Origin (Lux, #4) by Jennifer L. Armentrout

Origin (Jennifer L. Armentrout)

SUMMARY

Daemon will do anything to get Katy back.
After the successful but disastrous raid on Mount Weather, he’s facing the impossible. Katy is gone. Taken. Everything becomes about finding her. Taking out anyone who stands in his way? Done. Burning down the whole world to save her? Gladly. Exposing his alien race to the world? With pleasure.

All Katy can do is survive.

Surrounded by enemies, the only way she can come out of this is to adapt. After all, there are sides of Daedalus that don’t seem entirely crazy, but the group’s goals are frightening and the truths they speak even more disturbing. Who are the real bad guys? Daedalus? Mankind? Or the Luxen?

Together, they can face anything.

But the most dangerous foe has been there all along, and when the truths are exposed and the lies come crumbling down, which side will Daemon and Katy be standing on?

And will they even be together?

MY REVIEW

I'll burn the world down to save her.
EPIC! Truly impressive.

From where can I start telling you about this book?

First of all if you compare the first book of the series Obsidian with Origin, you will notice that the story has evolved exponentially:

1.The high school children are not children any more. They are young adults now. They hold their future in their hands, they take painful decisions, they proceed in life-changing actions.

2. The action will move from the little town and the school to secret military underground bases where humans try to be The God.

3. Humans play a vital part in this book. Before, they seemed to be afar. They were just observing Luxen and Arum and they were setting the rules for the aliens in order to be accepted on Earth. Now, we see that humans do not really play nice for more than 50 years. What is their role in the creation of Origins? Where is the compassion and the sympathy and the understanding ? I was keep cursing and wishing painful punishment for most stupid uptight cruel humans involved in Daedalus project.

There is one shocking revelation after the other and a cliffhanger at the end of almost each chapter.
Everyone can become a casualty: human or alien, main or secondary character. After a while, you get used to it.

One thing is certain, the world will NOT be the same after this book.
And apparently everyone has to choose a side – unless the side is already chosen for him/her.