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Not as good as I remember it being. Kind of meh. The tricky concept is the idea that our four leads minus Senna are both present in pa Not as good as I remember it being. The tricky concept is the idea that our four leads minus Senna are both present in parallel world EverWorld and the real world, and their real-world bodies get a mind-update every time the Everworld bodies fall asleep. So in this concept, we the viewers are following the EverWorld bodies through their adventure and occasionally slip back into the real world, where time passes at a faster rate.
Since then there has been plenty of good media about Norse mythology overshadowing just about everything else. But at this stage I promise nothing. View all 5 comments. Jun 05, Collin rated it liked it Shelves: mythology. I don't know. On one hand, I should have loved it. Mythology spewing out from everywhere. And no Greek gods in sight yet? Thank you, Applegate, for your originality.
On the other hand Oh my word. I couldn't stand any of them. Except maybe Jalil, but he was still annoying. And Senna? She had better turn evil because I desperately want to pour snake venom on her face.
And don't get me started on how terrifying Loki and his minions were supposed to be. He I don't know. He reminded me of Hades in the Disney Hercules movie - he even burst into flame once. Ha ha. Except Loki wasn't hilarious like Hades was. And his trolls were the Stormtroopers of the Everworld universe only without the sleekly awesome uniform. And maybe half their brains. I will, however, give Jormungandr points for being as creepy as a snake can be with maybe three sheets of page time.
Overall, not particularly impressive. I have the second and fourth book, so I will be continuing to see if it gets better - K. Applegate's series usually do - but not with a whole lot of enthusiasm.
Apr 01, Anna Kay rated it really liked it Shelves: all-time-favorites. I'm rereading these for about the fourth or fifth time now, but the first since I left behind my teen years. I'm leaving the rating where it was originally, just because I'd still recommend these to a younger audience.
But all the mythological stuff from many different cultures and the thrill of adventure are still there. Seeing this through adult eyes, I'm fond but I don't loooove it anymore. I think I'll still keep rereading as long as it strikes my fancy, as there are eleven more books. Apr 03, Jackie rated it liked it Recommends it for: young adults who like mythology. I read this book as a teenager and only recently bought the last books, so I re-read it last year.
This is the first book in a 12 book series about a group of teenagers who find themselves transported to another universe where mythical gods and people reside. It all surrounds one girl, Senna, who is the key to opening a portal back to the "real" world for the gods to escape to because a god-eating god is threatening their existence.
This series is great for younger adults, especially those who I read this book as a teenager and only recently bought the last books, so I re-read it last year. This series is great for younger adults, especially those who are into mythology. May 06, Julie rated it liked it Shelves: mythology-revisions , rereads , young-adult , applegrant.
My Grand KAA Reread continues, this time with her sophomore series: a fantasy about a group of unwilling teenagers dragged into a world where magic reigns and various mythologies all rub elbows. This was totally my jam after Animorphs: it had a wolf on the cover and Norse mythology and Vikings, of course it would've hooked a year-old Julie! The maturity picks up nicely from where the end of Animorphs left off, written for an older audience: this writing is darker, the violence more explicit an My Grand KAA Reread continues, this time with her sophomore series: a fantasy about a group of unwilling teenagers dragged into a world where magic reigns and various mythologies all rub elbows.
The maturity picks up nicely from where the end of Animorphs left off, written for an older audience: this writing is darker, the violence more explicit and detailed, and Applegate includes serious issues like child abuse, homophobic slurs, racism, even briefly police prejudice against young black males. And I know there's other things coming down the pike. The start of the book immediately struck me for how lovely, dream-like, and introspective the writing was -- Applegate has started using a more literary style than in Animorphs.
This sort of contemplative mood persists until they reach Everworld, at which point it's action-action-action and sharp clarity; which I'd say is exactly the point, that the characters or at least David specifically were existing in a haze until this experience woke them up.
Everworld becomes real, to the detriment of their lives back in the 'old' world. Applegate has to establish a lot in this introduction, which means it suffers a bit as a book. The characters are only thinly characterised at the moment you'll get more in each of their POV books , and a lot of different factions and details are tossed at the reader, along with a cliffhanger ending.
Each appearance of another mythological reference was -- and is -- a delight for a myth nerd like yours truly. David, as our introductory character, is interesting -- not a leader and not a hero, though he so desperately wants to be.
He's a coward who wishes he wasn't. He's throwing everything aside in pursuit of a cipher, a girl he hardly knows at all and I love that she uses him, getting her hooks in deep and planting metaphorical seeds to be useful later. I don't know where to fit April, though, and I like that about her, that she doesn't just come off as a re-tread of someone like Rachel; I'm interested in finding out more about her, and her complicated relationship with her half-sister.
I love that she calls out the boys on their macho bullshit. I love her!! And, you know, I actually like how unlikeable these teenagers can be. They're an abrasive group with no real positive connection to each other at the start, rubbing each other the wrong way, trying to find a way to survive together, tearing into each other; it's a different sort of careful balance and group dynamic to juggle than in KAA's previous series. It makes me want to see how their relationships with each other will change going forward.
I also appreciate David's issues about college and a career, because it's something that would resonate with teenagers -- that feeling of uncertainty and dread, not knowing where you're going, the fear of real life spinning out ahead of you, inevitable and dreary. In his monologue, Applegate utterly nailed it, because I remember experiencing those same anxieties about working life and in fact, still do!
It's a bit of a messy start, but I have such fond memories of this series and think it'll get better as it digs deeper into its characters and world, now that the setup is complete. And I trust KAA with pretty much everything, tbh. Plus, just, Everworld is a dark ensemble action-adventure through varied worlds of myth, which means it's catnip for me. I mean, he has a real talent that way.
You know a guy is funny when a week later you can still feel the little knives he stuck in you. I love this whole chapter. Show me your secrets. Some part of me, some part of my brain has taken over my body in a flash, no thought, no hesitation. The switch has been thrown. The rage adrenaline is flooding my arms and legs, stiff with repressed energy. The kid is crying. Crying in his cot. Get the hell out of my office!
I'm two feet away from the coach. He's my size. Older, though, fat in the middle, slow. Screw you! At me. Someday," I said. Because I care about business? No, because everyone's on me about my future. Gotta get the grades so you can get a good college so you can get a good business school so you can get on with some big firm where you shuffle papers and tap on a keyboard and that's it, man, that's your life till you get old and wonder what the hell you did with your life.
That's not life. Not for a man, anyway. That won't be my life. You leave out all the good stuff: friends and family. The things you love to do. You know? Going west in a wagon train, or going to war, or exploring someplace no human being had ever been before.
Now what do we have? Look at Sven. Look at that guy. He's my age. Look at his life. Then look at mine or Jalil's or yours. We're both about sixteen. But he's a man. And I'm a boy. Is it the testosterone? You know, David, it's the dawn of the twenty-first century, and you live in the richest, most powerful nation on Earth where there's almost no one starving and no one enslaved and no one invading to murder and pillage and rape.
And finally, finally, after thousands of years of men slaughtering men, women, and children over nonsense, we have a few places on Earth where there's a little peace, a little decency. A few places where most people get to be born and live their lives without total horror being rained down on them, and your reaction is, 'This has to stop! View 2 comments. I had originally read this book as a junior high kiddo when it first came out 20 years ago. I was obsessed with Animorphs so of course I wanted to read Everworld I remember at the time thinking I was cool because my mom would NOT like me reading Everworld at that age and I got away with it.
For instance, the story very briefly touched on a child being sex I had originally read this book as a junior high kiddo when it first came out 20 years ago. For instance, the story very briefly touched on a child being sexually abused by a staff member at a summer camp. The books are also pretty violent for that age.
The characters go back and forth between worlds and yet they are just kinda popping in and out Jan 22, Leah rated it liked it. If I had reviewed this when I first read it around , this would have been 5 stars. I loved this series in HS. But, I'm 31 now and can see its faults.
It still a good first book, and I'm excited to see what I think of the rest of the series. It was a fun time, traveling back to EverWorld after all these years and hang out with these cool cats from Chicago. Being an Animorphs diehard, I'd always meant to take a plunge on the Everworld series. Plucking it off a used bookstore shelf a couple weeks back and being that dreadful person who takes book 1 when the rest of the series is also on the shelf , I was looking forward to Ms.
Applegate's mature and mindful take on the lives of teenagers, often in fantastic situations with lovely world building abounding. Since two stars in Goodreads means "okay," it was definitely okay in the average. There are s Being an Animorphs diehard, I'd always meant to take a plunge on the Everworld series. There are some stirring surrealist psychological moments when we drift into David's mind that are the book's standout moments, in large part because much is intimated and little is actually explained.
As ever for Applegate, there are really lovely words here as well many relating to boating terminology which was a nice surprise. Plus her trademark taste for the dark and edgy which so enamored me with Animorphs, since even in Ani 1 we were faced with the human tragedy of resistance efforts against militarily superior forces.
Those are the nice bits. The less nice bits are sadly more ample. There is a thoughtful, almost meditative, slowness to the book's beginning that is so fascinating and engaging, where we learn a lot about our leads. Then the moment they hit Everworld the characters practically freeze in place. Fitting since the rest of the book feels glacially slow and I had to keep prodding myself to finish it.
Christopher makes a joke, April complains or flirts, Jalil plays skeptic and David is scared or angry. Apply to every scene and lather, rinse, repeat. And while we meet a variety of new characters, we only get very surface impressions of them, and the rest of the book is either action scenes or worrying. But no sense of place. Maybe because Animorphs had a baked in world modern day Earth it was more of a challenge to have to ground the reader in a new world altogether, but I feel nothing about where they are.
Castle, boat, farm, boat. Animorphs could take a barn and have an entire book revolve around it and who is in it and I could see it so clearly in my mind and care so much about what happened in it. Then there is the flimsy and weird reasoning behind what is going on in the "real" world, based on auto-pilot rules that don't make a lot of sense and moreover don't seem to add a lot to the narrative.
Though this does, near the end, make a nice impetus for a revelation about how David seems himself and his life which was super intriguing because it uncovers some of the intricate damage so often inherent to Applegate's characters. About Everworld I've read that you should "just wait" because "it gets better," which if I hadn't started re-reading Animorphs a couple years back I'd say "Okay, sure.
I've probably got a rose-colored view of Animorphs and that's tainting my enjoyment. I was a kid then and I bet that series doesn't even hold up anymore.
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