Endless by Jessica Shirvington
Australian copy received from Brianna (Another thanks!)
Release date: October
1, 2013
Reviewed by: Middle
Sis Jenn
The Sisters Say: A
Rainbow of Excitement, Love, and Loss
Angels are real. They aren't always kind. Violet Eden is certain of all this because she is Grigori - part angel, part human. She has felt the influence of both light and dark.
When Hell unleashes its worst, Violet must embrace every facet of her angel self to save the people she cares about and the world as she knows it. But death is not the worst thing that Violet will face. For her, the endless question 'Can love conquer all?' will finally be answered.
I don’t even know where to begin, other than, Jessica
Shirvington, you have ripped my heart to shreds!!!! I don’t even know where to begin to pick up
the pieces. This is one of those series
that I am emotionally attached to—putting it in the esteemed company of The
Covenant Series, Harry Potter Series, Mortal Instuments and Shatter Me. I feel like I’ve come to know each and every
one of the characters, and each one, good and bad, has managed to wriggle their
way into my reality. This series is
unbelievably amazing, and as I much as I want to read what’s next, I wish it
would never end.
Be prepared for heartbreak—there is your warning.
Instead of doing a normal review, I have picked out a few of
the chapter headings to be my focus.
1.) From Chapter 3, “Can you hear Destiny laugh as she
tiptoes toward you? Destiny is
heartless.” –Anonymous
Fate unfolds brilliantly in this fourth installment of the
Embrace series. You finally see more
about Nox and Uri, and more importantly, you get more insight into Violet’s
Angel Maker. But these revelations won’t
give you peace, not when you see how Destiny careens towards such a devastating
cliff. I loved how Jessica brought in
the smallest details from the first books and brought them together,
culminating in a remarkable set-up for action, betrayal, and revelations.
2.) From Chapter 8, “No man chooses evil because it is evil…he
only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.” –Mary Wollstonecraft
Shelley
One of the things I like about Jessica’s story is that no
one is without redemption, if they so choose it. That being said, you just never know who is
going to step out of the shadows and show themselves a traitor. Everyone’s actions are circumspect, and I
love the mystery that surrounds the Exiles and Grigori alike. And Phoenix, of course, the Exile that stole
my heart (even though I love Lincoln, too!) shows us the ace up his sleeve.
3.) From Chapter 15, “The pure and simple truth is rarely
pure and never simple.” Oscar Wilde
Oh what a tangled web we weave! I can never seem to figure out what is going
to happen next with this series, and that is truly a remarkable thing. Books have become wholly too predictable, so
it’s a breath of fresh air to not know what is going to happen with Violet,
Lincoln, and Phoenix.
4.) From Chapter 30, “Let your plans be dark and as
impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.” Sun Tzu
The climax of this book is amazing!!! It was morose and heart-breaking, but the
scene that Jessica has portrayed is as vivid as any movie you will ever
see. More so, I love seeing how Violet
comes into her powers, and believe me, she does strike like a thunderbolt.
5.) The final quote is the quote at the beginning of the
book, but I left it until the end because it illuminates the epicness of what
is to come: “Light and darkness, life
and death, right and left, are brothers of one another. They are inseparable. Because of this neither are the good good,
nor the evil evil, nor is life life, nor death death.” The Gospel of Philip
Jessica has created a world where light and darkness
co-exist and whose to tell which one is more good. A world where good and evil exist as one, not
separate entities trying to expunge the other.
It’s a world where life leads to death, and death may lead to true
life. I love this world, this book,
these characters; and if I found myself on the edge of a cliff, being dared by
an Angel to jump off; I might just give it a thought (you know, if there was a
Phoenix and Lincoln waiting for me on the other side).
