Entice (Need Series #3)

by Carrie Jones

Overview

In the third book in a series that began with the New York Times bestselling Need and Captivate, Zara must find her way to the underworld if she wants to save the boy she loves.

Zara and Nick are soulmates, 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 Zara's hometown, 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.

Don't miss the all of the books in the Need series:
Need
Captivate
Entice
Endure

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781599906041
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	12/14/2010
Series:	Need Series , #3
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	288
Sales rank:	419,618
File size:	2 MB
Age Range:	12 - 17 Years

About the Author

Carrie Jones is the New York Times and internationally bestselling author of the Need series--Need, Captivate, Entice, and Endure--as well as Flying, Enhanced, After Obsession (co-written with Steven E. Wedel), and the middle-grade series Time Stoppers. She also co-edited the anthology Dear Bully, about YA authors' experiences with bullying. She is a distinguished alum of Vermont College's MFA program and a part-time police dispatcher in Maine because she likes cop stories. Really.

www.carriejonesbooks.com
Carrie Jones is the New York Times and internationally bestselling author of the Need series, as well as Time Stoppers and After Obsession, co-written with Steven E. Wedel. She also co-edited the anthology Dear Bully, about YA authors' experiences with bullying. She is a distinguished alum of Vermont College's MFA program and a part-time police dispatcher in Maine because she likes cop stories. Really.

www.carriejonesbooks.com

Editorial Reviews

Gr 7 Up—In Carrie Jones's sequel (2010) to Need (2008) and Captivate (2010, all Bloomsbury), Zara has been kissed by Astley and turned into a pixie, which is the last thing her friends and family wanted for her. But as she sees it, it is the only way that she can go to Valhalla and rescue Nick, her one true love. One of the main problems with this plan is that she is now Astley's queen and has a deep connection to him and his people. As the story progresses, it also becomes clear that someone is trying very hard not only to stop them from rescuing Nick, but also trying to kill Zara and Astley. Although well-narrated by Julia Whelan, this book leaves listeners with more questions and loose ends. A must-buy if your library already circulates the first two titles, but not a stand-alone by any means.—Genevieve Gallagher, Charlottesville High School, VA

School Library Journal

As the latest book in the Need series begins, high school student Zara has become a pixie queen; her werewolf soul mate, Nick, has been taken to Valhalla; and many evil pixies are invading Zara’s small Maine town, seemingly in preparation for war. Narrator Julia Whelan is intimately familiar with these characters after having narrated three books, and her youthful voice and plentiful energy carry listeners along for the supernatural ride. Whelan uses her talents to convey the over-the-top emotions of the teenage and preternatural characters. In portraying Southern, Maine, Scottish, British, Middle Eastern, and Icelandic characters, her accents slip occasionally, but her charming brightness more than makes up for it. G.D. © AudioFile 2011, Portland, Maine

MARCH 2011 - AudioFile

Jones picks up directly after the end of Captivate (2010), when Zara allowed Astley to kiss her and turn her into a pixie. Being a pixie, never mind Astley's pixie queen, terrifies Zara—but she did it so she can potentially travel to Valhalla and retrieve her maybe-dead boyfriend Nick. The thrust of this third installment is that quest: Find Valhalla, recover Nick. Pixie king Astley helps Zara and loves her; she begins to reciprocate even while pining for Nick at every moment. Unlike most love triangles in the genre, this one's outcome feels refreshingly unpredictable. The small Maine town establishes a curfew and the FBI arrives, but evil pixies still murder teen after teen. Epic war approaches, on earth and in the gods' realm. It's hard to say whether Zara's burning need to find Nick either trumps her earnest desire to protect innocent people from deadly pixies or blends with it—Nick's a critical leader/warrior, after all. Fans of the first two will continue to swoon, enjoying prose that's idiosyncratically casual (Valhalla feels "ungettable") and indulgently, oh-so-teen-like angsty ("Your sigh smells like sorrow"). (Paranormal romance. YA)

Kirkus Reviews