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Crave by Tracy Wolff
4.0
dark medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

Sure this is a self-referential Twilight rip-off, but Twilight is an incredibly compelling read/series. Crave's heroine Grace isn't clumsy like Bella, but things do keep happening to put her life in danger at her new school. Grace has moved to the [suburbs?] of Denali, Alaska, where as I type this in mid-May, the weather is -16ยบ F, after her parents were killed in a car crash in San Diego, where they lived until a month ago. Her father's brother runs the boarding school, which is attended by Grace's cousin, now roommate, Macy. The school is weirdly factioned, with cliquishness taken to a whole new level of beautiful people who don't intermix.

Like Bella, there is something so compelling about Grace that immediately two faction heads--Flint and Jaxon--are competing for her. It turns out the whole school has a secret Grace isn't in on. I bet you can guess what it is!