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A review by katyanaish
Omens by Kelley Armstrong
5.0
Really liked this... fantastic start to a new series, and I can't wait for the next one.
Re-read Nov 2017
I'm not sure why this series fell by the wayside, because I really did enjoy the first. But I tripped over it and decided to re-read the first as a refresher, and then push onward. And I'm so glad I did, because I really did love this book.
Olivia/Eden is a great heroine. She may be a little naive about money, but really, she's self-aware enough to realize that... and when her whole world is rocked, she decides that she needs to strip a lot of things away for a bit, and try and find herself. That sounds overly self-help, and I don't mean it that way, because there's no self-help angst going on here. She's just... overwhelmed and confused. And the horrid way the people in Olivia's life treat her - from her disappointment of a mother to her self-absorbed fiancee - underscore that she needs some time away in order to figure things out.
Even better, she does all this without being a moron. She understands when she starts doing something dangerous, and she takes intelligent precautions. She keeps her mind open to possibilities. She knows that she needs to stay as unbiased, regarding her birth parents, as possible - it's too easy to fall into the trap of believing they are innocent because she wants them to be, and she constantly polices herself about that.
She's honestly just fabulous.
The town of Cainsville is also intriguing, and I'm excited to see what's behind all the teases we've gotten.
Gabriel is an interesting character. I can't label him the hero, and I'm not even honestly sure that I want him to be. He's a bit of a sociopath, honestly. Other people's feelings don't even occur to him, and when Olivia/Eden gets (quite fairly) pissed about him when he does something shitty, he seems to honestly be unable to see why she would/should be upset. So I don't know that I want him to be the hero/love interest... but he does make an interesting partner. So again, I'm excited to see what happens.
Re-read Nov 2017
I'm not sure why this series fell by the wayside, because I really did enjoy the first. But I tripped over it and decided to re-read the first as a refresher, and then push onward. And I'm so glad I did, because I really did love this book.
Olivia/Eden is a great heroine. She may be a little naive about money, but really, she's self-aware enough to realize that... and when her whole world is rocked, she decides that she needs to strip a lot of things away for a bit, and try and find herself. That sounds overly self-help, and I don't mean it that way, because there's no self-help angst going on here. She's just... overwhelmed and confused. And the horrid way the people in Olivia's life treat her - from her disappointment of a mother to her self-absorbed fiancee - underscore that she needs some time away in order to figure things out.
Even better, she does all this without being a moron. She understands when she starts doing something dangerous, and she takes intelligent precautions. She keeps her mind open to possibilities. She knows that she needs to stay as unbiased, regarding her birth parents, as possible - it's too easy to fall into the trap of believing they are innocent because she wants them to be, and she constantly polices herself about that.
She's honestly just fabulous.
The town of Cainsville is also intriguing, and I'm excited to see what's behind all the teases we've gotten.
Gabriel is an interesting character. I can't label him the hero, and I'm not even honestly sure that I want him to be. He's a bit of a sociopath, honestly. Other people's feelings don't even occur to him, and when Olivia/Eden gets (quite fairly) pissed about him when he does something shitty, he seems to honestly be unable to see why she would/should be upset. So I don't know that I want him to be the hero/love interest... but he does make an interesting partner. So again, I'm excited to see what happens.