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Blue Moon

(The Immortals, Book 2)

By Alyson Noël

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| Paperback | 9780312532765

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Book Description

Eager to learn everything she can about her new abilities as an Immortal, Ever turns to her beloved Damen to show her the way. But just as her powers are increasing, Damen's are waning.
In an attempt to save him, Ever travels to the magical dimension of Summerland, where she learns the secrets Continue

2 Reviews

***NOTE MY REVIEWS OFTEN CONTAIN SPOILERS***
When a new boy named Roman arrives at school, charming everyone but Ever, her whole world is turned upside down. Damen gets sick and doesn’t seem to even remember he loved her. Her friends have turned against her, even her teachers and Sabine seem to be ... (continue)

***NOTE MY REVIEWS OFTEN CONTAIN SPOILERS***
When a new boy named Roman arrives at school, charming everyone but Ever, her whole world is turned upside down. Damen gets sick and doesn’t seem to even remember he loved her. Her friends have turned against her, even her teachers and Sabine seem to be coming down on her. Ever is left to stand on her own to figure out exactly who Roman is and just what he’s done to tear her perfect world apart. Will she discover the answer before it’s too late?
Okay the main thing I didn’t like about this book was the verb tense which I find awkward to read. I went into detail about this in my previous Noel review of Evermore so I’m not going to go into detail again here. I don’t think a first person present tense will ever get a five star rating from me. It just never sits right for me reading it regardless of how popular the style is becoming with young adult writers.
Obviously the name issues still bother me since most of the characters haven’t changed, though I actually do know a guy named Roman in real life, so the new character introduced here didn’t really have a name that stood out to me. And since I went into detail about my thoughts on the other character’s names in the previous review there’s really no need to go into detail about my thoughts on that in this one.
The one new thing that bothered me, that isn’t a carryover from the previous novel and just a series wide complaint is while I know it’s important for a character to have strengths and weaknesses, especially weaknesses since the worst kind of character to relate to is the one who seems perfect. I think she’s going a little too far with Ever’s weaknesses in this novel. Ever is starting to appear the worst sort of naïve to the point that’s she’s just looking stupid. I can’t abide a stupid heroine so I’m actually surprised that I liked this book more than the first in the series. To give her more strengths, Noel has her friends and boyfriend treat her like total crap and have her be forgiving of all the mistreatment she receives because she knows it’s all due to Roman’s spell. I’m sorry spell or not, nobody is that forgiving. Emotions and logic are two completely different things and when it comes to forgiveness no amount of logic is going to make your emotions forgive that kind of pain. It’s just not going to happen. Besides that at least with Haven, this makes two novels where the girl has gone turncoat on Ever, is there really a point in being friends with a girl like that?
On the plus side I felt the writing was better in this novel and Ever at least becomes a more fleshed out character. More of my questions about the Immortals were answered but now I’m left with a host of questions about Summerland. Though the while the lack of information still frustrates me, it’s not quite as bad as it was in the first novel. Though it does make me wonder if this world was carefully constructed before the series began and the writer is just stingy about giving us the whole background or if it’s being constructed as she goes along which is why it’s constantly leaving questions that are fundamental to understand the story.
Also I didn’t understand why the visit to halls of learning in Summerland would point her to time travel if it wasn’t the answer. I mean while it would have been tragic for the love story yes, without it being the answer it kind of seems like a random thing to focus the book toward.
You do receive a full story arc in the book which is always a bonus for me though the end brings a new set of problems that don’t actually get addressed in the novel and leave me curious for more. I liked the addition of the new characters Roman, who appears he’s going to be a reoccurring and multifaceted villain. Raine and Romy who are the prep school twins that I haven’t completely figured out yet were a definite bonus addition to the book. Again I’d like to see more of them in future novels but I was actually frustrated with these characters as well because they created more questions than answers. Every answer they gave was so vague I was probably more frustrated than Ever with their answers.
I liked how the story didn’t revolve as much around a love story this time, but more on Ever growing as a character and learning to stand on her own without Damen to fix everything. The book was fast paced and the world is definitely evolving. After reviewing the last title I noticed a lot of reviews comparing the book to a Twilight rip-off which I didn’t really see myself, if I was going to say it came straight from another book I’d lean more toward the Vampire Diaries, but that’s just my personal opinion. I think the second installment of this novel definitely took the work in a different direction than either of those titles and I look forward to reading more in the series.
Overall I’d recommend the book, it’s decently written, fast paced and the world of the Immortals is becoming more fleshed out and developed. It’s definitely a decent read.

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