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Everneath (Everneath, #1)

Brodi Ashton

Start date: May 1, 2012

Finish date: May 31, 2012

Discussion leader: Sylvia

Why we're reading this: Ok guys this is the one of the Book's of the Month you voted to read in the month of May. It will also co…more
[close] Ok guys this is the one of the Book's of the Month you voted to read in the month of May. It will also count towards May's Reading Challenge on Vampires, Gods & Monsters. So have fun reading it!

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Sep 15, 2011 Zoey Talbon rated it it was amazing

Thank you, Brodi Ashton. Thank you for ripping my soul out and stomping on it and dragging it into the Tunnels with a CERTAIN PERSON.

I thought I was going to hate this book. I thought it was just going to be another obnoxious paranormal novel with a love triangle I couldn't stand.

I'm kind of happy about how wrong I was.

Everneath grabbed me and pulled me into Nikki's world, where she only has 6 months before she's taken back to Everneath and into the Tunnels. Although I really loved this book, E Thank you, Brodi Ashton. Thank you for ripping my soul out and stomping on it and dragging it into the Tunnels with a CERTAIN PERSON.

I thought I was going to hate this book. I thought it was just going to be another obnoxious paranormal novel with a love triangle I couldn't stand.

I'm kind of happy about how wrong I was.

Everneath grabbed me and pulled me into Nikki's world, where she only has 6 months before she's taken back to Everneath and into the Tunnels. Although I really loved this book, Everneath is yet another book from HarperCollins that I think needs some fleshing out. I'm still not entirely sure what happens in the Tunnels - I know a person doesn't die, but other than that, I'm fairly unclear. Unclear on everything about the Everneath and what Cole really is, to be honest.

Despite those questions, I still loved Everneath. The beginning is intriguing, and after that, I couldn't stop reading. I was a little annoyed at times, because Everneath goes back and forth between the past and the present in the first half of the book - the past, where Nikki and Jack are first together, and the present, where they're practically strangers. Even if it was annoying, I loved the dynamics and seeing how happy they were together and how their relationship was destroyed before Nikki went to the Everneath.

Their relationship in the present was something I really liked, too. I won't explain why, considering it's a major spoiler, but just know that there is no insta-love. This is not a sappy romance, and this is not your typical love triangle.

Well, okay. There's really no love triangle at all. Not for Nikki. But there is for me. Ashton managed to do something hardly any authors have ever been able to do for me - I've fallen in love with both boys. Jack and Cole are both two amazing, three-dimensional characters that I know I'll never be able to forget.

The plot was probably what really kept me reading, though. Ashton put a spin on typical paranormal things, and I loved it. Though I wish some things had been fleshed out a bit more, the world this book is created in was so easy to get into. I was surprised more than once.

Overall: Everneath made me ache. It made me feel something I haven't felt since I finished Incarnate by Jodi Meadows. There's nothing about this book that I didn't like. (Except the ending, but that's not because it wasn't amazing. It just kind of stomped on my heart T_T) Everneath is a story about how to say goodbye while still making up for the last goodbye you never gave. It's a story about how even when it seems impossible, you can still be saved. Even if you don't want saving. (And by that I mean saving your actual life. It wasn't meant to be a metaphor or anything.) 5 stars.

[And yes, I purposely kept this review fairly short. I knew if I said much more I'd end up giving the entire book away.] ...more

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Nov 10, 2011 Raven Black rated it it was ok

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Aug 09, 2011 Taylor Marsh rated it really liked it

Shelves: drop-dead-gorgeous-covers, paranormal-romance

I really enjoyed this :) The story sometimes dragged on and the relationship between the three main characters was sometimes a little confusing but the story flowed pretty well and kept me entertained. The build up and ending of the book were what really captured me and had me excited for more but the originality (or what I think is originality) of the story was a nice twist from the usual PR books getting around at the moment :)

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Jan 27, 2012 Anya rated it it was amazing

Shelves: favorites, favorite-male-characters

I wasn't expecting much when i pick up this book but dang am I glad I was wrong!
This book is such a jewel amount the YA crap getting published nowadays.
I love the characters and the story. And...
JACK CAPUTO :) need I say more!!!
Can't wait for the next book, so just to tide me over i made this video.
Please check it out :)
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