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Origin · Book 1

The Darkest Star

by Jennifer L. Armentrout
Published
1 January 2018
Pages
368
ISBN-13
9781250175731
Type
novel
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About this book

The Darkest Star (2018) opens Origin at 368 pages, the shortest of the three, introducing human teenager Evie Dasher as a club raid reveals that Luc is an Origin -- the engineered offspring of a Luxen and a mutated human -- rather than the Luxen she assumed.

Key facts about The Darkest Star

The Darkest Star is a novel by Jennifer L. Armentrout. Readers have had it since 2018. It runs to 368 pages.

Our list holds 1 edition of The Darkest Star. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781250175731 to find the main one.

The Darkest Star is book 1 of 3 in the Origin series. The series has 3 published books. As a result, this is the book to start the series with. The Brightest Night is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 20 October 2020.

Additionally, Jennifer L. Armentrout writes Covenant, Lux and The Dark Elements, plus 6 more series. Those series sit on our young adult paranormal romance, young adult science fiction romance and new adult paranormal romance shelves. Meanwhile, A Crown of Ruin is the latest published Jennifer L. Armentrout book on file, from 26 December 2025.

About Jennifer L. Armentrout

Jennifer L. Armentrout is an American author who has built one of the most prolific and wide-ranging careers in contemporary fantasy and new adult romance, publishing across multiple genres and under the additional pen name J. Lynn. See every Jennifer L. Armentrout book in order.

Its place in Origin

The Darkest Star is book 1 in the Origin series. It is followed by The Burning Shadow. See the full Origin reading order.

Origin is Jennifer L. Armentrout's return to the world of her Lux series, set four years after Opposition and centered on a new heroine: Evie Dasher, a human teenager whose life gets upended when a raid on an underground club reveals that Luc -- the strange, magnetic guy she barely knows -- isn't a Luxen at all, but something the government considers even more dangerous. The Darkest Star opens the series establishing Luc as an Origin, the engineered offspring of a Luxen and a mutated human, and pulls Evie into a…

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