy and it would've been interesting to see their interaction. Now, on to more irritants in the book, Beth is pregnant. She's eighteen for crying out loud!! There is something so wrong with that.. Besides, they are running for their lives, how the hell are they gonna look after a baby when they can barely take care of themselves. Also, Daemon and Katy get married. Did we seriously need teen pregnancies and teen marriage to give this story more weight? I don't think so. So basically all my high hopes for this book have been smashed into smithereens.. I need to read something better NOW!!!