Narrator Jules is a good role model for bravery, loyalty, and making sacrifices for her loved ones. Strong language, sex, and alcohol are infrequent and mild. Otherwise there's little violence except a few stabbings, and a throat slitting with blood mentioned but not described in detail. The blood is then magically converted into coins that are used as currency but also can be consumed to add time back to the life span.
Losing blood causes people's life span to be shortened according to how much they've lost, so that days, hours, months, even years can be drained away. Parents need to know that Everless is a fantasy set in a world where blood is a major theme. Smell of tobacco smoke.ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Drinking, Drugs & Smoking in your kid's entertainment guide. Jules and friends go to a tavern and have wine with a strong liquor that burns going down, makes her choke, and makes her dizzy. Jules sneaks a swig of sparkling wine and mentions that the alcohol keeps her warm. Plus don't miss the thrilling sequel, Evermore!įans of Victoria Aveyard, Kendare Blake, and Stephanie Garber will devour this lush novel's breathtaking action, incredible romance, and dangerous secrets.Jules serves wine at a party. Her decisions have the power to change her fate-and the fate of time itself.įans of Victoria Aveyard, Kendare Blake, and Stephanie Garber will devour this lush novel's breathtaking action, incredible romance, and dangerous secrets. Soon she’s caught in a tangle of violent secrets and finds her heart torn between two people she thought she’d never see again. When Jules discovers that her father is dying, she knows that she must return to Everless to earn more time for him before she loses him forever.īut going back to Everless brings more danger-and temptation-than Jules could have ever imagined. A decade ago, she and her father were servants at Everless, the Gerlings’ palatial estate, until a fateful accident forced them to flee in the dead of night.
No one resents the Gerlings more than Jules Ember. The rich aristocracy, like the Gerlings, tax the poor to the hilt, extending their own lives by centuries.
In the kingdom of Sempera, time is currency-extracted from blood, bound to iron, and consumed to add time to one’s own lifespan. Everless gives new and terrifying meaning to the phrase running out of time." -Stephanie Garber, New York Times bestselling author of Caraval
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