Jenny Kramer has to wear gloves every day. If she doesn't,
she sees visions of past lives, lives she doesn't
understand. After an unlikely friendship with Ben and a
strange encounter with Nikolai, Jenny thinks they all knew
each other long ago in Romanov Russia. But messing with time
comes with consequences, and no one knows if they are
willing to pay that price.
ENDLESS is one of my favorite books of the year so far.
Amanda Gray tells the story of Jenny, Nikolai, Ben, and
Romanov Russia in a beautiful and enchanting narrative. I
completely fell in love with the flashbacks to their past
lives and the beauty of the descriptions. The mystery behind
how they got to their present lives has you curious the
whole time and eager to find out what happened. It has a way
of sweeping you up and putting you right in the story like
the wind putting a snowflake into a heavy snowfall. It
carries you right on through the plot and leaves you
breathless by the end.
I often have mixed feelings about love triangles, but the
feelings between the three are pretty clear and not so
angst-y. I enjoyed seeing the characters develop as they
discover more about each other. Though I do wish more was
done with Nikolai in terms of discovering more about him and
his past, I still very much like his character. His
potential romance with Jenny is exciting and touching.
With the gorgeous descriptions and captivating
story-telling, ENDLESS is a fabulous read. I love their
adventure and the little historical element here and there
that make it so unique, special, and absolutely enjoyable.
Amanda Gray's talent leaps off the page, and I will
definitely keep mark her as a to-watch-for author.
Jenny Kramer knows she isn’t normal. After all, not
everybody can see the past lives of people around them. When
she befriends Ben Daulton, resident new boy, the pair
stumble onto an old music box with instructions for
"mesmerization" and discover they may have more in common
than they thought—like a past life! Using the instructions
in the music box, Ben and Jenny share a dream that
transports them to Romanov Russia and leads them to believe
they have been there together before. But Nikolai, the
mysterious young man Jenny has been seeing in her dreams who
has now appeared next door, was there, too. Jenny is forced
to acknowledge that Nikolai has traveled through time and
space to find her. Doing so means he has defied the laws of
time, and the Order, an ominous organization tasked with
keeping people in the correct time, is determined to send
him back. While Ben, Jenny, and Nikolai race against the
clock—and the Order—Jenny and Nikolai discover a link that
joins them in life and beyond death.