Evermore: The Immortals

Alyson Noël

Feb 2009 · The Immortals Book 1 · Sold by St. Martin's Griffin

About this ebook

Don't miss Evermore, the first book in Alyson Noël's #1 New York Times bestselling The Immortals series. Enter an enchanting new world where true love never dies. . .

After a horrible accident claimed the lives of her family, sixteen-year-old Ever Bloom can see people's auras, hear their thoughts, and know someone's entire life story by touching them. Going out of her way to avoid human contact and suppress her abilities, she has been branded a freak at her new high school—but everything changes when she meets Damen Auguste.

Damen is gorgeous, exotic and wealthy. He's the only one who can silence the noise and random energy in her head—wielding a magic so intense, it's as though he can peer straight into her soul. As Ever is drawn deeper into his enticing world of secrets and mystery, she's left with more questions than answers. And she has no idea just who he really is—or what he is. The only thing she knows to be true is that she's falling deeply and helplessly in love with him.

Ratings and reviews

This is the worst book I have ever read and will ever read again (hopefully) but only because I haven't bothered with anything House Of Night related. The characters are the most annoying characters of any book I've ever read, not just the protagonist. Anyone who says this is not like Twilight is either in extreme denial or hopelessly stupid because the similarities are plain as day. First off, there is no character development in almost anyone. Ever is Bella, only with an actual excuse for being unhappy and miserable all the time and with a name just as stupid. Noel didn't explain any of Ever's suffering beyond pointless teenage drama and unimpressive tween dialect. Instead of walking all over her friends like Bella, Ever lets her friends walk all over her like the pathetic character she is, and can't stand up for herself worth jack. Damon is Edward, only with a ridiculously incredible amount of ghastly perfections that would label him as "flawless." I suppose as long as Noel didn't write that he sparkled, we'd never make the connection. I won't even mention the mind reading thing, which I presumed was only reserved for the vampire mythology. There are direct descriptions and themes that have been lifted straight out of Twilight, as if the reader was too retarded not to notice, and the stereotypes are so repugnant that one could almost call it offensive. Miles is not gay, he's an impossibly shallow fifteen year old girl and acts just like one. The author did everything she could to shove his sexual preferences in our faces, as if we could never tell he way gay enough, and Haven is a stereotypical wanna-be goth with no good characteristics or purpose in the story. I'd never recommend this book to anyone for as long as I lived, and neither should anyone else.

This book is really light reading. Read it if you are bored and not expecting anything great. At first I thought this book was going to be just like Twilight, but when i started reading it, it wasn't that much like Twilight but then it started to show a great resemblance to it and then in the middle it was exactly like Twilight, but then it got to be almost the opposite, but then it went back to being like Twilight (and so on). Its very annoying trying to decide whether the author wanted to write a book just like Twilight, or she hated Twilight and wanted to make a "non-stereotypical" book that differed from Twilight.

This was a horrible book. There was no main idea just haunting stuff. I hated every part of it! Alyson Noel has done much better like in:Kiss and Blog, and Art Geeks and Prom Queens. Immortals held none of my interest. I thought the next few books would be better but they weren't. Blue Moon was stupid, Shadowland lost my interest easily, and Dark Flame just made me yawn. Personally, I think, that if you ever decide to right a book and want some idea's. DO NOT READ THIS SERIES!!!!!!!!!

About the author

Alyson Noël is the #1 New York Times bestselling, award-winning author of Faking 19, Art Geeks and Prom Queens, Laguna Cove, Fly Me to the Moon, Kiss & Blog, Saving Zoë, Cruel Summer, and the Immortals series including Evermore, Blue Moon, Shadowland, Dark Flame, and Night Star, as well as the Immortals spin-off series beginning with Radiance. With over 2 million copies in print in the US alone, her books have been published in 35 countries and have won awards including the National Reader's Choice Award, NYLA Book of Winter Award, NYPL Stuff for the Teenage, TeenReads Best Books of 2007, and Reviewer's Choice 2007 Top Ten, and have been chosen for the CBS Early Show's "Give the Gift of Reading" segment, and selected for Seventeen Magazine's "Hot List" and Beach Book Club Pick. She lives in Laguna Beach, California.