Sacrifice

Sacrifice, the sequel to Crave, by Melinda Metz was a little disappointing to me compared to the first one.  Don't get me wrong, this books is very good, but Crave was just so awesome that I had very high hopes for this book.  The book starts out with Shay being locked up at Gabrielle's family's house.  They have locked her up because they do not approve the relationship of a human and a vampire.  Gabrielle tries to convince his family that he does not care for her so that they will let their guard down, and he can release her.  This does not work, and many of his family members get killed over the struggle.  Shay leaves, but she will not live for long since she is half vampire and needs blood.  Gabrielle is punished for his betrayal by a draining ceremony which all the vampires feed off of him for three days straight until he dies.  Shay must then decide if she wants to go back and risk her life to save the one she loves or just die herself.  I think what was missing in this book for me was the love connection.  Since most of this book is action, it is much different than its previous, taking readers by surprise.  I think this book is still worth the read, just don't expect it to be the same theme as Crave.  For more reviews on this book and many others, you can visit one of my favorite sites, Goodreads.