Endless Knight

Wow. Wow, wow, wow! I LOVED this sequel! 

Evie and Jackson have many new obstacles to face this time around. More bagmen, zombies, new Arcana, old Arcana, and of course Death. Evie felt she knew exactly who was on her side, who she must rid the world of, and most importantly who she wanted to give her heart to. But when Death separates her from Jack, and new revelations alter all Evie thought she knew about the world A.F., she must choose, and this choice could be deadly.

What I Loved:

Relationships. Even though the thought of fighting for a relationship while trying to survive the early months of the apocalypse is pretty silly in reality, I love how they still make it work. Even with the rest of the world dead, there is still love and people still care about each other. And despite Jackson’s coldness at times, they have a pretty steady relationship going on.

Depth. Cole has a knack for allowing the reader to know what is going on from as many perspectives as possible while still remaining in Evie’s point of view.

Character Development. Once again the character development was beautifully executed. I always knew who I was reading about and what their personalities were like.

Who to trust? Though this is also on the list of things I hated, the constant doubt was a believable and necessary part to the story. Especially at the final cliff-hanger.

Evie fighting her nature. The Empress, Evie’s card, her alter-ego of sorts, is one seriously bad bitch. The Empress was ruthless in past “games” and is a huge foil to Evie herself (a beautiful parallel to
Jack and Aric as foils as one side of herself loves one and the other loves the other.)

New kind of love triangle. In this love triangle one is a clear choice over the other, but then another side of thinking makes one choice better over the other. In this love triangle, even I’m confused! Though I generally want the protagonist to stay with the first love interest (always, never fails), I really don’t know this time.

What I Hated:

Who to trust?! As I said, irritating but necessary.

Likability of the Villain. After a while, Aric seemed more and more like a human being and it was really starting to annoy. It makes it super hard to hate someone that is so relatable.

14 years rating. About halfway through the novel I checked out the back of the book, for no reason in particular, and saw that this book was recommended for ages 14 and up. I know I was reading worse when I was 14, so I’m a bit of a hypocrite, but I don’t think a PUBLISHING HOUSE should RECOMMEND this novel to 14 year olds. I would say the recommendation should be 16 and up due to sexual content and detailed intense action. Perhaps that is just me though.

Cliff-fucking-hanger! ARRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!.

That is all.

WTF?!

Blackmailing. (SPOILER ALERT!) This is part of the fucking godawful cliff-hanger. At the end, Jack is in danger and Death is not only willing to allow Evie to go, but will go himself and bring his army along IF she chooses him and sleeps with him first. Really? Fucking really? Evie asked him to wait simply out of respect for her wanting both sides of a horrible story. Jack was willing to wait for her, but Death? Hmmm….

Ogen. Just… Ogen…. Every time he was described I pretty much had a

on my face.

Overall, i give this novel a 5/5 star rating. As I already said I feel this novel should be recommended for 16 year olds and older. I really loved this installment, even more than the first and I can not wait for the final installment which will be published tomorrow! And I wouldn't be a book nerd without asking off work for the event! Hopefully I'll be able to report on Dead of Winter soon after it's release!