Through the Ever Night by Veronica Rossi (Book Review)

Through the Ever Night

by Veronica Rossi

341 pages

Harper Collins, 2013

fiction/young adult

Read in 3 days

Another Review

My Rating: N/A 

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"Aria was here."

Review: It's just not gripping me the way Under the Never Sky did. Then again, that book wasn't all that riveting to me either. I find this book to be lacking in story line so it's trying to make up for it with the love story which seems a bit forced to me. I'm trying to remember this is a young adult book so it doesn't necessarily have to have a stellar story to sell millions of copies. Unfortunately, I think my interest in the series will end with this book.

I think I would have liked it more if the relationship between Aria and Perry didn't exist. YES, I know they are the main characters and if not for their meeting in the first book there wouldn't be a need for a second and third book. However, the relationship Perry has with Cinder paralleled with the relationship Aria has with Roar, this book could actually have potential to survive. There is nothing wrong with the characters. In fact, I even like the bitchy ones because their reasoning for bad manners and terrible attitudes is understandable.

I will go back to this book and finish it, but at a much later date and time, when I feel I can give it the proper attention it deserves. Do not let my lack of interest in finishing the book at this time deter you from reading it. There is something here, I'm just not in the right frame of mind right now to pick up on it. I urge you to click on the link above for "Another Review" where I've come across a review that puts the book in a much better light and gives me hope that I will come to appreciate the book when next I pick it up.

Synopsis: It's been months since Aria learned of her mother's death.

Months since Perry became Blood Lord of the Tides, and months since Aria last saw him.

Now Aria and Perry are about to be reunited. It's a moment they've been longing for with countless expectations. And it's a moment that lives up to all of them. At least, at fi rst. Then it slips away. The Tides don't take kindly to former Dwellers like Aria. And the tribe is swirling out of Perry's control. With the Aether storms worsening every day, the only remaining hope for peace and safety is the Still Blue. But does this haven truly exist?

Threatened by false friends and powerful temptations, Aria and Perry wonder, Can their love survive through the ever night? In this second book in her spellbinding Under the Never Sky trilogy, Veronica Rossi combines fantasy and sci-fi elements to create a captivating adventure—and a love story as perilous as it is unforgettable.

To learn more about Veronica Rossi, visit her site here.

Under the Never Sky by Veronica Rossi (Book Review)

Under the Never Sky

by Veronica Rossi

374 Pages
HarperCollins, 1/3/2012
Young Adult
Finished in 5 days
Another Review…

My Rating: ★★★★

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"They called the world beyond the walls of the Pod "the Death Shop."

My Review: Although this has a bit of a love story towards the tail end of the book it isn't overwhelming at all. It took me longer than usual (five days) to finish this book but only because my entire life cannot be devoted to reading books. I wish it could be!

Back to the story, it's written from the third person but the point-of-view goes back and forth between the main characters. Aria, the Dweller girl, who starts out a scared, weak and naive girl, but who quickly finds herself becoming a strong and independent woman in the end. Then there's Peregrine, Perry, the Savage and worlds away in attitude and personality from Aria.

They live on the same planet but two different worlds. Aria has lived underground all her life with the rest of society which went down there to stay away from the 'aether sky' which appears to be destroying the planet in more ways than one. It is this sky that Aria dubs the 'never sky' because it never does what you need or expect it to do. In any event, their paths cross, more than once, and although they seem to hate each other, they quickly realize they need each other to get what they want.

Of course you can easily guess they end up falling each other. And as most tragic love stories go, they really shouldn't be together.

Aria is seeking her mother as well as answers to questions that keep piling up along the journey. Perry is searching for his nephew as well as retribution for the guilt he's held inside for as long as he's been alive. Together they will get some answers and as the reader I was glued to wanting to take the journey with them every step of the way. I'll probably add Through the Ever Night as a February read now.

Synopsis: Since she’d been on the outside, she’d survived an Aether storm, she’d had a knife held to her throat, and she’d seen men murdered. This was worse.

Exiled from her home, the enclosed city of Reverie, Aria knows her chances of surviving in the outer wasteland—known as The Death Shop—are slim. If the cannibals don’t get her, the violent, electrified energy storms will. She’s been taught that the very air she breathes can kill her. Then Aria meets an Outsider named Perry. He’s wild—a savage—and her only hope of staying alive.

A hunter for his tribe in a merciless landscape, Perry views Aria as sheltered and fragile—everything he would expect from a Dweller. But he needs Aria’s help too; she alone holds the key to his redemption. Opposites in nearly every way, Aria and Perry must accept each other to survive. Their unlikely alliance forges a bond that will determine the fate of all who live under the never sky.

In her enthralling debut, Veronica Rossi sends readers on an unforgettable adventure set in a world brimming with harshness and beauty.

To learn more about Veronica Rossi please visit her official website.

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