Ever
HarperCollins - HarperCollins
Release date: 2008-05-06
Hardcover
Author: Gail Carson Levine
Children's & young adult fiction & true stories, Fantasy & magical realism (Children's/YA), Romance & relationships stories (Children's/YA), Science fiction (Children's/YA), Juvenile Fiction, Children's 9-12 - Fiction - General, Children's Books/All Ages, Children: Grades 4-6, Fantasy & Magic, Juvenile Fiction / General, Juvenile Fiction / Love & Romance, Juvenile Fiction / Science Fiction, Fantasy, Magic, Love & Romance, Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Magic, Fate and fatalism, Fiction, Gods, Winds, Children's Fiction
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Ever
Date undefinedI loved this book! with in the first 50 pages I was pulled in! I read it in less then 1 day!!!!! i fell in love with Olus and i wish i was as brave as Kezi. I would say this is my #1 fave book!:-)
Ever
Date undefinedThe book is written in first person, present tense. I can never really get immersed in book written this way because people normally tell each other stories in past tense.
I also frequently had trouble visualizing what was going on, particularly when dancing was described.
The worldbuilding was good and the idea was fairly clever. However, I didn't feel like the characters were very deep. I also didn't like the conclusion of the story because it seems to encourage the reader to doubt the existance of anything they can't see and touch.
Ever
Date undefinedEver seems to be a retelling of the famous 'Eros and Psyche' (or Cupid and Psyche) myth.
'Eros and Psyche' was always my favorite myth and yet I was never truly happy with the ending. I thought that the whole point of the story was that Psyche betrayed him and so she had to go through the quest to redeem and prove herself worthy of being a goddess. But she yet again proves herself a weak person by opening Persephone's box and has to be saved by Eros.
What I liked about Ever is that it took the 'Eros and Psyche' myth and took out all the parts I didn't like about it. There were no malicious/jealous/nosy sisters, no betrayal of trust, and no need for the helpless heroine to be saved by the hero; in fact, it is the heroine, Kezi, who saves the life of Olus (a god), proving that she is indeed worthy of being an immortal.
Sure there were some aspect of the book that I didn't particularly like (I honestly don't get why the heroine is so obsessed with dancing . . . it didn't seem like it contributed anything to the narrative), but those, to me, are relatively minor so all in all, I'm pretty happy with this book. I'm grateful that someone has finally re-written the 'Eros and Psyche' myth and given the heroine some backbone! :)
