Just as Ever is learning everything she can about her new abilities as an immortal, initiated into the dark, seductive world by her beloved Damen, something terrible is happening to him. As Ever’s powers are increasing, Damen’s are fading—stricken by a mysterious illness that threatens his memory, his identity, his life.
Desperate to save him, Ever travels to the mystical dimension of Summerland, uncovering not only the secrets of Damen’s past—the brutal, tortured history he hoped to keep hidden—but also an ancient text revealing the workings of time. With the approaching blue moon heralding her only window for travel, Ever is forced to decide between turning back the clock and saving her family from the accident that claimed them—or staying in the present and saving Damen, who grows weaker each day...
It's no secret that I didn't like the first book. For me this one didn't get any better. The premise was meh and it just went downhill from there.
It begins with Ever trying out her new 'immortal' powers (why does everyone get powers when they decide to live forever???) and getting totally distracted by Damen's hottness. I understand they've defeated all obstacles (*cough* one obstacle *cough*) in order to be together but they just keep throwing themselves at each other. It's boring to read about and I was excited when Damen decides he doesn't want to be with Ever anymore. (I think I was supposed to feel sad or shocked...but this was pretty much the best part of the book)
Sorry, kinda skipped ahead a little!!
Backtrack...Roman, the new kid, comes to school and everyone likes him except Ever. She just gets bad vibes from this dude but chooses to ignore them because no one else seems to feel the same way. That part was ridiculous because he is clearly the villian of the book. I mean it was PAINFULLY obvious. And he kept trying to get into her pants. (Ever must be freaking Helen of Troy or something...all the hottest guys are just dying to have her. WHAT GIVES???)
The next weekend, Ever doesn't hear from Damen and he even blew her off a few times, and comes back to school in love with Stacia (the girl he dumped for Ever, but insisted that he never liked her...yeah right) Ever freaks out and he calls her a loser which causes the next 100 pages to be a long sob story about true love gone wrong. Half of this book is a pity party for Ever, and I'm sorry but I just don't care about her.
Ms. Noel is either the most oblivious writer (no one wants to read about someone else's heartache if you're not invested in the character) or the greatest author of all time for writing that Ever is this completely narcissistic, depressing and stupid. It must have been so painful for her type each and every one of those words. If the latter is true...then disregard this whole review because PROPS TO YOU ALLY!!! I would never have the strength to write such an awful piece.
Long book short, Ever finds info in Summerland to fix Damen and she does--while practically slashing her hand off in the process. They can no longer touch each other courtesy of Roman's 'cunning' and Ever's stupidity. (Cunning is in quotes because Ever is so dumb that a vegetable could outsmart her...Roman's final plan wasn't that impressive) This is supposed to be sad because they were finally ready to have sex, but now if they do Damen will die.
Hold up...I just realized that this whole book series (so far) is just about two teens who want to have sex. What kind of message does that send to young readers???? Shame on you Ms. Noel. You had the whole world of immortals and Summerland and magic and psychics but threw it all away so the two main characters could focus on having sex. (Which they didn't even do yet...ugh)
This book was lame. Since I bashed it so hard I figure I should at least mention the one thing I liked about the book--the cover. It convinced me to read the damn thing in the first place so congrats cover designer people...you should most definitely get a raise.
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