Goodreads Summary

Savannah Colbert has never known why she's so hated by the kids of the Clann. Nor can she deny her instinct to get close to Clann golden boy Tristan Coleman. Especially when she recovers from a strange illness and the attraction becomes nearly irresistible. It's as if he's a magnet, pulling her gaze, her thoughts, even her dreams. Her family has warned her to have nothing to do with him, or any members of the Clann. But when Tristan is suddenly everywhere she goes, Savannah fear

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I can't figure out why the ratings aren't better on this book. I loved it! And I am picky about vampire books. This was unique and creative and addictive! I can't wait for the next one… there is a next one right? There HAS to be a next one!!!!

When Savannah Colbert was in the fourth grade, her best friends and the boy she loved suddenly began avoiding her like the plague. Now, in high school, Savannah is still being shunned and bullied by the kids of the Clann. Savannah has heard the rumors that the members of the powerful Clann know how to use magic, but that doesn’t explain why they treat her like a freak. She’s just a regular girl…isn’t she?

Well, she thought she was, until a sudden illness brought on some pretty drastic, and defini More...

Romeo and Juliet had it easy compared to these two...

Savannah and Tristan are descendents from a line of witches called The Clann. When the two were just twelve years old, they had a pretend wedding; the end result: Savannah's family got kicked out of The Clann and Savannah shunned by all their children. Once high school began, Savannah was all but used to their taunts and misbehavior, but the attraction for Tristan still ran deep. When Savannah gets really sick her freshman year, her single mot More...

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2.5 out of 5

With one of the few prologues that has excited me rather than dismayed me, Crave was an. . . experience from start to finish. This supernatural young adult novel is a very hard beast for me to categorize within my usual systems. One one hand, there were so many cliches and unnecessary elements that felt like filler, but on the other hand I had fun reading the novel and was intrigued by the lore/mythology of this supernatural world. Melis More...

Beginning of the book: 3.5 stars
Rest of the book: 4, leaning on 4.5, stars

I love a good romance and this book has exactly that. Melissa Darnell has written a beautiful love story centered around the supernatural world. There is nothing sweeter than forbidden love, and that is what our two main characters Savannah Colbert and Tristan Coleman find themselves trapped within. Each knows the other is out of bounds, yet they cannot help but feel drawn towards each other. I have a weak spot for books w More...

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Okay, I’ve read a fair few negative reviews about this and I’d like to say I’m giving this a four star rating because whilst it was not exactly a plot with the most substance, I still thoroughly enjoyed it.
Crave is the story of Savannah and Tristan and their forbidden romance, but wait! Before you think “oh how cliché”, this forbidden romance is actually a decent on More...

An enticing mix of forbidden love, magic, betrayal, and heartache, this romance will leave your craving more. Melissa Darnell's beautifully told love story mixed with a rich vampire and witch mythology creates on of this year's most spellbinding paranormal romances.

Sav is a unique character I liked getting to know. She's feisty, level headed and fun. She also has an inner strength I admired about her. She's someone who at one time she had a lot of friends, and has since become some what of a lon More...

I promise you that when you pick up Crave you will not be able to put it down. The opening alone will have you glued to the pages. The world that Darnell has created is nothing like I've read before and it was so refreshing to read something totally different than what I had expected it to be. I knew that it had to somehow do with Vampires, but trust me when I say that it was so much more than that. It's a very unique story and super entertaining.

Crave is full of secrets, magic, and lots of forb More...

I really liked this book pretty much all the way through. Yeah, it does have your usual freak or social outcast who's in love with a boy who's supposedly out of her league, and the star-crossed lovers are forbidden to see or date each other because their families are enemies. But the question is: whether it is an interesting storyline that will keep the reader interested. In this case, I think it did.

I liked both Savannah and Tristan right off the bat. The fact that the book interchanges the per More...

When you’re getting to the last twenty or so pages in a book and are getting bummed because you know it’s about to end – THAT’s when you know you’ve found a winner. Finding out that said book is part of a series – awesome! For me, CRAVE was that winning/awesome book. Just take a look at my statuses while reading:

Pg.29: “♥Cover-Love♥”

Pg.167: “Makes me wish my lunch break was a full hour.”

Pg.343: “Oh sleep, why do you need me like I need you??? I want to keep reading this!”

Pg. 360: “Add Tristan t More...

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Crave,is a book with a gorgeous cover and an intriguing premise that unfortunatelly didn't work for me at all...I mean as soon as I started reading this book,I was beyond certain I had a winner in my hands,only for that impression to rapidly change...

The prologue was amazing!It gave you certain glimpses into the main characters thoughts and a prelude of what was to come.To say that I was beyond excited and intrigued by such a prologue would be More...

This book is a single serving of everything on the YA menu. You’ve got witches, vampires, and star crossed loves, combined with the clichéd cliques of high school. It’s a buffet…with a side order of cheese – a lot of cheese.

I liked the better part of the beginning of the book – and when I say the better part, we’re talking the first three pages or so. I thought the first page that gave me a glimpse of Savannah’s and Tristan’s natural reactions toward each other were a good preamble to this stor More...

Bloodlust. Magic. Forbidden Secrets.

Sounds conventional topic, isn’t it? Well, let me tell you, it’s not like that. A whole brand new novel based on traditional theme of vampires and forbidden love.

Tristan and Savannah are forbidden since birth, but nothing could stop them from being attracted to each other. Son of The Clann leader, and daughter of a family that has been banished from The Clann, Tristan and Savannah are not even supposed to be friends, but they could not resist falling in love. More...

I want more RIGHT NOW!! Great book. It had just about everything you need to make a perfect mix. The adventure/mystery in the story was there, with Savannah having to figure out the changes in herself, what's going on with those around her, and where her family comes from. Then there's the aspect of her being an outcast among her peers. She has one or two people who like her, but it must be strange to go to school and know that everyone hates you, and not in the regular, (normal?) 'kids can be s More...

Light spoilers ahead. No big reveals, but I will be talking about a few plot issues.

I don't get why Savannah's family was oh-so-important. According to Savannah's mother, if she and Savannah's father had stayed together, a world war would've broken out. More logical explanation would've been that the Clann and the Council would've killed them to prevent a war. And no matter how you like to put it, Savannah's mother broke up with her husband because she had gotten bored of him.
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Let me save you some time: this book is a paranormal romance. There is precisely one chapter--the very last one--devoted to any sort of magic lasting more than a few paragraphs. ALL of the magic, however, involves the tragic separation of these star-crossed lovers in some way. There is nothing else going on here except for a romance between two characters who are harmless but so blandly unremarkable that they are actually perfectly suited for each other. Every conversation, every secondary chara More...

EDIT:
Looking back I can't help but think I was a little to hard on this book. It really wasn' t as bad as I make it out to be.



2.5. Review to come.



Review has arrived.


So I was just sittin' on my coach, listening to Rabbit Heart, when an amazing idea came to me; I would write a review instead of twiddling my thumbs, bored out of my mind! So here I am several minutes later, typing.


Ain't life funny?


Now on to what everyone is waiting for... my review!

A few days ago, as I was surfing through th More...

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Setting
It takes place in Jacksonville in modern day East Texas, United States. The town in which both Savannah Colbert and Tristan Coleman resides was founded by the Clann, a group of witch descendants. The Clann are pretty much high up in their status among all the non-witches and often host the witch council meetings within their social circle. The way Darnell describe this place, was so well that it gave me a breezy feeling of being in a town filled More...

Goodreads Summary:

Savannah Colbert has never known why she's so hated by the kids of the Clann. Nor can she deny her instinct to get close to Clann golden boy Tristan Coleman. Especially when she recovers from a strange illness and the attraction becomes nearly irresistible. It's as if he's a magnet, pulling her gaze, her thoughts, even her dreams. Her family has warned her to have nothing to do with him, or any members of the Clann. But when Tristan is suddenly everywhere she goes, Savannah fea More...

In this captivating novel, Darnell tells a beautiful love story about mystery, forbidden love, betrayal and magic. This story really captivates into another world. With different perspectives from Tristan and Savannah the reader is able to understand both emotions and from different views.

Savannah and Tristan's love story was really developed. It took them a while to be together (half-way) but we got to see different sides to them when they were together. Tristan is a really gentlemen who really More...

Every once in a while you find a book that you not only can’t put down, but one that you don’t want to set aside even for a moment. For me, Crave is one of those books. I started it, and immediately knew that this book was going to be special. I was thinking about this book even when I wasn’t reading it. It’s just really awesome, you know?

Vampires and witches—two enemy species who have decided to stop warring and live separately. But when Savannah learns the truth about her heritage—and how it h More...

I'll be up front: there are lots of witches and vampires in the book, but it's not as lame as it sounds. I can handle some occult, but I'm not into magic so I was surprised that I liked this book.

It takes place in eastern Texas which means there's a few "y'alls", some football talk, and a main character named Savannah. None of those factors appeal to me, but I enjoyed Melissa Darnell's sense of humor and her fast-paced writing. The main character, Savannah, falls in love with the one boy she sh More...

I hated this book. The characters were idiotic and predictable. The characters had no depth of knowledge on what was going on around them except for what they wanted. They put their wants and needs above everything else without even a second thought. Honestly, this was what I would expect from a realistic-fiction love story, that I read to cool down, NOT from a teen level vampire-romance. The teaser gives absolutely no hints to the vampiric nature of this book. I was hoping for something out of More...

I really really liked this book.

The two main characters were very likable, and the fact that this book was in both Savannah's and Tristan's POVs made it a lot better, because the romance was actually really nice for a change. I also liked how the book went by in big chunks of time.

What I didn't quite like was how long it took for something somewhat major to happen. The big events didn't happen til about 350+ pages, which is quite a lot. Still, the smaller events that happened in the book weren't More...

Savannah ist 16 und eine ganz normale Schülerin, als ihre Eltern sie in das große und überaus dunkle Familiengeheimnis einweihen. Sie ist die Tochter eines Vampirs und einer Hexe. Da dies wegen der jahrhundertelangen Verfeindung beider Fronten verboten und außerdem so gut wie unmöglich ist, wurde ihre gesamte Familie verstoßen. Als frischer Dhampir ist es nun nicht sicher, für welche Seite sich ihr Körper entscheiden wird: Hexe oder Vampir?
Plötzlich wird Savannah klar, weshalb ihre ehemals beste More...

Savannah was always an outcast among the children of the witch Clann. she and Tristan were forced apart during childhood. Tristan was the descendant of the most powerful witch, making his father the leader of the Clann. when Savannah recovered from a strange illness, she discovered that she was a dhampire - half vampire and half witch. despite being forbid to be anywhere near Savannah, Tristan felt the attraction grew, drawing him to her with the urge to protect her.

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Every high school has that group of kids that not only think they run the school, but do. Their parents, usually on the wealthy side, not only allow those kids to have the newest things, but also control outside of school. At Savannah's school, these kids are known as part of the Clann; the town's original founders.

The Clann kids have been making Savannah's life hell after being shunned one day, back in the fourth grade. Not only losing her two bestfriends, but the boy she married at recess in g More...

Kurzbeschreibung:
Wenn zwei Herzen in deiner Brust schlagen und du für deinen Freund zur größten Gefahr werden kannst - was würdest du tun?
Als Kinder waren sie wie Seelenverwandte. Doch auf der Jacksonville High leben sie wie in zwei Welten. Denn Tristan gehört zur elitären Clann-Clique. Und es vergeht kein Schultag, an dem Savannah den Hass der anderen Clanns nicht zu spüren bekommt? Dennoch fühlt sie sich immer noch die besondere Verbindung zu Tristan. Als plötzlich dunkle Kräfte in Savannah er More...