A review by hannah_farnsworth_
Embrace by Jessica Shirvington

4.0

Wow. This book blew me away! I thoroughly enjoyed the overall story line of the book and felt that it was very well written. First of all, I loved Violet. The first impression I had of her left me thinking, "We'd be friends". She was strong and natural (by 'natural' I mean she acted like a normal teenage girl for the majority). However, I did not like the relationship, or lack of one, between Violet and her father...I know that it probably had to be that way but I mean, come on, she might as well not even have a parent. When the term "Grigori" was first mentioned (pg 61) my mind immediately went to Fallen, mostly because I had just gotten done reading that book. At that point I got a little worried because I didn't enjoy said book very much and didn't want to torture myself by trying to trudge my way through another book that was similar. THANKFULLY, that did not happen. Anyway, let's talk boys!! First, Lincoln. Can we say amazing, handsome, caring, everything you want in a guy?! Yeah, we can. This though, leads to some frustration. It's not because he's too perfect, he's not. It's the fact that he is so...controlled. Ugh...just UGH!! Phoenix = bad boy, sexy beyond belief, charming to the max. Yeah I totally enjoyed the love triangle in this book. It was so well written and Phoenix was just so...well HOTT!! Overall, I really enjoyed this book. It is starting to remind me of another series by Jennifer Armentrout called Half-Blood (great series btw). The overall idea of the book and the love triangle is just eerily similar...don't really know how I feel about that yet. We'll see as I progress through the series. **SIDE NOTE: The 6th and final book in this series was just released at the beginning of May 2014