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    Sacrifice
    Sacrifice
    Sacrifice
    Audiobook7 hours

    Sacrifice

    Written by Brigid Kemmerer

    Narrated by Roger Wayne

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    Michael Merrick is used to pressure. He's the only parent his three brothers have had for years. His power to control Earth could kill someone if he miscalculates. Now an Elemental Guide has it out for his family, and he's all that stands in the way.

    Michael's girlfriend, Hannah, gets that. She's got a kid of her own and a job as a firefighter that could end her life without a moment's notice.

    But there are people who have had enough of Michael's defiance. Before he knows it, Michael's enemies have turned into the Merricks' enemies, and they're armed for war. They're not interested in surrender. But Michael isn't the white flag type anyway. There will be blood on the ground tonight . . .
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateJun 9, 2015
    ISBN9781494581114
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    Brigid Kemmerer

    Brigid Kemmerer is the author of the New York Times bestseller Defy the Night, the New York Times bestselling Cursebreaker series, which includes A Curse So Dark and Lonely, A Heart So Fierce and Broken, and A Vow So Bold and Deadly, and Forging Silver into Stars. She has also written the contemporary young adult romances Call It What You Want, More Than We Can Tell, and Letters to the Lost, as well as paranormal young adult stories, including the Elemental series and Thicker Than Water. A full-time writer, Brigid lives in the Baltimore area with her family. www.brigidkemmerer.com @BrigidKemmerer

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    • 4/5
      Michael has spent most of his life protecting his family. Things in town have come to a head and their enemies are determined to finish the Merricks once and for all. And there's Hannah and her son to safeguard also.What a great conclusion to this series. I'm not the usual YA paranormal fan and only occasionally read them, but I like the author and picked up the series. Nick, Hannah, and the rest feel real, mostly due to Ms. Kemmerer's writing, never cheesy but doing their best in difficult circumstances. I recommend this series if you are a fan or want to become a fan of YA paranormal.
    • 3/5
      Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for providing me with this book in exchange for an honest review. This did not influence my review in any way.I have never really loved the Elementals series. I have enjoyed reading the stories of the Merrick boys and Hunter, and I felt this series had a lot of potential to be MORE than what it was, but I never fell in love with it. And if it ever lived up to the potential, I didn’t want to miss that because I felt the Merrick boys were extremely well developed characters and I really liked the Elemental storyline. In this last book, I was looking forward to an epic showdown, lots of action, stakes high. I expected it to maybe come around full circle and while a happy ever after wasn’t realistic or necessary, I still wanted a satisfying ending. I should not have expectations. I should not think about how I want a series to end because I will only ever be disappointed or unsatisfied. I think unsatisfied is a good way to describe how I feel about the last instalment to the Elementals series.It’s the one I’ve been waiting for, really. Michael Merrick is not an impulsive or reckless teenager like his younger brothers, he is 23 years old and carrying responsibility beyond his years. Trying to keep his brothers out of trouble and keep them safe from the Guides who don’t want the full Elementals to exist while running his father’s landscaping business, Michael is starting to feel the pressure. But the Guides have decided that they have waited long enough for the Merricks to trip up. It’s time to end this. The war is coming.I found Sacrifice to be quite anticlimactic. It’s the last book, the final one, and this is how I’m going to remember the Merricks, because I’m not sure if I will actually ever revisit this series (too many books, so little time). And I’m going to remember the last book as a let down. This book follows the same formula as the previous four, which I expected to a point. But I didn’t expect to see so little of the secondary characters we had been introduced to in previous books – Becca, her ex-Guide father and Quinn were only mentioned in passing and Layne only spoke one or two words, her brother only there in the background. We did instead have Tyler and Adam, and I wonder if this is due to the strong audience reaction to those two, rather than the natural progression of the story. Is the author just capitalising on what she thinks the readers want? However, I can see how having Tyler and Adam in the story makes sense as they both have conveniently absent parents. They are also a little bit older than the younger Merrick brothers, who were also fairly absent for most of this novel. This, I think, while a bit disappointing because I wanted to see all of them, also made sense as it highlighted how alone Michael had become.Sacrifice completely changed how I originally had seen Hannah. I didn’t like who she was in Sacrifice. She was immature and took unnecessary dangerous risks and threw tantrums at her parents. Really? You are raising a young child and you’re the one throwing a tantrum. Even if you didn’t have a child, you’re twenty two years old! You’re too old to be throwing tantrums. It’s a commentary on the writing of this series that I haven’t really liked any of the female characters and this was really disappointing, especially when the males were so well developed but it feels like no time was taken with the girls. I also think the ‘almost love triangle’ was extremely weak and I wonder why it was even a thing, the fact that Hannah was entertaining thoughts like that makes me question whether her and Michael should be together.As for the storyline, the action scenes were just not what I was hoping for and were lacking in intensity and the ending felt incomplete. The series didn’t feel like it was finished, it didn’t all come around full circle and we are still left with a feeling of uncertainty for the boys’ futures. While I understand that this is an accurate representation of life and things don’t always wrap up nicely, as a series I felt it needed to be more wrapped up. It felt like just another Elemental book in the series and there wasn’t really anything that made it stand out as the series final. That being said, for the sake of completeness I will most likely go out and buy a copy for my bookshelf but I’m unsure if I will recommend the series as a whole. But when the boys are so well developed as characters, which seems to be rare among this genre of YA fiction, it’s hard to say that you should discount them altogether. I only wish this series had delivered to its full potential and I wasn’t left with just another okay read. 
    • 5/5
      Final installment in the Elemental series about the four Merrick brothers. Sacrifice is about Michael, the eldest of the four brothers and his struggle as the head of the household, after his parents were killed in a house fire years before. Like the other books in the series I really enjoyed reading this one. Even though it doesn't wrap up the boys fate or future it rounds off the series well enough. I have loved reading about the Merrick family and their friends as well as the great dialogue it has created around our dinner table (as three out of five in our family have now read the series) and can only hope I will be able to find another book/series that will capture the same level of interest for both myself and my boys to share as this series has and because of this give it five stars.
    • 4/5
      3.5 I wanted to read Sacrifice because I have loved getting to know the Merrick brothers in this series. They all have their own personalities and stories as well as girls that they are in love with. But as brothers there is always the element of family and the fact that Michael helped hold them together as the oldest after their parent passed. The paranormal magic in this one is also neat, learning about each brother and Hunter's powers and how they work together. There has always been someone to oppose them though, which has added plenty of tension and action to the stories. It was nice getting back to the world and into the head of Michael. He shoulders such a load because he has taken over guardianship of his brothers, and he wants to be a good role model for them and be there for them. In this book his livelihood, his home and sense of security in a lot of ways is ripped from him. He becomes a suspect in fires and other disasters that center around him, and I feel so much for him. He has to keep their powers a secret, and there are lots of things pointing at him as a possibility because of his and his brother's elemental powers. We also get the point of view of Hannah, Mike's girlfriend. She has her son, and she's a fire fighter. Her dad is the marshal, so there is plenty of pressure on her in a male dominated work environment and such shoes to fill. Then as Michael is under investigation she believes to much in his innocence but has to admit that the obvious signs are pointing to his involvement. I liked her strength and loyalty as well as her responsibility. he has a son and she tries so hard to be a good mom to him even though she had him earlier in life than most. While I liked Michael and how much he is willing to do to protect his brothers and to be there for everyone. He is fiercely loyal and has so much that should be so drool worthy, this wasn't my favorite of the Merrick books. I did like his connection with Hunter and how we get to learn more about him. There is also a surprise ally that was neat to get his perspective and how much he stepped up. I totally wasn't prepared for it to end where it did, because my kindle told me there was still a good 30% left, but it is the novellas included. So, yes, I did like where this one stopped and how things were resolved for now, I just was surprised and geared up for more. Bottom Line: Solid book moving the action and plot along.
    • 4/5
      I received this free eARC novel in exchange for my honest review. Such a bittersweet novel. This is the end! There is no more! And while I liked the ending, it feels like the author left it open for more to come, even though I think I read that this is the final book in the series. Poor Michael. He has had it rough, though he wouldn't admit it to anyone. Having to take care of his three younger brothers is hard enough but being an Elemental and dealing with those kinds of problems makes it even more of a challenge. And then with everything literally falling apart for the Merrick family, Michael is looking at a bleak future. There wasn't much romance in this novel as the previous books. Hannah is not a typical girl, being a firefighter and having a 5 year old son. She had to grow up very quickly at a young age, just like Michael, which is why they got along so well. I want more of the Merrick brothers though! I'm going to miss then. Oh well, I'll get over it. I will most definitely be recommending these books to other readers. This is a fantastic series that not only has love interests but really gets into the supernatural atmosphere of the story and leaves the reader wanting more. So glad I was approved to get this novel!