Crave – Tracy Wolff

The Crave series just might be my new favorite series. It was on my To Be Read list for ages and ages, but only held back by me desperately trying to save each and every book recommendation Tiktok I could find. Along with that, I heard from a lot of people that it was a Twilight rip-off, and though that judgement may have been a bit harsh, I didn’t fully complete Twilight yet, so that’s still for me to judge and really reflect on. And to all of those people who are probably reading this review and also going into disbelief of why I didn’t read Twilight, I’ve been busy reading other books, but after I finish this series, I will definitely start reading Twilight. I promise.

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I will admit, Crave is honestly one of the best books that I have ever read so far, and I am forever going to admire the plain and sheer beauty of it, making paranormals and supernaturals actually have human fetishes, and also the same feelings as actual humans (I know this makes me sound like paranormals and supernaturals don’t have feelings, but believe me, when you read this book, you’ll understand exactly what I mean in each and every individual detail). I think that I owe it all to my fantasy and paranormal book necessity, for me to spend an entire 20 hours reading this book altogether (not that I finished this book in one day or anything ~laughs nervously~).I don’t think that I would compare this unique, unbelievably incredible book with any other books that I’ve read in all of my years of living, because honestly, I- Tracy Wolff needs props for writing this huge, amazing novel that I breezed by and couldn’t put down.

So I would give a few warnings before I tell people to read this book: I think that it should be read by people 14+, due to the explicit content, like lots of cursing, and also a thick, but not main, romance base. Honestly, it will take a while to get used to it, but if you don’t like that kind of stuff, then by all means, no need to read this book.

Crave focuses on the main POV of Grace Foster, who basically goes to a school which houses paranormals and supernaturals, like vampires, werewolves, dragons, warlocks, witches, etc. Grace herself doesn’t really know about the occurrence at first, but later, when she tries to ask her cousin about frequent activities that seem like no mortal human could do, she confirms it with another statement that has Grace’s blood run cold. For obvious reasons, I’m not going to enclose that information here.

I think that one of my favorite characters may be Macy, Grace’s cousin who’s also a witch (female equivalent to a warlock). She’s always so lively and bright about almost everything I notice, and she tries her best to make Grace feel better and at home by decorating a room for her that later she shares with Grace. One example is how she remembered that Grace loved the beach and swimming, so she decorated Grace’s side of the room hot pink and white, and put pretty flower bedspreads on her bed. That’s one of the kindest things that I noticed about the book, and I really loved that awesome, cheerful personality about Macy.

Throughout the story, I notice a lot of unforgettable, special characters, with their own traits and flaws, and I would never change anything about that in the story, because I fear that one small move might destroy the story entirely, vanquishing its beauty and also the warm feeling that you have in your heart for each of the individual characters.

I think that though the story dragged a little bit, it was overall one of the best books I have ever read, with everything just perfect and beautiful, and I wouldn’t want to alter that perfection for a second. This book just may be great for you if you like bold, brave main characters with a twist of fantasy and supernatural causes… also for some weird reason, I kept getting reminders of other books and movies I read that had a similar plot to this. This book was like a remix/mashup of the Twilight Saga, Vampire Diaries, and – for some WEIRD reason – Wizards of Waverly Place, which is kind of a crap Disney show that has the most inaccurate description of human like species (eg. Wizards, which was the main thing, Vampires, Werewolves…)

Maybe not WWP because of again, the way they portrayed the magical creatures, but if you’ve watched this series, you’ll probably get what I’m saying (please don’t hate on me for saying that WWP is a bad TV show; it’s okay, I suppose, but it’s kind of like baby/little kid stuff.)

Also, the cover reminded me of a Twilight Saga cover, the way that the background of the book is one single color, and there’s a really dramatic object in the middle, with the title in a strange, mysterious font on top of the object… was it just me, or did you guys notice it too? O.o

Plus in one of the chapters, Jaxon (main badboy/love interest) sends a copy of Twilight to Grace, with the quote “I said we shouldn’t be friends, not that I don’t want to be” on a sticky note on top.

To be fair, this book was sort of like Harry Potter as well, with the cliche of a person finding out they were going to a magic school, except Grace didn’t actually know at firs- you know what? I’ll let you read it and figure it out 🙂

Thanks for reading <3