Toxic (Denazen #2)

Toxic (Denazen #2) 
Jus Accardo

Publication Date: 2 October, 2012
Finish Date: 18 September, 2012
Format: e-book
Source: copy for review form author

Read Kayleighs 5 star review here

From Goodreads: When a Six saved Kale’s
life the night of Sumrun, she warned there would be consequences. A
trade-off. Something taken for the life they gained. But Dez never
imagined she’d lose the one thing she’d give anything to keep… And as
if it’s not enough Dez finds her immunity to Kale fading, the Six
brought in to help Kale learn to control his killer touch starts
drooling on him the moment they meet. Worse than that? Jade can touch
Kale. But bimbo Barbie is the least of Dez’s problems.

After Dez
and Kale got away at Sumrun, her father lost not only his most powerful
weapon but an important piece of the Supremacy project. Forced by
Denazen to remedy the situation, he poisons Dez and offers her a
choice–surrender to Denazen for the cure…or die. Determined to find a
solution that doesn’t involve being bagged and tagged–or losing
someone she loves–Dez keeps the poison a secret. But when a rash of
Denazen attacks hit a little too close to home, Dez is convinced there’s
a traitor among them. Jade.

Sacrifices, broken promises, and
secrets. Dez will have to lay it all on the line if there’s any hope of
proving Jade’s guilt before they all end up Residents of Denazen. Or
worse, dead…

I really liked this book, I
liked book 1 better, but this book was also great. The story was really
good and I wanted to keep reading to see what problems Dez and Kale
would encounter now.

I did liked the story, but I think the story
of book was more action packed an fast paced. In this book there was
more sitting around and planning. The story did have some action packed
moments, but few of them than in book 1. I did think that the story was a
bit too predictable, there where some major plot twist that are obvious
quite early in the book already and I had hoped for a little more
surprises.

I also had the urge to shake some sense in a few
characters, more than once. Dez had a few of those moments where she was
totally convinced of something and I only could think please think a
bit more about it, check if there is another explanation. And most of
all just talk, quite often in a book the characters forget there is such
a simple solution. Okay except for that I really liked getting to know
the characters more and seeing more from Kale, he is such an adorable
character and I love the simple way he thinks. Dez is the type of person
I could never be, but I love reading about her recklesness and all the
things she does to get another adrenaline fix. Both are such great
characters. I did think that some side characters could get a more
personality, there where a few characters from who we see a really one
sided picture because of Dez’ point of view. And I would like to know
more about who they really are.

In this book there isn’t much
world building added, most of the world is already explained in book 1
and this book actually has nothing new to offer. Don’t get me wrong I
don’t think this is a bad thing, there just wasn’t anything about the
world more to add. We do get a few more examples of what some of the
sixes can do and I liked getting a better picture of the variety of
skills.

To conclude: the story was a bit predictable, but
enjoyable. The characters had a few moment where I really wanted to
shake some sense in them, but I liked seeing more of the characters.
There isn’t really much world building in this book, but we do get a
better idea of the variety of skills the sixes have. All in all a great
sequel and I am looking forward to reading the next book.