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Since the car accident that claimed the lives of her family, sixteen-year-old Ever can see auras and hear people's thoughts, and she goes out of her way to hide from other people until she meets Damen, another psychic teenager who is hiding even more mysteries.

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Puesto No. 1 para libros basura del 2015 al 2020

Este libro es, como decimos en México, "Malo como la carne de puerco" y "Feo como pegarle a tu mama". La historia es como tantas otras que ya he leído que hablar de ella es tan sencillo como enlistar los clichés que contiene:

Protagonista femenina:

Nombre: Ever Bloom, A.K.A. soy tan tonta que no se ni amarrarme los zapatos

Características:

[✓] Tiene un nombre tan singular (en serio escritores ¿Qué les pasa con las protagonistas de este género? Les ponen nombres cursis rozando en lo ridículo)

[✓] Huérfana

[✓]Nueva en la escuela

[✓] Audífonos y capucha toooodo el tiempo (excepto cuando está con el chico
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soñado)

[✓] Ve a sus familiares muertos

[✓] Se cree tan poca cosa

[✓] Compite con una chica que es taaaaaaaaaaaaan guapa

[✓] Dotada con Superpoderes (que obviamente ella no obtuvo por sus méritos, sino porque el héroe decidió dárselos).

[✓] Deseas matarla cada vez que habla

[✓] Amiga celosa de ella



Protagonista masculino:

Nombre: Damen Auguste, A.K.A. El macho

Características:


[✓] Nombre cursi pero masculino (¿ya dije qué es muy macho verdad?)

[✓] Guapo, muy guapo, super guapo. Tan guapo que las chicas pelean y matan por él

[✓] Sexy. Muuuuuy sexy

[✓] Poderoso

[✓] Misterioso

[✓] Sexy

[✓] El Superman de la protagonista

[✓] Compasivo

[✓] Exageradamente inteligente, tiene las respuestas a cualquier pregunta

[✓] ¿Ya hable de lo sexy qué es?



Y claro, a esto debo sumarle los amigos y familia que son un adorno de la historia, sólo están ahí para alentar que bella/bello, inteligente y sexi son los protagonistas, y lo misteriosos o poderosos que son. Pero el premio a personajes estúpidos se lo lleva la villana, ejemplo perfecto de la villana de telenovela mexicana que todo lo ve, todo lo sabe, es mala mala porque el hombre prefiere a la dulce y adorable protagonista, dispuesta a todo con tal de cumplir su objetivo de estar con "El macho".

Creo que un punto tremendamente malo, ejem...peor que lo que ya mencione, es el hecho de que el romance es súper forzado, aunque se supone que es un romance de siglos por lo que no debería ser así, "El macho" siempre indica que se debe hacer y cuando ella averigua porque él esconde tantos misterios decide que no quiere verlo, y bueno ahí podría haber mejorado la historia de no sé porque ella se vuelve una borracha, sólo por el hecho de que ella se aleja de él porque es malo para ella y puede lastimarla física y mentalmente, pero no, no podía tomar una decisión que evitará que ella se dañará a sí misma, "El macho" es tan fuerte e importante que el no tenerlo la hace caer en depresión y arruinar su vida.

Pero claro, hay cosas peores, la historia está mal escrita, es aburrida y se hace ETERNA

Este es uno de los pocos libros en los que no pude encontrar ninguna virtud. Todo se me hizo tan tremendamente malo que casi aviento el kindle de lo desesperante y horrible que era, ni siquiera fue que empezará bien y se hiciera terrible, es que inicio siendo malo y, conforme avanzaba la historia, fue mucho peor. Tenia mucho tiempo que no me sentía orgullosa de finalizar un libro por lo malo que fue. Sentí que perdí horas de mi vida que jamás recuperare :'(

Y por último ¿Qué clase de final estúpido fue ese? Para todos los que no terminaron está historia y tienen curiosidad de saber que paso, y para todos aquellos que tienen un monumento a finales más absurdos y "sacados de la manga" les contaré que pasa tenemos a Ever en un momento de total vulnerabilidad, la inmortal esposa de Damen (que es muy rápida y tiene superfuerza o algo así) está por matarla. Nuestra femme fatal comienza a dar vueltas alrededor de Ever golpeándola incalculables veces pero, de repente, nuestra habilidosa protagonista estira el brazo y apenas roza a esta super villana lo que hace que está caiga, convulsioné y muera. ¿La razón? Le ha tocado el chacra del amor y eso la asesinó. No importa que fuera inmortal, no importa si un golpe de tu pie contra un mueble fuera más fuerte e intenso que el toque que Ever le dio a está mujer, NO IMPORTA NADA. Tiremos la lógica, jodanse todos y a la mierda con, al menos, cerrar de manera decente.

Sí todo el libro fue un asco ese final simplemente terminó de cerrar el ataúd. Así que seré clara: este libro apesta como pescado fuera del refrigerador en un día caluroso, así que no lo recomiendo en absoluto, no pierdas tu tiempo y huye rápido en cuanto lo veas.

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# 1 for crappy books from 2015 to 2020

This book is, as we say in Mexico, "Bad as eat pork" and "Ugly as beating your mama." The story is like so many others I have already read, as similiar that to speak of her is as simple as to enlist the cliches that contains:

Female protagonist

Name: Ever Bloom, A.K.A. I'm so dumb I don't even know how to tie my shoes

Characteristics:


[✓] Has such a unique name (seriously writers,What happens to the protagonists of this genre? They put names cheesy bordering on ridiculous)

[✓] Orphan

[✓] New at school

[✓] Headphones and hood all the time (except when she is with the dreamed boy)

[✓] See her family members dead

[✓] Belives that is so little thing

[✓] Compete with girl who is soooo beautiful

[✓] Endowed with Superpowers (which she obviously did not get for her merits, but because the hero decided to give them).

[✓] You want to kill her every time she talk

[✓] Have a jealous friend of her



Male protagonist

Name: Damen Auguste, A.K.A. "The macho"

Characteristics:



[✓] Cheeky but masculine name (did I already say it's very macho, right?)

[✓] Handsome, very handsome, super handsome. So handsome that girls fight and kill for him

[✓] Sexy. Very sexy

[✓] Mighty

[✓] Mysterious

[✓] Superman of the protagonist

[✓] Compassionate

[✓] Exaggeratedly intelligent, that have the answers to any question that you ask
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And of course, I must add the friends and family that are just ornaments to the history, that are there only to encourage how beautiful, intelligent and sexy are the protagonists, and how mysterious or powerful they are. But the villain win the prize to stupid characters, perfect example of the villain of Mexican telenovela who sees everything, knows everything, is bad bad because the man prefers the sweet and adorable protagonist, and is willing to everything to meet his Goal of being the girl of "The macho".

I think that a tremendously bad point, ejem... worse than what I already mentioned, is the fact that the romance is so forced, although it is supposed to be a romance of centuries so it should not be like this, "The macho" always indicates what should be done and when she finds out why he hides so many mysteries she choose doesn't see it him more, and well there could have improved the story if not being because she becomes a drunk , just for the fact that she walks away from him because he is bad for her and can honestly hurt her physically and mentally, but no, she could not make a decision that will prevent her from being harmed without damaging herself, "The macho" is so strong and important that not having him makes her fall into depression and ruin her life.

But of course, there are worse things, the story is badly written, it is boring and becomes ETERNAL

This is one of the few books in which I couldn't find any virtue, everything where so tremendously bad that I almost throw up the kindle of how desperate and horrible it was, and wasn't that it started well and turns to terrible, from begining to end was bad, and as progressed became worse. I had a long time that I wasn't proud to finish a book for how bad it was. I felt that I lost hours of my life that I will never recover : '(

And finally, What kind of stupid end was that? For all those who didn't finish this story and are curious to know what happened, and for all those who have a monument to the more absurd and "taken out of the sleeve" ends I will tell you what happens we have Ever in a moment of total Vulnerability, Damen's immortal wife (who is very fast and has superforce or something like that) is about to kill her. Our femme fatal begins to wrap around Ever striking her incalculable times but, suddenly, our skilful protagonist stretches her arm and barely touches this super villain which makes her fall, convulsed and die. The reason? She has touched the chakra of love and that kill her. No matter that he was immortal, it does not matter if a blow of your foot against a piece of furniture was stronger and more intense than the touch that Ever gave to this woman, NO MATTER OF ANYTHING. Let's take the logic and give the prize to the worst end I've read. If the whole book was disgusting that end simply finished closing the coffin.

So I'll be clear: this book sucks like fish out of the fridge on a hot day so I do not recommend it at all, don't waste your time and run fast as soon as you see it.
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To be fair I thought this was another teen vampire romance. I have heard about this book for a number of months (since October at least) from other bloggers, though I've avoided reviews so that I didn't have any preconceptions, and I can understand why. Even though this is aimed for a teen market, the author doesn't dumb down the concepts or 'reality' of anyone's situation. Damen is far from perfect (despite how he presents himself) and Ever is clearly damaged more then she wishes to acknowledge.

But then so is everyone else around them. From Ever's best friends Haven (who attends anonymous addict meetings of all sorts to get the attention and love she can't from her self-absorbed family) and Miles (Mr. Gay and Proud of it theater man) show more to the social bullies (Stacia Miller, the leader, Miss Teen Perfection with more dirty laundry then a laundry mat), no one is perfect. And for Ever that is less of a reassuring concept and more of a distress because she can't even pretend that they might be.

I was relieved to see that Ever wasn't the sort to just be a push over when it came to Damen either. He messes up, a lot, and makes a scramble of things, a lot, and Ever calls him on it. Unfortunately for him he suffers the misconception of thinking that Ever is perfect--he acknowledges the trauma of the past and her inability to move on from it, but he holds this static image of her in his head that doesn't evolve until closer to the end when things become apparent that he overlooked.

The only complaint I have is with Haven. From an outsider's perspective she doesn't seem like a good friend at all. Or rather she's fine as long as Ever remains an anti-social misfit hiding inside an oversized hoodie, but when Ever makes strides towards coming out of the bubble she becomes catty, jealous and angry. As if its a betrayal of some sort. I felt bad for Ever because it was obvious she wanted to make Haven happy, but by being herself it just made Haven angry.
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Evermore isn't a bad read but it was so similar to the others in this genre that I found it distracting.

The plot is weak, in my opinion. Part of the problem is that Evermore tries to be too many things that it isn't all at once. It's obviously borrowing heavily from Twilight and The House of Night series: troubled but beautiful teenage girl, mysterious and gorgeous boy who is surprisingly interested in troubled beautiful girl. They fall in love. Someone wants her dead. Drama. Fighting.
Trust me, you've read this book before.
It's painfully predictable -- there's no mystery about how this will end. You know that Ever and Damen are "meant to be" and that somehow, they'll defeat Drina and live happily ever after. It's all very cliche and show more isn't skillfully realized in this book.

Characterization and development were sub-par. I didn't like or feel sympathy for a single character. Almost everyone, with the possible exception of our narrator, felt underdeveloped. They were archetypes/stereotypes, if anything. The gay boy. The needy goth girl. The bitter, angry ex. The handsome and mysterious love interest. Moreover, the message being sent to readers through Damen and Ever's relationship is not good. I don't see how anyone could interpret Damen's treatment of her as anything less than cruel and abusive, especially considering the enormous loss this girl has just suffered with the death of her entire family. It was the same with Bella and Twilight and it's troubling that so many young, impressionable girls are being fed this garbage. You can say "Well, it's only fiction! Don't be so uptight! It's not a big deal!" but I think it is a big deal. As a former teenage girl, I think I can definitively argue that teen girls do take this stuff to heart, more than they probably think. That's what is so dangerous about it. Do we really need a whole generation of young women who think that "true love" means being stalked, controlled, psychologically and emotionally abused?
I'm thinking no.

Evermore suffers from a lot of flaws that could have been smoothed out with a little more editing and effort. Unfortunately, it seems like just about anything will be published these days, edited or no, to rake in cash from the millions of women, young and old, desperate for the next Twilight. This book isn't about vampires but "Immortals," although they seem an awful lot like Meyer and the Cast's interpretation of vampires, complete with special powers and the need to ingest some kind of red drink. It might turn into something more unique and original in subsequent volumes, but I won't invest the time to find out. I wasn't impressed enough with this story to want to bother with anymore from this series or this author.

Not too bad overall, but it needed more work. I can't in good conscience recommend this, but if you loved Twilight, you will probably enjoy Evermore.
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This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers.
Drivel. Poorly paced, far too repetitive, non-sensical plot, flat characters, an annoying heroine. The list of problems is long. Our hero treats the heroine like crap off and on throughout the book and the heroine totally figures out an excuse for him by the end of the story. Best character: the villainess - you know it's bad when I spent the majority of her big, climactic reveal speech thinking things like, "You are so right! Just kill the idiot!" I want to hear that girl's story instead - in fact the perspective of just about any of the secondary characters would be more interesting - ghost sister Riley, poor little rich girl Haven, Aunt Sabine. I love a good paranormal romance, but this is not it - read Kelley Armstrong's[b:The show more Summoning|2800905|The Summoning (Darkest Powers, #1)|Kelley Armstrong|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255841544s/2800905.jpg|2451397] or the Morganville Vampires series instead.

Listened to the McMillan Audio book narrated by Katie Schorr. I think Schorr did a fine job with the narration, but I was so distracted by the subpar storytelling it's hard to really know.
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The snippet about this book in Unshelved says "I'd give it to...Eliza, who needs to find another fictional boyfriend besides Edward Cullen." Granted, I'm no longer a teenage girl so I could be wrong, but I think it's highly unlikely that a teenage girl with a crush on Edward Cullen is going to read this book and decide Damen is just as worthy. As much as certain aspects of Stephenie Meyer's books make me cringe, I can see Edward's appeal. He's got the whole brooding self-loathing thing going, and he only acts cold towards Bella in the beginning because he was trying to resist biting her - but he's so attracted to her that he can't help but be around her, despite the danger that he might bite her. Not everyone gets the lure of vampires show more in paranormal romance, but I do. Yes, Edward Cullen is appealing.

Damen Auguste, however, is not. He's good-looking and rich, but it takes more than that for a character to be an appealing romantic hero. While I was reading the book, I found Damen's hot and cold behavior towards Ever to be annoying, but I was willing to put up with it, figuring that Noel's explanation would make everything better. It didn't. Damen acted coldly towards Ever and started giving flowers to another girl because he wanted to make her jealous. He's a 600-year-old immortal playing games with a teenage girl - that's not romantic, that's lame.

The situation with Drina makes things even worse. It's not that Drina assumed there was more between her and Damen that there really was - the two of them were married, are still married (as Damen says, it'd be difficult for them to get a divorce, but this does make Drina's...confusion understandable). Damen made Drina immortal so that the two of them could be together, and then he ends up deciding he'd rather be with Ever. It didn't take much of a leap for me to think, "And what happens when he decides that he'd like to have someone else more than Ever?" Not that this occurs to Ever, although it should. If he can grow tired of one woman/girl, he can grow tired of another. I certainly don't see Ever and Damen lasting long as a couple when Damen grows bored of acting like a teenager so quickly - since he already knows everything taught at school (suspension of disbelief issue: even after 600 years of life, how can someone possibly know everything and be able to do everything?), he encourages Ever to skip class to have fun with him and gamble. He seems to have forgotten that, although he's had 600 years to learn all kinds of useful things, Ever is still just a teenage girl.

Also, I hate Damen for saving Ever after the car crash that killed her family, and yet standing by and doing nothing every time Ever gets beaten to a pulp by Drina. Ever is outraged by this, for a bit, but she forgives him far too quickly.

One thing I did really like was Ever's relationship with her sister. That felt more real to me than any of the stuff with Damen, and I could understand Ever's fear that her sister was going to leave her forever, as well as her eventual decision to let her sister go. By the time I realized what a bastard Damen was, I much preferred the scenes between Riley and Ever to the scenes between Ever and Damen. I shouldn't forget to mention Ever's "friends," either. I can't decide whether I like the scences with them more or less than the scenes with Damen. As far as I can tell, Ever's relationships with her two friends don't go very deep. Her friendship with Miles (the gay one) is pleasant enough, but she doesn't confide in him. Haven is so emotionally damaged that I'm not sure she's capable of healthy friendship - she spends a lot of the book angrily jealous of Damen's attraction to Ever, and her "friendships" with Drina and others are anything but. Ever's closest relationship is with her ghost sister.

This book kept reminding me of other much better books - one passage felt like it was taken straight out of Charlaine Harris's Sookie Stackhouse books ("But that's what's so great about Damen. He's like an off switch. He's the only one I can't read, the only one who can silence the sound of everyone else...[H]e makes me feel wonderful and warm and as close to normal as I'll ever get to be..." (p. 79)), another felt like something from L.J. Smith's Soulmate (Drina: "'I've been responsible for your demise for, let's see--how many lifetimes?'" (p. 236)), and the whole thing felt like an attempt to ride on the current popularity of paranormal YA romances like Stephenie Meyer's books and others. This makes it easy to come up with a list of read-alikes, but it's never good when I find myself thinking things like, "This is just like in [fill in a book title], only I liked that book better." Had Damen been less of a jerk, I might have felt differently.

[Goodreads rating note: I was originally going to give this a 2, because of Ever's relationship with her sister, but I decided the bad parts eclipsed that. I hate Damen SO MUCH. If I ever create a personal top 10 list of most-hated fictional boyfriends, he'd probably be included.]

(Original review, with read-alikes and watch-alikes, posted on A Library Girl's Familiar Diversions.)
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So I finally broke down and checked this book out from my library, and I'm so glad I didn't buy it. It was pretty terrible. All of the names of the characters are ridiculous, and Ever is a whiny, emo, selfish brat. The idea of immortals instead of vampires intrigued me a bit, but over all, this book was a waste of time. The main reason I finished it was to find out why Damen was such a weirdo. Unfortunately, I'm still not sure why.

I'm glad I read this book simply because now I'm not curious anymore. I won't be continuing the series, though. That's for sure. It falls in the ranks of other YA disasters, such as Fallen, in my book. The characters are all flat, Ever is one of the most boring characters I've ever had the displeasure of show more reading. She's also depressing. I finished this book feeling all gloomy because her emo personality apparently rubbed off on me. Nothing was explained nearly enough, either. Her friends were cliches, and her aunt was, of course, MIA.

The romance in this book isn't believable. Maybe it would have been more believable if the characters had been a little bit likable, but as it stands, I just couldn't believe it. Damen did crack me up with his tulips, though. That was about the only redeeming factor of the book. However, he's not the best influence for Ever, that's for sure. Thanks to him she skips a ton of classes, then turns into an alcoholic after they break up. Unhealthy relationship much? I mean obviously he didn't turn her into an alcoholic since he was gone, but still, she's just too weak to even be considered a heroine.

The one thing that kept me reading was trying to figure Damen out, which like I said, I didn't actually do. His actions were strange, and I wasn't quite sure what to make of them. I know that I wouldn't want a boyfriend like that, but I'm not a whiny emo child, that could be why. The action scenes weren't that intense, and random people kept showing up and disappearing, even though they played no real part in the story. Drina was the typical villain, down to telling Ever all of her nefarious plans and actions during the supposed "climax" of the story... which was rather anti-climactic, if I do say so myself. It would have been comical if it hadn't been so terrible.

Ever's insistance of punishing herself and making sure she was never happy was another thing that really bothered me. It's one thing to have survivor's guilt, but it's another thing to make yourself suffer for eternity for "penance." Talk about living in the Dark Ages. It wouldn't have surprised me if she'd started wearing hair shirts in an effort to cleanse her body of her sins. Seriously, she was that dramatic about it. It was ridiculous. Actually, the hair shirt would have added a little depth to her character. I think she should have done that. And because she was soooooooooo miserable and didn't deserve to be happy, she made everyone around her miserable as well. She was so self-absorbed, she didn't know or care what was going on with anyone. All she cared about was her own suffering. Yea, real great heroine we have here, huh? Seriously, she couldn't have saved herself from a freaking paper bag, she was so pathetic.

The story didn't make a whole lot of sense. I guess the pacing was quick, but the plot itself was lacking. I'm still not sure how anything really connected. It's one of those books you finish reading, and then you're like, "so what?" I mean I obviously didn't expect it to be loaded with inspiration, but a little positive thinking never hurt anyone.

Over all, I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone. I mean sure if you want to waste a few hours of your life and some brain cells, then I guess have at it. Otherwise, I'd say skip this series. There are plenty of better series/authors out there to read. Don't be like Ever, don't punish yourself for nothing. Trust me, it's not worth it.
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In many ways, this is the book that Twilight could have been, if someone else had written it. Not everything matches up -- nor should it. Ever, our heroine, is a former cheerleader and popular girl, forced to move in with her aunt after a tragic car accident. She's a strong female character, she questions her and other people's motivations, actions and consequences. She sticks up for herself and doesn't take a lot of bullshit. But of course, she has problems, ever since the accident, she's psychic. Noel does an extremely good job of describing just how hard live can be for Ever. But at the same time, this book is almost witty and contains several amusing moments. It's not the best book I've ever read and I'm not knocking down walls to show more get to the sequel, but it was entertaining and should I come across the second book, I'll definitely read it. Also, this is not a vampire novel, nor should it be. It's fun fantasy, with an interesting twist near the end. show less
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Evermore is a crackerjack read for teens and teen-at-heart adults looking for more teen angst and a gushy love story with some action and mysteries spread throughout.
Mel Odom, Blogcritics
Mar 18, 2009
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Getting hooked on this new series is guaranteed!
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Alyson Noël writes young-adult novels including Faking 19, Saving Zoe, Kiss and Blog, Art Geeks and Prom Queens, Cruel Summer, Laguna Cove and Fly Me to the Moon. She is also the author of the Immortals series. She has won numerous awards including the National Reader's Choice Award, NYLA Book of Winter Award, NYPL Stuff for the Teenage, and show more TeenReads Best Books of 2007. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Canonical title
Evermore
Original publication date
2009-02-03
People/Characters
Ever Bloom; Riley Bloom; Haven; Miles; Damen Auguste; Drina Poverina (show all 9); Sabine Bloom; Ava; Stacia
Epigraph
The only secret people keep / is immortality.

~Emily Dickinson
Dedication
For Jolynn "Snarky" Been -

my friend for many lifetimes.

(Next time we'll be rock stars!)
First words
"Guess who?"
Last words
(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)"And I love you." He smiles, his lips seeking mine. "Always have. Always will."
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