A sense of the derivative outweighs welcome flashes of wit and humor.

Several scenes seem illogically manipulated for plot tension choppy continuity undermines readers ' ability to distinguish awkward prose from Zara 's valid grief. He 's a pixie, needing a queen to enhance his power lest he kidnap boys to drink their blood. A strange man stalks Zara, and she admits that he 's been lurking in her life since the day of her father 's fatal heart attack. Polite Ian 's also inhumanly fast, but new friends Issie and Devyn seem to favor Nick, despite his faintly dangerous vibe. Boys immediately adore her, but only one electrifies her in return: Nick, an inhumanly fast runner.

Zara 's mother sends her to a remote, frigid Maine town to regain her spirit after her father dies. Ages 12–up.ĭecemLeaving behind her warmly quirky realism to jump on the supernatural-romance bandwagon, Jones leans too hard on overly recognizable motifs. Genre fans will enjoy the sizzle between Nick and Zara as well as the paranormal cast.

young human men, who they kill after using them for their blood-hungry pleasures.” Will Zara sacrifice herself to this vampire stand-in or let him destroy everything she loves? Jones ( Love fears like other people collect stamps” (obscure phobias serve as chapter titles). This pixie is no harmless sprite: “when not mated with a queen for an unspecified amount of time,” Zara learns, “the pixie kings will demand. Too bad she's being followed by someone dark and dangerous-a pixie king. When her car spins out of control (Calling Stephenie Meyer!), she's rescued by sexy Nick (who turns out to be a werewolf), and something might be cooking with her overachieving classmate Ian. NovemIt's not hard to see Twilight in the DNA of this novel: Zara's stepfather has died, her mother isn't capable of caring for her, and she has been sent to live with her grandmother in a small remote town in Maine. Don't miss the all of the books in the Need series: Need Captivate Entice Endure And they seem to need something-something from Zara. Maine's got a whole assortment of unbelievable creatures, like pixies and were-people. And not the cute, sweet kind with little wings. The man she sees everywhere-the tall creepy guy who points at her from the side of the road-yet, he's not a figment of her imagination. Zara doesn't think she's in danger she thinks her mother just can't deal. Her mother's pretty much checked out-in fact, Mom's sent her to live with her grandmother in cold and sleepy Maine to 'keep Zara safe.' Whatever that means. Her father left when she was a baby, and her stepfather just died. Little wonder, since she's had a pretty rough life. Zara collects phobias the way other high school girls collect lipsticks. In this first book in a YA fantasy series from New York Times bestselling author Carrie Jones, Zara discovers that magic is stirring in her sleepy Maine town.

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