Evermore
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Evermore by Alyson Noel
| Summary | A girl's family tragically dies in a car accident, and she's the only survivor. Struggling to live in her new home in California, as well as her new psychic powers, she finds a perfect boy at her school who turns out to be more than just a boy... he's an immortal. |
| Review |
I saw this book during my freshman year and I thought that it would be a wonderful, rather romantic tale that would substitute the
famous book Twilight. Well, I was completely wrong. I liked the idea of having the girl see auras, but the whole thing was a
really bad imitation of the Twilight series. Before I begin, the first thing I read in this book was that Sid Vicious was screaming about anarchy. Being a fan of the Sex Pistols, two major things are wrong with this: Sid Vicious was the bass player of the Pistols (Johnny Rotten was the frontman) and Anarchy in the U.K. was the only song that Sid Vicious was not in the band for. I mean, really? This could have been Googled. Ever, the main character, loses her family in a car accident, and then this 'immortal' saves her and meets with her later during school. So, she becomes psychic, which is pretty stupid. And this 'immortal' is just like a Meyers vampire, but he doesn't go by the name 'vampire,' even though, if I remember correctly, he has buckets of blood in his refrigerator, which is really creepy. And I think that Ever finds this out by stalking him. Oh, and they have a "Summerland," too, where everything is happy, but it's hard to get to Summerland because it's hard to be happy. I'm sorry, but that part was pretty pathetic. To top it off, the use of teenage stereotypes is way too frequent. Like the character Haven and her friends, the wannabe Goths. Though I can understand putting a wannabe into a piece of literature, I feel Noel was serious and not putting the stereotypical figure into her writing to improve it. Then there are the "normal, blonde, cheerleader-types" and the "homosexual flaunts" and all those fun categories that people see in Mean Girls (except it was intential and part of the story in Mean Girls, and I really feel like Noel was being serious). It also offended me when she said that Haven was normal, just like all the other Goths - Goths were just people who wanted attention. Yes, of course Goths are normal people, but they don't necessarily strive for attention. They strive to express themselves, and it just happens to be in an unusual way. So, yes, I didn't like this book. It was a cheesy runoff of the Twilight series and didn't have much substance. So I don't plan on reading the sequel Blue Moon (Really? Because Meyers has the sequel New Moon? Oh...). |
| Recommendation | I'd recommend this to anyone who'd like something to rant about, honestly. However, some Twilight fans seemed to really like this book, too, so I guess that it would be a good read for people who liked Twilight and don't mind imitations. |
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Rating (out of 5) | ♥ |