#Review - Everafter Song by Emily R. King #YA #Fantasy

Series: The Evermore Chronicles #3
Format: Hardcover, 282 pages
Release Date: December 10, 2019
Publisher: Skyscape
Source: Publisher
Genre: Young Adult / Fantasy / Epic

In the heart-stopping conclusion to Emily R. King’s The Evermore Chronicles, the fate of the seven worlds lies in the courage of a girl on the run—and running out of time.

There’s a price on Everley Donovan’s head. Fleeing from the queen’s false accusation of murder and sorcery, the girl with the clock heart knows there’s only one way to prove her innocence. Everley must catch Killian Markham, the fugitive prince guilty of the crimes for which she’s been condemned. To do that, Everley must follow him into the towering realm of the Silver-Clouded Plain. It’s where flesh-eating behemoths thrive, long-lost gods hide, and an artifact of destructive force awaits the death grip of the immortal prince.

Haunted by visions of burning Everwoods and bloody battlefields, Everley is beset with rising fears. Because the elusive relic threatens more than the very power that drives her clock heart. In Killian’s hands, it can lead to the dismantling of the seven worlds. With everything—and everyone—Everley loves at stake, she must depend on Killian’s one weakness to outwit him: in his mad ambitions, Killian has underestimated her once again. For Everley is the Time Bearer. This is her destiny. The time of reckoning is at hand.

Emily R. King's Everafter Song is the third and final installment in the authors The Evermore Chronicles. It has been a month since the end of Into the Hourglass. Protagonist Everley Donovan is a wanted woman. She has been charged by Queen Aislinn of being a sorceress with a clock heart. She's also been accused of murdering her own Uncle Holden. Everley's cat and mouse game with Prince Killian Markham has been set back by Killian's efforts to stay at least two steps ahead of her at every turn. 

 

Killian Markham, the prince of elves, has a devious plan and is always steps ahead of Everley Donovan and her friends Jamison, Osric, Laverick, Claret. Everley goes absolutely nowhere without her trusty immortal blade of Avelyn, but in order to stop Killian, she might have to make the hardest choice of all. Everley has been Killian's pawn for too long. Killian has allies and plans to wake the giants from their slumber to finish what was started hundreds of years ago, making the humans servants to the elves. 

 

Everley is doing all she can to maintain the structure of the worlds and not allow Markham to rip them all apart. Everley's dreams are a look into possibilities of what can happen if Killian wins. But, what happens if she wins? Everley must travel more than ever (including to the Silver-Clouded Plain home of the Trolls). As Time Bearer and Knight, Evie can explore the Evermore timeline. She believes this ability can be used to gain an advantage on Markham. Several endings have been foretold, and Everafter Song brings even new magical creatures - elves, giants, trolls, sea hags, etc into the fold.

 

This has been a wonderful series in regards to the world building. Everley and her allies have visited numerous alternative worlds while chasing Markham. From the Silver Clouded Plain where Giants have been locked in their world for the past 900 years. There punishment from trying to force humans into becoming slaves. We also visit the home of Killian and the Elves in the Land of Promise. As Everley travels from world to world, she picks up some pretty important allies as well as making the Queen squirm in her seat knowing that Everley is doing more to save the world than Aislinn ever thought of.

 

Everley has come to actually love Jamison but there is a caveat. Everly realizes that given the chance to turn back time to before she lost her entire family, it would mean losing all of those she has come to adore as friends and family. Including Jamison who she has been slowly falling for since they were married in the first installment. No spoilers but the author pretty much hinted in the second book that Everley was going to have to pull a huge back of tricks out her hat to defeat Killian and save everyone. It's just a matter of what it will cost her when all is said and done.

 

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