R&R # 110-- EVER DARKENING by Janeal Falor

[David, Mr. Blue Eyes; He's the Best--Ain't no lie!! ;)]

Genre: YA Fantasy
Ever Darkening

Book Description:

Perfection. Goodness. Elimination of evil. It's what seventeen-year-old Kaylyn has trained her entire life to achieve. But no one is prepared for the consequences of her actually defeating all evil people on the planet. Finally successful in her mission, Kaylyn faces an unfamiliar world, full of good people doing good things, in which she no longer has purpose.

When the skies grow dark, and a stranger from another village pleads for her help, her instincts roar to life. It turns out their perfect world isn't exactly what it seems. Kaylyn's new quest, harder than any she's been on before, will rip apart her friendships, her life, and her soul more than any evil man ever managed to.

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1. Michelle Burgard - Shella96@att.net - Mobi
2. Loni Sue Engledow - Lengledow@yahoo.com - ePub
3. Poulami - poulamig3@gmail.com - ePub
4. Diana Skvorak - drskvorak@yahoo.com - ePub
5. Katherine Adams - Katiesparkles@sbcglobal.net - ePub
6. Sarah - cat2002116@yahoo.com - mobi
7. Angie - wanderoflostpaths@yahoo.com - ePub
8. Carl - Cschierh@kent.edu - mobi
9. April - lcsdr60@yahoo.com - mobi
10. Valkiery - draica5000@yahoo.com - mobi
11. Sheree - Sbw90@yahoo.com - PDF
12. Katy - applepea_blossom@yahoo.com - mobi
13. Arlinda - greeniejoey@gmail.com - epub
14. Skaiste - skaiste_biel@yahoo.com - mobi
15. Nicole - Nikkikearn@gmail.com - ePub
16. Binish Warsi - binish.warsi@gmail.com - PDF
17. Marium Ghulam - nice-alishma@hotmail.com - ePub
18. Jennifer - jennifer.m.ricketts@gmail.com - mobi
19. Lana - lana.waltosz@hotmail.com - PDF or mobi
20. Freethings- no email provided - mobi

[Michelle]

Michelle Burgard
Shella96@att.net
Mobi

[Loni]

Loni Sue Engledow
Just now posting two other reviews will be glad to read and post for you. I post Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Goodreads and Facebook. I also have lonis book blog on Facebook that I post to
Thank you
Lengledow@yahoo.com
ePub please

[Poulami]

Name- Poulami
Email- poulamig3@gmail.com
Format- epub

[Diana]

Diana Skvorak drskvorak@yahoo.com
ePub, please

[Katherine]

Katherine Adams
Katiesparkles@sbcglobal.net
epub please

[Sarah-Jayne]

Hi. I'd be interested in reading a .mobi copy of this book. My e-mail address is cat2002116@yahoo.com.

Thank you.

Sarah

[Angie ~aka Reading Machine~]

wanderoflostpaths@yahoo.com
epub please

[Carl]

Sounds interesting. Mobi, please.
Cschierh@kent.edu

[April]

lcsdr60@yahoo.com
Mobi please and thank you

[Valkiery]

draica5000@yahoo.com

Mobi Pretty Please?

[Sheree Bonita]

Sheree. PFF

[Sheree Bonita]

Sbw90@yahoo.com

[Janeal]

All ebooks have been sent out up to this point. Thank you all so much for your willingness to read and review my book!

[Katy]

Ooh, I love Janeal Falor's books!
Katy
applepea_blossom@yahoo.com
(mobi should be fine, thanks!)

[Janeal]

Sent, Katy. Thank you for your kind words!

[Smith]

Arlinda
greeniejoey@gmail.com
epub version please

[Janeal]

It's been sent, Arlinda. Thank you!

[David, Mr. Blue Eyes; He's the Best--Ain't no lie!! ;)]

Thanks to everyone who has signed up so far! And thanks to the author for offering this opportunity to our group :)

There are still 7 ebooks available.

[Skaistė]

A book by Janeal Falor? I must read it :)

Skaiste
skaiste_biel@yahoo.com
I would prefer mobi format

[Nicole]

Nikkikearn@gmail.com - epub please - thank you!

[Janeal]

They've been sent, Skaiste & Nicole. Thank you!

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5 left!

[Binish]

Binish Warsi
email- binish.warsi@gmail.com
format- PDF

[Janeal]

Sent. Thanks, Binish!

[Binish]

you're welcome :)

[David, Mr. Blue Eyes; He's the Best--Ain't no lie!! ;)]

4 more copies available. Hurry hurry hurry!

[Marium]

Marium Ghulam
nice-alishma@hotmail.com
Epub format

[Janeal]

Sent, Marium! Thank you!

[Jennifer]

Jennifer
jennifer.m.ricketts@gmail.com
Mobi

[David, Mr. Blue Eyes; He's the Best--Ain't no lie!! ;)]

2 copies left!

[Lana]

I would love to review this book :)
My e-mail is lana.waltosz@hotmail.com

PDF or mobi, whichever is easiest for you!

[Freethings]

Freethings
I would love to review this book.
Mobi format.
If chosen I will private message you my other email address that has my amazon account.

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That's it! We have 20 participants.

This RtR is now closed.

[Janeal]

Jennifer and Lana, your's have both been sent out - Thank you!

Freethings, I'd be happy to send you a copy if you PM me your email address.

[Carl]

I found the concepts interesting, but it was pretty slow.

Here's my review:

“Ever Darkening” essentially asks the question: “What happens to a kick-butt heroine when there’s no butt left to kick.”
It’s an interesting question. Unfortunately the answer is awfully sluggish in coming.
I received a copy of the book in exchange for an honest review. I’d rate it about three stars.
The book opens with Kaylyn – the “chosen one” of a group of Zopha warriors – killing the last of the evil Malryx – apparently the only truly bad beings in the world. Her victory is surprisingly easy, and she and her people think that their world will be one of peace and happiness.
But it turns out that a world without Malryx is not a world without darkness.
Kaylyn and her colleagues follow a refugee from another village to his home, which is being overtaken by some kind of darkness that seems to be poisoning nature.
And now we get to the dull part.
It seems to take forever for them to get to the village. Kaylyn agonizes over what it means to be a killer when there is nothing to kill. She agonizes over whether she can overcome a darkness that’s not the kind of challenge she was trained for. She agonizes over whether she can be a leader. She agonizes over her attraction to fellow Zorpha Jorrin, whom her best friend and foster sister Marsa has wanted to marry since all of them were children.
It’s mostly internal dialog. I found it very slow.
At the village, the Zorphas find a physical darkness and tainted animals and forests but nothing to fight.
So there’s a lot of helplessness and hopelessness – not the most exciting things to build a novel around. Even when Kaylyn and Jorrin figure out the problem – a spoiler I won’t mention until later – they don’t know what to do about it.
So the Zorphas fight against trees. They fight against mutated sheep. They’re not particularly exciting fights.
They take the villagers back to their homes as refugees. Kaylyn continues to ruminate on the problem and her feelings of inadequacy. She continues to pine after Jorrin and worry about betraying her foster sister, whom she has promised to help marry him. (Nobody ever had seemed to ask him what he wanted.)
There’s action – but compared to the worlds of the Katnisses and the Trises and the Penryns, it’s not very exciting.
The following spoiler isn’t very specific, but it is a spoiler.)
The solution is (view spoiler)[that a world without evil is a world without balance. So Jorrin and Kaylyn seek to find a way to bring evil back into the world, and that will take sacrifice. In what I found one of the most interesting thoughts in the book (it’s really just a sentence or two), Kaylyn wonders whether the original evil was even so evil. (hide spoiler)]
The concepts are interesting. But I kept wanting something to happen.
If you’re up for meditation on evil and purpose and leadership and finding your heart, you might like “Ever Darkening.”
For me – well, the last thing I read before this was the last of the Penryn and the End of Days trilogy. Those books also had some depth -- and were a lot more fun.

(Reviews were posted at Goodreads and Amazon.)

[Katy]

Thank you so much for sharing your book with us, Janeal! Here are my reviews :

Goodreads
Amazon

[Angie ~aka Reading Machine~]

I posted on Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Here's my review:

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Janeal]

Thank you for the reviews Angie, Katy, and Carl!

[Valkiery]

Thank you for letting me have a copy of this great book.
Here's my review:

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Sorry it took me a while to post the link. It's hard to do that on the app. lol

[Janeal]

Thanks for the review, Valkiery!

No worries about how long it took. It's still early :D

[Poulami]

Here is my review-Ever Darkening

[Janeal]

Thanks for the review, Poulami.

[Katherine]

Thanks for the chance to read the book. Here is my review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The review is also on my blog http://smadasbooksmack.blogspot.com/

and on amazon under KRLGA

[Janeal]

Thanks for the review, Katherine!

[Sarah-Jayne]

Hi. I've finished reading this book and here are the links to my review:

Goodreads

Amazon UK

Amazon US

My Blog

Thank you for the opportunity to read this.

Sarah

[Janeal]

Thanks for the review, Sarah! And thank you for posting your review so many places!

[Skaistė]

Hi. Found out recently I haven't read and reviewed yet. I'm very very sorry it took so long. I had not that good times in my life and then too busy times. But here it is

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/ever-...
https://www.amazon.com/review/R198UDN...