Everneath (Everneath #1) Review

Everneath

Author: Brodi Ashton
Reading Level: Young Adult
Publisher: Balzer + Bray
Release Date: December 26, 2012
Language: English
# of Pages:  400 pages


Summary:
Last spring, Nikki Beckett vanished, sucked into an underworld known as the Everneath, where immortals Feed on the emotions of despairing humans. Now she's returned- to her old life, her family, her friends- before being banished back to the underworld... this time forever.

She has six months before the Everneath comes to claim her, six months for good-byes she can't find the words for, six months to find redemption, if it exists.

Nikki longs to spend these months reconnecting with her boyfriend, Jack, the one person she loves more than anything. But there's a problem: Cole, the smoldering immortal who first enticed her to the Everneath, has followed Nikki to the mortal world. And he'll do whatever it takes to bring her back- this time as his queen.

As Nikki's time grows short and her relationships begin slipping from her grasp, she's forced to make the hardest decision of her life: find a way to cheat fate and remain on the Surface with Jack or return to the Everneath and become Cole's...


Review:
I was never really into Greek Mythology, but after reading a few other Greek Mythology retellings in the YA market, it wasn't so bad. Everneath is one of those books that retells the Greek Mythology of  Persophone in a modern teenage persepective.

Everneath is the story of Nikki Beckett, a teenage girl who has been missing for six months, only to mysteriously reappear one day in her hometown without explanation. There had been rumors that she had gone away  But the truth is that Nikki has been spending a century in the Underworld called EverNeath, where her Everling host, Cole, has been feeding off of her.

Cole, Nikkie's Everling host, wants her to join him in Everneath so she can become his Queen, but Nikki refuses because she doesn't want to be like Cole; Feeding off of other humans like the way Cole had Fed off of her.
But if unless she refuses Cole's offer, she would be defeated to suffer in the Tunnels, where she will be a apart of what keeps Everneath going--till she is gone forever. She has six months in the Human world before the Tunnels come for Nikki and drag her back. All she wants is more time to see the lives of her friends and family before she is gone again.


What I like:
* Mary: I thought Mary was a crazy old woman. Though, it was a twist that Mary wasn't really an old woman at all.
Mary, like Nikki, had also been in the Everneath, but she escaped, like Nikki.
There are similar connections between Nikki and Mary that goes well along with this book.

*That Nikki doesn't have to chose between two guys because she clearly knows who she wants: Jack. There had been times where Cole doubted that Jack didn't want anything to do with Nikki, which is so not the case. Cole is a manipulative jerk.

What I didn't like:
*The love square, not a love triangle. A square. Because that's what I percieved it to be. A love square between Nikki, Cole, Jack and Jules.
* The time sequences between Nikki's time before the Feed-before she was dragged into the Everneath and the present--it would have been better if it was just consistant in just one or the other . But I guess that it was still great even though it switched back and forth alot. Though this is a first-person POV told through Nikki's eyes
*Jack sacrificing himself for Nikki to the tunnels. My only reaction was "WHAT?! NO, JACK! NOOOO!!!!"
Because, it was a twist, I never expected it to happen. Oh, Jack...
Team Jack!
But I still hope in Everbound that Nikki's choice is still Jack and NOT Cole.


Conclusion:
I would recommend this book. If you're a lover of Greek Mythology, then this is your book.
This books has it's quirks, it's cliche's and downfalls, but it's still a good book.
Brodi Ashton writes a good-written YA mythology book of Everneath and I will definetly be looking toward into reading Everbound, the sequel.