Victoria T. (justicepirate) reviewed on + 350 more book reviews
My problems with this book were as follows:
The whole time I was reading it I kept thinking about the Twilight series (which I started reading that series because I refused to for so long and wanted to hate it but ended up liking it. . .while this book I was told to read by my sister-in-law who loved this but didn't care too much for the Twilight series. Go figure). Things that it had in common with Twilight were that a character that you could pick up on being able to live forever went to high school and the teen tragic lonely girl trying to hide from her special powers (which is hearing people's thoughts, knowing what people have done, and being all psychic. . like in Twilight but reversed) falls for him and he has loved her for what seems to be forever. Her friend is always trying to be goth and seems to always remind me of Alice from Twilight (but very annoying). Instead of being a vampire, there is "immortals", so they don't feed on people or anything like that, but there are just too many similarities that you will see throughout it. Damen even watches Ever sleep one night.
Another problem was that for the first half of this book you don't really get much out of it. Not enough is revealed. Although she describes a lot, you just feel like it is too slow before the last 80 pages rush through with finally having something worth reading more about.
POSITIVE: The best part of this book was Riley, the little sister who is a ghost who hasn't "crossed over" and is the humorous part of the story. She kept it going until the real action came around.
More negative: I didn't feel enough of an attachment to Damen, though I tried to. Seems like all he wants to do is hold Ever (what kind of a name is that??) in his arms and want to kiss her. He's not too open of a guy considering how much of his life he has lived.
One thing to parents who might actually care what content their kids are reading. . .There is no sex but there is a lot of holding one another and kissing and people about to have sex with panties beginning to be removed, but then she stops him. It is encouraged to play hooky from school here and there too. There is name calling of "freak" and people who have cat fights. There is murder, though not graphic. We see examples of teenage alcoholism and how much she enjoys drinking in a portion of the book. There is confusion between different theories of afterlife and of course not even dying (as an immortal). There is the idea that a girl looks better when she's not as covered up and wearing a white bikini instead of a sweatshirt hoodie. I mean really people, if she likes wearing her comfortable clothes instead of showing off skin, good for her. Why is it always about being sexual in our culture. There is the idea of an affair as well but with some strange explanation for it being "acceptable". There is also swearing a few times in the book, a homosexual teen boy checking guys out and dating them, a girl who doesn't know who she is at all and changes her looks to fit in, drinking in school, and characters being revealed publicly about what they do in secret and how they lied about it.
The whole time I was reading it I kept thinking about the Twilight series (which I started reading that series because I refused to for so long and wanted to hate it but ended up liking it. . .while this book I was told to read by my sister-in-law who loved this but didn't care too much for the Twilight series. Go figure). Things that it had in common with Twilight were that a character that you could pick up on being able to live forever went to high school and the teen tragic lonely girl trying to hide from her special powers (which is hearing people's thoughts, knowing what people have done, and being all psychic. . like in Twilight but reversed) falls for him and he has loved her for what seems to be forever. Her friend is always trying to be goth and seems to always remind me of Alice from Twilight (but very annoying). Instead of being a vampire, there is "immortals", so they don't feed on people or anything like that, but there are just too many similarities that you will see throughout it. Damen even watches Ever sleep one night.
Another problem was that for the first half of this book you don't really get much out of it. Not enough is revealed. Although she describes a lot, you just feel like it is too slow before the last 80 pages rush through with finally having something worth reading more about.
POSITIVE: The best part of this book was Riley, the little sister who is a ghost who hasn't "crossed over" and is the humorous part of the story. She kept it going until the real action came around.
More negative: I didn't feel enough of an attachment to Damen, though I tried to. Seems like all he wants to do is hold Ever (what kind of a name is that??) in his arms and want to kiss her. He's not too open of a guy considering how much of his life he has lived.
One thing to parents who might actually care what content their kids are reading. . .There is no sex but there is a lot of holding one another and kissing and people about to have sex with panties beginning to be removed, but then she stops him. It is encouraged to play hooky from school here and there too. There is name calling of "freak" and people who have cat fights. There is murder, though not graphic. We see examples of teenage alcoholism and how much she enjoys drinking in a portion of the book. There is confusion between different theories of afterlife and of course not even dying (as an immortal). There is the idea that a girl looks better when she's not as covered up and wearing a white bikini instead of a sweatshirt hoodie. I mean really people, if she likes wearing her comfortable clothes instead of showing off skin, good for her. Why is it always about being sexual in our culture. There is the idea of an affair as well but with some strange explanation for it being "acceptable". There is also swearing a few times in the book, a homosexual teen boy checking guys out and dating them, a girl who doesn't know who she is at all and changes her looks to fit in, drinking in school, and characters being revealed publicly about what they do in secret and how they lied about it.
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