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The Nevermore Trilogy: Book 1

Nevermore (2010) (edit title/settings)

by Kelly Creagh (Author) (edit contributors)

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Cheerleader Isobel Lanley is horrified when she is paired with Varen Nethers for an English project, which is due—so unfair—on the day of the rival game. Cold and aloof, sardonic and sharp-tongued, Varen makes it clear he’d rather not have anything to do with her either. But when Isobel... read more

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  • Isobel Lanley: a cheerleader at Trenton High, who is paired up for an English project with Varen - a dark, brooding Goth.
  • Varen Nethers: The closest thing to the Prince of Darkness in Trenton High.
  • Reynolds: A mysterious man in a long cloak and a white scarf that covers his face. He visits Isobel at weird timings trying to warn her and protect her.
  • Brad: Isobel's possessive boyfriend and football player. He hates Varen.
  • Nikki: Isobel's best friend who can't keep a secret to herself.
  • Gwen: The hippie locker neighbor of Isobel.
  • Bruce: Varen's boss. He owns a bookshop where Varen hangs out most of the time
  • Pinfeathers: A ghoul from the dreamland.
  • Danny: Isobel's annoying, video-game obesessed little brother
  • Alyssa: A snobby friend of Isobel's who is part of their "crew"
  • Mr. Swanson: Isobel's despised English teacher
  • Stevie: One of Isobel's more understanding and caring friends
  • Mark: Nikki's boyfriend and Brad's best friend
  • Lacy: Very "close" with Varen. One of his goth friends.
  • Mr. Nott: The Vice Principal
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  • “In the shadows of the dreamland, he waits. He watches the gaping window to the world he had so longed to open. Now flown wide, bleak and empty, ravaged—like him—it grants his wish. He belongs. It cannot compare to the memory of her eyes. Blue azure, warm as a summer sky. If he could but fall into their world. Would that he had. Now he writes the end to the story that past its Midnight Dreary—that too late an hour—has its own without him. It was always, he knows now, meant to end this way. Like that circle that “ever returneth into the selfsame spot.” My beautiful, my Isobel. My Love. You ask me to wait. And so I wait. For all of this, I know, is but a dream. And when, in sleep, at last we wake, I will see you again.”
    Varen
  • “I was having a good dream, I was an only child.”
    Danny Lanley
  • “I dare think,that not half so much trouble would find its way to you if you would only learn to leave things that are not yours alone.”
    Reynolds
  • “It is naught but pain and regret when we think of the things and people we will never have, the opportunities we may never get.”
    Reynolds
  • “To pine for those we have had and loved and once held but will never clasp again. It is a torture of an unbearable degree. It is the worst pain possible. Enough to drive you away from yourself.”
    Reynolds
  • “Izzy, look at this! He wrote on you. Like he was marking you as his next victim or something." "Okay! We've already established that he's a weirdo." "It probably means you've made his death list or something. I mean, the guy is a total Trench Coat Mafia wacko.”
    Isobel, Nikki
  • “Go through that one and see if you can find the poem 'Annabel Lee.'" "Aye, aye, O Captain! My Captain!" "Right era, wrong poet.”
    Varen, Isobel
  • “But that aside, why would Poe write a story about some lavish palace....if he's just going to kill everybody at the end?" "Because, in the end, Death always wins." "You know, no offense, but it's when you say stuff like that that people start to worry about you.”
    Isobel, Varen
  • “I don't know what kind of acid you dropped between six thirty and now, but I don't know what the hell you're talking about. First of all, if you were in the park by yourself tonight, you should realize that was stupid." "Yeah, thanks." "Consider yourself welcome. Secondly, you really must be on something to assume that I would follow you, let alone chase you. I'm sorry, but my existence isn't that sad.”
    Varen, Isobel
  • “You know, despite what everyone has always told you, the world does not revolve around you." "Look, I said I was Sorry! You don't have to be a jerk about it." "I'm only telling you what nobody else will." "Yeah? Why don't you speak for yourself? I mean, what screams 'cry for attention' more than walking around looking like the grim reaper and scribbling creepy, tortured messages into some book?”
    Varen, Isobel
  • “You sure you're feeling all right, Izzy? You don't look so good." "Hundredth time, Dad, yeah." "Humph, you've been acting kind of funny lately." "Hormones." She murmured. "Gross!”
    Dad, Isobel, brother Danny
  • “What did you do to your hair?" "Slept on it sort of wet." "Looks good. Makes you look a little less stuck-up.”
    locker girl, Isobel
  • “Your brother," "Is a little jerk. Now what do you want?" "Isobel, listen-" "No! you listen! You are such a hypocrite." Silence. Was he even still there? "What? Shocked that the dumb blond cheerleader actually has a vocabulary beyond 'Go team'?”
    Varen, Isobel
  • “"I'll be right back, I promise!" These last words echoed through the passageway around her. 'I promise', she thought, repeating her vow over and over in her mind.'I promise.'”
    Isobel Lanley
  • “Yeah, well, I tried to explain that my mind powers don't work on Tuesdays.”
    Varen Nethers
  • “He tagged you to go to the Grim Facade? Oh my cheese and crackers. Do you even know how major this is?”
    Gwen, Locker neighbor
  • “Varen: What the hell is that?Isobel: Uh, Sloppy Joe.Varen: Hmm. May he rest in peices.”
    isobel-varen
  • “Whatever! As if. You SO got it for him. I mean, can we say, 'Uhm, urh, durh, Sloppy Joe'? Psh. Please."”
    Gwen, locker neighbor
  • “I told him you were on the crapper.”
    Danny Lanley
  • “You asked me to wait, so I wait. For all of this, I know, Is a dream. And when, in sleep, at last we wake, I will see you again.”
    Varen Nethers
  • “Everything died in the Fall.”
    Isobel Lanley
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  • “But to pine for those we have had and loved and once held but will never clasp again,” he continued, “it is a torture of an unbearable degree. It is the worst pain possible. Enough to drive you away from yourself . . .
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  • My beautiful, my Isobel. My Love. You ask me to wait. And so I wait. For all of this, I know, is but a dream. And when, in sleep, at last we wake, I will see you again.
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  • The cool slip of the small metal loop pressed into her skin as he kissed her. Urgent. Gentle. So slow. Sweet, soft demolition.
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  • “Sloppy Joe,” she managed. “Hmm,” he said, sounding doubtful. “May he rest in peace.”
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  • “If this were in Japanese,” said Danny, “it could so be an anime.”
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  • “Please,” she murmured at her burger, her voice no more than a squeaky whisper, “don’t do this.” “It’s dead,” he said. “I don’t think it can hear you.”
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  • “Your face is a foul disease. Now shut up so I can concentrate.”
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  • “You’re really a blond,” she said, her tone just short of accusatory. “And if you tell anyone, I will come to you in the night and smote your everlasting soul.”
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  • “You could never be Lenore,” he said, returning to his scrawling. At this, Isobel scoffed outright, trying to decide if she’d been insulted. “Yeah? Why not?”
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First Sentence edit see section history

Edgar opened one eye to a slit.

Table of Contents edit see section history

Prologue
01. Assigned
02. Marked
03. After Nine
04. Entitled
05. A Note of Warning
06. Things Unseen
07. Maelstrom
08. Ligeia
09. Intangible Forms
10. Spirits of the Dead
11. Whispered Word
12. The Invisible Visible
13. Watched
14. All That We See
15. The Power of Words
16. Ultima Thule
17. Dead Air
18. The Other Half
19. Visitations
20. Uninvited
21. Motley Drama
22. Cheer Up
23. Dearly Departed
24. The Woodlands of Weir
25. Seeing Double
26. Freak
27. The Green Man
28. Ulalume
29. Driven
30. Projected
31. In the Flesh
32. Pinfeathers
33. Just a Bird
34. Caught
35. Tell-Tale Heart
36. No Return
37. The Grim Facade
38. Out of Space, Out of Time
39. Much of Madness
40. In a Vision
41. Alone
42. A Vow
43. The Oblong Box
44. Red Death
45. A Door
46. Bednight in Veils
47. Surcease of Sorrow
48. Invisible Woe
49. Obscure and Lonely
50. From Out That Shadow
Epilogue

Series & Lists edit see section history

This is book 1 of 2 in The Nevermore Trilogy. (standard series)

Followed by Enshadowed.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Kelly Creagh (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: Atheneum
Country: United States of America
Publication Date: August, 31, 2010
ISBN: 978-1442402003
Page Count: 543

Notes for Parents edit see section history

Reading Level: Young Adults

A pretty clean book in terms of romance. It contains some gruesome scenes and lots of action.

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