Hey my lovelies, welcome to part two of tonight's reviews. This review is Captivate by Carrie Jones, if you have not read the review of Need I suggest you read that first. Captivate is a good book, it takes a bit longer to get into it than I would like. Overall though I enjoyed it. I would give it a 3.99 stars.

Title: Captivate
Author: Carrie Jones
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Pub. Date: January 5th 2010
Date Read: February 10th 2015
Pages: 273
Rating:3.99/5 stars
Goodreads Summary: He smiles. It's a wicked smile. Kind but not kind. Handsome but dangerous. Feral almost. I can see why Nick nearly killed him, Nick...
I ask again, "Why were you in the road?"
"I was waiting for you."

Zara and her friends thought they'd solved the pixie problem. And they did - sort of. The pixie's are all locked away, deep in the woods. But the king's needs grow stronger each day that he is in captivity, while his control over his people weakens. And it's enough to draw a new king into town. Astley claims he is different. He claims there are pixies who can live peacefully with humans, that it doesn't have to be all violence and nastiness all the time. Zara wants to believe him...until Astley also claims that she is fated to be his queen.

There is no way Zara would ever turn pixie. And she's got good friends who will make sure of that. Besides, she and Nick are so in love they're practically inseparable. But when they very thing Zara wants to protect most is exactly what's at risk, she is forced to make choices she never imagined.

**** Be warned this review contains spoilers for both Need and Captivate, if you haven't read Need I suggest you check out my review for it here ****

Captivate starts, where Need left off and basically talks about Nick and Zara's relationship for the first half. Fairly close to the beginning Zara saves a pixie, which guess what? Is some sort of pixie king. Shocking right? Anyway the pixie king pursues her and then we add another to the mix. Zara's father warns her that if she doesn't let him and the rest of the pixies out (that the group trapped in Need), one of the new pixie kings will release them and kill them to claim the area and they will start kidnapping people all over again. Zara of cause ignored him and can you guess what happened? A pixie king came and released the pixies.

 Then there is a plot twist, Nick is killed by some pixies who have just escaped from the house and is taken by a valkyrie who wants him to be in some supernatural army. Zara doesn't want this and decides she will do anything to get Nick back. True love and all that **** right? So she makes a deal with Astley a 'good' pixie king, who personally I think is hiding something up his sleeve, because he's a pixie king and we know that there is no good ones. And Zara becomes a pixie queen. So either Nick is gonna be incredibly angry when he finds out that his girlfriend decided to become the one thing that they are fighting against to 'save' him or their is going to be a change in main relationship.

One of the things I am happy about though is that certain side characters finally got together.
The reason that the book didn't get a higher stars rating was due to the fact that Zara seemed very out of character through most of the book. But maybe that was just me? Have you read this? What did you think?

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Hey my lovelies, this weeks book review is a double and it is Need by Carrie Jones. This is a sort off reread for me, as I started reading this book around five years ago and must have stopped for some reason. I discovered it again, when I reordered by bookcase.

Title: Need
Author: Carrie Jones
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Pub. Date: December 23rd 2008
Date Read: March 7th 2015
Pages: 306
Rating:4/5 stars
Goodreads Summary: Pain shoots through my head. Fireworks. Explosions. All inside my brain. The white world goes dark and I know what's about to happen.

Zara White suspects there's a freaky guy semi-stalking her. She's also obsessed with phobias. And it's true, she hasn't exactly been herself since her stepfather died. But exiling her to shivery Maine to live with her grandmother? That seems a bit extreme. The move is supposed to help her stay sane...but Zara's pretty sure her mom just can't deal with her right now.

She couldn't be more wrong. Turns out the semi-stalker is not a figment of Zara's overactive imagination. In fact, he's still following her, leaving behind an eerie trail of gold dust. There's something not right - not human - in this sleepy Maine town, and all signs point to Zara.

In this creepy, compelling breakout novel, Carrie Jones delivers romance, suspense, and a creature you never thought you'd have to fear.
It took me a few chapters to get into Need, but then I was hooked trying to remember what was happening. Although I guessed all of the plot twists, which to be honest was probably to do with the fact I have already read the book, I enjoyed it a lot. I would say this was a solid 4 stars, due to I don't believe you would be able to read it without reading the sequel as well.

**Just to note if you plan on reading this book, I suggest reading the sequel straight after. As it will make alot more sense.

Spoilers Below
I liked Zara as a character, although it did get repetitive at times to listen to her listing phobias. But I enjoyed her sarcasm, which is my favourite trait in character, especially when she was nervous. I enjoyed her relationship with her grandma, although I (Spoiler) did not understand why her mum would send her to the town where her father is to protect her from her father. That just didn't make sense to me.

The romance of Zara and Nick went a bit too fast for me personally. And for me it was fairly obvious he was a werewolf, not so much though that her grandma was a weretyger (spelled like that may I add).

The side characters Izzy, Devyn and Betty were enjoyable, I loved how Izzy got embarrassed and started rambling, which was very endearing. Devyn was pretty cool with all his knowledge, but still had the mystery of how he ended up in the wheel chair in the first place.

Need left a quite a few questions unanswered as well like why couldn't Nick and Devyn tell that Megan and Ian were pixies and all of these questions were answered in the sequel Captivate, which I read straight after finishing Need. Which is why this weeks review is a double! As well as posting this review, there shall be another review for the second novel in the Need Quartet, Captivate by Carrie Jones.

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