Shadowland

"Mad at main character but overall great book"

"Alyson just has a way with words. And as soon as I read Evermore I knew I was gonna love the rest of the series. Alyson could make a kindergartners writing into an amazing story. Prove me wrong. "

"I enjoyed the whole book! I really liked the whole series! "

"this book made me so angry multiple times... i just. i hate this book. the series started off bad, then started to get slightly better in the second book, then it just got WORSE. i can't continue this series but my pride is in the way. i can't.<br/><br/>im just gonna dive into what's wrong with this book. screw being fair, i can't bother to find anything nice to say about this book lmao<br/><br/>for one thing, this book seems to revolves around ever and damen's predicament in which they can't touch each other. which is fine. whatever. but the PROBLEM is ever just goes on and on about how BAD it is, even though people can have a meaningful relationship without sex OR touching each other. (ever heard of long-distance relationships? yeah. thats a thing) ANYWAYS, the no-touching thing has been solved, since they can still pretty much touch each other, just with a very thin energy field around them and it works FINE. yet ever needs to just talk about how LONELY she is even though she and damen spend reasonable time together. (i **** you not, she said she was lonely even though she was already spending some time with him.) the fact that she's so dependent on spending time with him is so. ANNOYING... i kept thinking she needed a damn hobby, because once again, a lot of her thoughts just revolve around him and their relationship. and then there was the dumb love triangle ****, which, quite frankly, was unnecessary and annoying. <br/><br/>by the way, ever still is so stupid and doesn't learn from her mistakes. here are some examples:<br/>1) ever seeks out roman to make a bargain with him, even though he LIED to her and MANIPULATED her. yet somehow she thinks she can get a deal out of him and goes against damen's wishes to go to his house. like... BITCH USE YOUR ****** BRAIN<br/>2) ever accidentally performs dark magic, and when romy and rayne, kids who are experienced in magic/withcraft, tell her she made a mistake, ever just disregards them and thinks they're wrong. BITCH<br/>there are probably more, but these are just at the top of my head. (people were mad over her decision at the end, but i actually didn't think she was dumb about that imo. i thought her decision was reasonable... though it does make it so the series has to continue, so yike)<br/><br/>but i gotta give props to damen. yeah he's annoying and all, but in the book, it seemed like he was getting some character development by giving up a lot of his expensive stuff. which... props to him. yet ever has a problem with it because she finds it "weird." at this point, i have a feeling alyson noel doesn't like poor people. the main characters HAVE to be rich or something, because if they aren't, they aren't that important. this also makes them super unrelatable.<br/><br/>speaking of unrelatable characters, haven's getting a lot worse. she's really a mean-spirited superficial bitch, and in the beginning i was hoping she'd be an interesting character. now she's just annoying. i remember how she judged the kids who rode in the school bus, calling them "retards," which is really condescending. she also dumped her boyfriend when he gave her a kitten when her old cat died, which i found to be extremely stupid. her boyfriend had the best intentions for her, but she wasn't understanding at all. <spoiler>honestly? perhaps it was better for her to die... because something tells me she'll be even MORE annoying as the series progresses now that she became immortal.</spoiler><br/><br/>don't even get me started on the plot of this book. there was almost nothing, and a lot of the book could be reduced to half its length and you wouldn't miss anything. there's a lot of relationship drama which i didn't care or feel for. in fact, i was HAPPY that damen wanted to spend time apart from ever. they were too romantically attached to each other. jesus. the only remotely good stuff about this book is the fact that damen had SOME character development. that's all. <br/><br/>anyways that's all i have to say. i absolutely HATED this book, way more than blue moon and evermore. while BOTH were bad, this made me a lot angrier with it. (props to noel for inciting such emotion in me i guess LOL) but yeah, i'm halfway through with this series... and as every day passes, the less i wanna read this series. <s>but im gonna continue anyways because i hate myself apparently and i can't let go of my pride</s>"

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