While I wasn’t all that keen on the first book in this series, I own five out of six of the books, so I figured I might as well continue reading them. The first one was entertaining enough.

Read: Jun. 1 – Jun. 4, 2025

Genre: Fantasy, Supernatural, Romance
Audience: Teen, Young Adult
Book contains: mentions of death, murder, mass brainwashing, intense bullying

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Kind of Cringey

Now that Ever is immortal and looking forward to eternal life with Damen, she begins mastering her psychic powers. But when Damen starts losing his powers and his memories of her, what can Ever do to bring him back to normal?

I wasn’t the biggest fan of the first book, and even then, it felt like a standalone novel. There wasn’t really anything that led me to believe that the series was continuing; nothing to make me want to pick up the next (this) book. Nonetheless, I did, and I found it quite cringey. Some of the plot points didn’t make much sense.

Like the first book, Blue Moon is told in present first-person point of view in Ever’s voice. She speaks in quite a casual way, sometimes making remarks directly to the reader, though she never mentions the reader by name. It follows a chronological storyline, shifting scene to scene, and, as expected, the reader never knows more than Ever herself.

It’s been super sunny lately, so I’ve been reading this book in the nice warmth and pleasant shade of my balcony.

I have to admit, I don’t really like Ever as a main character, nor Damen all that much, especially his personality in this book. Ever is immensely in love with Damen, which is fine for a teen romance, but she’s petty, jealous, and selfish otherwise. She’s impulsive and driven by emotion, which really clashes with my own personality. Even though her decisions are all explained, I can’t really feel sympathetic to her when things go wrong. As for Damen—he’s far more unlikable in this book, but that’s mainly because he’s ill throughout, so I can’t really blame him. The rest of Ever’s school, though, her whole support system, is against her, and it’s super cringey in the sense that people seriously don’t act like this so it comes across very plastic (which I suppose is the point, but I still didn’t like it much).

I personally find Ever and Damen’s love/relationship very problematic. Once you get over the fact that he’s over six hundred years old and she’s just sixteen, it’s still very self-serving and co-dependent. He has no friends aside from her, and she tends to neglect her friends and family in order to spend time with him. Sure, they have a deeper connection, but just because she was with him in past lives doesn’t mean she really owes him anything; she’s putting a lot of stock into those past lives, is all. Her friendships and other relationships all fall apart as well, which is tragic but expected. My one problem came from Ava, who makes a reappearance in this book. Her behaviour did not add up at all, even with the reveal at the end. It was a twist that didn’t seem set up all that well, and the “gotcha!” was unsatisfactory.

I know I’m being quite critical, but as a bestseller, I would expect a little higher quality in the story. There were again so many cliché’s and a whole time-travel storyline that I feel was supposed to convey an important message but fell flat. There was another aspect of “Ever can’t trust anyone, not even herself” which isn’t very empowering to readers; it just makes them suspicious of everyone around them.

Otherwise, I could say that the pacing was alright. It started with setting up Damen’s loss of power and introducing a new character, then things start to go downhill and snowball from there. It got faster at the end with Ever trying a bunch of different things to fix her problems and none of them working. This book is the embodiment of the “it gets worse before it gets better” tag.

I would recommend this series to teens who love cheesy romance. It’s intense in the way teen love stories always are, though not a good representation of healthy relationships (or good role models) as a whole. I’ll still be reading the next book, as at least this book does better at setting up a continuation.

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