First of all, I'd like to say 5 stars to this cover - I absolutely love it! Sadly, I did not feel quite as strongly about the book itself. I tried this out after reading some mixed reviews, but thought I would like it regardless. I just found that it was too all over the place. The different themes and topics didn't mesh well in my opinion. Going from the supernatural to time travel was a bit odd and just didn't really work for me, I like these topics separately, but didn't enjoy them together especially since they weren't really blended together all that well. I did like the inclusion of the Romanov's - this is one of my favorite topics in history and I have researched the Romanov family extensively. Overall, I would have liked more of a story with Jessica's abilities rather than time travel, but liked the book regardless.

This was ok. It as good enough of a story that I finished it. I almost put it down but when it got into the dreams back in time and the Romanovs I stuck in there to see where this was going. The story line was different and original. There were so many unanswered questions! Goodness the whole book was a giant question of what?How? WHo? It had a very teen feeling to it. I am sure teens will like this more than I did. This book needed better character development, they were all pretty flat. Their reactions to really life altering stuff was just to keep going to work and hanging out with friends. It was so odd. This book had a lot of holes and bad plot devices. If something complicated came up it was explained away too easy... Oh you didn't age at all in 4 years, don't worry a whitch was able to stop my aging. Hey how did you learn English, Russian peasant? Oh my grandfather taught me.   Right.......On and on unbelievable explanations to explain everything too easy.  It was all just unreal and silly.  And of cource an ending that was incomplete and now you have to read the next in the series. No thanks. 
This book had some swearing. Some kisses. A little violence. The Romanovs are killed and the author describes that. A man tries to hurt a woman but he is stopped there is a fight but nothing is detailed.

Thank you for the opportunity to read Endless. Unfortunately, I did not complete my reading of the book before it was archived in May 2019. I do not plan to finish the book.

I loved this twist on the story of the Romanov family of Russia. Memories and souls being rejoined together after such a traumatic event so long ago. It kept me reading and intrigued from the first page. This is on my re-read list, which doesn't include many books. The storytelling was great and fantastical and enthralling. Definitely would recommend.

I didn't finish this book, and I did not review it anywhere. I only write reviews for books I like. This one just never piqued my interest. I think there was too much build-up in the beginning, and I just never got interested in the story or characters.

Oh I wanted so much to love this book, sadly it didn't happen that way. I read this one till the end because I was hoping at the last second it would pull me in but it didn't.

I felt this was just your "average" YA/teen romance. I honestly skimmed most of the pages because it didnt really hold my attention.

This was a great book and the story line was fairly original in my opinion. I enjoyed the characters and their interactions a lot.

Ever since I first saw this cover, I wanted to read this book.  The cover is fantastic and it really drew me in.  That's the whole point, right?  Well, it worked and boy was I disappointed in the story.  

The book starts out with Jenny and some friends sitting in a room with a Ouija board.  Jenny didn't want to participate but her friend Amber begged her to come and Tiffany really guilt tripped her into using the thing.  Jenny wore gloves and they made fun of her for it
"Not touching anyone was her safest bet, and she managed to do just that most of the time though the use of her gloves..."
But this time, Jenny took off her gloves to use the board. She couldn't explain why she didn't run.  "Darkness didn't scare her.  It was the things she could see that did.  The things she saw and felt when her hands came into contact with certain people.  Sometimes, she could touch someone and feel nothing. Other times she would be transported to places that were oddly familiar or ones she didn't recognize at all."

Jenny's dad is a single father and works as an architect in a small town called Stony Creek, Connecticut.  Jenny uses a lot of her time to help him with his work.  Her father is not an adventurous soul so she doesn't confide in her father for much.  Jenny also uses her time for painting portraits.  Jenny is described as hazel eyes, brown hair and "nothing remotely interesting about her face."  

It turns out that during the Ouija board session, Jenny recited a poem or someone took notes and wrote down a poem.  Then it comes out that Jenny has been having dreams for several years and recently, feelings and thoughts have gotten stronger.  *I'm not really sure here.

Through her father, Jenny is introduced to Ben Dalton whose mother has hired Jenny's father to remodel a house.  In the attic, Ben and Jenny discover a box and this experience leads Jenny to more dreams.

After some time, Jenny finally has a most powerful dream where she sees "a man with green eyes that seemed to reach out to her, trying to find her across all time and space."  "It was Nikolai, the young man from her dream."

Ben helps Jenny discover some answers and the music box reveals a lot more than she ever though it could.

The book does take the reader into some of Jenny's dreams where she is in the castle of the Russian monarchy. She is very confused, clearly, by the dreams and doesn't understand their significance.  I was sure lost as well.   By chapter 5, the reader is introduced to Nikolai.  His introduction to the story didn't offer as many answers and I hoped.  He only offered more confusion. 

By chapter 9, things start to become clearer but the story isn't as interesting as I thought it should be. Nikolai came off a bit of a stalker and crazy, since he stubbornly called Jenny Maria and wouldn't stop.  This didn't make sense to me.  As the book goes on, the reader learns more about Nikolai and what he has been doing and why.  But the author just sort of lets things fall away.  Like Jenny's gloves become lost and Nikolai's past seems to not matter in this future.  

Jenny's mother is hardly mentioned in the first part of the book. But later on, her mother plays a large role to the plot.  

The story was just strange for me.  Ben wasn't my favorite character.  The reader doesn't learn too much about him but when Jenny started distrusting him, I really began to dislike his character.  I started to feel like he was a very unnecessary character to the book.  

After chapter 10, I skimmed the book.  Some monk comes into play and starts chasing Jenny but I didn't care.  I can't exactly place why, but the book is boring.  I'm not interested in any of the characters or the mystery.  So many things seem to have run past me, that I didn't get, that I'm confused about what's going on.  I don't have a desire to finish and I don't care.  

Overall, it's a shame.  The cover is so intriguing and inviting.  But it really doesn't speak of the story, its just pretty to look at.  The book was a jumble of information and nonsense.  It really felt like there was no flow, no organization so the reader could follow Jenny's path.  The book felt like it was thrown together.  The characters were boring.  Even Nikolai was boring.  Jenny was a hot mess.  She was flaky, indecisive, strange.  Tiffany's character was odd for me.  She's in the first part of the book, then nothing, then she comes back in the later part.  Well, I didn't know who the chick but Jenny sure trusted her.  Strange.  The writing isn't the best.  The story is very slow to get started.  The mystery was laid out in a boring way.  Jenny was not likable.  She came off as stupid, selfish and bland, but everything works for her.  The ending was totally not worth it.  It came off very flat.  There is a cliffhanger but I would never want to come back to the story.  My biggest frustration was every time the reader would think something significant was happening, Jenny would leave the scene.  Ugh! This book was a complete bust for me.  Skip it.  

Content: moderate language, make out sessions

I received a copy of this book from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

2.5 stars - I liked the idea of the book. I'm a sucker for previous life books and add in a touch of Russian history and I'm sold. So past-me-who-requested-this-book-for-review you did a good job. I only wish I remembered that we had.

Now, as good as the synopsis sounds I'm afraid that the book itself doesn't life up to it. I liked the flashback parts to Russia, they were very interesting. Because you know (or at least I assume most people know) what happens in Russia when the tsar is kicked off the throne it makes it so tense. You kinda know how things will end but despite that I always kept that little spark of hope alive that maybe things would be okay. But what dragged the book down for me were some inconsistencies in the present day and the romance (also in the present day).

If someone can explain these two inconsistencies to me I would love it because then I can finally let this go:
- You get in the car in the morning, arrive late afternoon at a village that is supposed to be close to your hometown but you also manage to get back home at night.
- You buy train tickets in Acton while you live in Stony Creek. You get on the train and then later tell us that people board the train when it stops at Stony Creek station yet you need that train to leave Stony Creek.
Is it just me or is this just really weird and inconsistent? Because of this (and some more scenes like this) my feeling of time and how much time passes was totally screwed up. I know that it's not the most important thing in a novel but it did really annoy me. I like to be able to tell how much times passes between events, it helps me judge if things are going fast or not. With this book though I was unable to guess this at all.

You have two different romances in this book though really it's all about the same characters so maybe not really different. The one in Russia I really liked. It feels dark and desperate because of the situation but that really made it shine. It justified some of the things said and choices made and overall it was just very interesting. The present day romance was not so great. In both times there is a love triangle and I really didn't like it in the present day because of Nikolai who is one of the love interests. He is all that Jenny can think and talk about despite some very weird and shady stuff. Ben on the other hand is incredibly moody in the beginning and then suddenly turns around and becomes friends with Jenny. It all just didn't really flow that well. Jenny also assumes that Ben loves her too partly because of the stuff that happened in the past and that just felt wrong. It made it seem like none of these characters can make their own choices, they have to relive their past lives or at least their feelings. 

My final complaint is that the ending was too open. I can accept an open ending but this one was the size of a crater. I have checked it a couple of times over the last couple of months and there isn't a sequel. The ending makes it feel like there is supposed to be one. A little bit of a less rushed ending with some more details would have fixed that.

This book was okay. The worst thing was that I thought things would be as good at the end as they were at the beginning. A case of 'idea sounds better than it was in execution.' A story about a dream-traveling girl with magic hands uncovering a secret cult in her home town, except, there was a romance that got in the way, and the villains were not so good. The bad guys were a poor version of Scientology meets Lemony Snicket's VFD. (Doesn't that sound appealing, though?) After the first chapter I was ready to get sucked in, but then once I'd read the thing, I felt like a great many of us felt after Twilight. In case you didn't read that, basically you've read 500 pages of stuff but feel like not that much happened. I don't mean that in an existential way - you just feel empty inside. Despite all the heart-pounding, all the voracious page-flipping, you wonder what happened aside from Bella staring at and thinking about Edward a lot. Here it is again. However, I can tell you the last chapters, while very Scooby-Doo, were jarring. The team gets together, bags the baddie, but it was such a departure from the thoughtful painting that Jenny does, the whirlwind descent into the Romanov family life of the past, and the creepy monks who seem to follow Jenny. It also reminded me a little of the Beautiful Creatures series, only in that the parents aren't all clueless, but the helpful ones are invariably dead. Jenny may save the gentleman in distress, and the end does tie things up enough while leading on for the next book, but it felt a little silly, is all. For that kind of beginning I was hoping for more than just a mystical romance. It's definitely readable, but I don't think I'll pick up the sequel.

YA is an evergreen genre. I will always be willing to read Young Adult fiction. I connected with the characters and enjoyed reading the story. Quite gripping a tale. Plot is good, engaging. My weekend was sorted, thanks to this book.

A well-written and enjoyable book, I am glad I requested this title and will be more than happy to pass the title along to my fellow library purchasers.

I lost interest in this book and don't plan on reading and reviewing it anymore. Will update my review if I ever change my mind. My apologies!

Now here is a  book filled with twists and turns I did not expect. I love stories with heart and action, and Entangled truly has both. This fantasy novel follows a quirky 17-year-old named Jenny, who is trying to fit in, at least marginally, but finds herself instead sticking even more out. Thankfully she has a friend, Tiffany, who does not seem to care that people think that Jenny is strange. 
But live is about to get even stranger when a new family moves into town, and Jenny's father is supposed to work on renovating their newly inherited house.

Young adult is usually not a genre I read, but I was intrigued by the premise and was captured by its uniqueness. A touch of familiar history, woven into the fabric of a contemporary story with mystical twists, Entangled is enchanting. and charming. 
I was so involved in the story and the character, that I was not as disconnected as I sometimes am when I read.. Many times, I imagine ahead, what will happen, what could happen as a part of the plot. This novel did not let me go, so I was truly surprised at the twists, even if I thought afterward that those were the logical conclusions of each situation. It is nice to truly step into a story and get lost in it.