A review by planetshelf
Crave by Tracy Wolff

adventurous funny mysterious tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.5

This book is a complete mess, so I can’t make a review that’s anything but fragments I thought up during my read.

~ REPETITIVE speech patterns:
  • “For long seconds . . .”
  • “*insert place to fly to* on my own power.”
  • “_____ AF.”
  • “hella”
  • “_____. Like, . . ._____” (to say something for the second time, but slightly differently, with more emphasis)
  • “Nothing to do with _____, and everything to do with _____.” (Most often, the first blank is filled with “Alaska,” or “the cold.”)
  • “My mouth is/goes desert-dry.”
  • “FML”
  • “Freaking”
  • “Every hair on my body stands up straight.”
  • “Give myself over to . . .”
  • “Civil twilight”
  • “Listing”

+ The chapter titles are really funny and actually pretty good.

~ <slight spoiler> The way two characters said “. . .dr—“ and then corrected themselves while referring to Flint before any reveal. . . .</slight spoiler>

~ VERY predictable:
  • I was able to say things to my sister (while we were listening and sewing) like, “Watch, it’s Jaxon,” or, “It’s definitely not her uncle.”
  • <slight spoiler> My sister said to me, “Dragons?” when I told her what I thought the types of paranormal creatures that went to the school would turn out to be because what the FUCK. Of all things? </slight spoiler> I mean, I guess I can’t say it isn’t unique.

+ Some of the quirky quips are entertaining; some were even clever.

+ I did appreciate that Grace was never an NLOG. She probably knew she was very much like other girls.

# How did they release so many books in this series in such a short amount of time?

+ This isn’t a Twilight knockoff. It’s extremely different, though I’m not sure if it’s taken from other supernatural teen franchises.

+ I love Macy. She's truly the best cousin ever. The way she got everything in hot pink for Grace because that was the most recent favorite color she knew of made me do that, for lack of a better phrase, affectionate type of frown.

# Why does Grace say “freaking” so often if the author is clearly fine with using “fuck”?

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Despite all of this, it’s a guilty pleasure read, I guess. I couldn’t help but laugh — or pause and laugh every few seconds.
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