Everneath

Everneath

By Brodi Ashton

"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.

Everneath is a captivating story of love, loss, and immortality from debut author Brodi Ashton." Courtesy of Goodreads

Rating: 4 of 5

I really liked this book. I love Greek mythology, and this retelling of Persephone is brilliant. I love all the romantic twists and turns of this story.  In the beginning, I can't say I pitied Nikki at all. She chose what she chose, but as the story went on you saw what she was going through and can actually understand why she made the decision she made. I definitely liked the book the more I read. I do hate however at the end of this book that it feels like her best friend is long gone because of the whole Jack situation. I'm hoping this is resolved in the next book. I hated that Jack had to make the sacrifice that he did, but I know Nikki will try every way to get him back. I just wanna say that I kind of feel bad for Cole. I mean,really. He only did what she asked, and then she has completely pushed him away when she didn't like what she got. I believe some part of him really wanted to save her, and wasn't just trying to get her to choose him just for his own agenda.  This book was definitely a pretty good birthday present.