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My Review:Title: Obsidian
Author: Kimberly Loth
Published by: Indie
Release Date: February 17, 2016
Format: Kindle Book
Pages: 204
Genres: Paranormal Romance
Reading Challenges: CC's Goodreads Reading Challenge
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My rating:
Blurb:Seventeen-year-old Aspen is a skydiving, rock climbing, adrenaline junky. All her life, she’s been fascinated by the dragons who roam near her home in Yellowstone Park. Yes, Dragons. Though no human has ever gotten close enough to touch one.
Except Aspen.
While most people avoid the national parks because of the resident dragons, Aspen spends most of her free time in search of the feared and misunderstood creatures. For her, studying the dragons is a way to escape a painful past and avoid getting too close to anyone.
She’d rather track dragons in the wild and through the lens of her camera than talk to real people. But then Aspen meets a hot new guy at school, Sid King. He’s the one person she’s ever met who shares her obsession with all things dragon. But even as she feels strangely drawn to the mysterious boy, she senses he’s hiding his own set of dark and powerful secrets.
When hikers start turning up dead in the park, everyone suspects the formidable predators. Unless Aspen can prove their innocence, every one of her beloved dragons is in danger of eradication.
After Aspen and Sid uncover a sinister plot behind the brutal attacks, Aspen can no longer deny that Sid somehow knows more about the deaths than he should and the secrets they both keep threaten to rip their lives apart forever.
This was a cute shifter romance. I liked how the dragons had to spend 10 years as humans to understand them.
The tenuous relationship between the dragons and the humans was interesting. The humans prevalence for not trusting anything that isn’t like them is clear in how they always think the dragons are out to eat them. Which is odd since there had never been a human/dragon casualty since their treaty or whatever. (We don’t go too much into the that origin story) The dragons seem a bit medieval in their customs and rituals. There is no progression in their ways, which is sad. It’s very rigid and kinda immature. I didn’t like that about the story for some reason, it didn’t seem to make much sense when they lived in modern times but refused to conform or even entertain the idea of some change. Even it is clearly for the better of their race.
The humans were kinda one dimensional to me. Aside from Apsen I couldn’t tell you the names of the other humans in this story. She loved the outdoors and was always in the woods taking pictures. I liked how she had a passion for her craft and wasn’t afraid to try new things even with her truamatic past. It showed great courage, but I gotta say the trauma I felt was used for shock value and wasn’t done very tastefully. Maybe I’m just too sensative about that kinda thing, could be. I just didn’t buy it as part of her back story. And making her parents nearly absentee screamed lazy writing to me. I get that lots of YA don’t have a strong family unit but I’ve always found this to be the easy way out. The stories are so much bertter when the family unit is more pronounced in the story.
I’m on the fence if I will read the next one.
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