** spoiler alert ** 
 I liked Need well enough but it was Captivate that really made me think "Now THIS is what people are talking about!" I finished that book incredibly eager to jump into my vine copy of Entice, so it can't be said that I went into this with a lack of enthusiasm. 
 It's just that ultimately this book flubbed in two big ways: it feels like a novella stretched out to book length & Jones tried to wrap up too many plot elements too quickly at the expense of character believability. 
 Don't get me wrong- this is worth reading because it does make it very clear that we can expect some great stuff from the next book. The Astley/Zara dynamics are definitely heating up, which makes me wonder what will happen next now that Nick's back. It's just that we get so many things that are way too coincidental (such as anti-iron pills that were never even mentioned in previous books) that they come across as being a little forced & unrealistic. Oh, & why didn't Astley think to check for his mom in his childhood home- the one that he'd spent so much at that he'd bothered to have his own little hidey hole in Central Park? That kind of made me roll my eyes a little, to be honest. 
 I really got the impression that Jones wanted to start the next book "fresh" from some previous plot elements & used this book as a bridge to the next one. This really should have been a novella or something shorter- it would have done the story within a lot more justice. It's still worth reading but it'll probably disappoint more than a few people. 
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