Review: Sweet & Captivating!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 2, 2014
Kat Walsh finally feels like she fits in. She had just transferred to Midland Pines boarding school for the gifted. No longer having to hide her special gift, she is finally making friends and even has a boyfriend, Levi. But then she starts having dreams of a gorgeous boy, and the woods surrounding Midland Pines seem to call to her. And that's when things start to get interesting. Students start to go missing and that pull that she feels towards the woods is so much more than she ever could have expected.Despite Kat's gift and her ancestry, she really came across as a normal teen. Struggling with wanting to fit in, being away from her family and her feelings for Levi. Not to mention the mysterious boy from her dreams.A lot of the first portion of the book focuses on the romance and Kat struggling with her feelings. While there is a love triangle of sorts, once it comes out in the open it was resolved fairly quickly. Kat's confusion about things was just what she would expect a seventeen year old to be feeling. At first I was torn. I knew who I wanted Kat to be with, but Levi and Gabriel are both special, and I didn't want either of them to be hurt. They each had some amazing qualities. But I was really more than happy with the way that things played out and with how the characters dealt with everything. The title of the book really summed out exactly how these characters felt for each other.The second half of the book is filled with much more suspense and drama. There was a great build to the action and I have to say that I was just as thrown as the characters were by the way things progressed. I really didn't pick the turn of events at all.There were quite a lot of support characters throughout the story that I had to wrap my head around. Some we got to know a little better than others. I did really enjoy the time that we spent with Anna. But I'm looking forward to getting to know them all better next time around.I really liked that the author didn't leave us with a huge cliffhanger ending but instead set the story up to lead nicely into the next book. There are definitely still questions that need answering, but nothing that had me wanting to throw the book across the room.3.75/5 Sweet Captivating StarsThis book was gifted to me for an honest review.