Sixteen-year-old Ever is pretty sure she died in the car accident that took the lives of her parents, younger sister Riley and dog Buttercup. What else could explain the fact that when she woke up in the hospital, she could see colored auras around people and could hear the thoughts of everyone around her? And of course, there is also the fact that she spends a considerable amount of time with her dead sister.
Before the accident, Ever was one of the popular kids. Blonde and beautiful, she was a cheerleader who was never really mean to the unpopular kids, she just never gave them much thought at all. Now she hides under baggie hoodies and tries to drown out the sound of too many thoughts at once with loud music pumped into her brain via earbuds connected to her iPod. She's so intent on blocking everyone out that it takes her a little while to realize that the new boy everyone is thinking about (he's so uber-hot), Damen Auguste, is different. For one thing he has no aura at all. For another she can't hear his thoughts. And finally, when he touches her, he acts like a diffuser and she can't hear the thoughts around her quite so loudly.
Yes, I know. One who can hear the thoughts of everyone except the object of one's affection. Sounds awfully Twilightish. But Alyson Noel's YA novel Evermore is quite different and, unfortunately, not nearly as good. There are no vampires in this book, but there are a couple Immortals and a villain who lacks any kind of sesrious oomph.
Though I did like the book well enough to look for its sequel at my library, I found much of it to be frustrating in that very little was explained and the vast majority of characters were simply one dimensional caricatures. Ever's two friends were a vampire-wannabe-goth named Haven and a gay boy named Miles whose father tries to sports overload the gayness out of him. The dead sister Riley was by far the most interesting, original character and only her presence can bring forgiveness for the fact that one of the chapters begins with the ill-fated words, I see dead people.
Told from Ever's first person point of view, Evermore remains intersting even though it takes too long to get to any kind of climax. There's nothing to keep you from letting your young teen read this book. No language or situation they won't see on primetime television. I wouldn't run to search it out though either. It was an average book with average characters. There's much better out there.
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