{"id":141,"date":"2008-06-10T23:04:53","date_gmt":"2008-06-11T03:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/10\/review-of-ever-by-gail-carson-levine\/"},"modified":"2008-10-13T12:57:09","modified_gmt":"2008-10-13T16:57:09","slug":"review-of-ever-by-gail-carson-levine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=141","title":{"rendered":"Review of Ever, by Gail Carson Levine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image227\" height=\"110\" alt=\"ever.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/ever.jpg\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Ever, <\/em><\/p>\n<p>by Gail Carson Levine<\/p>\n<p>HarperCollins, 2008.\u00a0 244 pages.<\/p>\n<p>Starred Review.<\/p>\n<p>Hooray!\u00a0 A new book by Gail Carson Levine, author of <em>Ella Enchanted <\/em>and <em>Fairest.<\/em>\u00a0 In <em>Ever, <\/em>the author takes us to a different sort of world.\u00a0 Instead of magic and fairies, this world is inhabited by gods and goddesses.<\/p>\n<p>Olus is a youthful god, the god of the winds.\u00a0 He is\u00a0curious about\u00a0mortals, and so travels far from his own country and disguises himself as a mortal, a herder of goats.\u00a0 He finds himself fascinated by the family of his landlord, especially Kezi, who makes beautiful weavings and beautiful dances.<\/p>\n<p>Then, because of an unfortunate vow, Kezi&#8217;s life is to be sacrificed.\u00a0 Can Olus find a way to save her?\u00a0 Perhaps he can make her immortal like himself.\u00a0 Only this will mean both of them undergoing a terrible ordeal.<\/p>\n<p>Here is an enchanting\u00a0story about love and fate, about uncertainty and awareness.<\/p>\n<p>As with her other books, Gail Carson Levine again achieves a mythic quality to her story that I love so much.\u00a0 We have a simple story with undercurrents of Truth.\u00a0 Delightful!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gailcarsonlevinebooks.com\/\">http:\/\/www.gailcarsonlevinebooks.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.harpercollinschildrens.com\/\">http:\/\/www.harpercollinschildrens.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0061229628\/sonderbooksco-20\" target=\"outside\">Buy from Amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Find this review on the main site at:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Childrens_Fiction\/ever.html\">www.sonderbooks.com\/Childrens_Fiction\/ever.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever, by Gail Carson Levine HarperCollins, 2008.\u00a0 244 pages. Starred Review. Hooray!\u00a0 A new book by Gail Carson Levine, author of Ella Enchanted and Fairest.\u00a0 In Ever, the author takes us to a different sort of world.\u00a0 Instead of magic and fairies, this world is inhabited by gods and goddesses. Olus is a youthful god, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,9,42,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-childrens-fiction-review","category-fantasy","category-starred-review","category-teen-fiction-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}