Review: Great Character Development
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 18, 2014
Entice is a novella in the Ignite series by Erica Crouch. I absolutely loved Ignite and when I finished it I immediately purchased Entice. Entice follows suit with the same beautiful writing style that I fell in love with in Ignite and adds a lot more character development from what we saw in Ignite. For a novella, Entice was rather long which was great.This is listed as a 1.5, but it takes place before book one so for me it is a prequel. I was really excited to see what happened after the first book, but it was just an explanation of things we already knew that happened.It felt like a reiteration of the flashbacks told to Michael in book one, but at the same time I did want more explanation. The past felt very brushed over in the first book.It does show that Michael was just the catalyst of Pen's rebellion from Hell. Also that there was more tension between Pen and Azael in the beginning. They weren't always as close as they were at the start of Ignite.The novella shows the character growth that Pen has from not feeling like she has a choice, to making an active choice to separate from Hell.We see how Pen meets Gus their demonic mentor.I really liked that Erica Crouch retold the Eve and Adam story, putting in her characters making another back story to it and we got to see how that occurred. I loved hearing how Azael and Pen didn't expect the apple plan to work. As a reader you know how this ends, but the characters don't and it ends up making a serious chapter funny. It was also great to read more of how Pen introduced language to Adam.The epilogue was in Gus's p.o.v which was interesting. I like that both books ended in a different character's epilogue. It was a great description of someone seeing the future.I didn't love Entice as much as Ignite, but it still was a great story. I can't wait to read the next book in this series. I highly recommend it.