“Where had I read about a maze before? Or a labyrinth?”Ĭ’mon! Similarly, she consistently conflates the ability to love with the physical presence of a heart. For example, in spite of her obsessive studies of mythology, when she sees her little brother working on mazes for school, she thinks to herself: And most unfortunately, Nikki is in many ways Too Dumb to Live. She is mean to Cole, blaming him for her own choices (even though she occasionally gives lip service to recognizing her own responsibility). And all roads lead to Cole….ĭiscussion: Once again, the character of Nikki is obsessive, self-centered, and impulsive. She is convinced that her only chance to rescue him is to get back, somehow, to the Everneath.
But she knows time is running out, because his image is weakening. And now it is Nikki’s turn to tether Jack. Now, in Everbound, it’s two months later. Persephone about to get access to the Surface for six months a year via pomegranate seeds But at the end of Book One, just when these shades were coming for Nikki, Jack leapt into her place and went instead. When the six months are over, she was told that scary shade-like things would come and pull her back down to the Everneath. Nevertheless, and in spite of Nikki’s professed love for Jack, Cole agreed to let Nikki return to the surface for six months- because, after all, we are mirroring the Persephone myth here. Cole, however, is convinced that Nikki survived so that she could be his queen in the Underworld. The reason she did is that she was “tethered” to the upper world by the love of Jack. He takes Nikki to the Underworld to feed on hers, thus ridding her of bad feelings (but good ones as well) for a hundred years.Īt the end of one hundred years in Underworld time (six months back on “the Surface”), most humans grow old and die. No, it’s not drugs! Rather, Cole is an “Everliving,”a being who attains eternal life by feeding off of humans’ emotions.
In Book One (see my review of Everneath, here), Nikki, caught at a low moment when she thinks her boyfriend Jack has cheated on her, allows a cute guitar player, Cole Stockton, to convince her to try his method of choice for escaping pain. Our heroine, Nikki Beckett, carries around a D’Aulaires Book of Greek Myths as her vademecum so this enables her to explain many myth references to the other characters (and we, the readers) when they arise. This time the author throws in yet more myths and classics: Sisyphus, the Minotaur, Dante, Scheherazade, and no doubt others I missed. This is the second book in the series that is a modified retelling of the Persephone and Orpheus myths. Note: This review contains spoilers for Book One of this series, Everneath, but none for this sequel.
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