BOOK COVER REVEAL - EVERBOUND by BRODI ASHTON - EVERNEATH # 2

EVERBOUND - EVERNEATH # 2

by BRODI ASHTON

Two months ago, the Tunnels of the underworld came for Nikki Beckett. That night, Nikki's boyfriend, Jack, made the ultimate sacrifice. All Nikki wants is to save Jack before it's too late. All Cole wants is to find his queen - and he thinks Nikki is the one. Both determined, both desperate, Nikki and Cole form a tense alliance, leading them on a dangerous journey to The Heart of The Everneath.

DUE FOR RELEASE

22ND JANUARY 2013

HARPER COLLINS

BALZER + BRAY

SIMON & SCHUSTER

I LOVE this cover!!

The Black Dress....black smokey ?? stuff....shades??? swirling about Nikki's feet.

I am really looking forward to more Jack and Cole!!

What Team are you currently ?

I am Team ........Jack , but there is something about Cole.

Oh the conundrum!


REVIEW OF EVERNEATH


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Michelle

INTERVIEW WITH BRODI ASHTON & COLE FROM EVERNEATH

Interview with

BRODI ASHTON

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Today on the blog I have the pleasure of interviewing not just a wonderful debut author, but the sinister (yet sexy!) lead villain in the newly released novel EVERNEATH.  That’s right folks, Brodi Ashton and the conniving (yet alluring) Cole have joined us today and will answer a couple of questions.

Firstly, congratulations Brodi on such an awesome debut novel.  Praises and rave reviews are everywhere on the web! 

-Thank you so much!

1. How does it feel to be in such demand and to know that you created something that so many are enjoying?

- It feels surreal that something that started out in a little room - with just me and my computer - is now being read around the world. It’s amazing. I don’t know if I’ll ever get over getting emails from readers who connected with the story.

2. So now that Everneath is out…..how long are the masses going to have to wait for book 2?  Any chance you can slide in a sneak peak here to keep them even more at their wits end??!!!

- I’m just finishing up on revisions for book 2 right now, but since it doesn’t come out until January of 2013, I can’t say much. But what I can say is: If you’ve read the first book in its entirety, you’ll have a good idea of what needs to happen in book 2!

3. I checked out your blog post detailing your launch party (Brodi Ashton's Launch Party by Numbers). WOW! What a turnout!  You’d have to be pleased with such an awesome response.  Was it a little overwhelming standing up their knowing that you and your creation were the ONLY reason for that many people to be there?

- Very overwhelming! Everyone was so supportive. But it helped to have the Power Point presentation there, so I could give them something else to focus on besides my chubby cheeks.

4. Now your road to publication may be vastly different, or even at times similar to many debut authors…..what are some moments that were total StandOut awesome moments for you during your journey?

- EVERNEATH wasn’t my first book. I wrote another book that didn’t sell. When I showed my agent-at-the-time the first draft of EVERNEATH, he didn’t like it. Eventually, I split up with him because of it, and I thought that might be the end for me. But when I started querying again with EVERNEATH, I ended up with ten offers of representation. That was absolutely a defining moment, and let me know I had something special.

5. Now not to leave Cole sitting there any longer….you’d think he has somewhere to be!!  Welcome Cole to Novels On The Run and thanks for taking time out of your day to chat with us.  You do kind of look pretty nice draped over the arm of that hotel couch! Hmmmmmm…..oops sorry!! Where was I?....

-It’s okay. People often lose their train of thought when they look at me. It happens.

6. The Dead Elvises….great band name.  What a great front to allure the emotionally needy fans so you can strip their emotions and get “high”.  Is this the real or only reason for creating the band? Or do you and the other guys actually have a passion for music?

- I live for music, and so do the guys in the band. It’s why we all came together. We just merged our passion for music with our immortal lifestyles as well. We get to live our dream, and we never run out of nourishment.

7. What song would sum up The Dead Elvises? What would be the bands’ anthem song?

- I would say “Ulysses” by Franz Ferdinand. It’s all about taking that first trip, and then never going home again.

8. Is there any style of music or particular artist that you just put your down and refuse to play?

- We don’t touch Celine Dion. And Reggae is for pansies.

9. Where can we get the guitar picks???  They “Rock”!!

- As with many things in life, it’s all about being in the right place at the right time.

10. Cole…clearly your time during the Feed with Nikki was pretty intense and even intimate..being entwined with her for so long.  The overwhelming need you find yourself feeling for her since you left the Everneath, could that be love?  Or just purely a side effect of the feed?

-If I’m not going to be straight with Nikki about my feelings, it wouldn’t be very crafty of me to spill the beans on your blog…  But the fact is, it doesn’t matter what I say about love. Until the object of my love believes I’m actually capable of it, my feelings will go unrequited. 

11. Cole, can you describe your own memory (emotional and physical) that you went through during the Feed?

-        The Feed is a very intimate, and personal thing for an Everliving. It is the moment we face the meaning of our lives. We stare down the fragility of our own existence, the cost of our immortality, and we renew our pledge to this life we have chosen.

-        At least, that’s what we are supposed to think about. During this particular Feed, all I could think about was the girl in my arms.

Well I am sure you both have plenty of places to go and things to do….so again, thanks so much for chatting with us.

- Thank you for having us!!

I hope you all enjoyed those few questions.  If you haven't read EVERNEATH yet, add it to your TBR list and grab a copy.  To find out more about Everneath check out my review HERE.

Also take the time to check out Brodi's own blog - Brodi Ashton

ENJOY!

MARISSA

BOOK REVIEW - EVERNEATH By BRODI ASHTON - EVERNEATH # 1

By : Brodi Ashton
Published By : Simon & Schuster, Harper Collins, Simon Pulse
Released : 24th January 2012
Details: Paperback, 370 Pages

Thankyou to Simon & Schuster Australia

RATING : 4.5 JACK, HEROES DO EXIST STARS!

Book Blurb : Taken From Goodreads

Last spring, Nikki Beckett vanished, sucked into an underworld known as the Everneath, where immortals Feed on the emotions of despairing humans. Now she's returned- to her old life, her family, her friends- before being banished back to the underworld... this time forever.


She has six months before the Everneath comes to claim her, six months for good-byes she can't find the words for, six months to find redemption, if it exists.


Nikki longs to spend these months reconnecting with her boyfriend, Jack, the one person she loves more than anything. But there's a problem: Cole, the smoldering immortal who first enticed her to the Everneath, has followed Nikki to the mortal world. And he'll do whatever it takes to bring her back- this time as his queen.


As Nikki's time grows short and her relationships begin slipping from her grasp, she's forced to make the hardest decision of her life: find a way to cheat fate and remain on the Surface with Jack or return to the Everneath and become Cole's...


BOOK REVIEW:



Debut author, Brodi Ashton had me under a spell with Everneath. I felt totally compelled to keep reading Everneath until the very last page, I was swept away with this read.

I want more.

I want to know Cole the dark, dangerous, mysterious, smexi, persuasive, motorcycle riding, guitar playing, leader of The Dead Elvises, character more. Oh he is a bad boy, but we get this hint of a guy who has been changed under the surface by Nikki. I don’t think he even understands what he is feeling.


The Prologue had me so intrigued that the pages started turning, almost by themselves. I mean two people who wake up after 100 years, almost like their bodies have grown together, their skin stuck to each other. Eyes having to be peeled open, legs slowly pulled away from each other. The Feeding has finished.


100 years in the Everneath, is 6 months on the surface.


For 6 months Nikki had just disappeared.


Jack her boyfriend, we find through back story is consumed with finding her. His love is very strong for Nikki, but even he has his limits. He is such a patient character, who almost handles Nikki with kid gloves when she returned. I felt like he was afraid to spook Nikki, for fear of her disappearing again. I felt such compassion for Jack. He really is a great guy. He didn't push Nikki for answers to his list of questions. He waited, stayed close enough to share stolen glances, hoping to find the Nikki that he knew underneath the quiet, thin, damaged person she had become.


Cole has Nikki awake in the Everneath for a short time before Nikki remembers the boy that she left and she Returns immediately to the surface. For a hundred years Nikki saw Jack's face while the 'Feeding', happened.


To Nikki, she is a broken, damaged girl who left with Cole because he took away her pain. Her mother had been killed by a drunk driver, she feared her relationship with Jack was over, her father was too busy to spend time with her, she was in a bad place.


Nikki was preyed upon by Cole.


Nikki now knits, it is her calming thing she does.


Jack wants to understand Nikki, where she has been, he was frightened for her, but this isn’t the same Nikki he once dated. To everybody else she is a drug addict who disappeared and has now returned.


Nikki has 6 months to say her goodbyes, before the Shade that is inside her pulls her back to the Tunnels. She is now Forfeit. She gave up Cole and the Everneath. Cole hasn’t given up on Nikki, not in a long shot. He has found what he has been searching for and he doesn’t want to give her up.


I have never read about Hades, Persephone, Orpheus or Eurydice. I soon worked out Orpheus would be Jack, Eurydice would be Nikki. I want to now read more and understand this mythology.


Mary is an intriguing character who is frightened and yet brave, appears mentally lost, but is she?


I loved the way Brodi kept the reader intrigued by showing us the NOW of the story line and the backstory , keeping it clear to the reader. It all wove together to keep the mystery of what had happened to Nikki and how Cole came into her life and where it left Jack. Brodi takes us to where we need to be in her story, we as the reader follow.


Nikki wasn’t mentally a very strong character when she was with Jack, she had to grow through meeting Cole and having to decide if it was worth it to fight back. Not just to come back to say her goodbyes and disappear again on her family, Jack and Jules her friend. She had to want to fight through all the pain she felt and want to beat it, beat Cole, beat the Shades and the Tunnel.


There were a couple of great twists in this story which I really enjoyed and thought were quite clever.


Is it possible to escape Cole and the Everneath?


This is a great love story that I want to read more about. I feel like Nikki is going to have to roll her sleeves up ,dig deep and fight for what means most to her. It’s no longer about her pain.


When she thought she only had herself to lose..........

FAVE QUOTES:

  "Wait," he said.
I turned back. "What?"
  He shrugged, then spoke in a low murmur. "Just stop hiding behind your hair for a minute."
  I closed my eyes, but still I didn't turn away. "You're making things difficult, Jack Caputo," I whispered.
  "At least you remember my name."
  I remember everything. The first time he called me his girlfriend. The first time he told me he loved me. The first time I started to question whether or not I'd be able to hold on to him. The first time I knew I had to come back to see him again, at whatever cost.


"Why won't you help me? You could be a hero for once."
"Heroes don't exist. And if they did, I wouldn't be one of them."



Michelle

BOOK REVIEW: 4.5 Stars for EVERNEATH by BRODI ASHTON

Title:  EVERNEATH
Author:  BRODI ASHTON
Publisher: Balzer + Bray (Harper Collins)
Pages:  384 pages (hardcover)
Acquired:  Received for review from Publisher via NetGalley
Release Date:  January 24, 2012



RATING:  4.5 CONNIVING COLE STARS!

Description:

Last spring, Nikki Beckett vanished, sucked into an underworld known as the Everneath, where immortals Feed on the emotions of despairing humans. Now she's returned- to her old life, her family, her friends- before being banished back to the underworld... this time forever.

She has six months before the Everneath comes to claim her, six months for good-byes she can't find the words for, six months to find redemption, if it exists.

Nikki longs to spend these months reconnecting with her boyfriend, Jack, the one person she loves more than anything. But there's a problem: Cole, the smoldering immortal who first enticed her to the Everneath, has followed Nikki to the mortal world. And he'll do whatever it takes to bring her back- this time as his queen.


As Nikki's time grows short and her relationships begin slipping from her grasp, she's forced to make the hardest decision of her life: find a way to cheat fate and remain on the Surface with Jack or return to the Everneath and become Cole's...

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Review:

Well this one caught me by surprise!  And it was certainly a fantastic surprise at that.   I was intrigued, enthralled and kept highly entertained as every page went by.

Nikki Beckett (Becks) is our leading gal!  She's been curled up in a cocoon for a hundred years (6 months in human time) with the Everliving Cole.  Cole feeds off her emotion to sustain his own life form.  Once out of the Feed, Becks wants back to normal - even if it is just for 6 months - so she can mend things with her father, say goodbye to her brother and see Jack Caputo.....just once more.  After 6 months is up....the Tunnels will come for her and she will no longer exist as Becks.

She is a shell of her former sell when she returns. And Becks struggles with her passion for Jack and her connection to Cole.  Does she have the strength to make a stand?  Delving into the stories of Greek Mythology, an answer awaits her and Jack.

Jack Caputo is Becks' love and oh yes.....her ex. She left on highly emotional circumstances with Cole - he could take her pain away.  Jack isn't sure what's happened to Becks but intends to find out....one little bit at a time. He hasn't given up on them even if he was "broken" when she left. He'd thought she was missing - even kidnapped......but then she came back.....  Jack still loves her but can he believe the story about who she now is and where she has been?

Cole...Cole....Cole.........you rotten scoundrel. Feeding off the emotions of humans to sustain yourself - no regrets - no concerns - no nothing!  Until he went into the Feed with Becks.....now he finds himself tied a little to tightly to his need for Becks and will do whatever it takes to make sure she chooses him in the end.

Brodi Ashton has delivered a fantastic debut novel.  Her chapters are set in the "Now" and also prior to the Feed.  Even though the story jumps back in time to give us more detail and understanding of Becks' circumstances......the forward motion and great pace of the overall story is kept up and adds to the complete enjoyment of Everneath.  This was a definite "Can't put down till finished" read!

Oh and yeah.........GREAT ENDING!!!

ENJOY!

MARISSA