The Power (Titans, Book 2)

By J L Armentrout

Rating

3 stars

Date Read

14/5/16 - 22/5/16

Age Group

17+

General Thoughts

DAD, GET OUT OF MY BLOG

Moving on:

Predictable.

And so cheesy.

There wasn't anything wrong with the book. But it didn't offer anything either. Then again, I'm currently in a bad mood so I can't promise to be objective.

The Power annoyed me.

Seth seems to think that using cuss words in every other sentence magically makes him badass. The old, actually badass Seth from Half blood is long gone.

Of course, as always, in the second book of a  paranormal romance series there's trouble in Paradise. We've seen it all before. Seth makes a terrible mistake that has him pushing Josie away. A mistake that hints at what is to follow. Anyone who's read the Half Blood series and knows of Seth's struggles doesn't even need Medusa's warning to realise what 's going to happen. It's been coming a long time and there's no changing destiny, is there.

Then there's the road trip. I adore road trips. Sweet Evil did it right. Looking for the rest of the demigods could've been so much more fun. Instead, it was rushed and little focus was spared on the actual quest. The main issue was, again, Josie and Seth, her training and his restraint problems. And their whole irritating, picturesque relationship, with him feeling all undeserving and her forgiving every bad thing he's ever done, all the cold murders and painful tortures and hurtful betrayals? It gets old, fast.

The ending was nice enough and so were most of the aspects in the rest of the book. But it was so crazy predictable, especially the second half, and as such it lost a lot of its appeal.

After all, if Seth gets predictable, there's something fundamentally wrong with the universe.

All in All

I know thousands of die-hard fans of Half Blood adored this, if just for being a novel centered on Seth. But I guess I was always more Team Aiden and all of Seth's charm, for me, was connected to the mystery around him, his mind being a riddle, his next move unpredictable. The Power took that, chopped it up, and turned him into a cartoonish version of Kaiden.

PS Lots of comparing The Power to Sweet Evil, no idea where that came from.

XOXO

Aggie Pearson