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My Review:Title: Through the Ever Night
Author: Veronica Rossi
Series: Under the Never Sky #2
Published by: HarperCollins
Release Date: January 8, 2013
Format: ebook
Pages: 341
Genres: Young Adult, Dystopian, Post-Apocalyptic
Source: Overdrive
Reading Challenges: Lenoreo's 2023 COYER Chapter 2
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My rating:
Blurb: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 first. 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.
4.5 stars — This book definitely picked up at a gallop from the first book! Now that we’ve settled into the world a bit, and know our characters a bit more, I was able to just get sucked right in. I think it also helped reading instead of listening for me, the words just flowed easily and kept me going.
The pace of this one is pretty fast! Not breakneck, but it seems that so much happens, and at a pretty steady rate that we barely have time to catch our breath before they’re faced with another obstacle. But I never felt like the obstacles were unreasonable…things just get set along the path, and the world is changing faster than anyone expects, and they’re struggling to keep up with it.
I ached for what both Perry and Aria go through in this journey. Not all of it is together, so they also have to fight those insecurities of being apart.
The world is a lot harsher than I think I was expecting…and yet the first book does set up how inhospitable the world is. It’s just that it keeps getting ramped up, and humanity just doesn’t deal with things that well at all.
Perry both frustrated me and helped me to understand him more. I appreciated that it wasn’t all easiness with him taking on the mantle from his brother. He made missteps along the way, but he always cared so much about his people, you could FEEL it. He just doesn’t always get back what he gives. He has a good heart, but he’s also so young. And apparently easily manipulated, which I wasn’t as impressed by.
Aria feels like she grew so much more in book 1, and we really get to see how much more confident and capable she is in this one. I loved that she had Roar as a friend in this book, and that they really had a bond that felt almost familial. They go through their own trials that both frustrated me and had my emotions in an uproar.
I know some of where this story is going to go next, but I’m worried for them. It feels like they have all of the odds stacked up against them, and I kind of want them to catch a few more breaks.
There are definitely still some fantastic side characters, good ones and bad, and some twists I didn’t see coming. I can’t wait to finish off the series.
COYER Community: I buddy read this book with Lillian, though she had read this series back when it first came out. I don’t think she’s redoing her reviews, but she rated it 5 stars and you can see her review here.
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