Shadowland-Alyson Noël

This is the third book in the Immortals series. Ever and Damen and no longer touch each other because if they exchange DNA, Damen will die. Ever must now find the antidote to the antidote Roman gave her. After being bugged by her Aunt, Sabine, she finds a job at Mystics and Moonbeams where she'll give readings under the name Avalon. She tells Sabine that she got a job at a regular bookstore. Ever meets her boss, Jude, who she finds out later from Damen that he is her real soul mate. Damen leaves Ever alone for a while to find out if Jude is the one, but she still thinks Damen is who she's meant to be with. At the pool party she throws for her friend Miles, she sees an Ouroborus tattoo on Jude and starts to think he's a rogue immortal. Then he gets a call from Ava and Ever rushes to save her best friend Haven.

But Roman is offering the real antidote for the price of Haven's life.

But you'll have to see the rest for yourselves because I'm leaving a lot out. On purpose, of course.

I love this series. It's in my top 5. Ever Bloom is a wonderful character, and Damen is really sexy. (yup. Even sexier than Edward Cullen.) I like it because it's so much different that any immortal fiction. They're not vampires because they don't drink blood, but they drink an elixir. Alyson Noël is a great author of young adult fiction. She's really nice too. She posted my fan art on her Myspace blog. :)

Four stars at least.

My Poplit Journel Entry:

Seeing as this is the third book in the Immortals series, I have developed favoritism towards certain character. Specifically the main characters, Ever and Damen. Ever is a teenage girl with blond hair and blue eyes, so we have that much in common. She died in a car accident with her family and was brought back by Damen. She became immortal and psychic after that, and then she met Damen when she moved the California. Damen is six-hundred years old and doesn’t look a day past seventeen. He smoldering hot and pretty romantic. He was selfish at first, but his ideals changed early on in the book. He was trying to beat karma by giving up his power to manifest anything he wanted, and he was going to sell his house and look for a job. I like Ever and Damen because they love each other still after all the craziness they’ve been through. With everything that separates them such as the antidote Roman gave to Ever so she heal Damon and it ended up making Ever unable to touch Damon without killing him, they still find ways to be together.

The character that I despise is Roman. He’s your typical charismatic, charming villain with a British accent. He was introduced in the second book and now he continues to aggravate Ever’s quest to be with Damen forever. He tried to steal Ever’s friend, Haven, away. He hires her at his antique store and she start to idolize the other rogue immortals who work there the same way she idolized Drina in the first book. Roman is evil because at the end of the book he tries to kill Haven. He tells Ever that she can have the antidote if she let her friend die or she can give her friend immortality, which would condemn Haven to the Shadowlands, where souls die, if she would ever get killed somehow. If Ever let her die, and then she’d prove she’s nothing like him, but if she saved her then that would prove that she’s just like Roman. Ever is not like Roman, though she did end up saving Haven in the end.

When she did save her, I was really disappointed that she did what Roman wanted. Haven would have been much happier in Summerland, where people’s souls go to when they die. She could’ve crossed the bridge into another plane and Jude (Ever’s real soul mate, and a new character in the series) could’ve helped communicate with Haven the same way he did between Ever and her dead sister, Riley. I guess now there’s going to be a new immortal in the series, Haven, who will have to be trained in her abilities.

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~*Haley*