Some Books Ago: Vengeance Bound by Justina Ireland

Some Books Ago is a shout out to all those books published some years ago. I don't want you to forget them!

This week I'm featuring VENGEANCE BOUND by Justina Ireland.
This book has been on my TBR since forever, but I never had the chance to read it, probably because it was compared to The Goddest Test and I didn't like that book. But I'd love to read about Furies! That's why I still want to read it.
Check it out! 

It was published on April 2nd 2013 by Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers

 

GoodReads/ Amazon/ TBD

Summary:

The Goddess Test meets Dexter in an edgy, compelling debut about one teen’s quest for revenge… no matter how far it takes her.

Cory Graff is not alone in her head. Bound to a deal of desperation made when she was a child, Cory’s mind houses the Furies—the hawk and the serpent—lingering always, waiting for her to satisfy their bloodlust. After escaping the asylum where she was trapped for years, Cory knows how to keep the Furies quiet. By day, she lives a normal life, but by night, she tracks down targets the Furies send her way. And she brings down Justice upon them.

Cory’s perfected her system of survival, but when she meets a mysterious boy named Niko at her new school, she can’t figure out how she feels about him. For the first time, the Furies are quiet in her head around a guy. But does this mean that Cory’s finally found someone who she can trust, or are there greater factors at work? As Cory’s mind becomes a battlefield, with the Furies fighting for control, Cory will have to put everything on the line to hold on to what she’s worked so hard to build.

 

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Book Review: Evertrue by Brodi Ashton

Evertrue

Series: Everneath #3

Author: Brodi Ashton

Pages: 336

My rating: 4 stars

Order it: Amazon/ B&N/ TBD

Summary:

Now that Nikki has rescued Jack, all she wants is to be with him and graduate high school. But Cole tricked Nikki into feeding off him, and she’s begun the process of turning into an Everliving herself... which means she must feed on a Forfeit soon — or die.

Terrified for her survival, Nikki and Jack begin a desperate attempt to reverse the process using any means possible. Even Cole, who they expected to fight them at every turn, has become an unlikely ally — but how long can it last? Nikki needs to feed on Cole to survive, Cole needs Nikki to gain the throne in the Everneath, Jack needs Nikki because she is everything to him — and together, they must travel back to the Underworld to undo Nikki’s fate and make her mortal once more. But Cole isn’t the only one with plans for Nikki: the Queen has not forgotten Nikki’s treachery, and she wants her destroyed for good. Will Nikki be forced to spend eternity in the Underworld, or does she have what it takes to bring down the Everneath once and for all?

In this stunning conclusion to the Everneath trilogy, Brodi Ashton evokes the resiliency of the human spirit and the indomitable power of true love.

I’m a huge fan of the Everneath series since I read about the first book in the blog Fiktshun.

Back then, I loved the cover, I loved the characters, I love the world-building, and of course, I loved the plot and myth.

Everbound was my most anticipated of last year, and Evertrue was one of my most anticipated of this year.

I wasn’t ready to say goodbye just yet, but I had to do it in order to catch up all the other series I started last year. 

However, Evertrue was not what I expected. And I don’t know if that was good or bad. I’m really torn between joy and love.

Evertrue was a very satisfying ending. I’m glad with how the things ended. It was perfectly wrapped and, thanks God, it wasn’t an open ending.

However, even though I liked Evertrue… maybe I loved it. It’s not the kind of love I felt for the other two books.

I feel like the characters I loved before weren’t the same. Jack was not the same. Cole was not the same, and hell! How I missed the band!

I never thought about Nikki as a strong and fierce heroine but I liked her and she never annoyed me. That’s why I was expecting a bigger evolution about her character and that never happened. Nikki was the same Nikki, and like same Nikki I liked her the same way.

Jack (my favorite character of the whole series), didn’t make me swoon like before. I still love him -don’t get me wrong-, but not as much as before.

Cole… *sigh* it felt like Cole was there and at the same time wasn’t.

The other characters were as good as always. I enjoyed reading about them for the last time and I don’t have much to say about them.

The plot was action packed and emotionally draining.

The writing was addictive and fast passed.

Overall, I loved Evertrue. I’ll have a special place in my heart for this series and this ending, even if the ending wasn’t as spectacular as I expected it to be.

I feel like something was missing… maybe the romance? Look! I haven’t talk about the romance because it was almost inexistent. Well, Jack and Nikki's romance was sweet and cute but they almost never had time alone. I missed them.

 And I will miss them forever. 

Evertrue was a good closure for this series and I’m really happy that the actual ending was unexpected, strong and heartbreaking. 

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My bookish Top3: Best adaptations of Greek Mythology

 

If you have been putting attention to all those new series, you certainly realized that greek myth is very popular these days. I have read a lot of books where Greek gods have a special role.

So, today for my Top3 I want to share what I think are my favorite books starring greek mythology.

Probably they're not the best of all the time. But they have been the best for me. 

1. The covenant series by Jennifer L. Armentrout.

This is a story about descendants of gods -pure and half blood. We can see in these books: gods like Poseidon, Hades, Apollo, furies, oracles, sentinels, etc.
 

The Hematoi descend from the unions of gods and mortals, and the children of two Hematoi pure bloods have godlike powers. Children of Hematoi and mortals--well, not so much. Half-bloods only have two options: become trained Sentinels who hunt and kill daimons or become servants in the homes of the pures. Seventeen-year-old Alexandria would rather risk her life fighting than waste it scrubbing toilets, but she may end up slumming it anyway. There are several rules that students at the Covenant must follow. Alex has problems with them all, but especially rule #1:Relationships between pures and halfs are forbidden. Unfortunately, she's crushing hard on the totally hot pure-blood Aiden. But falling for Aiden isn't her biggest problem--staying alive long enough to graduate the Covenant and become a Sentinel is. If she fails in her duty, she faces a future worse than death or slavery: being turned into a daimon, and being hunted by Aiden. And that would kind of suck.

2. Everneath by Brodi Ashton.

More than a greek adaptation, this is a great love story that reminds me of the tale of Persephone. And it's placed in the Everneath - the underworld, the Hades, whatever you learned to call it.

Last spring, Nikki Beckett vanished, sucked into an underworld known as the Everneath. Now she’s returned—to her old life, her family, her boyfriend—before she’s 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 precious months forgetting the Everneath and trying to reconnect with her boyfriend, Jack, the person most devastated by her disappearance—and the one person she loves more than anything. But there’s just one problem: Cole, the smoldering immortal who enticed her to the Everneath in the first place, has followed Nikki home. Cole wants to take over the throne in the underworld and is convinced Nikki is the key to making it happen. And he’ll do whatever it takes to bring her back, this time as his queen. As Nikki’s time on the Surface draws to a close and her relationships begin slipping from her grasp, she is 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 queen.

3. Doomed by Tracy Deebs.

Like the name of the main character, this book is a modern adaptation to the story of Pandora, the woman created by Zeus to bring the evil to this world.

I've read some people didn't like this book because they didn't believe the world could be destroyed without technology. But I think that this book was a great adaptation to the story of Pandora, and since it was "fiction" for me, it was amazing!

Pandora's an average teen, glued to her cell phone and laptop, until the day her long-lost father sends her a link to a mysterious site featuring photos of her as a child. Curious, Pandora enters the site, unwittingly unleashing a global computer virus that plunges the whole world into panic: suddenly, there's no Internet. No cell phones. No traffic lights, hospitals or law enforcement. Only Pandora's Box, a virtual-reality game created by Pandora's father, remains up and running. Together with her neighbors, gorgeous stepbrothers Eli and Theo, Pandora must follow the photographs from her childhood in an attempt to beat the game and track down her father—and rescue the world. Part The Matrix, part retelling of the Pandora myth, Doomed has something for gaming fans, dystopian fans, and romance fans alike.

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