I’m a loser-blogger.
I have no real excuse, other than my laziness. I can’t even blame my lack of blogging on my new addiction to Glee, even if said addiction is borderline scary.
So, Readers, I apologize… to all 2 of you.
Although I have not been blogging, I have been reading. A lot. In fact, I have read all of the sequels that I planned on blogging about during “The Season of Sequels.” So, I am going to continue with my season, and will try my hardest to get all of the sequels blogged before the first day of spring (eep! So excited! Warm weather! No snow!).
Wish me luck!
First up: Entice by Carrie Jones
From the flap:
“What if he’s dead, really dead?” I suck in the air, trying not to give in and cry. “Gone- forever dead, you know? And I changed for nothing.”
The clock downstairs keeps chiming midnight. “You don’t believe that, do you?”
Zara and Nick are soul mates, meant to be together forever. But that’s not how things have worked out. For starters, well, Nick is gone. He’s been taken to some mythic place for warriors called Valhalla, where Zara and her friends might be able to get him back. It’s just not going to be easy.
Meanwhile, Bedford needs its warriors more than ever, since a group of evil pixies is devastating the place, with teens going missing every day. An all-out war seems imminent. But even if Zara and her friends can find the way to Valhalla, there’s that other small problem: Zara’s been pixie kissed. When she finds Nick, will he even want to leave with her? Especially considering she hasn’t turned into just any pixie…She’s Astley’s queen.
From me:
I liked this latest addition to the Need series. Carrie Jones’s characters are funny, sarcastic, and, most importantly, real. To me, they sounded like actual teenagers – y’know actual teenagers who fight pixies, who are pixies, and who can morph into animals. Zara is a heroine that the reader can root for, usually. She is strong and independent, and is rarely whiny. All good qualities in female characters. We see Zara and Astley become closer…Zara even meets the ‘rents…kind of. And I found myself wanting Zara to forget about Nick and to stay with Astley and become his real queen. Not that I wanted Nick to rot away in Valhalla. Not at all. But, Astley is such a neat character. I hope he finds a nice girl pixie to fall in love with in the next book.
As much as I enjoyed this book and the others in the series, I think that I’m ready for something new. Not quite sure how I feel about reading another book in the series. I’m finding that I might be a trilogy kind of gal. Stretching the story out beyond three books feels too long, too much story. But, then again, maybe not. We’ll see.
Jones, Carrie. Entice. Bloomsbury: New York, 2010.
