Friday 56 and Book Beginnings: Oblivion (Lux #1.5) by Jennifer L. Armentrout

This is a weekly meme hosted by Freda's Voice

These are the rules:

1. Grab a book, any book.

2. Turn to page 56, or 56% on your eReader.

3. Find any sentence (or a few, just don't spoil it) that grabs you.

4. Post it.

5. Add the URL to your post in the link on Freda's most recent Friday 56 post.

Please join us over at RoseCityReader every Friday to share the first sentence (or so) of the book you are reading, along with your initial thoughts about the sentence, impressions of the book, or anything else the opener inspires. Please remember to include the title of the book and the author’s name.

Synopsis:

Experience the epic love story of OBSIDIAN as told by its hero, Daemon Black…

     I knew the moment Katy Swartz moved in next door, there was going to be trouble. Lots of it. 

     And trouble’s the last thing I need, since I’m not exactly from around here. My people arrived on Earth from Lux, a planet thirteen billion light years away. Plus, if there’s one thing I know, it’s that humans can’t be trusted. We scare them. We can do things they only dream about, and honestly, we make them look weak as hell. ‘Cuz they are. 

     But Kat is getting to me in ways no one else has, and I can't stop myself from wanting her—or wanting to use my powers to protect her. She makes me weak, and I’m the strongest of our kind, tasked with protecting us all. So this one simple girl…she can mean the end for us. Because the Luxen have an even bigger enemy—the Arum, and I need to stay on my game. 

     Falling for Katy—a human—won't just place her in danger. It could get us all killed, and that’s one thing I’ll never let happen... 

Book Beginning:

    Faster than any human eye could track, I moved soundlessly among the trees in my true form, racing over the thick grass and the dewy, moss-covered rocks.

Thoughts:

I am so excited to have to gotten this book, I love this series and I always loved reading her bonus scenes written from Daemon's POV and all his parts from later books.

My 56:

    "The only reason why the DOD lets you believe your big bad secret is hidden is because they know what you can do to humans, " he explained. "And we're what they care about."

Thoughts:

It is so much fun reading this series from Daemon's perspective. I'm not quite this far into the book yet, but I'm sure by the evening I will be.