Evermore
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Average rating3
Ya know....when I was younger, this book coulda been a guilty pleasure read. But it's just so littered with plotholes and mess that I couldn't get into it. Evermore makes me roll my eyes with almost everything she does, and that paired with the plotholes made this an unfortunate dnf. Maybe it's just me...but my goodness, this book wasn't it.
3.5 ... something
I don't know
the book's idea is sooooo amazing but the problem is that there are some cheesy ideas about how love fixes everything and forgiveness is the path to healing and that hate is the tool with which someone destroys himself... bla bla bla..
I really hate that.
But I am going to read book 2 because 1) I am interested in knowing that, since Drina is gone, what would happen in book two? the end for this book seems to be the perfect happy ending, so what can really happen? and because 2) generally, writers' writing becomes better and more engaging in sequels. So if this book was engaging enough and working on my theory (which is very possible but can be wrong), it should be more interesting.
But I do NOT regret reading this book. In fact it was a pleasure despite the few times I rolled my eyes here and there for the obvious use of clichés!
Short and Sweet: [b:Evermore 3975774 Evermore (The Immortals, #1) Alyson Noel https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1362336360s/3975774.jpg 4021549], despite boasting a compelling idea, suffers from textbook tropes and choppy, emotionless storytelling that breaks up any investment in characters and their experiences. Characters turn into caricatures, and any questions the story may legitimately create are quashed, unexplained, or answered lamely.I... Don't really know what to say, so I'll just type out the notes I wrote as I read.1. Casual storytelling.2. Tropes. Tropes everywhere. 3. Sooooo.... what is WITH the random tulips?4. Touchy touchy ***** 5. “Its not what you think”6. Haaaaay backpack full of tulips NBD7. STOP. WITH THE TULIPS.8. When did he transition to BF status?9. You're just now discovering the power of alcohol?10. What the fuck 1: You can see here I initially tried to be serious. The storytelling method is very casual, as if the protagonist (Ever. Ever) is speaking with you directly. It was interesting, but a method that may not be for everyone.2: Here's an idea. Take a shot every time you stumble across a cheap trope. Haha just kidding no seriously don't.You imagine it, its in this book - anguished protagonist/mysterious love interest/airheaded BFF/gay BFF/mean girls/”I'm a freak!“/tragic backstory/overwhelming guilt/insta-love.3: The tulip thing got weird.4: The main love interest kept touching Ever from the very beginning, when it was not appropriate. Strange, intimate touching that aggravated me by-proxy. They'd barely spoken five words together when he was already whispering in Ever's ear, brushing his fingers along her jawline, pulling her close, etc. I tried to keep track with every scene this happened in with asterisks, but I lost count.5: Always the cry of a long misunderstood hero, masquerading under mystery, caught red-handed under sketchy circumstances. Please. Please.6: Yes, this happened. I kinda hoped she would start eating them, but no dice.7: Fun fact - it took her until the last few pages to google the historical meaning of tulips and their “flower language”. 8: He appears. He disappears. He's cryptic. He's manipulative. He disappears. Through several kisses and date-esque truancy, Ever suddenly labels him a boyfriend. Oh, don't mind his flakiness, he's handsome and his touch is silencing9: Ever suddenly realizes that alcohol dulls her senses and becomes a raging alcoholic (sniff sniff... can you smell the tropes in the air?) You cannot tell me this is the first time she's discovered that alcohol has this power. 10: I kept reading for the wrap-up. I got fuckery instead.I wanted to like this story. Damen's ~mystery~ was compelling (in which he-is-but-not-really-a-vampire, is no trope sacred?!) but I desperately wanted to reach through the pages, grab Ever's backbone, shake it upright and make her figure it out. I literally have a list of questions even after I turned the final page. Summerland? Transcendental Meditation? Chakras? The conclusion was, if possible, as muddied and confusing as the story itself, and closed on a minor note. Overall - I should have listened, I should have heeded other reader's reviews. But I was foolish. Optimistic. Naive. Yea, I have walked in the Valley of the Shadow of Death, and in it I found... tulips.
Eh, it really wasn't all too great. There wasn't enough fantasy to it, it was mostly a teen romance/drama with a dash of fantasy. I hope the next one is better...
This book was really confusing for me. I think if I were a teenage girl I'd like it, but really it was just too strange. The romance it was just plain strange. Overall I just wasn't into this one.
I just can't read any more books like this. It does nothing for the human race, especially womankind to write a book with a female main character whose solution to low self-esteem and emotional issues is found in an unrealistic, all-powerful God-like love interest who constantly tells her she's pretty, fights every battle for her, and draws all of her attention to him.
These types of books send the wrong message. When my daughter is older, if she insists on reading books like this, there will be much discussion in this house on what kind of example these characters are.... Who we do NOT want to be.
Evermore is the story of Ever, a 17 year old girl who can see peoples auras and read their thoughts. Then Damen shows up at her school looking all hot and tempting and pretty much throws her world into a tailspin.
I really liked Evermore because of how its written. Ever is an angry girl who has just lost her parents and it shows. In how she speaks, how she dresses, and how she reacts to situations. Noel's characters are bizzare and likeable at the same time. In a short 300 page book she's managed to introduce a whole world and keep us begging for more.
I'm really looking forward to the rest of this series.
Ok. I have a couple my-own-isssues with this book.
I HAD ALMOST THIS EXACT SAME FRIGGIN' IDEA LIKE 2 YEARS AGO!!!
I swear. I had it all written out on my old desktop(lost it)
And she made this story too much like other teen fiction out there. Jacked - up teen girl protanganist, who's been traumatized someway and is really beautful in some way (mostly looks ; My character was a plain jane).
Wonderful, gorgeous, amazing “Teen” boy who's really like some ancient dude who only wants her( I never made him all glowy perfect guy, he was just this guy that she kept running into during all her past lives)
Jealous “ex” - girlfriend.
Protanganist girl has no rememberance of the boy (I had my character remember flashes).
The whole Immortal thing was just...stupid. There's no way he could live the same person for 600 years.
The writing was good, but not awe-spiring.
The teen girl ends up having special powerss[ohh...ahh...:]
Blehh..maybe I was just in a really sour mood when I read this. So..that's the only reason I'm going to read the sequel, just to see if thats the reason or if it really sucked.
I'm not sure why I started to read this. I'm pretty sure the kobo app recommended it.
As soon as it started off I knew it wasn't really my kind of book, but i was curious about the whole “seeing auras” and teenage psychic. How she needed to drown out everything so she wouldn't get overwhelmed by stimulus. I've had that feeling a few times so I kinda got attached.
That's the only redeeming part of the entire book for me. Once the love interest came in, I lost whatever remaining internet in the book, but I still had to finish it.
Other reviews have remarked how similar it is to twilight and even though I've never read twilight I can believe it. The relationship was very weak and one sided, made me feel sad about the female gender in general.
Some of the ending bits I liked, but overall I'd give it a meh.