nannasa16's review against another edition
2.0
Now you have all to explain me what is "amazing" about this book.
babsthebatgirl's review against another edition
3.0
I loved the concepts behind this story, but the teen angsty love got to be a bit much at times.
gabydeppe's review against another edition
2.0
I’m on the fence about this one - I liked the mythology aspect of it. But Nikki and Cole were really annoying as characters to me. However, I love Jack and Nikki in the end came through a bit more but I still find her an empty shell. I might give the second a chance, mostly because I want to see Jack coming out of this alive.
mergilly's review against another edition
3.0
"Just ok." I didn't like it enough to finish the series. It was a struggle for me to even finish this book. I think the biggest problem I had was Nikki's character voice. I just couldn't create a relationship with her character because....well because she was just a giant baby the entire book. I loved all of the other characters, but when you dislike the main character it just ruins everything.
cancourtneyread's review against another edition
4.0
Not gonna lie I got a lil teared up at the end of this.
ellenpenleysmith's review against another edition
5.0
I seriously have no idea why it took me this long to get around to reading Everneath. It's one of those books where I think 'Yeah, it seems good. I'll get around to it.' I read other books then by the time I finally get to this book, I realise it blows other books.
Seriously. It blows.
Ashton has twisted Greek mythology and created something unique. Something that hasn't been done before or isn't a variation of something that's been done before, while managing to stay in the Greek trend for when this was published. I loved it.
I'm not usually a huge fan of Greek mythology novels, but Everneath feels that new and unique that I didn't really notice. It focuses more on Persephone and a side to the Underworld. You don't have to be a Greek geek to understand it.
From page one, I can safely say I loved all characters. Nikki is so strong and doesn't give up, but has her head grounded in reality and knows what she wants and what she'll have to do or give up to get it. And I really appreciate that in a character. That understanding creates maturity and I can respect her.
Jack and Cole are both lovable characters. The debate on the love triangle is a bit wishy washy because Nikki knows who she wants (not spoiling anything here). Both guys are three dimensional, showing anger, hurt, happiness and maybe even a pinch of psycho.
The tension is high as Nikki counts down her time on Earth. She has six months to decide between going to the tunnels (which needs some fleshing out, but it's basically eternal pain) or become an Everliving and feed off human emotions to survive.
Ashton has created such a fantastic adventure in Everneath. The only upside to not reading this sooner is that for me there's less of a wait until its sequel Everbound!
Seriously. It blows.
Ashton has twisted Greek mythology and created something unique. Something that hasn't been done before or isn't a variation of something that's been done before, while managing to stay in the Greek trend for when this was published. I loved it.
I'm not usually a huge fan of Greek mythology novels, but Everneath feels that new and unique that I didn't really notice. It focuses more on Persephone and a side to the Underworld. You don't have to be a Greek geek to understand it.
From page one, I can safely say I loved all characters. Nikki is so strong and doesn't give up, but has her head grounded in reality and knows what she wants and what she'll have to do or give up to get it. And I really appreciate that in a character. That understanding creates maturity and I can respect her.
Jack and Cole are both lovable characters. The debate on the love triangle is a bit wishy washy because Nikki knows who she wants (not spoiling anything here). Both guys are three dimensional, showing anger, hurt, happiness and maybe even a pinch of psycho.
The tension is high as Nikki counts down her time on Earth. She has six months to decide between going to the tunnels (which needs some fleshing out, but it's basically eternal pain) or become an Everliving and feed off human emotions to survive.
Ashton has created such a fantastic adventure in Everneath. The only upside to not reading this sooner is that for me there's less of a wait until its sequel Everbound!
its_tara's review against another edition
4.0
This review and others like it can originally be found on my blog, Hey, Tara.
Firstly, I am totally in love with the cover of this one – I’m a complete sucker for the current trend of pretty dresses on book covers. Obviously, there’s also been a lot of hype around this book lately, and that’s usually a good sign, and so I had to buy it.
Firstly, I’ll start with the parts of this book that really worked for me. Firstly, it was the way the book was written. The prose flowed well, and it made the book enjoyable and easy to continue reading throughout. Also, in the same sort of way, the book really manages to tackle some emotional topics, and do it well, without getting too overemotional or skimming the details. For example, there’s everything in here from young love, to heartbreak, to the death of Nikki’s mother and back again, and I felt that each part was tackled well. The stand-out scene for me in terms of emotions has to be when Nikki hears her Dad talking to her Mother – it was one of those bittersweet book moments.
I also loved Jack – typical knight in shining armor type adoration here, but there you have it. For me, he was a much better written character than I felt Cole was, and I liked the way he gravitated towards Nikki. I also like how they had enough backstory that there was definitely no chance of instalove, which as some of you know, I don’t particularly enjoy.
I also liked the ways that the author tried to tie different mythologies together – for example, the links to both the Greek and Egyptian legends about the underworld, and recognizing the similarities between the stories within them. I think it was a fairly ambitious thing to do to try and mix them both up, and manage to pull off a modern day retelling to boot, but clearly the subject was well-researched, and it pretty much worked.
So far this sounds like a very good review, and I expect some people will have noticed that whilst I’ve been positive, this one didn’t get a five star rating, but a firm four.
There are a few reasons for that. One was the pacing of the book. At some points time seemed to be moving along slowly, with several parts of the story told in the same week, or same month, and at other times it jumped ahead, skipping large parts of time. I mean, I understand that that was to keep the story moving along at a good pace, and not make it ridiculously long, but I sometimes felt a little like I’d missed large parts myself, because they just weren’t there.
Also, there was no description, really, given to her Dad and brother about where she’d actually been. I know for a fact that my mother would have gone mad, and asked at least a thousand questions – it just felt like a bit of a hole to me, but I think I’m the only one with this niggle!
Similarly, there wasn’t enough depth for me given on how the Queen works, or how the Feed works. I mean, I understand that this is going to be part of a series, so it’ll probably come up later, but still.
That all said, overall I enjoyed this book, there were just a couple of things that stopped it getting the top rating. However, overall this was a very good debut, and I’d recommend it to both people who like contemporary fiction and those who enjoy paranormal books.
Firstly, I am totally in love with the cover of this one – I’m a complete sucker for the current trend of pretty dresses on book covers. Obviously, there’s also been a lot of hype around this book lately, and that’s usually a good sign, and so I had to buy it.
Firstly, I’ll start with the parts of this book that really worked for me. Firstly, it was the way the book was written. The prose flowed well, and it made the book enjoyable and easy to continue reading throughout. Also, in the same sort of way, the book really manages to tackle some emotional topics, and do it well, without getting too overemotional or skimming the details. For example, there’s everything in here from young love, to heartbreak, to the death of Nikki’s mother and back again, and I felt that each part was tackled well. The stand-out scene for me in terms of emotions has to be when Nikki hears her Dad talking to her Mother – it was one of those bittersweet book moments.
I also loved Jack – typical knight in shining armor type adoration here, but there you have it. For me, he was a much better written character than I felt Cole was, and I liked the way he gravitated towards Nikki. I also like how they had enough backstory that there was definitely no chance of instalove, which as some of you know, I don’t particularly enjoy.
I also liked the ways that the author tried to tie different mythologies together – for example, the links to both the Greek and Egyptian legends about the underworld, and recognizing the similarities between the stories within them. I think it was a fairly ambitious thing to do to try and mix them both up, and manage to pull off a modern day retelling to boot, but clearly the subject was well-researched, and it pretty much worked.
So far this sounds like a very good review, and I expect some people will have noticed that whilst I’ve been positive, this one didn’t get a five star rating, but a firm four.
There are a few reasons for that. One was the pacing of the book. At some points time seemed to be moving along slowly, with several parts of the story told in the same week, or same month, and at other times it jumped ahead, skipping large parts of time. I mean, I understand that that was to keep the story moving along at a good pace, and not make it ridiculously long, but I sometimes felt a little like I’d missed large parts myself, because they just weren’t there.
Also, there was no description, really, given to her Dad and brother about where she’d actually been. I know for a fact that my mother would have gone mad, and asked at least a thousand questions – it just felt like a bit of a hole to me, but I think I’m the only one with this niggle!
Similarly, there wasn’t enough depth for me given on how the Queen works, or how the Feed works. I mean, I understand that this is going to be part of a series, so it’ll probably come up later, but still.
That all said, overall I enjoyed this book, there were just a couple of things that stopped it getting the top rating. However, overall this was a very good debut, and I’d recommend it to both people who like contemporary fiction and those who enjoy paranormal books.
kenzierenee51's review against another edition
4.0
Loved the book but the ending was horrible. I mean it made me cry. :'( Awww its so sweet. Brodi Ashton Hurry up with the next bok.
sabregirl's review against another edition
5.0
What a wonderful take on the many stories of Greek Mythology. I was practically on the edge of my seat for this book wondering what the hell was going to happen. The counting down before each new chapter just added to the anxiousness of it all. The plot was beautiful, though a little confusing in the beginning. It seemed like the thoughts hadn't fully been completed because for the entire prologue I was like "what the frack?" the descriptions of the 'feed' of course didn't really help but once it was fully mentioned later it of course helped. I think it would've been better had that been added later on maybe during the flashback when it first starts. That characters at times did seem a little flat and the only one who had any depth was Cole, he's the real mystery of the story. It would be interesting to get part of the next book from his point of view since obviously he isn't going anywhere.
mrose21's review against another edition
2.0
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.