Everneath Review

TITLE: Everneath

AUTHOR: Brodi Ashton

PAGES: 249 (eBook)

RELEASE DATE: January 24, 2012

PUBLISHER: Harper Collins / Balzer + Bray

READ: February 17, 2012 - February 19, 2012

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Last spring, Nikki Beckett vanished, sucked into an underworld known as the Everneath, where immortals Feed on the emotions of despairing humans. Now she's returned- to her old life, her family, her friends- before being 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 months reconnecting with her boyfriend, Jack, the one person she loves more than anything. But there's a problem: Cole, the smoldering immortal who first enticed her to the Everneath, has followed Nikki to the mortal world. And he'll do whatever it takes to bring her back- this time as his queen.

As Nikki's time grows short and her relationships begin slipping from her grasp, she's 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...

"In the dark, dank world of the Tunnels, I would call upon this memory.  And there would be a flicker of candlelight.  If only for a moment."

What a breath of fresh air!  This book had all the elements that I look for in an Alluring Read.  It had perfectly developed characters, an excellent plot and some great romance. I read this not knowing the tale of Hades and Persephony, but did this ever spark my interest in Greek mythology.

There is a love triangle in this centered around our protagonist and featuring the boy next door and the not so villainous villain.   I LOVED Cole and I felt for him. Throughout the book I wanted to shake Nikki and make her see that even though he was the bad boy, deep down he loved her in a way that was completely foreign to him. The rise in Nikki and Coles relationship was so well executed that I was thirsty for more everytime the subject matter changed.

What I admired most about Brodi Ashtons writing was how she created this new world where impossible things were possible and I believed it.  I wasnt left wondering how it all happens and feeling like parts of it didn't make sense. For me, the style of this book was reminiscent of Article 5 in the way that it went back in time here and there, which was an element that I loved in both novels. This is definitely a novel I will be talking about for a while and recommending to my fellow readers!

Here is a trailer to wet your appetite!