Anne's Reviews > Obsidian

2020
Alright. 2nd time around with this one! And mostly because the audiobook was available at my library and I needed something kinda fluffy.
So.
What's better than a teenage romance between a human girl and the alien boy next door?
Nothing. That's what.



I'm kidding.
Kind of.
Yes, this was super cheesy and sounded a bit dated. The narrator sounded far too breathy and sexy for a teenage girl who was supposedly a book nerd with a review vlog.
And then the cover for the audio was just terrible. Or terribly funny, depending on how you choose to see things. I personally cringe-laughed every time I saw it.
There are just so many things wrong with that picture. The wife-beater he's wearing as though he were a middle-aged man who has given up on life, the fact that he's supposedly unnaturally ripped in the book and that kid on the cover looks like he has the potential to be slightly flabby, and whatever the fuck she's doing with her face just made me kinda giggle.
I think she's saying, I just ate a bag of Funyuns...



Anyway. I still liked it. And by that, I mean that I realize it's not actually anything but a bunch of cliches wrapped in far too much angst. I know this book is laughable. And I'm not recommending it! But I enjoyed it in that way that I sometimes dig those stupid Hallmark romances or a corny tv show. I don't wanna like them. But I do.




2013
3.5 stars

You wouldn't believe what I went through to get this book!
I had to go to a separate section of my library and request an interlibrary loan.
It's a big deal, people!
I had to wait and wait and wait like a month for them to call me (that's right, folks...no email notification available for this kind of thing), and then pick it up at a 'special' desk.
And I can't return it in the book drop...it must go back to the 'special' desk. Once I've returned the book safely, I can have the blood and urine sample I gave them back.

Shhhh....
The joke's on them, 'cause I had my kid pee in the cup!
And the blood?
"..."
Look, I told that guy to stop letting his dog piss on my tires.

Anyway.
So was it worth it?
Why, yes. Yes, it was.

I'm not going to lie to you and say I didn't roll my eyes at some of the teen stuff, but it's a YA alien romance.
I knew that going into it, so there's no real room for me to complain.

But it was cute, and even though I thought the poor girl was totally clueless about the rudeness of her hot alien neighbor, it didn't affect my enjoyment much.
In fact, I liked it enough to take more of my (so they think) DNA samples back to the library and request the next two books in the series.