Review: Amazing, definitely an OVERCAT!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 5, 2013
Embrace picks up right where Emerge left off. Evan just gave up everything to be with Laney only to have his dreams and heart ripped to shreds. Leaving him stuck at a new school, with no friends, no football and no Laney.Embrace is about realizing that first loves might not be true love and forever love may be just beyond a broken heart. Evan must learn to put the pieces of his heart back together, good thing that he has someone ready and willing to help him do that...if he would just let her. He starts to think and feel things that he didn't think he could after Laney, and that scared him. So, like any man he starts pushing the person away who is scaring him with these thoughts and feelings."I don't want to be an underdog anymore, do you?...That settles it. We are now opposites of underdogs. We are--We're overcats!" -Evan and WhitleyEmbrace had other storylines going on in it as well. Of course Laney was struggling just as Evan was. They were thrown back together, and not speaking, when deep down they both wanted the other in their lives. They had to learn how to juggle who they are now, yet try to get back some of what they had in the past. It was a delicate balance, because at times the green-eyed monster reared it's ugly head and they had to fight against it. We also got to learn about Laney's mother and got more information about why she left and how she currently was. Turns out Dane does have skeletons in the closet, and they come to light in Embrace."Do not say it again; I'm not leaving. I love you, therefore, you bossy, stubborn man, I. Am. With. You" LaneyThe whole crew is back in Embrace! Sawyer, Zack, Bennett and Tate we get more of them all!  A shocking surprise addition to that list is Whitley. I admit I hated her in Emerge but I have absolutely no idea why, she really never did anything wrong to be hated. Yes, she was clingy when it came to Dane, but we get some information to why she was that way with him. When Whitley  first enters Evan's life I admit I was cussing under my breath thinking she was up to something, but I was so wrong. Whitley is just like any other girl, she gets lonely, she wants to love and be loved and she has problems just like all of us. I soon find myself rooting for Whitley, and wanting her to have  all the happiness imaginable. Sawyer where do I start with him. He is back to his usual shenanigans but there is something so much deeper to him, he too has secrets. He lets them in on some of them but I have a feeling in the next installment of the Evolve Series that we get to know a lot more about him."Only a crazy woman can love you like crazy. - WhitleyS.E Hall had me drawn in from the very beginning of Embrace. I was hooked instantly. After the months of waiting for Embrace to come out I had a lot of time to sit and think about what might happen in this book, and let me tell you, Oh how I was wrong! She threw some twists in there that I did not even see coming. Yes, I admit I laughed out loud quite a few times while reading this, it is full of catchy one liners and some quick witted remarks. There is sexual chemistry that almost overheated my Kindle, passion that seeps out of every page. Not to mention I am still firmly on Team Dane. Yes, I admit Evan is a pure, true romantic, but he doesn't in my opinion hold a candle to my Dane, maybe I am a bit biased. However, I did say, "I never get flowers!", multiple times while reading this. That Evan sure can melt a heart. I am so impatiently waiting the next book in the series!Will Evan and Laney rekindle their friendship? Will Laney and Dane survive when his secret comes out? Can enemies in the past be friends? Will Evan get his happily ever after? Those are answers you are going to just have to find out for yourself by reading Embrace.