Book: Entice by Carrie Jones

Publishing Info: Bloomsbury USA; 266 pages in hardcover

Goodreads Summary: Zara and Nick are soul mates, meant to be together forever. But that’s not quite how things have worked out. For starters, well, Nick is dead. Supposedly, he’s been taken to a mythic place for warriors known as Valhalla, so Zara and her friends might be able to get him back. But it’s taking time, and meanwhile a group of evil pixies is devastating Bedford, with more teens going missing every day. An all-out war seems imminent, and the good guys need all the warriors they can find. But how to get to Valhalla? And even if Zara and her friends discover the way, there’s that other small problem: Zara’s been pixie kissed. When she finds Nick, will he even want to go with her? Especially since she hasn’t turned into just any pixie. . . She’s Astley’s queen.

I liked it.  Not as much as Need.  In fact, I’d say that I liked it as much as I liked Captivate.  To me, it felt like Captive and Entice were one book that was split into two.

Zara was slightly annoying in this one.  Not as annoying as Captivate, but she was still annoying.  Her need to save Nick was getting completely ridiculous.  No matter how hard she tried, she kept trying to get to Valhalla.  And of course, she makes it there, fights Frank, an evil pixie king that turns out to be Astley’s uncle, and manages to rescue Nick.  Who, of course, seems to be okay with the fact that Zara became a pixie to save him.  There’s no telling how long that will last, because his memories of Valhalla were wiped clean.

But back to Zara.  She is very determined to save Nick, I’ll give her that.  And things were not going her way, which was a nice change from other books, where things are wrapped up nicely.  But her insistence to get him out of Valhalla…I don’t know why, but something about it was off.  The battle against Frank was a little too nice, now that I think about it.

I wasn’t sure about Astley in Captivate, but he’s starting to grow on me.  He was very protective of Zara, and did whatever he could to help her.  He’s very interesting, and I want to know more about him, and whether he’s as good as he says he is, or if he’s hiding something.

The love triangle aspect didn’t really play out in this book, but so far, it’s turning out like any other love triangle I’ve read.  For once, though, I feel like it really could go either way.  It’s still pretty one-sided, but hopefully, it’ll be interesting.  I really can’t care about Nick anymore, with people and pixies dying left and right just so Zara can save him.

I give it a 3 out of 5.  Zara has some decisions to make in the next book, and while I didn’t love Entice, I still can’t wait to see what happens next.