#everless series

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.

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!