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brigadeen's review against another edition
3.0
It was definitely well-done. I had a hard time putting it down. I also thought the author did a good job with her character descriptions. I only gave it 3 stars because it felt like the whole book was a set-up for book 2, which I'm sure will be awesome. I look forward to reading it.
arojo1's review against another edition
4.0
I have to say that I didn't want to like this book. I started reading it, went "Ugh" and thought to myself that this is the same book, basically, as [b:Hereafter|9256414|Hereafter (Hereafter, #1)|Tara Hudson|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1289525884s/9256414.jpg|14137071]. Girl is "trapped" in something unexplainable, boy she loves tries to save her, and another boy is trying to keep her from being saved. That book was so stereotypical insta-love that I almost got a cavity. I was about to stop reading Everneath after the first 30 pages....but then I kept reading. And I kept reading. Holy cow. I couldn't put this thing down. Yes it was similar to the ooey-gooey lovey-dovey high school romance that everyone is sick of - but something was different. I don't know what was different, but it was. I couldn't stop reading. The characters were great, especially Jack. Man, what a sweetheart. I'm very much looking forward to book #2 now.
erencich's review against another edition
5.0
Review originally posted at Doodle's Book Blog
Upon reading the summary I was enticed and I had an idea of how it would end. I was completely wrong. When I began reading, I was sucked into a world of mythology and the unknown. Brodi Ashton caught my attention from page one and kept it to the very last word. I put off sleep and homework just to finish this book.
In the beginning we are introduced to Nikki and Cole coming out of their cocoon after the Feed. Cole is shocked to see she is still seventeen and has survived. But the biggest shock comes when she says she is leaving, going home. A Shade attacks her and she wakes up in a convenience store with only one thought, "Jack."
Nikki is unlike many seventeen year old girls. She is empty of all emotion and she only has six months until she is taken back to the Everneath. She has spent one hundred years with Cole while he sucked the life force out of her and he wants her to come back to Everneath so they can become royalty, but she came back to the Surface to see Jack and say a proper goodbye. She pictured him, holding on to his image, for one hundred years and she wants to see him again. Cole is popping in and out of her life trying to convince her to go back. He says all she will do in the end is hurt Jack more, but she doesn't believe him. Jack is the quarterback on the football team who fell apart when his girlfriend left with no explanation and just wants her to talk to him again.
Brodi Ashton did a wonderful job switching between past and present to show the reader the kinds of relationships Nikki had before the Feed and how her leaving affected those bonds. I find this to be an integral part of the story. To have information revealed slowly affected how I felt towards each of the characters individually. In the beginning, I liked Cole more and didn't see what Nikki found in Jack but at the story progressed, I found Cole to be manipulative and Jack to be a sweetheart.
Overall, this book was wonderful and I would recommend it to anyone looking to read a book packed full of mythology and romance. I look forward to reading the next book in the trilogy.
Upon reading the summary I was enticed and I had an idea of how it would end. I was completely wrong. When I began reading, I was sucked into a world of mythology and the unknown. Brodi Ashton caught my attention from page one and kept it to the very last word. I put off sleep and homework just to finish this book.
In the beginning we are introduced to Nikki and Cole coming out of their cocoon after the Feed. Cole is shocked to see she is still seventeen and has survived. But the biggest shock comes when she says she is leaving, going home. A Shade attacks her and she wakes up in a convenience store with only one thought, "Jack."
Nikki is unlike many seventeen year old girls. She is empty of all emotion and she only has six months until she is taken back to the Everneath. She has spent one hundred years with Cole while he sucked the life force out of her and he wants her to come back to Everneath so they can become royalty, but she came back to the Surface to see Jack and say a proper goodbye. She pictured him, holding on to his image, for one hundred years and she wants to see him again. Cole is popping in and out of her life trying to convince her to go back. He says all she will do in the end is hurt Jack more, but she doesn't believe him. Jack is the quarterback on the football team who fell apart when his girlfriend left with no explanation and just wants her to talk to him again.
Brodi Ashton did a wonderful job switching between past and present to show the reader the kinds of relationships Nikki had before the Feed and how her leaving affected those bonds. I find this to be an integral part of the story. To have information revealed slowly affected how I felt towards each of the characters individually. In the beginning, I liked Cole more and didn't see what Nikki found in Jack but at the story progressed, I found Cole to be manipulative and Jack to be a sweetheart.
Overall, this book was wonderful and I would recommend it to anyone looking to read a book packed full of mythology and romance. I look forward to reading the next book in the trilogy.
mackenziehelms's review against another edition
5.0
I loved this book, it took me less than 24 hours to finish it. The only problem I had was I wanted Nikki to go with Cole. I don't think I connected with Jack in a way that others did. I did connect with Cole, he was obviously in love with Nikki and she kept pushing her away. I have personal experience with that. So at the end of the book when Jack chooses the Tunnels, I was waiting for Nikki to believe in Cole and give him a chance.
A character like Jack just doesn't seem to exist in my head. I can't imagine that being true for me.
Please do not go against my review, these are my personal thoughts on the book. Even with my problems with the book, I fell in love with Everneath and couldn't put it down.
A character like Jack just doesn't seem to exist in my head. I can't imagine that being true for me.
Please do not go against my review, these are my personal thoughts on the book. Even with my problems with the book, I fell in love with Everneath and couldn't put it down.
slowpoke's review against another edition
5.0
This book was one word; Amazing.
Yes, a few things did bother me here and there, but overall this book was spectacular. It did a good job of grabbing me and pulling me in and never letting me out for air when I needed it. The ending was not what I was expecting and I'm not sure if I could say I was happy, but I did get teary eyed thinking of how wonderful someone can be.
Jack or Cole?
That was my question through out the book, but within the last several pages, I chose Jack.
The second book can only get better, but I'm not sure how she will continue the series, but I can't wait to find out :)
Yes, a few things did bother me here and there, but overall this book was spectacular. It did a good job of grabbing me and pulling me in and never letting me out for air when I needed it. The ending was not what I was expecting and I'm not sure if I could say I was happy, but I did get teary eyed thinking of how wonderful someone can be.
Jack or Cole?
That was my question through out the book, but within the last several pages, I chose Jack.
The second book can only get better, but I'm not sure how she will continue the series, but I can't wait to find out :)
daphx00's review against another edition
4.0
With a refreshing new take on the myth of Persephone, Brodi Ashton has created a thrilling debut novel that will pull the reader in while they get sucked into the story.
Everyone who knows me, knows I'm a big fan of Greek Mythology and I thoroughly enjoyed Ashton's take on it. Her writing is fluent and to be honest, it made me read like a maniac. I couldn't flip the pages quick enough! Nikki's time on the Surface it ticking away, and she is determined to find a way to stay there with Jack, her boyfriend. The pacing is fast and manages to keep the reader's attention perfectly.
While I thought that Nikki could have spent some more time with her family, like she wanted in the beginning, I was intrigued by her determination to not go back to the Everneath. To her, Cole is both alluring and repulsive, because of what he did to her when she was at her weakest. She admits her faults and that she should have done it differently, but there's no way to turn back time, so she has to live with the consequences. I liked that about her. I liked that she was a fighter, even though she knew that the Tunnels would come for her in six months time. I liked her.
And for the first time in probably ever, I liked both guys in the story. They both had their good sides and even though Cole fed on her emotions for six months, draining Nikki until she was almost an empty shell, I felt myself to be curious about him. I want to know more.
After that ending, I can only say that I'm already impatiently awaiting the sequel to Everneath. I'm sure it'll be just as addicting as this debut novel!
Rating: 4/5
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This review was published on Loving Books.
Everyone who knows me, knows I'm a big fan of Greek Mythology and I thoroughly enjoyed Ashton's take on it. Her writing is fluent and to be honest, it made me read like a maniac. I couldn't flip the pages quick enough! Nikki's time on the Surface it ticking away, and she is determined to find a way to stay there with Jack, her boyfriend. The pacing is fast and manages to keep the reader's attention perfectly.
While I thought that Nikki could have spent some more time with her family, like she wanted in the beginning, I was intrigued by her determination to not go back to the Everneath. To her, Cole is both alluring and repulsive, because of what he did to her when she was at her weakest. She admits her faults and that she should have done it differently, but there's no way to turn back time, so she has to live with the consequences. I liked that about her. I liked that she was a fighter, even though she knew that the Tunnels would come for her in six months time. I liked her.
And for the first time in probably ever, I liked both guys in the story. They both had their good sides and even though Cole fed on her emotions for six months, draining Nikki until she was almost an empty shell, I felt myself to be curious about him. I want to know more.
After that ending, I can only say that I'm already impatiently awaiting the sequel to Everneath. I'm sure it'll be just as addicting as this debut novel!
Rating: 4/5
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This review was published on Loving Books.
crystalstarrlight's review against another edition
Bullet Review:
I really shoulda known better. Other reviewers did indicate it was heavy on the romance, and unless the book is explicitly a romance novel, I hate romance.
DNF at 21%.
The whole book is about the various douche-bag boys that are in Nikki's life and how everything in her life revolves around them. I mean, her mom dies, but it's not her mother's death that makes her want to get rid of her emotions. Nope, it's a boy. As for returning to Earth after her exile in the Everneath? Same boy - not her brother or her dad. Nope, a boy.
Maybe if the characters had been noteworthy - but nope. The boys are a rainbow of d-baggery, girls constantly slut shame and hate on each other over boys, and our Mary Sue is about as interesting as a dishrag.
I regret buying this book in hardcover, but I am SO GLAD I never bought any of the sequels.
Full Review:
Nikki Beckett was living in Everneath but was given 6 months to live back on Earth. She does this for her boyfriend, Jack, who dumped her for some unknown reasons. He somehow is the reason she went to Everneath AND the reason she came back. (Logic? What is that?!) This book is about her wangsting over Jack and alternately being harassed by Cole, the man who deceived her into going into Everneath.
I deserve a freaking @$$ medal for surviving the 21% that I did. But then I really ought to have known better. I read reviews stating that there was a heavy romantic element - maybe JUST a romance element - and it's my fault for not listening more to that.
It's not that I don't like romance. I do. One of my current favorite stories is The Mad Scientist's Daughter, and that has a big romantic element. I don't mind romance as a genre (though I don't read it very much), and I don't mind romance tied into another genre.
But as a rule, I tend to prefer it when if romance does appear in, say, urban fantasy, there is still urban fantasy. Or fantasy. Or science fiction.
Aw, hell, who am I fooling? Let's just be frank - the time for me liking sappy teenaged romances is long gone, particularly when the book is basically 90% teenaged sappy romance. There is, like I said above, nothing inherently wrong with romances, nor teenaged ones. Hell, lots of people LOVE sappy romances; hence why Nicholas Sparks is so wealthy.
But I don't like them. I like nuance in my romance or romantic-themed books. I like characters who can have a freakin' life outside of which sausage they are going to bone (hence my problem with Anita Blake). I like characters whose thoughts are more than about a boy's marbled abs (hence my problem with Bella Swan). I like characters who aren't constantly depressed and emo (hence my problem with Luce from "Fallen"). And most certainly, I like it when characters fall in love with someone who isn't a complete waste of oxygen (hence my problem with Nora from "Hush, Hush").
"Everneath" checks all the boxes in the Stereotypical Young Adult Genre.
Spineless female character who falls in pantslove with two boys who behave like monsters to her (admittedly, NOT on the scale of Patch from "Hush, Hush", but really, that takes incredible skill to write that awful of a hero). Lipservice to her Speshul Snowflake status. Angst. High School Drama.
I've spent YEARS wading through shitty books, basically not reading or hating to read because of books like this. I'm DONE. NO MORE. I refuse to continue reading - or listening on audiobook - anything that is not entertaining me.
Perhaps the book does a 180 and suddenly becomes amazing. Perhaps I truly am an old, grumpy hag with too much time on her hands. Perhaps I don't "get" the amazing-ness of the young adult genre, reading endless books where the characters are the same but with different names in different high schools. So what? I'm not happy with the book, and I won't lie.
Now, maybe these sorts of things are right up your alley. Maybe you LOVE teenaged romances, slightly on the sappy side. GOOD FOR YOU. Really. No sarcasm. I'm happy you like it. But as for me, nope, I'm all done.
I really shoulda known better. Other reviewers did indicate it was heavy on the romance, and unless the book is explicitly a romance novel, I hate romance.
DNF at 21%.
The whole book is about the various douche-bag boys that are in Nikki's life and how everything in her life revolves around them. I mean, her mom dies, but it's not her mother's death that makes her want to get rid of her emotions. Nope, it's a boy. As for returning to Earth after her exile in the Everneath? Same boy - not her brother or her dad. Nope, a boy.
Maybe if the characters had been noteworthy - but nope. The boys are a rainbow of d-baggery, girls constantly slut shame and hate on each other over boys, and our Mary Sue is about as interesting as a dishrag.
I regret buying this book in hardcover, but I am SO GLAD I never bought any of the sequels.
Full Review:
Nikki Beckett was living in Everneath but was given 6 months to live back on Earth. She does this for her boyfriend, Jack, who dumped her for some unknown reasons. He somehow is the reason she went to Everneath AND the reason she came back. (Logic? What is that?!) This book is about her wangsting over Jack and alternately being harassed by Cole, the man who deceived her into going into Everneath.
I deserve a freaking @$$ medal for surviving the 21% that I did. But then I really ought to have known better. I read reviews stating that there was a heavy romantic element - maybe JUST a romance element - and it's my fault for not listening more to that.
It's not that I don't like romance. I do. One of my current favorite stories is The Mad Scientist's Daughter, and that has a big romantic element. I don't mind romance as a genre (though I don't read it very much), and I don't mind romance tied into another genre.
But as a rule, I tend to prefer it when if romance does appear in, say, urban fantasy, there is still urban fantasy. Or fantasy. Or science fiction.
Aw, hell, who am I fooling? Let's just be frank - the time for me liking sappy teenaged romances is long gone, particularly when the book is basically 90% teenaged sappy romance. There is, like I said above, nothing inherently wrong with romances, nor teenaged ones. Hell, lots of people LOVE sappy romances; hence why Nicholas Sparks is so wealthy.
But I don't like them. I like nuance in my romance or romantic-themed books. I like characters who can have a freakin' life outside of which sausage they are going to bone (hence my problem with Anita Blake). I like characters whose thoughts are more than about a boy's marbled abs (hence my problem with Bella Swan). I like characters who aren't constantly depressed and emo (hence my problem with Luce from "Fallen"). And most certainly, I like it when characters fall in love with someone who isn't a complete waste of oxygen (hence my problem with Nora from "Hush, Hush").
"Everneath" checks all the boxes in the Stereotypical Young Adult Genre.
Spineless female character who falls in pantslove with two boys who behave like monsters to her (admittedly, NOT on the scale of Patch from "Hush, Hush", but really, that takes incredible skill to write that awful of a hero). Lipservice to her Speshul Snowflake status. Angst. High School Drama.
I've spent YEARS wading through shitty books, basically not reading or hating to read because of books like this. I'm DONE. NO MORE. I refuse to continue reading - or listening on audiobook - anything that is not entertaining me.
Perhaps the book does a 180 and suddenly becomes amazing. Perhaps I truly am an old, grumpy hag with too much time on her hands. Perhaps I don't "get" the amazing-ness of the young adult genre, reading endless books where the characters are the same but with different names in different high schools. So what? I'm not happy with the book, and I won't lie.
Now, maybe these sorts of things are right up your alley. Maybe you LOVE teenaged romances, slightly on the sappy side. GOOD FOR YOU. Really. No sarcasm. I'm happy you like it. But as for me, nope, I'm all done.
breezy610's review against another edition
4.0
this was an interesting take on the whol hades/pereshopne myth. In some books, Hades is portay as a loving man and pereshpone a woman who dying to get back to him. Not in this one Cole is not lovable and Nikki wants nothing to do with him. Nikki left the surface unexceptable, now that she is back, she is trying to say goodbye because she only has six months left.
kourtneyzimmerman's review against another edition
3.0
meh. I'm content to leave the ending where it is.
wendythegeekgoddess's review against another edition
2.0
SYNOPSIS:
Six months ago, Nikki Beckett vnished into an underworld known as the Everneath. Now she's returned to her old life, her family, her boyfriend for another six months before she leaves again only this time it will be forever...
REVIEW:
This book had so many good reviews that I was very excited to read but for some reason I felt like the book couldn't keep an enjoyable pace and I quickly lost interest and only rarely gained a bit back from time to time. I also think that maybe one retelling of the Persephone myth was enough for me and I got that little dose of it by reading Meg Cabot's "Abandon" and "Underworld". Although this tale was quite different it boils down to the same thing: Persephone myth, Gorgeous guys that are secretly evil, and girls getting sucked into some other worldly dimension. So I guess thats why I quickly got bored of it my brain kept saying "you pretty much read this story all ready" and it was not in the mood for another! So don't take it personally Miss Ashton but Meg Cabot beat you to the punch, in my case that is.
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Six months ago, Nikki Beckett vnished into an underworld known as the Everneath. Now she's returned to her old life, her family, her boyfriend for another six months before she leaves again only this time it will be forever...
REVIEW:
This book had so many good reviews that I was very excited to read but for some reason I felt like the book couldn't keep an enjoyable pace and I quickly lost interest and only rarely gained a bit back from time to time. I also think that maybe one retelling of the Persephone myth was enough for me and I got that little dose of it by reading Meg Cabot's "Abandon" and "Underworld". Although this tale was quite different it boils down to the same thing: Persephone myth, Gorgeous guys that are secretly evil, and girls getting sucked into some other worldly dimension. So I guess thats why I quickly got bored of it my brain kept saying "you pretty much read this story all ready" and it was not in the mood for another! So don't take it personally Miss Ashton but Meg Cabot beat you to the punch, in my case that is.
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