Book Review: Everless (Everless #1) by Sara Holland

Book: Everless
Author: Sara Holland
Series: Book 1
Genres: YA, Fantasy 

In the land of Sempera, the rich control everything - even time. Ever since the age of alchemy and sorcery, hours, days and years have been extracted from blood and bound to iron coins. The rich live for centuries; the poor bleed themselves dry. 

Jules and her father are behind on their rent and low on hours. To stop him from draining himself to clear their debts, Jules takes a job at Everless, the grand estate of the cruel Gerling family. 

There, Jules encounters danger and temptation in the guise of the Gerling heir, Roan, who is soon to be married. But the web of secrets at Everless stretches beyond her desire, and the truths Jules must uncover will change her life for ever ... and possibly the future of time itself.- Quoted from Goodreads

My Rating: 4/5 STARS
My Review:
Everless has a really interesting story concept.  It's set in a world where time can be extracted from a person's blood and can be given to another to make them live longer whilst the former gets the same amount of time that was extracted from their blood taken off their life.  It sounds very complicated, I know, but it's easy enough to follow once it's explained in the book.  I did still find some parts confusing but the general idea was not. 

I really liked the backstory of how the time extracting part of it was created, it felt like a story within a story.
I found the storyline to be fast paced but also a bit predictable at times.

At the beginning I didn't really care for Jules (the main character) all that much.  I thought some of her decisions were stupid and silly and I found her to be a 2D sort of character but near the end of the book I started to like her more.

I mentioned before about the story being a bit predictable and I also found some of the characters to be the same.  I thought some of the characters intentions were a bit obvious from the beginning.  

A thing I really liked about Everless was the relationships between all the different characters.  The relationships between the characters felt mysterious and left me wondering right up until the end about them.  Although I did find some parts predictable there were some parts of the book that surprised me especially near the end.

Overall I liked Everless, I definitely think it's one of those books that take a while to warm up to.  And even though you can guess at some parts of the story, its fast paced plot and unique concept make it a good read.