Book Review (64).

Everneath (Everneath #1)

by Brodi Ashton

Publication: March 2012

Publisher: Simon And Schuster Australia

Pages: 370

Genre: Fantasy/Paranormal

Age Appropriate: Young Adult

Price: $19.99

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..

My Thoughts.

Ever since this book appeared on Goodreads I've wanted it, drawn in by the absolutely gorgeous cover I was even more excited after reading the synopsis and couldn't wait to get my hands on a copy.

And I loved it, I devoured this book I couldn't get enough.

I was conflicted I wanted to rush through it to find out how Brodi ended this book but then another part of me was thinking you do that and yeah you'll be finished it but then you have to wait till next year to read the next one, and I really can't wait!

I really can't put into words the epicness of this book, Brodi is a genius for creating something so fresh, exciting and unputdownable.

Anyway your probably wanting me to stop babbling on so you can find out about the story, Nikki is released from the Everneath after a century of having her emotions and memories sucked out of her by Cole, which works out to six months in human time, all that time she has one image in her head that of a boy who's name she can't remember but who's face she definately does.

Nikki only has six months until she's sucked back into the Everneath for good either to the tunnels where she'll spend eternity getting sucked dry or as Cole's Queen.

After returning to school and having everyone believing she was in rehab all that time she runs into the boy who's face she never forgot Jack her boyfriend at the time she was taken, he never believed that she ran away and spent months searching for her and after so long of having no luck in finding her he withdrew into himself.

Cole is constantly turning up in her bedroom every night trying to convince her to become his Queen, she just wants to stay but knowing that's not possible she spends that time trying to say good-bye to her family and friends.

Jack is determined to find out why she left and because she acts so indifferent around him whether she remembers him at all especially as she arrives back on the surface devoid of emotions.

I love how if Nikki is thinking of something that the story takes you back and let's you read about that moment so throughout the book you're getting glimpses as to how Nikki ended up in the Everneath and the moment she first realised where she was.

And the inclusion of Mythology just makes it that much more exciting, and how the story of Eurydice and Orpheus plays a big part.

And now let's talk about Jack I looooove him and the fact that he held onto hope when she was gone, their whole relationship before and after Everneath was so sweet, and the story of how they first met had me laughing, and I'm definately Team Jack all the way.

I cannot say enough good things about this book and that ending OMG I was so close to tears but when you're sitting in the tea room at work eating lunch it's not such a great idea, I need to know now what happen's next I really, really can't wait!

Brodi please write faster I really don't have any patience to have to wait so long!

I give this 5/5.

A Big Thanks To Caroline @ Simon And Schuster Australia.

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Book Review (64).

Bloodrose (Nightshade #3)

by Andrea Cremer

Publication: 3rd January 2012

Publisher: Philomel

Pages: 406

Genre: Fantasy/Paranormal

Age Appropriate: Young Adult

**Warning May Contain Spoilers From Previous Books In The Series**

Calla has always welcomed war. 

But now that the final battle is upon her, there's more at stake than fighting. There's saving Ren, even if it incurs Shay's wrath. There's keeping Ansel safe, even if he's been branded a traitor. There's proving herself as the pack's alpha, facing unnamable horrors, and ridding the world of the Keepers' magic once and for all. And then there's deciding what to do when the war ends. If Calla makes it out alive, that is.

My Thoughts.

O.k I honestly don't know where to begin I loved the first two books in this series and when I got my copy of this book I was so excited, so I started reading it and then someone at work told me what happened and I simply did not want to continue but I did because I don't like to not finish books, of all the ways I imagined this series to end this was not it, I was so disappointed and to be honest I hated the ending and I kept putting the book down when I got towards the end because I didn't want it to end the way it did and I sort of figured if I never read the end it doesn't happen (wishful thinking I know).

And I find I'm not the only person who wasn't impressed by the end, don't get me wrong it wasn't all bad just the last quarter or so.

Ren comes to work with Calla, Shay, the pack and the searchers to take down the Guardians, cue fights and  jealousy from the two Alpha's Ren and Shay over Calla.

Of course Calla doesn't know who to choose so she just strings them along so she doesn't jeapordise the mission, her theory is if she doesn't decide before then their heads will still be in the game.

Some people die, there are some adventures in gathering the different swords to make up the Scion's final weapon, some relationship hook-ups and a final big battle.

That's about the gist of it, it's really too depressing to even think about this book, I don't think I will ever re-read this book but at least it looks pretty on my bookshelf next to the other two books in the series.

I give this 3/5.

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I wasn't a big fan at all of this cover but the saying is true never ever judge a book by it's cover, I have never cried so much in a book, it's about a boy who's face is terribly disfigured and his parents have decided that he'll attend grade 5 at an actual school rather than continue being home schooled, and how other kids react to a person with a deformity.

I gave this 5 stars and cannot say enough good things about it.

Book Review (63).

Frost (Stork #2)

by Wendy Delsol 

Publication: 11th October 2011

Publisher: Walker Books Australia

Pages: 384

Genre: Fantasy

Age Appropriate: Young Adult

*Warning May Contain Spoilers From The Previous Book In The Series*

In this sequel to STORK, Katla Leblanc has to employ her grit, spirit, and special gifts to rescue the boy she loves.
After the drama of finding out that she’s a Stork, a member of an ancient and mystical order of women, and that her boyfriend, Jack, is a descendent of the Winter People able to control the weather, Katla Leblanc is delighted when all signs point to a busy and peaceful Christmas. That is, until the snowstorm Jack summons as a gift to Katla turns into the storm of the century, attracting Brigid, a gorgeous scientist who, in turn, attracts Jack. Between the school play, a bedridden, pregnant mother’s to-do lists, and keeping an eye on her aging grandfather, Katla doesn’t have time to question Brigid’s motives or deal with Jack’s increasingly cold behavior. But Katla’s suspicions mount when Jack joins Brigid on a research expedition to Greenland, and when the two of them go missing, it becomes clear that Katla is the only one who can save her beloved Jack from the Snow Queen who holds him prisoner. Adventure, romance, and myth combine in this winter escapade for teens who like a bit of fire with their ice.

My Thoughts.

This was a good second book in the series, I mostly enjoyed the storyline but I didn't enjoy it as much as the first book.

This book was missing a lot of the elements which made me fall in love with the first book, one thing in particular was the relationship between Kat and Jack, Professor Brigid Fonnkona has come to town to work with Kat's mothers boyfriend on environmental research Jack ends up working with them in hopes of learning how to control his ability to manipulate weather it's while doing so he spends all his time in the lab and with Brigid and no time with Kat, of course Kat gets jealous and there hardly seemed to be any interaction between them which is a major part of why I enjoyed the first book.

Jack ends up going to Greenland with Brigid and their team and while there both Jack and Brigid go missing so it's up to Kat who's on a holiday with her Grandfather in Iceland to save him.

There is also hardly any Stork related storylines and I missed the interactions especially between Kat and Hulda who is attacked by an unknown assailant and then we don't hear from her again until the end of the book.

There are also subplots with Kat's mother and her bed-ridden pregnancy, and Kat's grandfather is acting weird and seems to be forgetting things

This story is loosely based on Hans Christian Anderson's 'The Snow Queen" so anybody who knows the story will know how the plot plays out in this modern version.

I hope the next book in the series concentrates more on the relationship between the two of them as I feel that's where the interest in this series mostly lies.

I give this 3.5/5.

A Big Thanks To Joanna @ Walker Books Australia.

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