In My Mailbox (46)

In My Mailbox is hosted by The Story Siren! This week I went to Alyson Noel's signing at Orange so I got a book signed by her!

Bought:

Everlasting by Alyson Noel

I got it signed!

For Review:

Eden by Keary Taylor

Ever since Keary started talking about her new book I've been wanting to read it. Now I'm happy that I get to read it!

Other:

Swag of Head Games and Stealing Bases

Swag of Everlasting

I got this at the signing.

Thanks to Keary Taylor and Keri Mikulski!

Dark Flame by Alyson Noel

Title: Dark Flame

Author: Alyson Noel

Published: June 2010

Pages: 320

Rating: 3/5

Synopsis: At the start of this mesmerizing new installment of the Immortals series, Ever is helping her friend Haven transition into life as an immortal. But with Haven drunk on her new powers and carelessly putting them all at risk, their friendship becomes more and more strained. At the same time, Ever delves deeper into magick in order to get control over her enemy Roman and free Damen from his power. But when the spell she casts on Roman backfires, she’s bound to her deadliest enemy. Frantic to reverse the spell the moment the moon enters a new phase, she finds her efforts are fruitless—there’s a strange, foreign pulse coursing through her, one that propels her toward Roman. Desperate to break free of this terrible curse before Damen or the twins can discover what she’s done, she turns to Jude and delves deeper and deeper into dark magick, ultimately risking everything she knows and loves—including Damen.

It may include spoilers from previous books and this one!!

Review: I feel that the story is being dragged on too much. The book book starts off with Ever trying to explain to Haven what has happened. She of course doesn't really care what happens and wants to use her powers for selfish things. Throughout the book Ever continues to make terrible choices and not trust those that she should be trusting.

Sometimes I feel like punching Ever. She makes some of the worst mistakes that she could possible make. All throughout she keeps keeping secrets from Damen, secrets that make things worse than they already are. She wants to find the antidote and obsesses so much on it that her actions turn out to hurt herself and others. I was glad to see that at the end of the book she had changed her way of thinking.

The ending was something that kind of shocked me but at the same time I could see it coming. It complicated things even more than they already were but I just think that the thing about not being able to touch is just getting too much.

I will keep reading this series because I really want to know what happens. This book wasn't the best out of the whole series but I'm hoping that the books will get a bit better.

Holiday Break Reading Challenge Activity #9: Easy Christmas Activity

For this activity this is what we're supposed to do:

1. Since today is the 25th, turn to page 25 in the book you are reading right now.
2. Count down the page to line 25 and tell us what the sentence says. If there is a partial sentence or word in that line you can leave it out. If you don't have 25 lines on your page just choose the 7th line (2+5=7).
3. Be sure to post a picture of your book along with your sentence

I'm reading Dark Flame by Alyson Noel and Accomplice by Eireann Corrigan.

"Face the fact that my aunt/legal guardian is falling hard for my history teacher." - Page 25

"It was just an offhand comment, hushed in the rest of the well-behaved riot brewing around us." - Page 25