Shadows- A Lux Novella Review

“Oh, for the love of baby humans everywhere, you’re an idiot.”

The novella Shadows is a prequel to the Lux series by Jennifer L Armentrout. Instead of Daemon and Katy, we see the love story of Dawson and Beth. Shadows tell how they fell in love and the consequences of their relationship.

So, I’m not a big insta love person. Dawson and Beth are super cute, but love at first sight just isn’t my thing. I prefer Daemon and Katy’s relationship where it evolved into THAT horny mushfest. Its just more appealing than the locking eyes and falling so deeply in love.

Dawson is a really interesting character. I thought he was the more sensible of the twins. In many ways he is, but man can he throw down! The incident in the home cinema with Andrew for example. It showed that Dawson had a line you didn’t cross if you valued your valued your physical wellbeing.

Shout out to the end of that passage when Dawson beats the crap out of Andrew and threatens Ash and Adam is like “ yeah, we’re cool homie”.

I also love the amount of background we get on the Luxen like how “human hating” is so common it gets its own term and that living outside the colonies is considered rather a big deal. It also explains why Dawson and Daemon and so protective of Beth and Katy, because the Luxen value and cherish their women because only a third of the Luxen are female.  Although I prefer Daemon’s relationship, I favour Dawson’s character and storytelling.

All in all, it’s a nice addition to the series as we get a lot more background on the Luxen community. The love was too instant for me and I would have rather it be a full length novel than a novella for sheer character development’s sake.

 

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