Teaser Tuesdays & Pure by Jennifer L. Armentrout Review

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Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

My Teaser

"I finally gave into it, confident that when I awoke in the morning, Seth would be gone. 
It felt like someone had trapped me face down on the bed. I thought I was having one of those dream paralysis things I’d read about once, but then I realized what pinned me to the bed was an arm. And that arm belonged to Seth. 
He hadn’t left, and apparently, Seth was a cuddler." 

-Pg. 87 Pure (Covenant, #2) by Jennifer L. Armentrout

More Quotes to Share

"I could stay here and continue pretending that I belonged, or I could leave with Seth. And then what? My fingers trembled as I set the glass down on the nearest table. I let Seth lead me away from the ball. A sudden heaviness settled over me. I felt like I’d made some sort of irrevocable choice. And maybe I had." -Pg. 461

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"I guess there were two types of people in the world, those who sat around a fire, staring into the flames, and those who started the fire. Seth and I started the fire, and then we danced around it." -Pg. 464

Review of Pure (Covenant, #2) by Jennifer L. Armentrout

 From Goodreads

There is need. And then there is Fate...

Being destined to become some kind of supernatural electrical outlet isn't exactly awesome--especially when Alexandria's "other half" is everywhere she goes. Seth's in her training room, outside her classes, and keeps showing up in her bedroom--so not cool. Their connection does have some benefits, like staving off her nightmares of the tragic showdown with her mother, but it has no effect on what Alex feels for the forbidden, pure-blooded Aiden. Or what he will do--and sacrifice--for her.

When daimons infiltrate the Covenants and attack students, the gods send furies--lesser gods determined to eradicate any threat to the Covenants and to the gods, and that includes the Apollyon... and Alex. And if that and hordes of aether-sucking monsters didn't blow bad enough, a mysterious threat seems willing to do anything to neutralize Seth, even if that means forcing Alex into servitude... or killing her.

When the gods are involved, some decisions can never, ever be undone.

My Take 

*Spoilers below if you haven't read Half-Blood*

OH MY GODS - words can't describe how much I freaking loved this book! However, since I can't NOT talk about this book, I am going to push past my glowing fan girl love and ramble about all the greatness I consumed in one day. Picking up shortly after Half-Blood left off, we find Alexandria (Alex) Andros getting back into the student life at the Covenant in North Carolina, while swinging after school training with both Aiden and Seth so she can continue to catch up for her missing time. To say things are a little awkward still is an understatement, but that could either be from the tension of the forbidden feelings she and the Pure-Blood share or possibly the hidden attraction to her other Apolyon half. Of course these things simmer on the back burner because the Covenants are starting to get attacked by the infamous Daimons, statues of Furies appear on campus, and an impending Council session weighs down on Alex's daily life. Heavy right?

I am being absolutely honest here in saying that Alex is my all time favorite heroine in young adult fiction! Seriously, she is so painfully likable and real it's hard not to relate to everything she goes through over the course of Pure. Her strength of character is really something to be reckoned with even when dealt some pretty low blows after some bad decision making. And yet she bounces back better than before - that's straight up awesome in my opinion. Plus, I just love the fact that her approaching Apollyon birthday doesn't over shadow everything she does - meaning she doesn't let the seriousness of it make her act better than everyone. In fact, given certain events I think she is the absolutely best person to be the second Apollyon, but I'm not saying why. You'll have to read THAT for yourself!

Besides Alex and her awesomeness, there are the boys to contend with - and what contentment there is! To start off, I'm going to gush a little about Aiden. In Half-Blood I fell for him from chapter one and became quiet invested in the whole forbidden connection that he and Alex share. But, in Pure, for some reason I finally started to understand the severity of the two of them getting together for real. It's heartbreaking yes, but I can see where the characters take themselves over the course of this one. Luckily for me and my emotions, we still have Seth. We get WAY more of him here and for that I just about swooned, laughed, and completely fell off my rocker for him! He is quite simply so easy to like and in a weird way it's also easy to understand why Alex feels the way she does for him for numerous reasons. Choices! I tell you these boys have me turned into a puddle of mish-mashed  hormones that may never fully recover after reading!

One of the many things I love about Jennifer L. Armentrout's writing, is that her style is so uniquely fast paced and heart pacing in it's originality that I had no other choice but to be hooked from page one. Pure has this in spades! There is more mythology of the Covenant, Council, and even of the Gods than Half-Blood had - it's all wonderfully explained that I felt as if I was living in that very world. The action is stepped up here to the point where I was literally gasping at what I prayed would or would not be the outcome. And overall, everything from start to finish had me constantly had me boiling over with either laughter, tears, or complete consumption. Basically, Pure rocked my socks off! By the end of it I knew I needed to read Deity as soon as possible and I so can't wait until it's release this Fall. All in all, I totally recommend Pure for a read or several and then - you know - go back to savior it all over again!
 

Check out Pure by Jennifer L. Armentrout HERE on Goodreads to give a read! :)

What's YOUR Teaser?