Review: Embrace by Stacey Rourke

Title: Embrace

Series: Gryphon (#2)

Author: Stacey Rourke

Genre: YA Fantasy

Source: Review copy provided by author in exchange for honest review.

Find more Embrace info on Goodreads.

See my review of The Conduit, Book 1 in the Gryphon series here!

OMG--the end. What? It was totally left on a cliff hanger! I love/hate cliff hangers. I love that it left me wanting, no needing, more of the story. BUT...it just left me thinking what the what!? 

How...can...you...just...end...the...book...there??? 

Luckily I have the next book but if I didn't I'd be ticked! 

There is a lot going on in this short book. There are supernatural creatures of assorted varieties including shapeshifters, Titans, demons, and even a pirate! 

Embrace is a story about your average teen to 20 somethings trying to save the world and maintain a normal life at the same time and juggle their new super powers. Whatevs, right? Ha!

I like the main character, Celeste. She's strong and has taken over her new world savior role without much  complaint. But I swear this girl has got to have the WORST taste in guys. EVER. I mean literally, the guys she picks are DEMONS, for cripes sake!

I'm really digging author, Stacey Rourke's writing style. It's a little snarky, a little sexy and a lot suspenseful. Seriously, there were a few times I got frustrated that somebody would just TELL me what was really going on!! But I think that's a good thing that I want, no NEED, to know what's going on!

This is a good series. I care about the characters and the series and I REALLY want to know what is going to happen NOW. I give Embrace 4 out of 5 stars. It has me coming back for more!

Teaser Tuesday: Embrace

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of 

Should Be Reading.

Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

• Grab your current read

• Open to a random page

• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page

• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)

• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

This week's teaser comes from Embrace by Stacey Rourke. The author was kind enough to send me the book to review. So far, I'm digging this series!

"The girls that had nodded now sneered in my general direction, as if they too found my comments ridiculous. Traitors."

Embrace (The Gryphon Series, Book 2) 

By: Stacey Rourke