3.5

Crush

Tracy Wolff
Book
April
2021

Review:

The author is not great at writing beginnings but crushes the endings [see what i did there]. But, the book got so much better throughout, and I actually enjoyed the ending. I still liked the first book a little better because it felt less forced, and I love the backstory. This book had so many forced bits, mostly with Hudson, but I ended up liking him much better than Jaxon. I love that flint was gay, and I think that suits him so much, and it was nice to get a better dive into his character. I really liked the gargoyle thing and how she connected with the unkillable beast. I really hope he trains her or something. I like that the last chapter in both books was the love interest. I also think she should write one with two perspectives that change each chapter because she writes men really well, and I think she totally has the skills to do it. Overall it was a book that definitely grew on me and made me really like the love interest towards the end.

Trigger Warnings:
Physical & emotional parental abuse recounted, Blood & gore depiction, Blood-drinking, Death of a parent in a car accident recounted, Knife violence & stabbing, Strangulation, Vivisepulture (being buried alive), Loss of autonomy (possession)

Synopsis From Book:

Everything feels off—especially me. I’ve returned to Katmere Academy, but I’m haunted by fragments of days I have no recollection of living and struggling to understand who, or what, I really am. Just when I start to feel safe again, Hudson is back with a vengeance. He insists there are secrets I don’t know about, threatening to drive a wedge between Jaxon and me forever. But far worse enemies are at our doorstep. The Circle is caught in a power play and the Vampire Court is trying to drag me out of my world and into theirs. The only thing Hudson and Jaxon agree on is that leaving Katmere would mean my certain death. And not only am I fighting for my life, but now everyone else’s is at stake—unless we can defeat an unspeakable evil. All I know is that saving the people I love is going to require sacrifice. Maybe more than I’m able to give.
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