Evermore By Alyson Noel Review

Evermore by Alyson Noel

My rating: 1 of 5 stars


Why did I read this book? Of Flying Spaghetti Monster, why did I read this book? It can easily be described in two words as horse shit, but that's be an offense to horse shit everywhere. Besides, I need to make a slightly longer review to repulse you from reading this.



Dun dun dun, let's meet Ever. She's your average special snowflake heroine with psychic powers (that are cool for a while but then "I LOVE DAMEN") and a dead family. She always wears hoodies, sunglasses, and listens to her iPod. . . for some unexplained reason. It's not like she likes doing it but you can't write a YA novel these days without unexplained angst.

Has anyone ever heard of Creepypastas where someone hears or sees something and it causes them to commit suicide (some examples are Lavender Town Syndrome and one where a college girl sees a picture and she's so terrified of it she kills herself)? Well, this puts even Lavender Town Syndrome to shame. I honestly don't know how I made it through this. I wanted to rip this book apart and set it on fucking fire. It was not good.

Miles was a shit head. He treated Ever like crap, stalking and emotionally abusing her, while we still must think he's perfect. I wanted this guy to fucking die (and yet the dick bag's immortal). He was everything love isn't and yet he's the love interest. I ended up repressing almost all he did because he was that fucking bad. How is he someone worth spending eternity with?

Drina was a very forced character with little meaning. She just existed to add plot to an already boring as fuck book.

Miles was the character who was a boy who may as well have been a girl. He WAS the stereotypical, token gay character:

-He was promiscuous and sex-crazed.

-He was Will from Will and Grace except not funny or on Lifetime.

-He's the lead in Hairspray for fuck's sake!

I swear, this is not good representation when his personality is literally being gay! Why? Because being gay is not a personality.

And Haven, our stereotypical Goth. I'm Goth, but I almost never listen to Marilyn Manson. Shock, are all the other Goths kicking me out? Another shock, I'm not Goth just to get attention, I'm Goth because I like being Goth! Could it truly be that I don't want everyone to notice me, but instead I want to feel good about myself? Yes! Will I be the first to follow evil? Anyone can follow evil, not just Goths. Hell, I can see a girl clad all in pink just as easily following an evil spirit, the spirit would just be in a different form. See, I broke another Goth stereotype!

Let's just say no characters were developed, OK? Because I could probably complain about each and every single damn one for hours.



The plot was nonexistent. It was just page after page of shit. All I knew was that Damen was hot but he had a secret, Ever was annoying as fuck, and that my hair was about to be ripped out of my scalp.



There aren't even any GIFS to describe this book.



But guys, I've decided to read Blue Moon. Kill me now.



However, I recovered by reading Persepolis. It was a great book!



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Reviewing Without Reading #2: Annexed by Sharon Dogar

Another  post  where  I  review  it  a  book  while  only  having  read  part  or  none  of  it  (the  first  was  on  the  House  of  Night  comic  book).  I  was  planning  on  reading  this  book  and  almost did  once  but  I  ended  up  having  to  bring  it  back  to  the  library  to  avoid  fees.  I  stopped  my  idea  of  reading   it  because  of  this.  Reasons:

1.  Study  your  characters  and  make  Peter,  I  don't  know,  Peter?!  He  was  shy.  Sharon  made  him  completely  the  opposite  of  who  he  really  was.  That's  just  sad  considering  we  don't  actually  know  that  much  about  him.

2.  Sex.  Yes  I  believe  Anne  Frank  and  Peter  were  in  love  and  I  do  believe  they  had  hormones  flying  off  the  wall,  but  I  don't  believe  they  ever  had  sex.  I  know  sex  concerned  both  of  them  personally  before  going  into  hiding  and  I  can  understand  the  idea  of  them  wanting  to  have  sex  with  each  other,  but  this  is  just  inexcusable.  And  what  happened  to  both  of  them  was  awful.  I  read  Anne's  best  friend  Hannah's  account  on  her  in  the  camp  and  I  was  almost  in  tears.  We  don't  read  Anne  Frank's  diary  for  sex,  we  read  it  to  understand  the  last  years  of  a  girl's  life  and  the  tragedy  happening  because  of  it.  This  is  exploiting  a  tragedy.  

3.  I  will  soon  be  reading  Anne  Frank  and  Me.  The  girl  in  the  book  only  sees  Anne  at  the  concentration  camps.  I  plan  to  review  it  later,  but  for  now  I  find  it  much  more  realistic  to  Anne  than  this  book  ever could  be  even  if  it  involves  time  traveling!

4.  You  could  write  your  own  novel.  You  want  sex?  Write  about  a  Jewish  boy  and  girl  in  hiding  who  happen  to  be  horny  as  hell.  You  can  write  it,  but  don't  use  Anne  Frank. 

I  will  not  be  reading  this  over  and  completely  hyper-sexual  trash.

May  Anne,  and  all  her  friends  and   family  who  are  dead,  whether  they  died  in  the  Holocaust  or  not,  rest  in  peace.

Side  note:  I  learned  about  Hannah  through  this  amazing, five  star  book.  I  strongly  recommend  it.