Half-Blood ~ Jennifer L Armentrout (Covenant #1)

★★★★☆ 

"Need covers itself with love, but need… need is never love. Always beware of the one who needs you. There is always a want behind a need, you see."

This is an amalgamation of every YA book I've ever read before. It's tropey, cliche, predictable, and trashy. But I liked it.

So, essentially, Rose Clary Hathaway, after running away with her mom to the human world (and her mom's subsequent "death"), is discovered and goes back to Camp Half-Blood Academy, the school where pure-blood wizards and their mud blood siblings train to protect the world from vampire demons. There she meets Chaol Dimitri Westfall who trains her back from flabby mortalness to god-killing awesomeness - but is a pure she can never be with. She also meets the Apollyon, Rowan Whitethorn, who is a stalker with anger issues, an accent of uncertain origin, and magical tattoos, but is against all odds her unwitting Mate™, destined to either be with her or destroy her.

There's middle school drama parading as high school drama, severely unrealistic dialogue, and angry personality-less love interests. It reads like a Choices: Stories You Play game. The main character is an unlikable jerk. The world feels like a Disney Channel Original Movie set.

And I liked it.

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