Book Review

 Captivate by Carrie Jones

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


The fear of pixies is… Well if there was a name for it like the fear of spiders, arachnophobia then Zara would have it. They are manipulative, cunning and completely and utterly evil. Zara learnt this first hand when she moved from Charleston where she lived with her mother, to Maine to live with her grandma after her father (stepfather) passed away. Even though she was only in Maine for a very short time, her life got twisted up in the world of the pixies that she hadn’t even known existed. In this time she had been staked, attacked and abducted by the pixies, and on top of all of this she discovered that her father, her biological father, was not only a pixies, but the pixies King. However Zara was lucky and with the help of her new friends, Nick (a werewolf and the boy she is involved with), and some other weres including her grandma she was able to escape from the pixies. Further more they were all able to trap the pixies in their mansion.

Problem solved right? Well, that’s what they thought, but isn’t exactly the case. Now they have a new problem, there are more pixies out there and they are for some unknown reason coming into Maine. This means that they have to capture and trap these new pixies in with all the others. With all these new pixies there have come rumors of other kings and battles. So where does that leave Zara and her friends? Will they be able to solve all of their problems and get rid of these new pixies? Or is there just more to it than they know?

In this second installment of the Need series all of these questions are addressed along with many others. If like Zara and her friends you thought that the pixie problem was solved you are in for a bit of a surprise. Through out this book you get to know the characters more and you may also meet some new and interesting characters along the way. There were some twist and turns in the plot just like in the first novel from the series. Although. I feel that this book was a little slower in spots and that the plot could have been a bit better developed and thought through, but was still a very enjoyable book. There are some parts of the book however that I thought were maybe better than the first and had my interest right away and unlike the first this one does not have quite as clean of an ending. The author ends her second novel on a bit of a cliffhanger and has me looking forward to the next book to get the answers that I’m looking for, and I think that this was a good choice -not matter how much I may dislike cliffhangers- for her to do this to keep the readers eager to read on. Over all I think that this was a very good book and definitely recommend it to all those of you have read Need and enjoyed it.

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