Having satisfied my curiosity about this popular YA series, I can safely scratch the rest of the books (and their author) off my TBR list forever. Evermore was an immediate bestseller and as of August 11, 2009, it had spent 25 weeks on the New York Times Bestsellers list for children's books.

She's always believed Damen to be her soul mate and one true love—and she still believes it to be true. Okay so I’ve been going back and forth through several books over the last couple of months, I guess I needed the break though because I definitely feel back to myself! Evermore has all the hallmarks of a teen supernatural romance classic – unattainable love interest of some unknown supernatural race, troubled heroine struggling to make sense of her life, antagonist character determined to keep the destined pair apart, copious physical description of all the aforementioned characters and emotional first person narrator. We’re back to our protagonist from the first book, Jules, who is on the run following the end of that story. I wanted to like him, but in the end just felt like I been served an overly large helping of cheese.Although this book is interesting in its concept, it's still the typical story about a beautiful girl (Ever) falling in love with the mysterious good looking bloke (Damen) who joins her school. The three big things revealed are Jules’s family, Jules’s identity, and the identity of her nemesis.

You know, those thirteen-year-olds who fit 24 cheap covers of mega-hit songs on to 2 CDs and pedal them on horrifyingly gaudy adverts between episodes of real 70s Scooby-Doo on Teletoon Retro?If someone pursues you but you don't want to be pursued by them, it's 200% reasonable to tell them to go away, stop it, or leave you alone. Same worn out story of an insecure girl falling for a mysterious/sexy/dangerous paranormal guy, same absent adults, same "love" without really knowing each other, same focus on outer beauty and expensive things, same gazing into each other's eyes, and same chaste sleeping in the same bed. If you've had pain in your life and you know how it feels to be truly unhappy, then where the hell is the logic in wanting to inflict that on some content stranger? Oh should I also mention that her name is Ever Bloom (because she needs a unique, special name damn you! So instead of aligning herself with the shallow, mean and popular crowd, she aligns herself with the shallow and mean loners.