The mystery is dragged on for entirely too long I waited 300 pages for Grace to find out there are vampires in a book that has VAMPIRE in the description.

The writing quickly grows repetitive, with Grace mentally asserting the same things about other characters over and over again. There’s no reason this book needs to be as long as it is–no reason at all. I enjoyed Grace’s friendship with her cousin, Macy, though, and it’s nice to see more positive female friendships. (Where… is the feminism, exactly?) The characters are basically stock of the genre, with Grace the self-sacrificing damsel in distress and Jaxon the brooding, angsty vampire love interest who’s just way hotter than anyone has a right to be. Read it to enjoy another dramatic paranormal love story, but don’t read it expecting a more “feminist” Twilight as some reviews claim. If you’re going to rip off Twilight and even package it to look like a Twilight book, best not to take yourself too seriously. It’s more self-aware than some others of its kind, and that’s a good thing. It’s hard to imagine that this book was written with any seriousness.

(Likewise, the most unbelievable part is that Grace has never read it.) Crave is a below-average Twilight knockoff with some bad House of Night flashbacks and makes no claims otherwise the funniest moment in the book is when the main character is gifted a copy. My advice, if you’re going to read it, is to read it with a friend, because making fun of it with Alice was the only thing that got me through it. I knew full well what I was getting into and bought it anyway, so I have nobody but myself to blame for the 600 pages of ridiculousness that is this book. Thoughts: This is exactly what it looks like, and it’s hard to drag a book too hard for that–plus, it’s all too easy to make fun of things that are made for and loved by teenage girls. Trigger warnings: character death, parent/sibling death (off-page), abduction, severe injury, violence, blood, threats, bullying. But the closer Grace gets to Jaxon, the more she endangers her own life–which may be exactly what someone at the academy wants. Grace knows she shouldn’t be attracted to him, but he’s the only person who understands loss the same way she does. Her world has already turned upside down, but it’s worse when she discovers that Katmere is home to several warring factions of supernatural creatures, led by the vampire Jaxon Vega. And so could they.”Ībout: After her parents’ fatal car accident, Grace has no choice but to attend her uncle’s elite and isolated boarding school, Katmere Academy, in Alaska.

Heather’s mom told me it was because my parents’ deaths reminded them of their own mortality, reminded them that their parents could die at any time. “Except for Heather, most of my old friends drifted away after my parents died.

Crave tracy wolff