A couple years ago, I accidentally bought the fourth book in this series, and after keeping it on my shelf for a long time, I decided to get the rest of the series and finally read it from the beginning.

Read: May 27 – May 28, 2025

Genre: Fantasy, Supernatural, Romance
Audience: Teen, Young Adult
Book contains: sensory overload, mentions of death, murder, attempted murder, alcoholism, blackmail, blood

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A Decent Teen Drama

After a car accident claims the lives of her parents, little sister, and beloved family pet, Ever Bloom finds herself with the ability to see auras and read people’s thoughts. She meets Damen, another psychic teen, who brings a slough of other mysteries to town with him.

This series began back in 2009, back when vampire fiction was big—even though this book isn’t about vampires, but rather “immortals” as the series name suggests. I found the writing okay, but there were so many clichés and tropes thrown in that I didn’t find it the best book. Entertaining, but not really that deep or profound.

This story is written in first person present tense from Ever’s point of view, but I feel like there was a missed opportunity to really get deep into her head. She has these psychic powers that are described to take over her life but for the most part they’re hardly mentioned aside from when it’s convenient to the plot. I wish there was more of that just in general, of Ever being really good at reading people because of it.

I’m, embarrassingly, constantly behind with my reading, so I took a few days of rest to read this book. I read it the old-fashioned way, as there was no available audiobook. Now that I’m done, time to get back to work!

I wasn’t overly attached to any of the characters, really, aside from maybe Miles. I found Ever a bit too selfish for my liking, and Damen as well, is the cliché “hot guy” with wealth and too much talent. Both edged too close to Mary Sue territory for me to enjoy. Riley is kind of annoying, but a sweet younger sister character from what we see of her. Ever’s friend, Haven, is a goth character who actually had some depth to her, but her behaviour was sometimes hard to follow because the book is from Ever’s point of view. Miles is my favourite character by far because of his empathy and wholehearted courage to be himself.

As a romance, the relationship between the two leads should be the most important, but I didn’t really get it. It felt rushed and like I was on a roller coaster. I suppose some people like that, but for me, it went back and forth far too much with too much angst and not enough communication. It works for a teen novel, I suppose, but it felt like so much was thrown at the reader too fast. Ever, unfortunately, loses many of her other relationships throughout the novel, starting with her parents and sister when they die in the car accident.

As I’ve mentioned, it felt like there was a lot stuffed into this novel. Lots of tropes and cliches, like the hot new guy that comes to town that everyone is immediately falling head over heels for. That’s normal, but he also happens to be talented in every class, he ditches all the time but doesn’t get in trouble, and he’s super wealthy. All the cliché immortality gems that feel just a bit overdone. Why doesn’t anyone else ask questions? Shouldn’t he try harder to blend in? Just some things I wish had been addressed in the book. I wasn’t sure how a lot of the flaunting of wealth added to the plot other than being “cool person” things that people are envious of.

The plot was at the same time very fast and very slow. There were a lot of things going on, including but not limited to the flashfire / will-they-won’t-they romance between Ever and Damen, the disappearance of another character, the background strange things happening with Haven, and so much more. At the same time, it felt slow and like there was a lot of filler in between with Damen flaunting his money and being a bad influence on Ever, whose first instinct is just to pull away before going back in for another hit, instead of actually finding out what’s up with him on her own.

Nonetheless, this is a good book for lovers of trashy teen romance with a dash of supernatural. Entertaining and a wild ride.

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