Review: Everneath by Brodi Ashton

He jumped off the ledge and stood on the ground, the Shades there making way for his feet. He reached out his hand. 

“Come with me, Nik.”

Oh man!!!! First off let me say that I'm going to be showing my geek here, I LOVE Greek mythology!!!! I'm so in love with anything GM related I tend to get geekafied!  So after I stopped drooling form the GEORGEOUS cover, I read the synopsis and knew that I was just going to love this book.  I haven’t seen to many YA books written about mythology so I was WAY to excited for this book.  And thanks to the most amazing booksellers EVER over at Books Van Ness I got to read it early!!!!!

Everneath is a modern tale about the long forgotten tragedy of Persephone and Eurydice. 

Everneath 
by Brodi Ashton

Last spring, Nikki Beckett vanished, sucked into an underworld known as the Everneath, where immortals Feed on the emotions of despairing humans. Now she's returned- to her old life, her family, her friends- before being banished back to the underworld... this time forever. 

She has six months before the Everneath comes to claim her, six months for good-byes she can't find the words for, six months to find redemption, if it exists. 

Nikki longs to spend these months reconnecting with her boyfriend, Jack, the one person she loves more than anything. But there's a problem: Cole, the smoldering immortal who first enticed her to the Everneath, has followed Nikki to the mortal world. And he'll do whatever it takes to bring her back- this time as his queen. 

As Nikki's time grows short and her relationships begin slipping from her grasp, she's forced to make the hardest decision of her life: find a way to cheat fate and remain on the Surface with Jack or return to the Everneath and become Cole's...

What would you do if you had only 6 months to say good-bye to your life? This is the question facing Nikki, who 6 months ago was taken (or did she willing go?) into the Everneath with Cole and she left behind her boyfriend Jake, distant father and mayor, and younger brother.  For 100 years her emotions were feed on by Cole to sustain his existence.  Somehow surviving, she chooses to go back to the Surface, it only just to say goodbye.

For 100 years, as her emotions and pain were taken away, she was able to hold on to one face, one beautifully painful face.  Jake, a name she forgot a long time ago but whos face would never leave her memories.  But last time she saw Jake, his ex was coming out of his dorm.  And she ran to Cole. Cole is the painful dangeroud immortal who wants Nikki to be his queen. Nikkie feels a connection to Cole, feels hole with him, because he holds some of her emotions. And Cole wants her to choose him, because if she doesn’t, he can’t save her from her debt to the Tunnels.  Tunnels always collect their debt, no matter who pays the price.

Nikki has to face the harsh life she returned to, the one she was desperate to leave (or is she?) better than the last time.  She has 6 months to find herself, fix her messes and decided if her pain is worth fighting for or forgetting about. 

Brodi wrote a WONDERFUL update on a classic tragedy. She (yes Brodi is a girl) turned a devastating tragedy into a page turning conflicting romance.  From the moment Cole holds out his hand to Nikki the adventure never stops, the conflict gets harder and decisions more difficult.  Weather you are a fan of paranormal fan wondering about contemporary or a contemporary fan wondering about paranormal, this book will please both. It is filled with love, decision-making, conflict and tension.  It’s heartbreaking and frustrating! You will cry, you will laugh and you will want to throw a tantrum like a 3 year old!

Brodi wrote a tantalizing debut that is sure to be talked about 100 years from now, granted that we all haven’t been Feed upon. Be prepared to be heartbroken. 

Definitely a 5 star book!!!!