Need
by Carrie Jones
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Author: Carrie JonesEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-12-23
ISBN: 1599903385
Number of pages: 320
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Childrens
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Book Review: 2 and a half stars
Summary: 3 Stars
If I had the option, I would give this book 2 and a half stars. I thought there were some blatant similarities to Twilight, a book that I thought was mediocre at best, so needless to say, I was not too happy when I started seeing similarities. At least Need is about 300 pages shorter than Twilight so that's one good thing.
I felt like the plot could have been stronger. It's been a while since I've read a book that I could unravel the plot practically as soon as I started reading the book...
*****SPOILERS*******
I mean, who didn't know that Nick was a werewolf? And really, why the heck did it take Zara so long to figure it out. I mean she left the room with a wolf in it, came back and found a naked guy with the same blanket covering him and she asks, "Where'd the wolf go?" Really? Is that the first question you'd ask especially after you and your friends were just talking about pixies and were-animals at the library? And who hadn't figured out that Ian was involved? Of course the overly friendly guy would have an ulterior motive and the standoffish guy is really the hero.
I did enjoy the phobias Zara seemed obsessed with. It was a funny and quirky aspect of her personality that made her come to life. I had no idea this was an aspect of the story and found it ironic that I had just looked at a list of phobias to see if mine actually had a name...alas, there is no clinical term for fear of hillbillies. Now I don't mean just people from the south, some of my best friends live in the south. I mean the snaggle-toothed, inbred, Deliverance kind of hillbillies!
As for the writing, I do think Jones has talent. The plot for me just fell flat. I do think she had quite a few redundancies and really awkward sentences. This one stood out to me: My foot tip touches a small clump of brown fur.
When I first read that sentence I got hung up on, My foot tip...it's just awkward and there were a lot of sentences like this. Also, the word ALL was overused. I get that this was told in the first person and it therefore was in Zara's voice, but sentences like: Everything inside me goes ALL jittery." Or "The couch is ALL flipped over." Like I said, I get that this is supposed to be Zara's voice and how she talks/thinks but after a while of reading sentences like this, it just becomes passive and pulled me out of the story. All becomes a filler that slows down the read.
All in all, it was a fast read. I just think the plot was flat, and the conflict was over without ever starting. The villain was never really fleshed out and the motives/involvement of Zara's family was stretched out to create a mystery that Zara should have figured out halfway through the book. Beautiful cover art, though.
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