Everneath by Brodi Ashton
Everneath by Brodi Ashton
Title & Author:
Everneath by Brodi Ashton
Publisher:
Balzer + Bray
Publication Date:
January 24, 2012
Pages:
370
Source:
ARC TourLast spring, Nikki Beckett vanished, sucked into an underworld known as the Everneath, where immortals Feed on the emotions of despairing humans. Now she’s returned- to her old life, her family, her friends- before being banished back to the underworld… this time forever.
She has six months before the Everneath comes to claim her, six months for good-byes she can’t find the words for, six months to find redemption, if it exists.
Nikki longs to spend these months reconnecting with her boyfriend, Jack, the one person she loves more than anything. But there’s a problem: Cole, the smoldering immortal who first enticed her to the Everneath, has followed Nikki to the mortal world. And he’ll do whatever it takes to bring her back- this time as his queen.
As Nikki’s time grows short and her relationships begin slipping from her grasp, she’s forced to make the hardest decision of her life: find a way to cheat fate and remain on the Surface with Jack or return to the Everneath and become Cole’s… – Goodreads
Everneath is kind of…wow. I mean, it’s hard for me to form words to describe what reading Everneath was like. It was mythology and paranormal and romance and all sorts of different stuff combined into one book. SUCH an original story. The entire time I was reading it I was just like, “Oh my god, how does someone come up with this?”
Okay, and the characters. I LOVED Jack. He was amazing and interesting and seriously an awesome love interest. Of course I basically hated the evil guy, but I think I was supposed to, so that worked out well. Although I will admit he intrigued me just the tiniest bit…will be interested to see where the sequel to Everneath takes him.
And let’s not forget the protagonist, Nikki. Still not sure how I feel about her. She was strong willed at some points and weak willed at others. I understood her and I felt for her, which was good, but she did annoy me at several points. I loved the romance between Nikki and Jack, as delicate as it was. I thought Brodi Ashton created some lovely tension and “what if” moments and really made us feel how badly Nikki regretted the past.
But for real. Although it had flaws (but very few books don’t), Everneath is an awesome debut and a seriously interesting start to a new series. After that ending, I will seriously be reading book two when it comes out.
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I can’t wait to read this!
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I thought the supernatural stuff was so creative. She pretty much invented a whole new world without vampires, werewolves or angels. Very impressed. The originality of it was what impressed me too.
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I’m really glad you liked it a lot more than I did. I couldn’t get into this one whatsoever. I mean, I enjoyed it. I did. But I was confused about a lot of things and some things just didn’t add up. The ending was a crazy cliffhanger though so I really want to read the next one!
Anna @ Literary Exploration
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I’ve been interested in snagging a copy of this since I first heard about it. It’s one of my most anticipated! So, thank you for the review!
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I started this book thinking “YES. Sexy villain! I want her to fall in love with him.” Then I was bored with the rest of the book :P Nikki was very emo and unremarkable to me. I loved the mythology and the bad, bad villain. And from what I remember, I liked Jack, too. But the fact that I disnt like Nikki just resonates with me. Gla you enjoyed it, though! :)
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I was blown away by Everneath’s originality, too! Like, wow. It was fantastic! I completely agree with your review, Tara. =)
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Oh how I loved this book! Anything dealing with mythology – I love it – but this author also added her own mythology. So, yeah. I ate it up. But I read it so early and had no one to talk to about it. Bah! So, so good!
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I’ve heard a lot of mixed reviews on this one, so I think this is going to be one of those books I’ll need to make up my own mind about. But it’s got Greek myth working for it, so that’s a definite plus.
Smiles!
Lori
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I also enjoyed this book. Hi, new follower here!
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Each time I read another review for this book it makes me want to read it even more! :) It sounds fantastic.
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