Evermore

Evermoreby Alyson NoëlMy first problem with this book was that I somehow had it in my head that I was reading the sequel to a completely different series by a completely different author. This was not the sequel to Evernight by Claudia Gray at all. I think the whole "ever" thing in the title is what confused me. So after about the first 30 pages of shear confusion, I suddenly realized that I was reading something other than I thought.Reading fail for the win!My second problem with the book is that I didn't know enough about it to know what it was about so it was natural for me to be disappointed when I thought, "oh, crap, it's another vampire book". There are only so many vampire books I can stand and I thought this was going to be something different and to be honest, I thought the ONLY paranormal aspect of the story was Ever's psychic ability.Lucky for me my hunch was wrong. No vampires. THANK YOU GODS!I almost felt like fate didn't want me reading this book and that it certainly didn't want me to enjoy the book. But HA! HA! Fate! I liked it! Take that![spoilers below, sorry, but there were so many things I needed to get off my chest about this book and I think most of my readers have read this already?]Sure I thought the build up to the Big Reveal of the Immortals was a little long and then somewhat anticlimactic, but at the same time I really got into the character of Ever and how much she was affected by the death of her family (and her dog! Poor dog! *sniffle*). I liked how her entire view on life and what was important changed with that one event because that is such a real thing to happen. I loved her friend Miles (whom I pictured as the guy who plays Kurt on Glee the entire book) and I liked Haven - at the start of the story, by the end I just wanted to smack her.I thought Damen was sort of dull and didn't have that swoony effect on me that he seemed to have had on everyone else in the book (mind you I was just reading him as words and had no visual, but still, he didn't come off as Teen Heart Throb of the Year to me) and I think that Drina was a pretty poor villain since she wasn't really around much at all and then suddenly she's all up in Ever's face trying to kill her and I was all, "Wait, what?".I really did not like Ever's kid-ghost sister Riley, but even I had tears in my eyes when Ever tells her it's time to cross over. For all the irritation she caused it was sad to read about them losing each other for a second time. I don't know how I would even survive if I had lost my entire family in an accident.I had problems with the fact that Damen has been in love with all reincarnations of Ever. She seemed to take that pretty well. I guess it's all Big Romantic Love and maybe I am too jaded to oooh and ahhh over that. I just snorted and kept reading with a slight eye roll. (Have I mentioned I am not a romance fan? I loved Buffy and Angel together, but I liked Angel and Cordelia together more, that's about where I stand.)Did I like this book enough to read the sequel (and realize it's the sequel when I start it)? Yes. But like a couple of other books I have recently read the firsts of, I am not about to rush to the store and pick it up. It can wait until I finish the rest of the books on my TBR shelf. However I might need to go out and buy Stargazer by Claudia Gray since I still have it in my head that I was reading that book.Immortals series

1. Evermore
2. Blue Moon
3. Shadowland - paperback July 2010
4. Dark Flame - hard cover June 2010