Where do I start this review? For starters I need to say that for this being a debut novel it didn’t feel like it. This book was so well written. It was like a shark that sunk its teeth in me and never let go until the heartbreaking conclusion.
Nikki vanished for 6 months, but now she has returned. She was in the underworld known as the Everneath. Time works differently there. What was 6 months here was a century there. She went to the Everneath willingly as a forfeit for Cole an Everliving. Somehow she escapes and she now has 6 months to say her goodbyes before the Everneath comes and claims her forever. She longs to connect with her old boyfriend Jack but Cole decides to follow her and make her 6 months a little bit more complicated.
This story is told from alternating between the past and the present. I initially didn’t think I would like the story being told this way, but I found that it actually made the telling of the story that much better. The mythology this was based on really helped make this story but yet it shines as its own story to tell. I pretty much gulped this up in one sitting. The characters were very relatable and I felt for all of them. The world building was wonderfully done. Like I said in the beginning it’s hard to believe that this is a debut novel. Brodi Ashton really wrote a wonderful story. From the very first pages I could tell that this was going to become one of my favorite reads and it did not disappoint. Now I am impatiently waiting for the next book in the series to come out so I can join this world and characters again.
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