October 11, 2012
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Everneath
Last spring, Nikki Beckett vanished, sucked into an underworld known as the Everneath. Now she’s returned–to her old life, her family, her boyfriend–before she’s 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 precious months forgetting the Everneath and trying to reconnect with her boyfriend, Jack, the person most devastated by her disappearance–and the one person she loves more than anything. But there’s just one problem: Cole, the smoldering immortal who enticed her to the Everneath in the first place, has followed Nikki home. Cole wants to take over the throne in the underworld and is convinced Nikki is the key to making it happen. And he’ll do whatever it takes to bring her back, this time as his queen.
As Nikki’s time on the Surface draws to a close and her relationships begin slipping from her grasp, she is 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 queen.
This is book number one in what is planned to be a trilogy.
The story of Hades and Persephone. A girl tricked by the God of the Underworld to spend half the year in his domain, and half the year she can escape. But Brodi Ashton takes the story further in Everneath by exploring the daughters of Persephone and the hell they live… literally.
Everneath is where immortals feed on emotions of humans called forfeits. This feeding is what keeps them immortal. Each Feed lasts 100 years and normally sucks the Forfeit dry and the forfeit then goes to the Tunnels.
Nikki wakes up after the 100 years and instead of going to the Tunnels she goes back to the world. In the world only six months have passed. She has six months in the world until the Tunnels will be comming for her or until she has to go with Cole.
This book is a page turner, and is full of exciting events.
“I was picturing his face – a boy with floppy brown hair and brown eyes – when the Feed ended.
At first I didn’t know what had happened. I didn’t know where I was or why it was so dark. I knew only that the pain inside me – the feeling that I was being drained from the inside out – had subsided, and now everything was numb. Maybe I no longer existed.
“It’s over,” Cole whispered in my ear.
I wanted to answer, but my mouth wasn’t working.
“Nikki, try to open your eyes.”
That was why it was dark. My eyes were closed. I’d been squeezing them shut for I don’t know how long. The muscles around them had forgotten how to relax, so it was some time before I could pry them open.
When I did, they stung, like a fresh wound exposed to cool air. After a hundred years they had forgotten how to produce tears.”
This is a really good story and I look forward to reading book two when it comes out.
“Why won’t you help me? You could be a hero for once.”
“Heroes don’t exist. And if they did, I wouldn’t be one of them.”
