Good story. I liked the story but struggled to get through it a bit, It had a great concept but it did fall a little short for me and the main character would get a bit annoying at times. Definitely want to try another book from this author.

Thank you so much for the opportunity to read this book. Unfortunately it’s not the book for me. DNF @ 13%.

Thank you NetGalley for the ARC copy and the chance to review this book.

I had a hard time getting into this book. The writing style was choppy and the book jumped around without spending enough time in any one spot for me to be invested. I would probably not read any additional books in the series.

Audrey or Odd as she likes to be called, Odd is always bored and trying to keep busy.
One day Odd and her friend Kite see an island over their town. Yes, you read that correctly, an island over their town. When they get on the island they are taken to the forest called Nightlands. Now they have to figure out how to get home. This book is about their adventure to get back to their home, but of course they are not sure how to do this in Nightlands. This book was a little all over the place, not confusing per se, but the confusion made it so it was not a page turner. The idea is quite good, but is just could not live up to what it could have been. Thank you to NG, the publisher, and author for allowing me to read this book in exchange for a review.

An exciting middle grade book. It's cute and I loved reading it. I liked the way the author put the scenarios and the world creation. The plot was interesting and more than that the adventure got me really involved and wishing to be Odd and Kite friends. It was a amazing adventure!

Lovely romp through a world of bazaar animals, flying islands, and more. The pacing never stops. The reader is led along never quite knowing what is around the next page!

*thank you to Netgalley and Atthis Arts, LLC for a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review*

3 stars.

While I did enjoy this book, I didnt love it. Sure it kept my attention, I liked the characters enough, it was a good story and was also well written. But i wasn't excited to read it. It wasnt page turner or anything but it was still worth reading and I am glad that I did get a chance to. It's one I would pass along to others to read but I wouldn't highly recommend it. I also have to add and leave this review on a positive mark and that is that I do like the cover and the fact that this was written and published I an omnibus version.

I really enjoyed this series. It was so much fun to read and follow Odd's story as she found out who she truly was and who her father is. I really loved book one and two the most!

I wanted to like this book, but I couldn't get into it. I found the writing choppy and oftentimes the sentences were convoluted. I really had trouble picturing the characters or the world clearly.

I feel as if the writing style, descriptions, and sentence structure doesn't conform to the target audience age-range.

I'd peg the target audience to be 8-10, which is consistent with the "4th-5th grade" reading audience mentioned in the marketing plan on New Galley.

I picked this range due to the age of the characters, the not-too-scary content, no swearing, etc. I have a 13 year-old, and he would find the story "too young" to be of interest to him. (Kids like to read about characters slightly older than they are.) However, I also have a 10 year old fifth grader who is the perfect target age, so I am reviewing it with him in mind. My 10 year old doesn't have any identified reading issues, but he doesn't particularly enjoy reading, making him a bit harder of a critic than most.

I suspect he'd put this book down, because the descriptions would confuse him. I'm including a few quotes so you can make your own judgement since all children are different.

“His ginger hair was all but shaved from his head, and his hood sat lazily on his crown.” (70)

My 5th grader would stumble over "all but shaved." Is it nearly shaved, or mostly shaved? Does he have a head of reddish stubble or is it all shaved except a long reddish piece? And is he wearing a crown, or do they mean the crown of his head?

Likewise, I don't think my kid would know what a girl with "longer features" (70) looked like, or be able to picture, "an old book bound in a lacquered wooden cover warped with age." (78)

And I think if my kid got far enough, he'd give up entirely over sentences like this:

“Far across the room, dominating the other side in an abject defiance of reason, stood a twisted and ancient bonsai tree. Slithering roots dipped impossibly through the marble as if the two conformed to each other.” (86)

The book is filled with what I consider "discouraging" word choices for a young reader. Heck, I found them convoluted and I'm an adult with an MFA.

However, I did find the characters, Kite and Odd, to be charming. Their interaction reminded me of bickering children and I found them believable. For example:

“All I did was run around enacting brilliant plans. You’re the one who kept trying to get squished.” (Odd)
“Thats not exactly how I remember it.” (Kite) page 38

It's certainly a novel premise and avid readers of magical adventures will be pleased with it. The three separate stories all flow seamlessly together.


Thanks, Net Galley, for providing a free copy in exchange for an honest review.

Book one was awesome and entertaining. I didn't like books 2 or 3. Also, this appears to be a reprint and not a new book. All the other reviews on Goodreads are from a few years ago.

I don't know how I feel about this book - the summary had me intrigued and the start of the book was promising but then it kind of fell apart for me.

The main character Odd is not likeable at all for me and comes across as being reckless and a brat. She never thinks of others before just charging headfirst into situations and she only ever thinks of herself. In my opinion she also has no character growth at all over the whole book.

This is a bind up of 3 stories that have also been released separately and unfortunately, if I'd only had the first one, I don't think that I would have carried on reading because the story just wasn't interesting enough for me.

I don't think that the book had a solid plot and it just jumped around following wherever Odd decided to throw herself next and there also wasn't as much world building as I would like. If a book is set in a magical forest then I would expect there to be lots of magical animals in the story and there was only one and that was only really in the first section of the book.

I enjoyed the premise of this story, and I wanted to like the characters a bit more than I did. Some of the action seemed rushed and left me feeling like I needed more details about what was happening. The story was driven by exposition through dialog in too many places. The book is fairly good but the pacing could have been better.

Mixed reviews for this one.

Book One was a fun and adorable fantasy adventure for young readers. I was wholeheartedly rooting for this book and ready to recommend it to others. But... then I kept on reading.
Book Two was a drag - the main character morphed from a delightful inquisitive magical novice into a nosy, whiny brat and the dialogue with the new characters was poorly written.
Book Three was a mess. The plot was all over the place and made very little sense.

It's never a good reaction when you finish a book and find yourself frowning with confusion and annoyance. It probably needed a few more rounds of rewriting and editing.

I’m not sure if it’s ironic or unironc that the best descriptor I can possibly think of for <i>Foreverafter: An Odd Adventure</i> by K. J. Quint is quite literally the word <i>odd</i>. Following the long awaited adventure of a young girl called Audrey—though more commonly referred to as Odd—and her best friend Kite when a mysterious floating island appears above their home. And if you thought you knew where this story was headed, or at least had some sort of inkling, you’d probably be wrong. More than likely, you’ll leave this book wondering just what, exactly, the purpose was.

And to the credit of the author, I can’t figure out if this is a good or a bad thing.

I was rather in love with the idea of this story from the moment I first read its summary. It reminded me a little of Miyazaki’s Castle in the Sky, but that was perfectly alright with me since I happened to have a deep love for that film. There was no question that I was excited to read this one. The character names were another intriguing highlight as I found myself rather in love with the nickname of ‘Odd’ for a girl named Audrey and Kite all by itself is a rather fun name for a kid. And as the novel progressed I grew quite fond of Cecil for a number of reasons. By far, the best characters in this story are Kite and Cecil.

Unfortunately, where this book fails is with its main character and its villains. Audrey, while she has a wonderful name, comes off as a massive brat. She doesn’t give consideration to anyone around her and the more I got to know her the more I wondered how any of these characters—barring her mother, I suppose—liked her at all. She was a constant pain in the side, regularly making situations worse and worse for everyone around her and only on <i>one</i> occasion did she ever seem to show any afterthought or remorse for being such a reckless snot and she never really seems to grow or develop from this. My issue with the villains, alternately, lies with the fact that I have not one single clue as to what their motivation was. They were so flat and underdeveloped in this area that it was just massively baffling and left me feeling that they were only part of the story to create conflict—which was unnecessary when the author could have simply stuck to Odd’s self-destructive tendency to jump into whatever danger she finds or create it herself if she can’t manage to come upon any.

The side characters, perhaps excluding Audrey’s father who only ever really had his okay moments—primarily when we meet him, since he falls apart in the end—are fairly decent and I enjoyed their inclusion, though I wish we’d spent a bit more time with some than other.s. I feel like so much more could have come from the pup creatures than they were actually utilized for, which was quite a shame. And it seems like this was a theme in the book as there were numerous interesting creatures mentioned who never really amounted to much in the grand scheme of the story.

And thus, after all of it, I continue to be baffled when it comes to what I think of <i>Foreverafter</i>. I enjoyed reading it, sure. But it was just such an odd and almost pointless book that I really felt left with mixed feelings. Add in the fact that this is an omnibus version that is going to be split into three separate novels and the final part conclusion ends on a cliffhanger and I’m even more unsure how to feel. I didn’t even get closure with all the mixed up pieces of the story at the very end of it all. The story is certainly very unique, which I’ll give it a lot of credit for, but I feel that the author spent way too much time on pushing Audrey’s “oddness” than actually telling a succinct, plot-dynamic, and interesting story. Had all of the characters been extensively developed, perhaps I could have forgiven this a bit more. Unfortunately, that was not the case.

<i>Foreverafter</i> is a pretty decent book and it certainly had its good moments. But it could have been far better.

I liked the premise of the book and thought my son would enjoy it but unfortunately it was a pretty badly written book. The premise is great and the characters had promise. Odd is a girl who wants adventure and Kite is the boy who wants more normalcy in his life. As they go off on their adventure I hoped the book would improve but it never did. It was very dull and hard to get through. It was so bad that I told my son I’d read him the first book aloud and he could read the next one to himself. By the end of the book he had no more interest in the story and told me he didn’t want to bother reading it. My son loves adventure and fantasy novels with similar premises but this one did not his attention. I can’t speak to the next book but I hope it improves. This book did end on a funny note about dangerous llamas so maybe there’s hope it can improve.

Wow. Just wow.

“Foreverafer: An Odd Adventure” begins with a magic trick conducted by the ever charming Kite and his partner Odd who live out their days performing and spend their nights dreaming of adventure when one lands in their lap, or rather directly over their heads in the form of a flying island hovering over their town. Jumping at the chance to explore they find themselves in another land entirely where magic reigns supreme and the line between friend and foe blurs as they discover that this trip is less of a fairytale and more of a nightmare.

I really don’t know where to begin with this one friends I wanted to quit so many times and I’m not sure if it’s because though this is listed as a young adult it’s written in a way that seems to be geared toward a younger audience or if it was just that bad. It’s a serious struggle to try and get into this world and fall for these characters who I’ll admit have nice banter back and forth throughout the piece the rest is so heavy handed with little winks to the plot twists later that it’s practically a joke.

There’s a bit of an allure to Hansel and Gretel or even Coraline here and whether that’s on purpose or just something I found myself referring back to I’ll never know for sure. Also there’s a bit of a problem concerning ages of certain characters though it’s explicitly stated for one to the point that you can assume the other is around a similar age the others aren’t mentioned at all until the book is nearly over and the person I’ve been picturing as a fully grown adult turns out to be a kid, or at least I hope that’s true otherwise we have a very different problem on our hands.

I think where this book suffers most is that they have to do a lot of exposition in order to make the villains motivations make sense and it’s not done well at all to the point that even now I’m not 100% sure why any of it happened and couldn’t tell you what the endgame was to be.

I really don’t know what else to share about this other than maybe skip it which I hate to say but I really can’t think of anything worth mentioning that might led me to recommend it to anyone of any age.

**special thanks to the publishers and netgalley for providing an arc in exchange for a fair and honest review**

I'm sorry, but I did not care for this book and could not finish it. Grammatical and punctuation and spelling errors made it very hard to follow.