Main Characters: Zara, Nick, Devlyn, Issie, Ian

Summary :

Zara White suspects there’s a freaky guy semi-stalking her. She’s also obsessed with phobias. And it’s true, she hasn’t exactly been herself since her stepfather died. But exiling her to shivery Main to live with her grandmother? That seems a bit extreme. The move is supposed to help her stay sane… but Zara’s pretty sure her mom just can’t deal with her right now.

She couldn’t be more wrong. Turns out the semi-stalker is not a figment of Zara’s overactive imagination. In fact, he’s still following her, leaving behind an eerie trail of gold dust. There’s something not right – and not human – in this sleepy Main down, and all signs point to Zara.

Anna’s Thoughts :

Need was a good book, although as few have mentioned, tails on Twilight a little too close. Girl moves away from mom & big city, to other family member in a much much smaller city. Has two choices in guys, neither of them which are exactly good for her, neither of them like the other. Strange things happen, girl does stupid things and gets herself in trouble. However it was by no means a bad book, I really liked the story, it was a decent plot, with a few interesting twists, that I didn’t see coming! Well, not completely anyway.

The only two things that I didn’t really like about Need was the non-development in the side characters. I would have loved to learn more about Devyn and Issie. Instead we learn very little about them, and the only time we do learn about them is at the last minute when something is reveled, kind of like it was thrown in at the last moment, without much forethought or afterthought.

Which brings me to my second issue with the story: the Phobia’s. To me, after reading the book, they didn’t serve much of a purpose. Sure, I found it cool learning about some of them, and then after a research that there is a name for Jenny’s high fear of clowns, Coulrophobia. (P.S. Did you know that there is a phobia of long words? It’s name? Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia. Whoa.) But the purpose they were in there, as I saw it was to calm Zara down, which never actually seemed to work.