Review: Court by Tracy Wolff

The conclusion to the Crave series by Tracy Wolff had me SCREAMING. This whole book just felt like one bad decision after another with our beloved teenagers getting thrown from one mess to the next without any recovery time. Add to this some division after the events of the last book, and you have yourself a major storm brewing, and not in the good way. There’s no doubt that the conclusion to the series was going to be full of drama and angst, but holy smokes…that was definitely an intense final ride. It will keep you on the edge of your seat until the very end, and I can honestly tell you, you’re going to be waiting eagerly for what will be coming next. If you haven’t yet picked up this series, you absolutely should, especially if you’re a vampire romance fan.

Please scroll away if you haven’t read this series, there are spoilers for the previous books ahead!

Grace and crew barely escaped the last battle with their lives. Flint is angry at the hand that life has dealt him, Jaxon is quickly becoming unrecognisable, and Hudson is shutting down. With war looming on the horizon, Grace needs an army if they stand a chance, but, there’s still questions about her ancestry that need to be answered. Those answers might reveal more than they bargained for, and a true monster might be unleashed. Monsters, vampires, gargoyles, and Gods will battle it out. No one is coming out of this unscathed.

If that summary doesn’t just shout that there is some serious angst ahead, then this is your warning. What I love about this series is that it always picks up pretty close to where we last left off. Everything is bad for Grace and her friends. As they’re struggling to pick up the pieces of what remains of their lives, they’re essentially put back on the run, and this time, there aren’t very many places for them to go. Everyone has seemingly turned against them, and from the start, it feels like every single adult is out to make it blatantly obvious that teenagers can’t handle this. If there’s a feeling that Tracy Wolff knows how to invoke in readers, it is the absolute frustration that these characters embody on the page.

At this point in the series, there are so many threads in this story that it’s a little overwhelming at times. There are secrets that are finally revealed, and other mysteries that are brought forth that will be cleared up in the next two books (I hope). Going back to the characters for a moment though, as much angst as all of the characters are going through, the one that really threw me off was Macy. There are a lot of ways that I pictured this book going, and wanting to throttle a character wasn’t quite where I thought it would go…yet here we are. Flint’s angst, Jaxon’s anger, and even Hudson’s disassociation are quite understandable to me. Macy, on the other hand, throws caution to the wind and puts every single one of them on a collision course with death. I have so much more I want to say, but spoilers prevent me from grumbling about it like a crotchety elderly person.

The romance is always simmering, and reaches a boiling point in this book. I loved Grace and Hudson’s relationship development in this book more than the rest, and I can’t wait to see what happens in the next two books. There’s respect that has been gained by both parties, and they are definitely working together to heal the incredible amount of trauma they’ve gone through. They’re shouldering so much, and I genuinely want some therapy for them in the future.

Now, I found this book hard to put down. At 700 pages, this was definitely the biggest of all of the books in the series, to the point that the font had to be resized. With that said, there were parts of this book that I felt were more filler than substance and didn’t seem to add much to the overall plot. I can’t go into more detail because of spoilers, but there were definitely parts that I felt were very minor in comparison to the major plot points we still needed to get through. The ending was also not quite a conclusion. There’s still two books left before the series finishes (I think?), and all of the loose threads will finally be tied up. That being said, everything is pretty fast paced, so I don’t think readers will have a long wait to find out what will happen next.

I definitely enjoyed this journey, despite being frustrated for quite a lot of it. I have grown fond of Grace and co., and will definitely miss them when this journey is all said and done. This one is a 7/10 for me, because I felt like the last book had a bit more substance than this one. I am looking forward for what will come next though, because I do want to find out what happened during the four months that Grace was frozen with Hudson.

Court is available from Amazon, Book Depository, and other good book retailers, like your local bookstore.

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Synopsis | Goodreads

No one survived the last battle unscathed. Flint is angry at the world, Jaxon is turning into something I don’t recognize, and Hudson has put up a wall I’m not sure I’ll ever break through.

Now war is coming, and we’re not ready. We’re going to need an army to have any hope of winning. But first, there are questions about my ancestors that need answers. Answers that might just reveal who the real monster is among us.

And that’s saying something in a world filled with bloodthirsty vampires, immortal gargoyles, and an ancient battle between two gods.

There’s no guarantee that anyone will be left standing when the dust settles, but if we want to save this world, I have no choice. I’ll have to embrace every part of me…even the parts I fear the most.

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