They share one, maybe two kisses in the middle of the book before she breaks up with him, but on the way to her death, she figures she might as well sleep with him. It doesn’t work the way the author wrote it. Character DevelopmentĪ broken heart for a failed attempt to create romance.ĭon’t even get me started on the romantic relationship between Liam and Jules.

Sara Holland has linked this inner struggle with the outward quest to find something that will kill Cara. Self-discovery is a relatable internal struggle. Especially as she learns more about her first life as the Alchemist. The internal struggle in Evermore is focused on Jules’ past lives. In Everless, she found out more about her family, but she also discovered that she lived 12 times before this. This book is a continuation of the journey Jules faced in Everless. Authors with good characters recognize this and mimic this in their characters. In real life, people have internal problems and situations they are trying to process while also attempting to navigate living in this world. It also doesn’t make for interesting reading because the characters fall flat. One without the other, the story is bland. Internal and external conflict are both needed to bring a character and a world to life.

Her decisions have the power to change her fate-and the fate of time itself.įans of Victoria Aveyard, Kendare Blake, and Stephanie Garber will devour this lush novel's breathtaking action, incredible romance, and dangerous secrets.Jules trying to deal with internal and external struggles. Soon she’s caught in a tangle of violent secrets and finds her heart torn between two people she thought she’d never see again. When Jules discovers that her father is dying, she knows that she must return to Everless to earn more time for him before she loses him forever.īut going back to Everless brings more danger-and temptation-than Jules could have ever imagined. A decade ago, she and her father were servants at Everless, the Gerlings’ palatial estate, until a fateful accident forced them to flee in the dead of night. No one resents the Gerlings more than Jules Ember. The rich aristocracy, like the Gerlings, tax the poor to the hilt, extending their own lives by centuries. In the kingdom of Sempera, time is currency-extracted from blood, bound to iron, and consumed to add time to one’s own lifespan. Everless gives new and terrifying meaning to the phrase running out of time.' -Stephanie Garber, New York Times bestselling author of Caraval

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