Evermore by Alyson Noel
pages: 356
released: June 2009
publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin
cover love: ♥
Since a horrible accident claimed the lives of her family, sixteen-year-old Ever can see auras, hear people’s thoughts, and know a person’s life story by touch. Going out of her way to shield herself from human contact to suppress her abilities has branded her as a freak at her new high school—but everything changes when she meets Damen Auguste…Ever sees Damen and feels an instant recognition. He is gorgeous, exotic and wealthy, and he holds many secrets. Damen is able to make things appear and disappear, he always seems to know what she’s thinking—and he’s the only one who can silence the noise and the random energy in her head. She doesn’t know who he really is—or what he is. Damen equal parts light and darkness, and he belongs to an enchanted new world where no one ever dies. (from Goodreads)
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Review:
The writing was plain and the scenes felt more or less cut and pasted. I mean, things were happening: characters, talked, moved around, went places, but it didn’t really advance the plot. The author tried to keep everything going on with Ever and Damen mysterious until the last 100 pages, then rushed through the plot and the ending, leaving me confused and relieved to exit Ever’s world . I didn’t like Ever and Damen’s relationship (if you can call it that, because all he does is lie to her and she goes along with whatever he wants to do) and her friends, Haven and Miles were clichéd and one dimensional. They were basically just props for Ever to talk to and eat lunch with. I nicknamed all the characters in this book, The Shrug Crew, because they all shrug their shoulders. On. Every. Single. Page. The parts in this book that really pissed me off were when Ever, our clairvoyant main character, who sees ghosts, reads minds and sees auras around people, really acts slow and confused over Damen’s weird behavior. Oh, come on Ever, Damen doesn’t have an aura, you can’t read his mind, he moves so fast he blurs, he makes things appear out of thin air, he talks like he’s from another era and yet somehow, that doesn’t flick the “supe siren” on for you? Guess not, because she seriously acts like she has no idea what’s up with him. Nothing is explained until the end of the book really and even that is in choppy pieces. Damen doesn’t really explain everything to Ever about Immortals (their world, their rules, etc.) and how she is one too (don’t ask) and I can see the author did that on purpose so that Blue Moon (The Immortals #2) could have some weight to it.
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