Review: Great book...just not as great as the first one.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 09 30, 2013
I have been anticipating this book for months and within minutes of it going live on Amazon, I was reading it and stayed up wayyy past my bedtime to inhale this book...I finished it the next day and since then, I have been mulling over how I feel about it to write my review.I LOVED Emerge...I mean I LOVED, LOVED, LOVED it!  It's one of my Top Ten books of all time and I was Team Dane from the start...not that I didn't like Evan, because I did...A LOT. I just connected with Laney and Dane's story so much more than Evan and Whitley. I mean I really disliked Whitley in book 1 and it was hard for me to accept that everyone in The Crew did an about face with Whitley when Evan said she was a great person and just misunderstood...I really didn't like the two of them together. I did like how Laney had some jealousy when she realized Evan was flirting with and hanging out with Whitley because that was real to me...I also loved how Zach put Laney in her place when she whined to him about it.  That's REAL friendship right there.  I felt more connection with The Crew's friendships with each other than I felt with Evan and Whitley as a couple.  To be honest, my favorite parts of Embrace were the chapters that were from Laney and Dane's POV and a continuation of their story as a couple...and of course the parts with Sawyer...I can't wait for his book.I absolutely love S.E. Hall's style of writing...she has a way of making words flow, that is almost melodic. Maybe I just expected too much from Embrace because of how much I absolutely loved Emerge...I don't know...I do know that I can't wait for Laney and Dane's novella that will be releasing soon!