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My name is Evie Claremont and this was to be the making of me–my freshman year of college. I’d been hoping that once I’d arrived on Crestwood’s campus, the nightmare that I’ve been having would go away. It hasn’t.
I may be an inexperienced seventeen-year-old, but I’m grounded…sane. I look for rational explanations to even the strangest circumstances. Since meeting sophomore Reed Wellington, however, nothing makes any sense. Whenever he’s near, I feel an attraction to him–a magnetic kind of force pulling me towards him. I know what you’re thinking…that sounds fairly awesome. Yeah, it would be…if he liked me, but Reed acts as if I’m the worst thing that has ever happened to Crestwood…or him. But get this, for some reason every time I turn around he’s there, barging into my life.
What is the secret that he’s keeping from me? I’m hoping that it’s anything but what I suspect: that he’s not exactly normal…and neither am I. So, maybe Crestwood won’t be the making of me, but it could be the breaking of me. I’ve been left to wonder if the dark future my dream is foretelling is…inescapable.
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Amy A. Bartol is the award-winning and USA Today bestselling author of the Premonition series and the Kricket series. She lives in Michigan with her husband and two sons.
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The beginning of the story had me a hair's breadth away from giving up it up ranting to whoever was near. I was completely shell shocked and appalled by the main female character, Evie's naïveté. I seriously thought she had a secret ambition to be committed or breathe her last breath. But she understands over time the necessity of keeping her mouth shut. She is young and she slowly begins to learn (like most, the hard way) about the realties of the world and her epiphanies do come even if they are late.
Reed's, the main male character, struggle with what to do feels like a real dilemma, (page 92) should go down as an example of a catch22. I don't know what I would have done in his place. And although he comes off as bossy, forceful, and controlling when you understand the dept of the situation and consider Evie's track record for attracting trouble and being reckless it's understandable. Plus when I thought about his vocation it made it easier to comprehend why he always needed to be kept informed. And lastly when I take in that he's also lost in all this, I feel for him.
I also appreciated the gradual transition; some other paranormal and fiction works have a character just suddenly be informed of or awaken fully to their powers or true forms. Usually followed by someone informing them that they have to save the world or their people... In this book no one is given such a grand decree, perhaps in another installment it will be. But don't think that means nothing else is on the line in this book. Still, I like that no one is given such an importance or responsibility in the first book.
**Character Observations/Critiques Containing Vague-ish Spoilers:**
Evie's self-preservation skills are constantly thwarted by her inability to keep quiet. I wanted to throttle Evie every time she openly talked about supernatural forces and encounters with Russell in the beginning, when they knew each other for a few hours and later a couple of days. I kept thinking, "does she want to get committed," "is she looking forward to someone permanently silencing her," or "why the heck is she involving Russell, does she not understand that jeopardizes his safety?" However, when you find out why Evie always freely confides in Russell and can't seem to leave him be it makes sense.
Her bold naïveté appears when she faces Reed, when she had no idea who and what he was, but knew he disliked her. After she foolishly third-degrees the callous and menacing Reed about his paranormal ability and their supernatural statuses (both of which could have resulted in signing her death warrant), she goes on to spill her own secrets, then has the cheek to ask why she should trust him with her safety as if she didn't just confide in him (pages 46-49)! And she considers people her friends after their first meeting... way too trusting. It took me a while to stop gaping at her lack of caution, but I forgive it on the basis that she hasn't had to develop a mindset that revolves so centrically on survival. She's young, scared, and has never experienced extreme hardship before, she did her best.
Contradictions/Flaws That Still Irk Me:
The book makes Russell seem a bit slow witted; his perceptiveness is limited except when it comes to Evie. But like I wrote early once you know their connection, it's not surprising. For example, (page 61) Reed comments he wants to know about "the Trojan thing"...all I thought was "Trojan as Troy or the Trojan War, how can he not make at least that connection?!" Even if he does not know what the application does/enables, Troy has been the setting of movies and the Trojan horse is a very popular tale in middle and high school social studies and literature classes. Yet he acts like he's never heard of it. Also concerning Candace... his perception was seriously absent on that one.
And Russell's southern attributes are weak. He doesn't really have any of the intriguing sayings or unique slang southerners tend to have, he's just obsessed with substituting "ya" for the word you and "yer" for your. And his courteousness and fierce protectiveness towards Evie (a woman) are nice and all, but not a trait unique to southerners. Plus his protectiveness gets stalkerish sometimes (page 96 and 97).
Also Evie isn't consistent in her wit either. (page 68) she actually asked where she could get firewall software. Really? It's called online shopping, where shops deliver orders through the mail or directly download software to your computer (no shopping trips necessary). And yet she's supposed to be a savvy techie. She's also supposed to be perceptive. Yet, she can not seem to grasp that she is endangering herself, Russell, and Reed until it's shoved in her face (her epiphany moments) or explicitly spelled out by another, even though there are many things said and that happen to suggest it.
Also (page 121) since when has the word premonition meant the same as hallucination? An unreasonable mistake seeing as she's an academic scholarship student and has heard of the Oracle of Delphi.
**SPOILERS Ahead:**
And later (page 158) Evie claims to not understand what a soul mate is... Does she avoid chic flicks and romance novels? Did she not have many female friends during high school? I thought she was supposed to have been an average teenage girl before.
And where do Russell's good "southern" manners go on page 320! He lost major points in my book with that stunt and attitude; I lost all sympathy towards his plight over losing Evie to Reed. Let any hopes of a deeper relationship be lost forever, extinguished!
The Plot
Evie is starting her first semester of college, and things seem to be going relatively well. Sure, the cafeteria food sucks, but she's made friends, joined a field hockey team, and met a boy who just may be her soulmate. The only downside is Reed, a sophomore who hates her on site. Which is too bad, because he might be the only person who can tell Evie about the strange things that are about to start happening in her life...
The Good
One test I use to determine how much I like a book is how much I think about it when I'm not reading it. Some books I enjoy while I'm reading them, but two days later I can't even remember what they're about. Inescapable, on the other hand, stuck with me. While I was at work, I found myself thinking about the characters and wanted to read more. Even now as I look back at a few things to write the review, I get sucked in and want to read more. It's what I like to call "book crack," basically because its so addictive that you can't stop reading it even if it's bad for you.
The book had a lot of really strong characters, both the stars and the side characters. I think my favorites were Buns and Brownie, the girls from Evie's dorm who convince her to join the field hockey team and get her involved in campus pranks. They're just the right level of quirky and are always there for Evie when things don't go her way, as they so frequently don't, Buns and Brownie are there with a cheerful "sweetie" and a helping hand.
The Bad
If Jackson of the Peachville High Demons series is my favorite boy I have blogged about, then Russell of the Premonition series is definitely my least favorite. He has a southern accent that is apparently so strong that it needs to be transcribed, which in and of itself isn't bad. However, it is accompanied by other unpleasant characteristics, like a domineering attitude and the need to "protect" Evie by confronting whoever is mean to her, even if she indicates that she is perfectly capable of handling it.
Now, I admit that I am particularly sensitive to this kind of thing, but the fact that Russell is put up as soulmate material makes me feel like the book encourages traditional gender roles to an unnecessarily strong degree. There is one point where Reed indicates that he could never fall in love with another angel because they are not properly "soft" and womanly, which offended me a little bit. The book isn't Piers Anthony bad in its sexism, but there is enough of it there to make me vaguely uncomfortable at times.
The Romance
Fortunately for all concerned, Russell being Evie's soulmate is not quite as dire a prospect as it could be. (Because, seriously, if Russell were my soulmate, I'd be begging God for a do-over.) Were Evie fully human, she would be content to be with Russell forever, but since she isn't, she is denied such a human happy ending. Which is good in that it allows her some choice, though I suppose that it's also kind of bad because she ends up even more obsessed with Reed than she would have been with Russell. But, then, Reed is so much more worthy of the attention that I can't bring myself to be too upset.
Sometimes when I'm bored or when I have it shoved in my face, I like to analyze why boys in novels are shirtless. Like, did they need to take their shirt off to fashion makeshift bandages for our bleeding heroine? Or are they simply engaging in gratuitous shirtlessness? Inescapable provided plenty of opportunity for shirt-presence analysis. At first, it seems completely random that Reed keeps appearing on Evie's fire escape with no shirt on. But! We then find out that he has wings, and he had been flying up to her window, so the bare-chestedness was functional. Except after we know about the wings, he keeps unfurling them at inopportune times, ripping his shirt off in the process, which is both gratuitous and wasteful. I mean, come on, Reed. We know you've got piles of money, but do you need to throw it and your chiseled abs into our face at the same time? I don't think so.
Will I read more?
I have already purchased the second one and read the end of it. (Yes, I read the ends of books first. Well, not always first but generally before I get there chronologically. Endings are important to me, and knowing what is going to happen enhances my reading experience. No doubt some of you are horribly appalled by this, but all I can say is that reading is a personal experience that we all enjoy in our own way.) I plan to get back to it and read the whole thing within the next couple of weeks. After all, sequel Tuesday does not populate itself.
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Another author recommended this series to me, at the time, I did not know it was a paranormal. Because I trust this author implicitly, I downloaded all 4 books, agreeing that we would buddy read the 4th book. Anyone who knows me, knows I do not read paranormal. I have never quite been able to get into this genre. A few series have caught my attention and I have read them but not to the degree that Amy Bartol did.
To say I loved this series is a serious understatement because I absolutely adore this series. I was captivated from the start and read all 4 books in 3 days, I seriously could not put them down and as soon as one was finished I opened up the next and just carried on.
Inescapable ~ This book is really the foundation to the whole series. It really sets the scene well and you cannot help but connect to all the characters. Evie, I loved this girl, she never really had a sense of belonging, never knew her father and her mother died when she was born so her care was entrusted to her uncle, who was young at the time. As she got older, she more or less became the parent, looking after him and mothering him, but their relationship was close and extremely special. It broke her heart to leave him to come to college. When she arrives at college she knows no-one except a guy that she met once when she visited campus, he sort of takes her under his wing. But is this a good wing or a bad wing?
It is not long before she meets Reed and Russell, yes this is a love triangle of sorts but not your usual, Evie is extremely attracted to Reed, she can sense when he is near, he gives her butterflies but he seems to hate her. It turns out Reed is just extremely conflicted but we do find out why and goes someway to explain his rather erratic behaviour. Russell is extremely attracted to Evie, but she only ever sees him as a friend, but their friendship is intense.
"I wanted to destroy you," he says, and a shiver goes through me, "and I wanted to take you in my arms and love you, and I wanted to tear you apart, and I wanted to crush you anything that would harm you, all at the same time." - see very conflicted!!
Amy Bartol, sucks you in to this story hook, line and sinker. It soon becomes apparent that Evie is not all that she seems. The trouble is that Evie has no idea what is happening to her, luckily for her Reed is there for her and they soon work through their differences and once things are explained and are out in the open, they both give in to their mutual attraction and they become a couple.
"I want those thousand years with you, Evie, you have no idea how much I want them. I want a thousand years, and then I want a hundred thousand more."
All the characters in this book are written so well that they come to life, I totally adore Zee, Buns and Brownie too. I just hope that the good conquer the evil!
I absolutely loved Reed, in the beginning it was hard to understand where he was coming from, but once I was aware I was TEAM REED. If anyone comes between these two, I will kill them, seriously!! I was glad that Evie never really entered into the whole Love Triangle thing with Russell. The lines were set between them early on. I must admit the soul mate bit was a bit hard to take and left me with ill feeling as I was so Team Reed and was worried that at some point this may come between my cute and happy couple. We will see where this goes going forward. I am diving in right now!!
"Evie, you are the only thing that makes me want to live. If you leave here, if you ascend to Paradise, or even if you are cast into the abyss, or taken there by the Fallen...I will have to follow you, no matter where you go. Even if I have to pursue you into the dark...if you cease to be, then so will I. You are my sin and my redemption."
On that note, I will leave you with a brief summation. In short, this series is brilliant, amazing, fabulous, addictive and totally captivating. A story line that will keep you guessing, you can never assume anything as Amy Bartol will totally sneak up and bit you the bum. The twists and turns and plot curve balls will have you on the edge of seat, gripping the sides wondering where you are going next.
I want to see this series on the big screen, seriously, this series was made for the big screen. I often found myself at times picturing how a scene would play out on film in bright technicolour. The way Amy Bartol describes scenes in this book has your senses on hyper drive and your imagination running wild. In all seriousness, this would seriously kick some ass in the movies. It needs to be done and more importantly deserves to be done.
Amy Bartol, all I can say is you seriously ROCK! I have loved every second reading this series, never thought I would see the day where I love a Paranormal read, but this series did and has a firm place in my heart. I will be re-reading this series for sure.
I cannot highly recommend this series enough, for both paranormal lovers and those who have not tried or think they don't like this genre. Be next in line to be converted, you will hopefully fall in love with this series as much as I have. Totally and utterly adored it!

What I really didn't like were the characters who all seem very superficial, there's no real depth to any of them and I just didn't understand why the main character was interested in either of her love interests. That's just how I feel anyway, it could just be me being cynical.
I was fairly bored throughout the book with the exception of a few interesting moments but I found myself rolling my eyes a lot when it became apparent that every character even those trying to kill the main character find time to stop and admire her. Everyone finds some bizarre excuse to tell her she's smart, beautiful and completely fascinating at least that was my impression anyway.
I don't mean to be harsh; I will definitely find another of this author's books to read since there was definitely some golden bits of writing but I won't go on with this series. Sorry.
