I just couldn’t connect with the main romance and I didn’t think that there was any chemistry at all (but this IS actually built upon in the end of the book). There were a few moments where I DID find myself getting slightly annoyed with the romance element of the book. It’s pretty much got all of the ingredients that I look for in YA fantasy, and I genuinely think that Holland executed it really well. Holland got the pacing JUST right, and I was thrown into a world where there was loads of political intrigue, romance, enemies, and mystery. But after a few chapters, that all changed. There just wasn’t enough ‘ummpphhh’ for me to really get into it. But the web of secrets at Everless stretches beyond her desire, and the truths Jules must uncover will change her life for ever … and possibly the future of time itself.Īt first, I couldn’t connect with the story and the world-building.

There, Jules encounters danger and temptation in the guise of the Gerling heir, Roan, who is soon to be married. To stop him from draining himself to clear their debts, Jules takes a job at Everless, the grand estate of the cruel Gerling family. Jules and her father are behind on their rent and low on hours. The rich live for centuries the poor bleed themselves dry. Ever since the age of alchemy and sorcery, hours, days and years have been extracted from blood and bound to iron coins. In the land of Sempera, the rich control everything – even time. She made the story come to life and voiced the characters so well! LUCKILY, I really liked the narrator for Everless. I’m always a bit apprehensive when I purchase an audiobook because it’s a lot money to waste on something that might have a narrator that you can’t connect with, and won’t be able to listen to for 10 hours. Everless is one of the books that I actually listened to on Audible.

Everless series order