A little personal (and warranted) angst, a love interest that ends up causing even more angst, some questionable behavior (that is never answered until the end – so it keeps you guessing), and of course, plenty of paranormal activity 😉 Be forewarned, it is a YA series, so a lot of the drama is due to personal inexperience and typical teenage hormones, and you get the usual “mean girls” cattiness, but I always get a kick out of those things (now that I don’t have to suffer them). Going out of her way to shield herself from human contact to suppress her abilities has branded her as a freak at her new high school—but everything changes when she meets Damen Auguste. There were some great concepts such as alchemy, recurring souls, different planes of existence, telepathy.

So here is my first review in almost three months… for the sequel to what I’d honestly say was the book that got me reviewing in the first place.I founded The Book Nanny shortly after as a place for readers young and old to take a look inside their book. She punches her in the chest, the heart chakra, and it kills her because she's lacking in love (and Ever has so much? Evermore was a great way to lighten my reading load this winter and provided me with a creative, magical story that I really enjoyed. She’s strong, stands up for herself, but she also has these very vulnerable moments, where her walls crack and crumble and she’s utterly human.

Especially when you could be injecting more drooling from the female protagonist in place of any kind of characterization for your hero.

There aren’t enough stars on Goodreads for this series ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I can’t recommend it enough. She has lost her whole family and she has survivor's guilt, and you can't expect someone to be whole and cheery with this sort of weight on their shoulders, but Ever's not a little kid. In the first book I found myself hoping he’d be a good character (I guess I was won over by the smaller things he did) but in this book I just still found myself loving him.

He’s very scholarly and Evermore really has this side of him shine, but he’s protective over Jules as in the first and it’s just very admirable. They are actually for pre-teens, I think, so nothing adult bookish about them whatsoever, just cute books to read.

In Everless, she found out more about her family, but she also discovered that she lived 12 times before this. It wasn’t anything new, in fact, ‘ Evermore’ was extremely derivative of most Young Adult books, and therefore felt entirely predictable, monotone and two-dimensional.

Then a tragic car accident claimed the lives of her family – her parents and her little sister Riley.Best friends make the worst enemies—they know all your secrets, your weaknesses, and just how to hurt you most. He fell in love with Ever when he first met her, after he and his wife (Drina Magdalena Augusta) separated.