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3.49 AVERAGE
3.49 AVERAGE
I really struggled with this book. I was just bored pretty much all the way until about 70% and things started to pick up and she actually lives instead of floating through.
We pick back up with Becks when she is just back from the 'feed' and chapters constantly switch back between before the feed and present day. At first this was very annoying but after a few times it was pretty clear it was needed in some way just to make some sense of this book.
I like that in this book there is anger, anger at her for just being gone a lot of authors probably would have gone the route where people would be overly nice to her and assume she was special because she had disappeared and then escaped some terrible kidnapping but instead the whole town - her dad included, believes that she is a drug user and ran away to go shoot up or something. Kind of nice that we aren't told she is some special being as every YA author goes for.
Unfortunately with that being said, I was just bored. The concept is good, I'm an easy sell for mythology normally. I love mythology especially Greek, its interesting, the story, the legends of what people used to believe and some still do. The mythology is thrown around sparingly in the book and it kind of loses it a little, I had marked this book down as mythology and it really barely BARELY clings to it. Although some parts are more mythology based than others - I cannot say a lot without spoiling the only decent 30% of this book. I liked the fact that Greek mythology is where the main focus is in this book but it is really a smoke screen one that Cole the kind of bad, maybe good guy sets up but he does this by using the Egyptian god name instead of a Greek god/goddess name and that kind of makes sense when we reach the ending.
I wish I liked this book more, I feel that this book could do with extra pages, more before Cole and more Jack and Becks. Think this book and series is just not for me.
We pick back up with Becks when she is just back from the 'feed' and chapters constantly switch back between before the feed and present day. At first this was very annoying but after a few times it was pretty clear it was needed in some way just to make some sense of this book.
I like that in this book there is anger, anger at her for just being gone a lot of authors probably would have gone the route where people would be overly nice to her and assume she was special because she had disappeared and then escaped some terrible kidnapping but instead the whole town - her dad included, believes that she is a drug user and ran away to go shoot up or something. Kind of nice that we aren't told she is some special being as every YA author goes for.
Unfortunately with that being said, I was just bored. The concept is good, I'm an easy sell for mythology normally. I love mythology especially Greek, its interesting, the story, the legends of what people used to believe and some still do. The mythology is thrown around sparingly in the book and it kind of loses it a little, I had marked this book down as mythology and it really barely BARELY clings to it. Although some parts are more mythology based than others - I cannot say a lot without spoiling the only decent 30% of this book. I liked the fact that Greek mythology is where the main focus is in this book but it is really a smoke screen one that Cole the kind of bad, maybe good guy sets up but he does this by using the Egyptian god name instead of a Greek god/goddess name and that kind of makes sense when we reach the ending.
I wish I liked this book more, I feel that this book could do with extra pages, more before Cole and more Jack and Becks. Think this book and series is just not for me.
4.5, but incredible enough that I have to round up. Far and away one of the most emotional books I've read in a while. I always forget how much paranormal novels can still tug on your heartstrings until a book like this comes along.
Reminded me of “Delirium” at the end, but the story by itself was rather enticing too.
2 stars, and thats liberal. I felt like there were so many issues everywhere. Like all these random storylines put into one book. Most which have nothing to do with Hades and Perephone. Just cause you market it one way, doesn't make it so.
Mayors daughter, reelection, football team, rock band, drunk driving accident...oh yeah, and the Underworld, aka Everneath. Throw that in while your at it. So random! And then this Nikki is so frickin blah. Who wants to read about a void character? Last chapters of the book were the only parts I found any life but by then I'd already made up my mind. Such a disappointment.
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
As a reader, I almost always get sucked into novels and get very emotionally invested. But with Everneath, it was different. Nikki's emotions were my emotions, I felt everything she did, and when she was hurting, I was hurting just as badly. That's how strongly I felt about this book, and reading it was both extremely difficult and very exhilarating because of it. I wasn't just emotionally invested, it went so far beyond that!
Suffice to say that Brodi Ashton has created a unique and wonderfully told novel in Everneath. I really have never read anything like it. I'd also like to say that I went in thinking it was a retelling of Hades and Persephone, but in reality it's not. If anything, it's a retelling of Orpheus and Eurydice more than anything. But there isn't one set mythology that Ashton draws from, she uses Greek and Egyptian throughout the novel, which I thought was really interesting as a mythology buff. She drew some parallels between the two mythologies that I hadn't thought of before, but now I'd really like to explore them.
The plot isn't extremely eventful, but that's because this isn't a plot driven novel. It's completely about the characters, mostly our main ones, Cole, Nikki, and Jack. I have mixed feelings about our protagonist, Nikki, because I felt like some of the choices she made--especially one massive choice that basically screws her over forever--were not thought out well enough. And while I know that's the point, I'm still a little bitter about it because those choices led to what happened in the end of the novel, and the end of the novel left me like this:
To say that I love both Jack and Cole is a huge understatement. I adore both of them for different reasons, and I'm really not on either team. Jack is just... wow. He's the perfect boy, because he never gave up on Nikki, ever, and that's something that literally saves her life several times. Cole is much more complicated, because of what he is, but I really love him as well, and I wouldn't mind if Nikki went with him either.
Can you tell I loved this book? Because I did. I recommend you buy it right now at this very moment, because you'll love it too! So, so good. 5 out of 5 stars.
Suffice to say that Brodi Ashton has created a unique and wonderfully told novel in Everneath. I really have never read anything like it. I'd also like to say that I went in thinking it was a retelling of Hades and Persephone, but in reality it's not. If anything, it's a retelling of Orpheus and Eurydice more than anything. But there isn't one set mythology that Ashton draws from, she uses Greek and Egyptian throughout the novel, which I thought was really interesting as a mythology buff. She drew some parallels between the two mythologies that I hadn't thought of before, but now I'd really like to explore them.
The plot isn't extremely eventful, but that's because this isn't a plot driven novel. It's completely about the characters, mostly our main ones, Cole, Nikki, and Jack. I have mixed feelings about our protagonist, Nikki, because I felt like some of the choices she made--especially one massive choice that basically screws her over forever--were not thought out well enough. And while I know that's the point, I'm still a little bitter about it because those choices led to what happened in the end of the novel, and the end of the novel left me like this:
To say that I love both Jack and Cole is a huge understatement. I adore both of them for different reasons, and I'm really not on either team. Jack is just... wow. He's the perfect boy, because he never gave up on Nikki, ever, and that's something that literally saves her life several times. Cole is much more complicated, because of what he is, but I really love him as well, and I wouldn't mind if Nikki went with him either.
Can you tell I loved this book? Because I did. I recommend you buy it right now at this very moment, because you'll love it too! So, so good. 5 out of 5 stars.
dark
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Should have been a short story.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Suicidal thoughts
better as it continued on. a quick and fun read. definitely want to read the next one!