Pure by Jennifer L. Armentrout

Hi everyone,

How are your vacations going on? August is now dripping, my computer is dead and how you have definitely noticed from the title and the image today I will not do ACOWAR’s review – even if it’s next, promise – but I’ll do the review of Pure by Jennifer L. Armentrout, sequel of ” Half-blood “, which I’ve been able to read and appreciate in just three days.

The similarity with Vampire Academy in this second volume of the Covenant series is only 1:

The main character’s best friend die.

But I swear to you that when I read them I do not hold Vampire Academy in one hand and this in the other, simply they are just essential details for both books that I remember very well and that look basically the same.

However I do not demoralize with this because, as I said before, I appreciated this second volume, I liked it much more than the first one.

The author, in my opinion, has tried to set aside a little Aiden’s figure, because of the impossible love between the pure and Alex, the future second Apollyon and protagonist, introducing more Seth’s figure, the first Apollyon destined to to stay with Alex because of the fact that when she wakes up she will have to be his personal battery to kill the Daimons.

In this volume there are a lot of good and bad things. Covenants been attacked, broken hearts, forced loves, attacks to Alex’s holiness by unknown people who wanted to kick her out of the Covenant and make her became an half-blooded slave drugged with the Elixir, and a Deamon invasion at the end of the book that will force the three protagonists to make crucial choices.

But this book, while putting Aiden in bad light, has done nothing but making me love him more, because despite he abruptly push away Alex from his life, indirectly helped by Seth who wants the girl for himself, you can understand perfectly that he cares a lot more than he should about her, trying to protect her at all costs, even if it means breaking her heart, especially when she tells that she loves him he realizes that things are pushing too far, endangering her life.

What I love about all Armentrout’s books I’ve read is that she is capable of transforming a simple love story into something more – not exaggerating. Something that pushes you, forces you to turn pages to see how it will end.

She always succeeds in changing the cards on the table. When you expect them to come back together, they do not. When you expect them to kiss, they end up arguing. It’s never like you believed, but you really like what you read because, in fact, you didn’t expect it would have taken that turn.