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 For awhile on Goodreads, this was one of the few books that I kept seeing more and more often. People seemed to love it but I never gave it more than a, "Eh, I'll get to it someday." Then finally I saw it at the library and picked it up on a whim. 
 Paranormal young adult novels that actually please teen girls and critics both are few and far between. After a particular craze about a vampire and the human girl that fell in love with him the genre, in my opinion, has gone downhill, inducing cringe-worthy writing and cheesy relationships. Because of all this, it is hard to find a book that is actually liked by a lot of people. 
 I suppose Obsidian is one of those novels that a variety of people like but I could not fully enjoy it as much because it is hard to write a realistic paranormal novel with all the messed up novels in the genre hanging over your shoulder while you read. But don't get me wrong-I somewhat liked this book. 
 Negatives: 
 Putting my faith in my fellow readers, I went into this novel without any knowledge of what it was about. Going back and looking at the blurb had me somewhat shocked, it tells you what sort of supernatural creature Daemon and his friends are. I didn't like that because Katy goes through a lot before she finds out what he is and I wish we were taken on a similar journey. 
 Daemon. First of all every time I read his name all I could think of was that 'E' is very lost. Damon is confused. 
 But I did not let that sway me against the character, Daemon's personality is so arrogant and jerk-ish I actually started to like him. Not like like him but I found him hilarious. How could the main character even think about liking someone that is so mean to her? Of course we have all read a story like so and so I continued on. 
 About once every few pages you are forced to read how attractive Daemon is. 
 Okay we get it. 
 I really don't understand this because he's an alien (no spoiler here, it's in the blurb) and it is explained in the story *spoiler* that they get to choose how they looked. Unless I read that wrong, it basically means that's not how he really looks. So Katy really has no excuse as to why she fell for him because his looks weren't real and his personality was worse than a porcupine stuck in a bag of marshmallows. 
 Daemon (while trying to hide his secret from Katy) does pretty much eveything he can to make sure she knows his secret. You read that right. I didn't understand it either. If you don't want someone to find out something about you you stay as freaking far away from them as possible. Especially if you are an alien. 
 There was little plot besides Katy running into life-threatening situations all of the time and trying to figure out what Daemon is. There was some action at the very end but that was very short. 
 Positives: 
 Even considering all of the negatives I still enjoyed this. Probably because it was still better than most novels in the genre. 
 I liked Katy because she is very, very easy to relate to. She has a book blog! I mean, come on! She's like one of us. I loved her personality and her thoughts, which ranged from sarcastic to emotional and still stayed in the range of believable. She even stands up for herself when facing down supernatural aliens instead of doing nothing and waiting to be saved. 
 A negative I mentioned, the lack of plot, didn't really deter me away from the novel. I don't know what it was, but something makes you continue reading. (Deep, I know.) 
 I'll be reading the sequel.