Endless by Amanda Gray
Series: I assume...?? But I won't be reading it.
Publisher: Month9Books
Published: October 8, 2013
Pages: 384
Jenny Kramer knows she isn’t normal. After all, not everybody can see the past lives of people around them. When she befriends Ben Daulton, resident new boy, the pair stumbles on an old music box with instructions for “mesmerization” and discover they may have more in common than they thought.
Like a past life.
Using the instructions in the music box, Ben and Jenny share a dream that transports them to Romanov Russia and leads them to believe they have been there together before. But they weren’t alone. Nikolai, the mysterious young man Jenny has been seeing in her own dreams was there, too. When Nikolai appears next door, Jenny is forced to acknowledge that he has traveled through time and space to find her. Doing so means he has defied the laws of time, and the Order, an ominous organization tasked with keeping people in the correct time, is determined to send him back. While Ben, Jenny and Nikolai race against the clock—and the Order—the trio discovers a link that joins them in life—and beyond death.
I received a kindle edition of NetGalley from Month9Books in exchange for an honest review.
This book was disappointing.
It's been awhile since I've read a book that's made me feel like this: let down, frustrated at the lack of storytelling, upset with the characters because they fell flat instead of upset with them because they jumped out and grabbed me in the wrong way. Upon finishing this book, I felt frustration that I had spent time reading it, but I can't even be bothered to maintain my frustration, so I am left feeling...nothing.
This book has a lot of potential - the premise intrigued me, many of the elements seeming to be things I normally enjoy: a modern book with a twist about the past, an epic plot, and possibly interesting characters. None of it came through.
First, there is the love story. While interesting in the beginning, just as I was beginning to settle into it, it was like someone clicked the fast-forward button, and boom. I suddenly see the makings of a love triangle, insta-love, and plot mechanisms to justify it all. I won't go into too much detail for fear of spoilers, but the love story left me bored because it was something I had seen done before, with no creative or original twist in plot, writing, or style to make me think twice about it.
Then there was the plot. Over the years, I've read many YA books, and I continue to do so because there are many amazing, well-written, deep books in the market. But there is also the formulaic book that most people assume litters the genre. Some people might call it mind-candy or fluff. It's been many years since I've stumbled across one of these books, and Endless falls into that category. It is predictable. So incredibly predicable. I came up empty reading this. I got to the ending and learned nothing new. Good literature will raise more questions than it answers. I'm not sure this book raised any.
If anything, it was nice to read this book to remember why I read books. But it's also a day of homework out the window, which just leaves me going
This book was disappointing.
It's been awhile since I've read a book that's made me feel like this: let down, frustrated at the lack of storytelling, upset with the characters because they fell flat instead of upset with them because they jumped out and grabbed me in the wrong way. Upon finishing this book, I felt frustration that I had spent time reading it, but I can't even be bothered to maintain my frustration, so I am left feeling...nothing.
This book has a lot of potential - the premise intrigued me, many of the elements seeming to be things I normally enjoy: a modern book with a twist about the past, an epic plot, and possibly interesting characters. None of it came through.
First, there is the love story. While interesting in the beginning, just as I was beginning to settle into it, it was like someone clicked the fast-forward button, and boom. I suddenly see the makings of a love triangle, insta-love, and plot mechanisms to justify it all. I won't go into too much detail for fear of spoilers, but the love story left me bored because it was something I had seen done before, with no creative or original twist in plot, writing, or style to make me think twice about it.
Then there was the plot. Over the years, I've read many YA books, and I continue to do so because there are many amazing, well-written, deep books in the market. But there is also the formulaic book that most people assume litters the genre. Some people might call it mind-candy or fluff. It's been many years since I've stumbled across one of these books, and Endless falls into that category. It is predictable. So incredibly predicable. I came up empty reading this. I got to the ending and learned nothing new. Good literature will raise more questions than it answers. I'm not sure this book raised any.
If anything, it was nice to read this book to remember why I read books. But it's also a day of homework out the window, which just leaves me going
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