Endless Knight

Endless Knight - Kresley Cole

In this seductive follow-up to Poison Princess, #1 New York Times bestselling author Kresley Cole takes us deeper into the dark world of the Arcana Chronicles.Evie has fully come into her powers as the tarot Empress. And Jack was there to see it all. In the aftermath of killing Arthur, Evie realizes that there is a war brewing between the teens whove been given powers following the apocalypse, and its kill or be killed. When Evie meets Death, the gorgeous and dangerous Endless Knight, things get even more complicated. Somehow the Empress and Death share a romantic history. One that Evie cant remember, but Death cant forget. Evie is drawn to Death, but in love with Jack. She is determined to discover why shes been granted these powers, and in the process, struggles to accept her place in the prophecy that will either save the world, or destroy it.

Published: 2014-09-02 (Simon Schuster Books for Young Readers)

ISBN: 9781442436688

Language: English

Format: Paperback, 320 pages

Goodreads' rating: -

Reviews

Tonya rated it

HOT FUCKING DAMN!I'm so confused.. utterly confused. WHO DO I SHIP NOW?Endless Knight just mind fucked me guys. I'm so confused as to who I should believe and I also have no idea who I should be shipping Evie with. Jack was easy to love in the first book but now I have so many questions about him. Then there's Death who I didn't think I was going to fall in love with.. but damn, now I have. I haven't decided if he's my new favorite character because honestly, he's got some tough competition: Lark.Evie was awesome and lovable in this book. I had a feeling that when she would "try" and get death to fall for her that she would fall as well. I adored everything about them and laughed so hard when she would try to get his attention. Like washing the wolf. Lark, who was previously mentioned, was hilarious. I loved her snarkyness and sarcasm. I am totally on board with them being an awesome ass duo and kick butt night and day. Besides her, we still get to meet everyone from the first book.. but again, I'm kind of confused on who I should be trusting at this point. Things seemed really off in this book with Matthew and Jack so yeah.. I'm going to keep on thinking and wondering until I dive into the third book.This book added more information about Arcana and I loved every second. Getting to know strengths and weaknesses kept me highly entertained. Getting to learn more about Evie's previous life and how she's connected with Death was eye opening. My mind is currently still trying to make sense of everything.Overall, I really enjoyed this audio and I can't wait to dive into the next one.

Tonya rated it

Hello disappointment.

Randolph rated it

Re-read and updated review.So I'm not sure where I want to start..........ummm...... Alright so I guess I'll just start by saying I have no idea how I feel about this book. First of all, I was shocked to the core, I always guessed there was more to the death and empress charade but what was revealed was way beyond what I had hoped for. It's so nice to think you can sorta predict what will happen, then you are way way way off. I mean this is probably the only area in life where being absolutely wrong is a good thing. The ideas were riveting, and brilliant. But what left me conflicted was the pace of the story, and the unclear ending. I know that there's a third installment, but I'm not so sure how I feel about it either. I admit though that I didn't think the story would drag on so much. In the first installment of this series I was enthralled by every page of the book, but in endless knight I found myself bored in some points of the story, and emotionally turmoiled in other parts. I lost interest in Evie and jack being together as soon as I was confronted with the idea of her and death. I'm always a fan of love hate turmoils, and honestly the bad boy attitude is probably way more enticing when you're immortal and lethal to the touch (the eyes too though). But then again I'm just a sucker for brooding, moody, and conflicted characters. Something about the endless knights character spun a web of chains that surrounds you and entangles you slowly. And I guess patience is key when you are waiting for the characters to break down each others walls of steel with toothpicks. To be honest, Jacks bad boy parade started to lose its gleam in endless knight, and when things started to get serious I found that I wasn't in love with their relationship. The love triangle spiced things up, and made a turning point for the story to pick up pace and made it way more interesting. But the ending grounded my nerves into dust. I guess the book begins to actually pick up pace approximately 50 pages to it's ending. I love a book that gives you the perfect cliff hanger, and that definitely gets points for being one of the best cliffhangers thus far in my reading experience. I mean I honestly felt a sudden urge to fly to America and ran sack the authors house for the third installment. Thank goodness for visa limitations. I seriously couldn't tell wether Evie was ok with it all, or wether she was going to go all empress on death. Guess I can't judge until we're in the third story! But as an overall I loved the unique ideas that create the amazing series, and I definitely will be looking forward to the third installment.

Anson rated it

WOULD YOU LOOK AT THE smexy drop-dead gorgeous COVER.I can't. Is that Death there holding Evie? I'm sorry but I've had a thing for him since Poison Princess okay? Okay. I have a feeling that Jack is the Judgement card. Because when Jack rescued Evie from the redneck militia, he looked very angry and she said something like "his face promised pain and judgement." Anyhoo, Please excusez-moi while I go on a hiatus. Wake me up when september ends.

Heinrick rated it

(Below is my initial reaction to cover) So I am done with Endless Knight, sequel to Poison Princess. What do I think of it? I don't know what happened. Poison Princess was amazing. Absolutely awesome in every single way. Incredible to the point where I actually compared Kresely Cole to the Pope on my blog (http://rattlethestars.com/2013/10/01/...). And for a homegrown Irish Catholic girl, that's a big deal yo. So this book's epic fail is just a knife twisting deeper and deeper into my soul. The thing that is also extremely frustrating about this book, is that I can actually and acutely describe exactly what was wrong with this book and why it was such a failure compared to PP. 1.) Where's the sass, Evie? You were this smart mouthed, no-shit taking girl that popped off quips that made me bust out laughing. The book had none of the snarky humor that Poison did. Sure, there were some brief comical lines, but nothing like the constant barrage of hilarious lines Cole popped out of her character's mouths constantly in PP. That's one thing I enjoyed most about reading book one. I wanted so, so, so much more from book two. 2.) Where the HELL is the action? Sure sure every once in awhile we get the badass fights and ONCE we got a steamy scene, but besides a glimmer of wam bams here and there, this book was incredibly boring. PP wasn't brimming with constant action, it did have some conversation parts, but those were filled with the smexy Jackson and the delicious build up between Evie and him. When nothing is happening in this book, literally NOTHING is happening. Evie, with the loss of her quick witted quotes, is not a strong enough character to tell a story. And those she ends up talking to and stuck with, are not interesting or developed enough to take the lame about of the non-action scenes. *wipes tear away* 3.) God effing dammit Cole. A love triangle? Are you serious? Touche with the twisty twists you threw in there to make it a tich more understandable, but *sigh* You just haaaad to bring the YA cliche into your book huh? And not only did you ignite the three pointed romance of annoying fire, you topped it off with dragging out BOTH romances, giving them both obvious failures, making us practically HATE them both for different reasons. So not cool, sister. And with that threesome, you didn't even top it off with any real, sexy, god I need some time to myself scenes. This is another typical YA second book fail. I hope and pray that Cole can really create a better plot in the next book. But unfortunately, this series has now been bumped from my "need to read to breath" shelf to "I'll put it on my list I guess" level. Read all my reviews at www.rattlethestars.com ------------------------Cover Reveal: So first I was like And then the cover came out and all I can think isBecause my infatuation with Jackson is inappropriate AND WHO IS THIS DEATH CREEPIN IN ON OUR GIRL Read all my reviews at www.rattlethestars.com