Everbound by Brodi Ashton Series: Everneath #2
Published by Balzer + Bray on January 2013
Genres: Fantasy, Mythology, Young Adult
Pages: 358
Format: ebook
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Nikki Beckett could only watch as her boyfriend, Jack, sacrificed himself to save her, taking her place in the Tunnels of the Everneath for eternity — a debt that should’ve been hers. She’s living a borrowed life, and she doesn’t know what to do with the guilt. And every night Jack appears in her dreams, lost and confused and wasting away.
Desperate for answers, Nikki turns to Cole, the immortal bad boy who wants to make her his queen — and the one person least likely to help. But his heart has been touched by everything about Nikki, and he agrees to assist her in the only way he can: by taking her to the Everneath himself.
Nikki and Cole descend into the Everneath, only to discover that their journey will be more difficult than they’d anticipated — and more deadly. But Nikki vows to stop at nothing to save Jack — even if it means making an incredible sacrifice of her own.
In this enthralling sequel to Everneath, Brodi Ashton tests the bonds of destiny and explores the lengths we’ll go to for the ones we love.
I know he is wrapping my name inside of him, folding it in the blanket of his heart. I know this because I used to do the same thing with his name when I was in the Feed.
This was a great follow up sequel by Brodi Ashton! It had been a little over a year since I first read Everneath and I only had a vague recollection of what happened. Thankfully Ashton masterfully gave you all the background information from Everneath in the first few chapters of Everbound – you never sat there wondering what on earth was going on, and instead just felt like you were slipping back into a favourite pair of shoes.
The story continues directly from where Everneath leaves off and this book is quite action packed, definitely different from book 1 and I really did like it. While I missed having more Jack time as I loved the relationship between Nikki and Jack, you still get beautiful flashbacks into their relationship and find out how they fell in love and got together.
What this book does give you is heaps of background and world building of the Everneath which mythology fans will love. The majority of the book is set down there as Nikki and Cole try to free Jack from the Feed and you are introduced to some interesting Everliving characters along the way. Cole starts to grow on you as the story progresses and you actually start to realise that he really does care deeply for Nikki. While I thought this book would set up an epic love triangle the way Hallowed pulled off, I don’t think you can call this threesome a love triangle by any definition. It is just so clear that Nikki and Jack are soul mates and that is never going to change.
Just as I thought things had wrapped up quite neatly and I had a clear idea of where this finale was taking us BAM we are left with an epic cliffhanger that I just did not see coming. Now I am hanging for book 3 and can’t believe I’ll have to wait another 12 months give or take 
– Great read and what a cliff-hanger!
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