Having not read the first three books in this series, I was a little lost throughout the book. I kept having to go back and re-read something just to try and figure out what everyone in the book was talking about.
The main character Ivy, is easy to relate to in a sense, although some things she says and does bring up a lot of questions on how she can be so trusting after everything that happened in her past. Ivy's boyfriend at the beginning of the book behaves more like a close guy friend than a boyfriend really and without having previously read any of the other books I just couldn't understand why he was really there. Beth, Ivy's best friend, seemed to me more of an older controlling sibling than a friend really. Always telling Ivy what she should be doing and siding with Will from the beginning. Will and Beth seemed to be trying to control Ivy more than be her friend.
And then when Guy was introduced, I automatically thought; well there is Tristan, but then there were times that I thought he may have been Gregory; again, I should have read the first three books and maybe I would have known a little better the mannerisms of both Tristan and Gregory.
The ending of this book has left me totally confused, I understand that there needed to be a place to stop so that the next book could be written, but the end was pretty much totally cut off and left a ton of questions unanswered. I'm going to go get the first three books in the series just to catch up and then wait very UN-patiently for the next book to find out what happens. ( )

Hace un año que Tristan murió. Ivy y sus amigos deciden pasar el verano en la playa, trabajando en el pequeño hotel de la tía de Beth. A todos les apetece poner un poco de distancia con los lugares de siempre, tan marcados por la ausencia de Tristan. Son días muy difíciles, y tienen que pasar página, cada uno a su manera. Ivy sólo tiene ganas de pasear junto al mar con sus amigos, pero un fatal accidente de tráfico acaba con su vida… Tristan, en el más allá, sabe que a ella todavía no le ha llegado su momento y le da un beso que la devuelve a la vida… Cuando al fin Ivy despierta en el hospital conoce a Guy, un chico un tanto extraño y misterioso que ha perdido la memoria. No se habían visto antes pero, sin embargo, a ella le resulta extrañamente familiar... Pronto se harán inseparables, como lo eran ella y Tristan... ¿Puede éste haberse colado en el cuerpo de un desconocido?

Having not read the first three books in this series, I was a little lost throughout the book. I kept having to go back and re-read something just to try and figure out what everyone in the book was talking about.
The main character Ivy, is easy to relate to in a sense, although some things she says and does bring up a lot of questions on how she can be so trusting after everything that happened in her past. Ivy's boyfriend at the beginning of the book behaves more like a close guy friend than a boyfriend really and without having previously read any of the other books I just couldn't understand why he was really there. Beth, Ivy's best friend, seemed to me more of an older controlling sibling than a friend really. Always telling Ivy what she should be doing and siding with Will from the beginning. Will and Beth seemed to be trying to control Ivy more than be her friend.
And then when Guy was introduced, I automatically thought; well there is Tristan, but then there were times that I thought he may have been Gregory; again, I should have read the first three books and maybe I would have known a little better the mannerisms of both Tristan and Gregory.
The ending of this book has left me totally confused, I understand that there needed to be a place to stop so that the next book could be written, but the end was pretty much totally cut off and left a ton of questions unanswered. I'm going to go get the first three books in the series just to catch up and then wait very UN-patiently for the next book to find out what happens. ( )

The anticipation leaves you on the edge of your seat the whole time. The questions are infinite, will Ivy live? Will memories come back from the past? And this time, Ivy's not sure her love will save her.
The author of EVERCROSSED did a really good job describing the details of every scene. I especially loved the scene when Ivy,Will,Beth,and guy did a bomb fire for Tristan. To talk about what they loved about Tristen. ( )

Back with Ivy, Will, Beth and the rest of the gang…

I was curious to see if this book could be read without reading KbaA and I'm mostly of the opinion that it can stand alone. Chandler does a pretty good job of incorporating the events of KbaA into Evercrossed (and without a whole lot of exposition stuck in at the beginning, at that). In some ways it might actually be better not to have read KbaA because we have a time jump in terms of technology and lingo, etc., but not in passage of time in the story. (Ivy, in 1998, did not have an iPod.)
BUT (you knew this was coming, right?) I think it is worthwhile to read the former trilogy because the knowledge amps up the tension. There are some interesting parallels between the first trilogy and this fourth book that really put you on edge and make you doubt each character.
I will be honest and say the first 75 pages were tough to get into because everything seemed so...I'm struggling to find an adequate word...clean? Tame? But it got much better towards the middle and I was flying through by the end.
Largely, there is an awful lot of setup in this first book: laying out the seeds of doubt, a variety of possibilities and, as I mentioned, filling in the backstory. But there is a bit of action and creepiness. And there's some romance. ( )