Thursday, November 13, 2014

Review: Alienated

                                    Alienated (Alienated, #1)  
Alienated by Melissa Landers
Genre: Young Adult, Science Fiction, Romance
Pages: 344
Rating: 4 stars
Goodreads Summary: Two years ago, the aliens made contact. Now Cara Sweeney is going to be sharing a bathroom with one of them. 

Handpicked to host the first-ever L’eihr exchange student, Cara thinks her future is set. Not only does she get a free ride to her dream college, she’ll have inside information about the mysterious L’eihrs that every journalist would kill for. Cara’s blog following is about to skyrocket.

Still, Cara isn’t sure what to think when she meets Aelyx. Humans and L’eihrs have nearly identical DNA, but cold, infuriatingly brilliant Aelyx couldn’t seem more alien. She’s certain about one thing, though: no human boy is this good-looking.

But when Cara's classmates get swept up by anti-L'eihr paranoia, Midtown High School suddenly isn't safe anymore. Threatening notes appear in Cara's locker, and a police officer has to escort her and Aelyx to class.

Cara finds support in the last person she expected. She realizes that Aelyx isn’t just her only friend; she's fallen hard for him. But Aelyx has been hiding the truth about the purpose of his exchange, and its potentially deadly consequences. Soon Cara will be in for the fight of her life—not just for herself and the boy she loves, but for the future of her planet.
 

My thoughts: First of all, I love the cover. I think it depicts the worlds so accurately and it's just so beautiful! 

So going into this book,  I didn't know too much about it. Honestly, the only reason I decided to read it was because it had aliens in it and I was in a post-alien depression {which I'm still kind of in} after finishing the Lux series .  So, if you’ve ever read Obsidian from the Lux series, I thought this book was going to be similar to that in terms of Cara and Aelyx hating each other like Daemon and Katy. But, it wasn’t like that...

At the beginning, we think the purpose of the exchange program is for humans and L’eihrs to have a better understanding of each other. We later find out that the real purpose of the exchange program is to see if the two races can work together in order to form a colony where humans and L’eihrs coexist. So, in the beginning, Aelyx and the other exchange students don’t want the alliance to work, so they come up with a plan to sabotage the alliance and then stuff happens.

One of my favorite things about this book was the character development. I love when I'm reading a book and I can actually see that character changing. By the end, both Cara and Aelyx will do anything to protect each other, which brings me to my next point...

I liked Cara’s and Aelyx’s slow sizzling romance and how they interacted with each other. They did get to know each other and stuff, which was nice, but it seemed way too fast fall in love. It did get quite cheesy, but hey sometimes I need cheesy quotes in my life.


This book has some pretty hilarious dialogue that caused me to chuckle a couple times and it was most likely something that Aelyx said, like this:
But Eric was probably most attracted to your waist-to-hip ratio...Hips of that width are likely to pass live offspring without complications.

I’m excited to see what comes of this series and to learn more about the planet of L’eihr, I'm sure we'll get more of that in the next book, Invaded {set to release on Feb.3, 2015}. I was a bit worried for a love triangle in the next book, but Melissa Landers says that there will be no love triangle, so that makes me very happy.



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