Review: Sawyer's perfect match!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 11, 2014
Entice begins with the scene from the epilogue of Embrace. The woman Sawyer sees dancing at Parker’s bachelor party sticks in his brain. She is awkward and so obviously NOT a dancer that he can’t help but wonder what she’s doing there. Sawyer doesn’t know her name, doesn’t know anything about her, but he is intrigued and searches everywhere he can think to find her. In true Sawyer fashion, their next meeting is unexpected and untimely.Sawyer cracks me up. You never know just what’s going to come out of his mouth. He’s blunt, crass, and quick with a comeback. But what was really fun was watching him mature over the course of these pages. There is a side of Sawyer here that we’ve only seen hinted at before. Yes, he’s got a soft spot for Laney and the other girls in the Crew, but this went even further. We always knew that when he fell it would be an epic fall, and it. was. epic. Sawyer needed a special woman to rein him in, and boy did he find her. And their second meeting left me laughing at Dane.Emmett has the perfect mix of everything Sawyer has watched his friends find, but in the perfect fit for him. She is sweet and hard working, with a drive that keeps her running harder than she should at times. She is also hiding something from the people around her. She isn’t looking for a partner when Sawyer swoops in, but when she starts to hope for more than a friendship from him, she fears the feelings she is developing.Together they were a lot of fun to watch, from Emmett’s independent streak to Sawyer’s discomfort at feeling deep emotions. They don’t have a smooth journey by any means. They begin their relationship by building a friendship, and it grows from there. Watching Sawyer figure out how to feel responsible for someone else and how to lean on others in order to care for his loved ones was a great transformation to watch. Emmett didn’t want to need Sawyer, but watching her bring down her own walls kept a smile on my face no matter what else was going on in the story.The Crew plays a lesser role in this one as a group, but Sawyer and Emmett get plenty of help from Laney and Dane, being Sawyer’s roommate and best friend. The things Dane does to help Sawyer out in this one just made me love him even more.I don’t think I’ve laughed and giggled so much while reading in a long time. At one point, Emmett describes the guys in the Crew as “the Planet of the Hot Guys” and says she wishes she could live there forever. I wish the exact same thing! This world, these character and their stories, is the kind of place you get into and don’t want to leave.Thanks to SE Hall for providing me with an arc in exchange for an honest review.