Book Reviews: The Covenant series by Jennifer L. Armentrout

Hey peeps. For the last week, I read another series by Jennifer L. Armentrout (the author who wrote Lux series) titled The Covenant series. This series has five main books and two novella. The order of the series went on like this: Daimon (#0.5), Half Blood (#1), Pure (#2), Deity (#3), Elixir (#3.5), Apollyon (#4) and Sentinel (#5).

         This series is about Alexandria 'Alex' Andros who's an half blood and she fell in love with a pure, Aiden St. Delphi. Before that, let me clear the terminology first. A pure is the child of a demigod and half blood is the child of a pure and a mortal/human. An half blood and a pure cannot be together due the restriction by the law. Later in the story, it will explain why.

“Everything could come to a crashing end for us if we were caught, but it didn’t matter. Right now, being with him seemed worth whatever consequence could come from it. This was right, like it was meant to be. There was no logical explanation for it.” -- Alex, Half-Blood.
 

          Anyhow, this series is actually involved around the Greek gods. Zeus, Apollo, Artemis, Hades, Ares and others. FYI, I actually like reading the Greek myths. It's enlightening. The story of Perseus for an example. Or the story of Cronus eating his children. It's fun to read. Or the story of Echo, the nymph.

          Back to the story, Alex fell in love with Aiden and both of them tried to hide their feelings from themselves and the public. It's a little bit frustrating, you know.

“Ever since I’ve met you, I’ve wanted to break every rule.” Aiden turned away, the muscles in his neck tensing. He sighed. “You’ll become the centre of someone’s world one day. And he’ll be the luckiest son of a bitch on this earth.” -- Pure.

        Then, came the third person. Seth, the Apollyon. An Apollyon is the half blood that somehow can control all elements (fire, wind, earth, water and fifth special element akasha (which is like a current or lightning or something)) like a pure. However there's a catch. There can only be one Apollyon at a time. If there's two, then the first Apollyon can absorb the energy from the second and become the God Killer, which means he or she can kill the Greek gods.

         Then, it turned out that Alex is the second Apollyon and she and Seth had this special bond between both of them. This bond allow both of them to read each other thoughts (after Alex is awakened) and detect each other feelings. So, as you can see that there is an undeniably a love triangle element here. I almost decided to drop the book after the Pure, you know. I hate love triangle. But I kept on reading it. And thank God that Aiden and Alex finally committed to each other in Deity or it would've ended differently for me and this series.

“I can’t keep pretending that I don’t want this – that I don’t want you. I can’t. Not after what happened to you. It thought… I thought I’d lost you, Alex, forever. And I would’ve lost everything. You are my everything.” -- Aiden, Deity.

         After Alex awakened as in fourth book, Apollyon, she went Psychotic Alex and totally forgot her feelings to Aiden and became obsessed to Seth. I have to say that Aiden really stole my heart in this book. He never gave up on her. His POV before the fourth book is shown in Elixir.

He was there. Like always, holding me up when I couldn’t’ stand and letting me go when he knew I needed him to. He was more than just a shelter. Aiden was my other half, my equal. -- Alex, Apollyon.

        Finally, in the final book, Sentinel, they went to war against the evil god, Ares. Alex died in the final book. Oops, did I reveal a big spoiler??! LOL. But, she's kinda still alive, you know. And Aiden followed her into the Underworld.

“He was my strength when I needed him to be, my friend when I needed someone to talk me down, my equal in a world where by law I would always be less than him, and honest to gods, he was the love of my life.” -- Alex, Apollyon.

“Agapi mou, you are my everything.” -- Aiden, Sentinel.

        Overall, the story got 4 stars from me. Although it is good, I can help but think that the plot line is very predictable. I can practically see the storyline ahead of the book. But that is the only down point of the story. Everything else is amazing.

        Okay, that is all for today. Talk to you later. Bye.

A Pure Romanticist,

Liely

P.S. I like the name Aiden. It's neat.

P.P.S. I love the novels' covers. They're so pretty!