The Burning Shadow (Lux: Origin Series #2)

by Jennifer L. Armentrout

Overview

#1 New York Times, USA Today, and internationally bestselling author Jennifer L. Armentrout returns to the world of the Lux with The Burning Shadow, the steamy, shocking second installment of the Origin series that will leave readers reeling.

The trade paperback edition of The Burning Shadow includes the exclusive bonus short scene, Like the First Time.

When Evelyn Dasher crossed paths with Luc, she was thrown headfirst into the world of the Lux—only to discover that she was already far more involved in their world than she ever suspected.

Because the Luxen aren’t the only ones with a hidden past. There’s a gap in Evie’s memory, lost months of her life and a lingering sense that something happened, something she can’t remember and nobody is willing to tell her. She needs to find out the truth about who she is—and who she was. But every answer she finds only brings up more questions.

Her search for the truth brings her ever closer to Luc, the Origin at the center of it all. He’s powerful, arrogant, inhumanly beautiful, extremely dangerous…and possibly in love with her. But even as Evie falls for him, she can’t help but wonder if his attraction is to her, or to the memory of a girl who no longer exists.

And all the while, a new threat looms: reports of a flu-like, fatal virus that the government insists is being spread by Luxen. A horrifying illness that changes whoever it touches, spreading panic across a country already at its breaking point.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781250175748
Publisher:	Tom Doherty Associates
Publication date:	10/08/2019
Series:	Lux: Origin Series , #2
Pages:	432
Sales rank:	1,045,143
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 7.80(h) x 1.50(d)
Lexile:	HL660L (what's this?)
Age Range:	13 - 18 Years

About the Author

Jennifer L. Armentrout is a #1 New York Times, USA Today, and international bestselling author of the Lux series and other books for teens and adults. She is a #1 bestseller in Germany and Italy, and a top seller in markets around the world.

In total, her young adult novels have sold over a million copies since 2011 in the US. Her YA novels have been finalists for the Goodreads Choice Awards and nominated for the YALSA Teen Top Ten. In 2017, The Problem with Forever won the RITA Award for best young adult novel.

Armentrout lives in West Virginia with her husband and dogs.

Editorial Reviews

2019-07-24
In this Lux spinoff, Evie continues grappling with her identity.

Still coping with the big revelation from The Darkest Star (2018) that Evie was Nadia before losing her memory, Evie struggles with who she is and against her attraction to Luc—she's unsure if he loves her or if he loved a Nadia who's gone for good. Meanwhile, April's still involved in anti-Luxen protests while politicians attempt to pass laws to restrict Luxens' rights and freedoms, a storyline with clear parallels to real-world situations. The anti-Luxen camp is also pushing a narrative that sporadic outbreaks of a deadly flu are caused by Luxens. The prose suffers from repetition, with detailed recaps coming sometimes in intervals of only a few pages—but at least that means the expanded worldbuilding (and the distinctions among Luxen, hybrids, Origins, Arum, and another new type of superbeing) is easy to keep straight. Storylines heat up—romances involve nongraphic physical intimacy, and the conspiracies-and-aliens violence hammers in the stakes. As an added treat for loyal Lux fans, characters from the original series appear. Gay and nonwhite characters are nominally present. In typical middle-book fashion, the ending does little in the way of resolving storylines; instead, it involves a character giving pages of exposition confirming characters' theories and explaining a setup for the next book.

Aside from a splash of politics, pretty much what readers expect of the subgenre and author. (Science fiction. 14-18)

Kirkus Reviews

"Highly Anticipated" —Entertainment Weekly

"Thrilling" —Hypable

“A Must" —Booklist

"Enthralling" —School Library Journal

"Engaging"—VOYA

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