One-Night Read: BookChick Recommends Evermore
There’s a reason Alyson Noel’s “Evermore” claimed the top spot on the New York Times bestseller list for several weeks. It’s a hypnotic read. It’s the kind of book where you say, “Just one more chapter, then I’ll put it down.” Only you say that over and over and over until it’s two a.m. and you’re still not tired in the least.
A teenage girl with psychic powers she’d jettison in a heartbeat if she could, all Ever wants is to quiet the noise in her head. The constant sound of other people’s thoughts has been there since her parents and sister died in a car crash. The only thing that makes the buzzing go away is Damen, the beautiful, mysterious, quite possibly immortal new boy at school. But soon Ever realizes the reason she’s reading people’s minds is because she’s more like Damen than she thought.
Evermore is cut from the same cloth as Twilight, but I think of Evermore as Facebook to Twilight’s MySpace. Evermore is more sophisticated, quirky, and unusual. Characters are fully developed and richly layered and Ever is as tough as she is soft. This book is worth all the praise it’s garnered and them some and I for one am counting the days until my advance copy of the second book in the series, “Blue Moon,” arrives in my mailbox this week. When it does, you can bet I’ll have devoured it in 24 hours and I’ll tell you all about it!
Blue Moon officially releases on July 7.
