Audiobook: The Power

The Power is written by Jennifer L. Armentrout and narrated by Paul Boehmer and Justine Eyre and is the second book of the Titan series.

With any great change, there is always strife, and the Covenant University has become the frontline between pure-bloods who want the Breed Order reinstated and the half-bloods who want the right to control their own destinies.

Fate has other plans.

 The violence is escalating and war between the races seems inevitable, and it couldn’t come at a worse time. Hyperion may be out of commission, but Josie and Seth know they have only earned a reprieve.  Seth must get Josie fully prepared, which means controlling her newfound abilities, and they need to find the other demigods before the Titans do.

But the gods are sensing a greater threat. 

Only one thing is more dangerous than a bunch of starved Titans, and that’s an out-of-control Apollyon. The aether in Josie is drawing Seth in deeper, and when lust mixes with love and gives way to power, he knows being close to her is not only dangerous to her, but to everyone around them, but letting her go requires a level of selflessness that just isn’t Seth’s style.

The paths taken in the past are becoming the roads of the future.

Just as chaos breaks out, familiar faces from the past return, complicating the already strained bond between Josie and Seth, and when the danger from the Titans erupts with devastating consequences, the dark allure of power calls to Seth again, but this time Josie might not be able to pull him back.

 And when the struggle between power and love becomes the deadliest battleground, there may be no salvation.

The Breakdown:
1. All my readers know, that I huge lover JLA.  This is my first time doing an audiobook for her novels, and I really enjoyed it.  I liked there were different narrators for Seth and Josie, and both did such a great job of capturing the characters.   Although, I could not help but wondering during the steamier scenes if the cars around me knew exactly what I was listening to, i.e. que the blushing.

2.  I very much enjoyed the growth of both Josie and Seth in this book. Josie's determination to make Seth realize he is more than his mistakes. The sense of wonder she gives him when she tells him she loves him breaks my heart a little, especially when he says no one has ever told him that before.  Then there is Seth working so hard to make up for his past.  Believing he is undeserving of Josie's love but is too selfish to let her go.  He has a hardcore struggle going on with his desire for aether and his desire to love Josie. My heartbreaks for him a little bit multiple times.

3. This book sees the return of Alex and Aiden to the mortal realm.  They make quite the entrance, and throw in new dynamic into the relationship between Josie and Seth. Like Deacon, I was super excited to see them in this book.

4. Can I just take a moment to respect JLA's own fangirling?  Her devotion to Supernatural in that she expresses in her characters in many of her books is awesome. Because who does not love Sam and Dean Winchester?

5.  Just like in the Covenant series, JLA does manage to crush my heart a little bit.  Just as I am thinking a character is super amazing and should get their own story, she sends them on Tartarus.  I may have gotten a little teary eyed.

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