The Immortals, Book 1: Evermore by Alyson Noel
Publisher:  St. Martin’s Griffin
Published:  June 22nd 2010
Hardcover, 320 pages
Book Tour Provider: Traveling ARCS

At the start of this mesmerizing new installment of the Immortals series, Ever is helping her friend Haven transition into life as an immortal. But with Haven drunk on her new powers and carelessly putting them all at risk, their friendship becomes more and more strained. At the same time, Ever delves deeper into magick in order to get control over her enemy Roman and free Damen from his power. But when the spell she casts on Roman backfires, she’s bound to her deadliest enemy. Frantic to reverse the spell the moment the moon enters a new phase, she finds her efforts are fruitless—there’s a strange, foreign pulse coursing through her, one that propels her toward Roman. Desperate to break free of this terrible curse before Damen or the twins can discover what she’s done, she turns to Jude and delves deeper and deeper into dark magick, ultimately risking everything she knows and loves—including Damen. 

Ever’s best friend, Haven, is now an Immortal.  Ever hopes that she will be able to learn how to not become engulfed by all her new powers, but Haven loves the new her and doesn’t understand why Ever cautions her to stay away from Roman.  On top of “loosing” her friend to her enemy, Ever also is still unable to “touch” Damen. In an attempt to keep Roman at a distant, Ever preforms a binding spell that completely backfires on her.  She suddenly finds herself attracted to Roman, and not in a friendly way, but in an obsessive can’t-live-without-him way.  Ever carries this ‘burden’ alone, refusing to tell anyone, including Damen.  She even turns to Summerland just to feel normal again, as normal as an Immortal can feel, but finds only more questions.  

In an unlikely place, Ever is able to turn to Jude.  She also finds herself soon questioning Ava and her motives. Throughout the book Ever finds her self in desperate situations and making desperate choices. While trying to protect herself she also tries to protect those she loves, but finds she can no longer do it alone.  

While this installment of The Immortals was good it was not as good as the previous books. I was continuously frustrated with Ever and the choices she made.  I was at times screaming at the book yelling at her to tell Damen what is going on.  I couldn’t understand why she wouldn’t just talk to Damen or anyone else for that matter.  It started to become a little annoying, reading her inner thoughts without action.  Whether this was done on purpose, I will have to wait for the next installment, Night Star.  

I gave this book 3 out of 5 stars more because of the plot line.  While Alyson Noel did an amazing job at the writing style, there were too many time where the plot itself seemed to drag on.  I feel like the book itself could have been compressed and made much shorter if some of the unnecessary plot points were taken out, as it just seemed to repeat itself.  I do hope that in the next installment Ever’s character become more adult and more plot is developed.  

My Rating

 

Watch out for the Installment, coming out later this year!