Review: Shadowland by Alison Noel

Title: Shadowland

Series: The Immortals

Book #: 3

Author: Alison Noel

Pages: 368

Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin

Reading Level: Young Adult

Rating:

"Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence."

It is the third book in the Immortals series. Ever has a problem, any contact with Damen will kill him. In this book she has to figure out how to reverse the effects of the "antidote" given to Damen to make him healthy again.

Ever and Damen have traveled through countless past lives—and fought off the world's darkest enemies—so they could be together forever. But just as their long-awaited destiny is finally within reach, a powerful curse falls upon Damen...one that could destroy everything. Now a single touch of their hands or a soft brush of their lips could mean sudden death—plunging Damen into a bleak afterlife in the Shadowland, an eternal abyss for lost souls. Desperate to break the curse and save Damen, Ever immerses herself in magic—and gets help from an unexpected source...Jude Knight.

Although she and Jude have only just met, he feels startlingly familiar. Despite her fierce loyalty to Damen, Ever is drawn to Jude, a green-eyed golden boy with magical talents and a mysterious past. She's always believed Damen to be her soul mate and one true love—and she still believes it to be true. But as Damen pulls away to save them from the darkness inhabiting his soul, Ever's connection with Jude grows stronger—and tests her love for Damen like never before...

Taschima's POV:

Trying to co live with the bad decision she made in the last book, Ever tries to move on and find some sort of 'normal' in her life. Damon certainly got freaked out when she told him about her wrong choices, but he still keeps loving her. Hurray. However there is trouble in paradise, not that there wasn't before, since an old friend comes back into Ever's life. Not only this but apparently living an immortal life comes attached with some fatal future disasters that not even Damen could predict.

Evermore was a 5 hearts rating, Blue Moon was a 4.5 hearts, and Shadowland has gone down to 3 hearts. Lets just say this is not as good as I thought it would be.

What can I say? When I started this series I, like other people, spotted the similarities between The Immortals and Twilight but after Blue Moon I thought the whole thing was just in the first book Evermore. I couldn't be more wrong. Deep in the core Shadowland is called New Moon.

Though the main character doesn't become a pile of nothingness like Bella since she has found her "wolf" (Jude- Another guy) quite soon. So, I was happy for that. Oh, and Damen? Kept annoying me the whole book. Mr. Damen Cullen walks a fine line between his two persona's. I don't even know who he is anymore really, if a vain but straight forward guy or just a guy that wants to be okay with karma just so his soul doesn't go to hell. I was screaming the whole time DECIDE.

Ugh and the so called friend Haven. Goodness I cannot stand her. She meddles in everything. She gets on my nerves, and I truly don't know why Ever hasn't ditched her. Ever was okay the entire book, she didn't annoy me but she didn't surprise me either. The two characters that I love in this book are Roman and Jude. At least Roman knows who he is. And Jude is so cute and you can understand him.

The parts of the plot that didn't have any similarity with New Moon I liked, though somethings were never answered by the end, like for example she pushed Jude to the other side of the planet (not the other side of the planet but you know exaggerating never hurt anyone) and we didn't know what happen to him. Also something involving her sister, which I am very confused about since I thought that after you cross the bridge you weren't suppose to ever see them again. Please, if someone found the loophole comment and let me know just the page and the book.

Also Ever keeps making crappy decisions; she is very impatient. All in all, I will read the next book if only to know what happen to Jude and Ever's sister and see how it all goes from here. Also I will read it cause I am a series junkie and I just have to know for myself.

Books in the Series:

Evermore

Blue Moon

(I'm sorry if I seem a little harsh, I just write whatever it is I am feeling. I do not mean to trash the book, or the author, or anything like that xD Also I may not have loved it, but you may, so give it a try.)