#everless series

[apinkfied]

“it’s possible to survive and not truly live, and i don’t know if liam would truly live without you.”

elias

[stxdyxn]

Everless #1 Juvenile Review... So Far

i just want to rant a little bit. 

so i decided to sign up for a free trial for Scribd so i can read the books that i was interested in and i found the ‘everless’ series. so apparently the books are about a sort of world where time is important and used as currency, like years of your life for rent and food and .. well everything else that you would usually pay money for. and i’ve actually never listened to an audiobook so i had the bright idea to listen to this book. 

im exhausted as hell lmao.

this rant is long for no reason and im sorry

***SPOILERS AHEAD*** 

i want you to keep in mind that im on chapter 8.

so the main character is this 17 year old girl named Jules whose father is basically out of time and sickly and they’re poor, they can barely pay for food and rent. the first conflict comes about with a sort of ‘time collector’ coming to get the rent that’s due from jules and her dad. now... they dont have the money and this causes the ripple of occurrences and arguments that cause her to go to the city named Everless to work in the castle(?) in preparation for the Queen’s arrival. now jules used to live in everless with her dad about 10 years ago before they were kicked out for some fire that happened? and she has these memories of her playing with the noble family’s children, Roan/Rowan(?) and Liam. 

based on what she says im guessing liam is the one who caused this entire thing with her banishment because he was severe and mean and blah blah blah when he was an 8 year old boy. she CONSTANTLY mentions how liam, then 8 or something years old, attempted to push rowan, who was 7, into a fire and seemed unapologetic about it. i swear, its been 8 chapters and i think shes mentioned it about 5 times... to explain how ruthless liam is NOW at EIGHTEEN OR SO YEARS OLD. because obviously he’s an asshole... obviously. *rolls eyes* oh and when she entered the castle she saw rowan like talking to liam in a pleasant manner she was all ‘i dont know how he can be so comfortable talking to him after he tried to push in a fire’. and i was just like....??????????? its been a little over a Decade???????????????? you don’t know how their relationship is now, they’re adults. and they’re also brothers?? now i dont have siblings and neither does she but iiiiiiiiii understand that a sibling relationship just be like that sometimes. she, however, does not get the memo. and its just this whole thing where she thinks she knows the people that she knew as well as she did 10 years ago when she as 7 years old and virtually understood nothing. and that pisses me off. there was also this part where her dad was all ‘don’t look the queen in her eye and don’t let her see you’ and she was all ‘what did he mean by that?’

and i was just so confused. does this mean she, all of a sudden, doesn’t speak english?? it means exactly what it means!!!!! DONT FUCKING LOOK AT THE BITCH AND DONT LET HER SEE YOU. he’s been warning you about returning to everless in the first place because of the nonsense that caused you guys to get banished in the first place and now you’re incapable of speech and understanding? now, there may be something underlying here because its still in the beginning and things are unfolding and i understand that there may be an extra meaning there with something about the Queen that i won’t understand yet. but??? it still means. what it meanssss!!!! and that pissed me off so much. like this kind of understanding is something i would expect from an actual 7 year old. and i STILL think the 7 year old would get what is being said. they may not obey because yknow, curiosity. but if i tell my 7 year old niece, ‘aye dont look at that’ she’ll be like ‘oh yeah no doubt’ because its a simple fucking instruction. now i understand it seems like im being bitter. but yknow what? im embracing it because its true... i AM bitter.

also, she has this fascination with rowan. it seems like she had a crush on him before she left and well, the crush is still there, and apparently more intense than ever...???? but now he has a fiancee and shes jealous or whatever idk at this point i dont care. because her feeling literally have no base. it has been 10 years. its obvious she’s sticking to whatever things she thought she knew about them when she was 7 which is the stupidest thing i have ever heard and completely unrealistic. at this point i wouldnt even be surpised if later in the book/series it turns out that rowan is actually a cunt and liam is actually the decent guy.

i understand the whole wish of hoping and thinking that you know someone or something from the past an thinking it stayed the same. but this is just madness. because a Regular Person would at least acknowledge that, oof its been 10 years, thats kind of a long time. and she kind of does that too... but also not really. like she only understands that it has been 10 years when she realizes noone recognizes her... (AND shes upset when it happens btw.) and not when she’s tryna characterize people she knew at 7 years old. and that pisses me off because she knows nothing.

i have alot more to say but im upset... i cant believe i started this book because now i HAVE to finish it in order for me to be comfortable because i dont like leaving things unfinished. but im already seeing heavier frustration in my future and i just dont have that kind of energy. i wanna enjoy myself when im reading/listening to a book. i wanna be angry, sad, happy, confused, proud and all that shit. but i dont want to have feelings of throwing my phone into a wall and hoping it shatters into a thousand pieces when im just tryna read.

[bookrecommendsandstuff]

Jules Ember was raised hearing legends of the ancient magic of the wicked Alchemist and the good Sorceress. But she has just learned the truth: She is the Alchemist, and Caro - a woman who single-handedly murdered the Queen and Jules's first love, Roan, in cold blood - is the Sorceress.

The whole kingdom believes that Jules is responsible for the murders, and a hefty bounty has been placed on her head. And Caro is intent on destroying Jules, who stole her heart twelve lifetimes ago. Now Jules must piece together the stories of her past lives to save the person who has captured her heart in this one.

[klarhys-j-springthorn]

[bookrecommendsandstuff]

Time is a prison. She is the key. Packed with danger, temptation and desire - a perfect read for fans of The Red Queen. In the land of Sempera, the rich control everything - even time. Ever since the age of alchemy and sorcery, hours, days and years have been extracted from blood and bound to iron coins. The rich live for centuries; the poor bleed themselves dry. Jules and her father are behind on their rent and low on hours. To stop him from draining himself to clear their debts, Jules takes a job at Everless, the grand estate of the cruel Gerling family. There, Jules encounters danger and temptation in the guise of the Gerling heir, Roan, who is soon to be married. But the web of secrets at Everless stretches beyond her desire, and the truths Jules must uncover will change her life for ever … and possibly the future of time itself.

[stxdyxn]

Everless (Everless #1) by Sara Holland - Full Amateur Review

Goodreads Summary: In the kingdom of Sempera, time is currency—extracted from blood, bound to iron, and consumed to add time to one’s own lifespan. The rich aristocracy, like the Gerlings, tax the poor to the hilt, extending their own lives by centuries. No one resents the Gerlings more than Jules Ember. A decade ago, she and her father were servants at Everless, the Gerlings’ palatial estate, until a fateful accident forced them to flee in the dead of night. When Jules discovers that her father is dying, she knows that she must return to Everless to earn more time for him before she loses him forever. But going back to Everless brings more danger—and temptation—than Jules could have ever imagined. Soon she’s caught in a tangle of violent secrets and finds her heart torn between two people she thought she’d never see again. Her decisions have the power to change her fate—and the fate of time itself.

Plot = 0.3/1 

Characters = 0/1 

Language use = 0.7/1 

Organization = 0.5/1 

Did i even enjoy it? = 0/1 

Is it creative? = 0.8/1 

World building/setting = 0.5/1 

Total = 2/5

First of all… let’s not deny that the cover is probably the prettiest thing you’ve ever seen. This cover is literally the entire reason why i picked the book up in the first place. 

Part 1

My intrigue with the whole ‘time as currency’ idea was just a bonus. However, i’m sorry to say that I did not enjoy this book… at all. 362 pages of fatigue. It took me 5 days to get through this book and i was not having fun and i felt like it was mocking me everytime i looked at it or even thought about it. Not to be dramatic but this is the bane of my existence. Lol, let’s get into it though. 

So about the plot… simple outline really, cardboard cut teenaged female character does some nonsense and makes some nonsense decisions although she knows better and is obsessed with this male character and also she has magical powers omg. Honestly, nothing is completely wrong with being cliche, in my opinion, but this was painful because it wasn’t even executed properly. It was like the author attempted to be both cliche and creative at the same time to appeal to her readers but it didn’t work. Now, although this book actually caught me off guard with the certain death of a certain character, I really can’t speak for the rest of what happened. There were so many things that were just picked up and forgotten and, surprise, the things that were forgotten were the parts that actually piqued my interest and I wanted to see more of them. But.. it didn’t happen which was tough. Hence, the 0.3/1 for the plot. (please stop hating on my magnificent rating system thank you) Let’s talk about the characters. Simply put… i don't know them and i genuinely couldn’t care less. When the certain character died I was like ‘lmao oh shit’ and instantly moved on because there was nothing there. The characters barely interacted with each other, and when they interacted it was baseless, shallow and a complete waste of my time because it barely gave me any indication to the type of people i’m dealing with and the only thing that gave me any information was the main character, Jules’, annoying monologue about what she remembers about these characters from 10 years ago. Memories from when she was 7. Which is OBVIOUSLY inaccurate and slightly irrelevant to now, because it turns out (surprisingly) her memories weren’t even that accurate to begin with. Gasp. An guess what? Throughout the entire book Jules goes back to this one specific (inaccurate) memory and mentions it about 20 times to explain how much this other character is such an asshole. Even though the other character was around 8 years old. So does that mean, if i threw down a vase when i was 10… 10 years later… am i still a viloent and destructive ingrate? Hmm interesting. 0/1 for the characters i don’t know… NEXT! 

The Language use was one of the only things that was really decent about this book. Although it was giving me nothing, it was well articulated emptiness and for that, it deserves applause goddamnit. Are my history essays good? No. But it’s terrible with amazing fucking diction and i stand by that. And so should the author. 7/10 for language bro.