Nikki longs to spend these precious months forgetting the Everneath and trying to reconnect with her boyfriend, Jack, the person most devastated by her disappearance—and the one person she loves more than anything. But there’s just one problem: Cole, the smoldering immortal who enticed her to the Everneath in the first place, has followed Nikki home. Cole wants to take over the throne in the underworld and is convinced Nikki is the key to making it happen. And he’ll do whatever it takes to bring her back, this time as his queen.
As Nikki’s time on the Surface draws to a close and her relationships begin slipping from her grasp, she is 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 queen.
Everneath is a captivating story of love, loss, and immortality from debut author Brodi Ashton.
“Heroes are made by the paths they choose, not the powers they are graced with.”
WOW! I was not expecting to love this book as
much as I did. I mean sure, I love retellings and Hades/Persephone is one of
the most intriguing ones to me but Everneath blew me away!
The beginning was kind of odd but really
exciting. You see, I thought the novel would start by showing how it was that
Nikki came to be on the Everneath, her journey to escape and then her eventual
return. However the story starts right in the middle of the action, when Nikki
escapes Everneath and returns home knowing she has only six months before it
claims her again.
We get to see right away the affects her disappearance
had in her world, while she spent over a century on the Everneath, in the human
world barely six months passed, leaving Nikki to face her family, her
boyfriend and classmates as a very different person. Whispers arise, gossips
and tales of her absence start to grow around Nikki as she tries to live her
last six months on this earth while finding a way to explain what happened to
her boyfriend Jack, the same one she escaped the Everneath for.
I loved every aspect of the Everneath, this
dark and complex world the author has created was incredible and it was so fun
to discover new aspects and structures.
Nikki was a good character, though with how
Cole had “sucked” her feelings she was a bit stiff at first, and I wished we
had seen more about her family and friends, about how they adapted to her being
back after so long instead of focusing on the love story. Her relationship with
jack… well, it wasn’t so great for me, I didn’t hate but I didn’t love it
either especially after we learn why it was that Nikki sought Cole and got
caught up in this mess.
Cole, I loved him! I was honestly expecting to
hate him after all he did and took Nikki all the way to the Everneath to kill her,
but I guess that was why I liked him, because I wasn’t expecting him to be a
saint. We already know he is the bad guy, and it's not like he would be super
good considering what he does, and yet he was a fun and complex character to
read about, definitely my favourite.
Now I’m really looking forward to reading the next books in the trilogy and learn more about this world and the characters!
*Cough* Cole *Cough*
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