Review Everneath by Brodi Ashton
Posted by Nicole on Feb 17, 2012 in A-C Authors, B Reviews, Paranormal | 0 comments
Last spring, Nikki Beckett vanished, sucked into an underworld known as the Everneath. Now she’s returned—to her old life, her family, her boyfriend—before she’s 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 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.
Consistency and realism are what separate okay books from fanatstic in my opionion. If you can take an absolutely fantastical tale and make me believe in it, then I’m yours. But don’t do Most of the work then skimp where it really counts and thats what I feel happened in Everneath.
If you’re at all interested in this book you’ll no doubt read the amazon listing and some of the reviews there so I won’t go into too much detail on the story other than to say, girl dissapears for 6 months, boy pines away, she reappears traumatized everyone else writes it off as drugs but he knows better. Paranormal ruler boy (Cole) wants girl to come back and rule with him, she says no, doesn’t want to feed on humans the way she was fed on and goes to pit of hell when amazing boy (Jack) makes a self sacrificing decision to try to get her back at end of book, leading in to book 2.
K, we have that straightened out.
Heres what i didn’t like. No one pushes Nikki to tell them what happened to her. They all just go, “girls on drugs” and walk away. I don’t care if you’re the mail man someone is going to ask a question or two, send the girl to a therapist, something. They are going to want to know what happened and the fact that NO ONE questioned where she was, what she was doing, how she was, after they saw her clearly traumatized and broken, was ridiculous.
There were some inaccuracies in the actual paranormal plot. If the feeding happens once a century then why were people constantly being sent down to Everneath. Where did the Shades come from, how could it be possible for one to escape from the tunnels of hell if it had never happened? Now these aren’t massive huge overwhelming problems,the basic premise is still the same but its the fact that these contraditions were overlooked that really, well it takes a little something away from the novel as a whole. Its not something that pulls you out of the story or makes it less enjoyable persay but it makes you kinda think and wonder what else was missed and how they are going to correct those missteps in the next novel.
It is however a completely unique and new take on the Persephone myth and legend, and I liked how the Everlings, were not defined as vampires or lychen or whatever how they were just immortals, who happened to feed on human essence every hundred years or so.
Its an enjoyable read, especially if you are a fan of the Greek Mythos and while there were some editorial problems its worth a read.
Overall Rating: B
