Laken was a very likeable girl, not afraid to speak her mind and capable of standing her ground, but I felt sorry for her every time she fell into the trap of her sweet reunion with her supposedly deceased boyfriend while she was slowly realizing that this Wes is very far from the one she knew back home, she couldn’t shake the feelings she had for him, or the certainty that their love was so powerful, it overcame even death itself. However, I still don’t get how come she turned into a celestial being? Who are all these people? There were plot holes, and it got me thinking that maybe I should have started the Celestra books before diving into Ephemeral, at least I wouldn’t have been so lost in the world Moore painted, in its hierarchy and dynamics. Though I struggled a lot trying to understand what was going on (I still do in fact), the story, eventually, got better the more Laken was digging in the dirt of what Ephemeral’s Powers That Be tried so hard to hide from her. So what was this Ephemeral school? Is it an alternate reality? Did she really, like they’re claiming, fell off a tree and all those vivid memories are just a fragment of her imagination? She starts to believe so, until her roommate, the girl who was very close to uncover the mystery, disappears without leaving a trace. Laken Anderson, as her new ID says, tries so hard to figure out where the hell she landed, but everyone around her seems to know another version of her all her entourage is made up of faces she has never seen before, except for her brother and his best friend Wesley, the only boy she ever loved, but both, she firmly knows, died drowning more than a year ago. The last memory she could recall was of her driving to her cheating boyfriend to rip him a new one for sleeping with the whole volleyball team and then her face going through the windshield of her car so this must be a coma induced bad dream… or she’s dead and this is the afterlife. Laken Stewart thought she was having a very bad dream when she found herself in a creepy forest chased by zombies then saved by a gorgeous boy. The author’s writing is really beautiful and poetic, the woman can write that’s unquestionable but at times, and especially in the beginning, the story was all over the place, I was even more confused than the main character.

“God, Laken, I would rearrange the universe to make you mine, I swear it.” “I need you safe, and I don’t think you’d be safe with me. Cooper smiles with his eyes as if my mental admission was all he would ever have to hear.

His eyes widen as he brings my hand to his lips.

Ephemeral by addison moore