Evermore by Alyson Noel

       Evermore is the first book in The Immortals Series by Alyson Noel. After an accident that took away her parents and her younger sister, Ever Bloom finds herself as the only survivor and with the ability to see people's auras, hear their thoughts, and know someone's entire life story only by touching them. Living with her aunt Sabine now, Ever isolates herself from everyone else at her new school, only talking to her best friends. When a new guy named Damen Auguste comes to her school, Ever will discover a world of secrets and mystery.
      Getting into Evermore was really difficult, I never actually got into it I just forced myself to continue to read it hoping it would get better towards the end. The book felt slow and the main character, Ever, sort of annoyed me at times. I felt sympathy for her because she lost her family and got abilities she'd rather not have, but it felt like she felt sorry for herself too much. I'm sure this will change as the series progresses and she discovers herself but in this book I didn't enjoy it. 
      What I did like about this book was the concept, I like the idea of psychic abilities and I find it interesting. The book isn't about vampires or werewolves which is great because it's something different. Al in all I give the book 3 out of 5 stars because I see potential for the story in the later books.

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Crime Is Pride

                                    Think: all men make mistakes

But a good man yields when he

Knows his course is wrong,

And repairs the evil: The only

Crime is pride.

      
        Crime is Pride I believe is very accurate and true. The quote is saying how a person should know when they are wrong and when they are doing something that is wrong. A person then, sometimes, knows how to fix their problem or tries to fix it even if they don't know how. The quote says how there's nothing wrong with being wrong as long as you're willing to fix your problem and admit to being wrong. And the final line of the quote is saying how pride can overtake a person and the way they look at everything ethically and morally.
       An example that relates to this quote is if a student gets a wrong and different answer to an algebra problem than their friend and the the friend explains why it's wrong and the student admits it and sees how he's wrong is what the poem is saying. But if the student only believes that he is right because he really believes it even though their friend showed him why he's wrong, then that is the pride getting in the way.
       Pride can be a dangerous thing is what the quote is overall saying. An example would be infamous men like Hitler who always believed to be right and they stopped at nothing to enforce their beliefs on others, where did that pride lead men like Hitler? They were typically captured or even died because they never admitted that what they were doing was ethically and morally wrong. In the beginning, before Hitler had power, he was making mistakes by discriminating on the people he was against but he took that mistake and transformed it into a crime by going so far as to making innocent people suffer. Since he didn't admit to his mistake, that ultimately became a crime and it is what caused his downfall.
        Mistakes that are transformed into crimes just because you believe to be right is what I believe the overall message of this quote is exemplified by the students and their algebra homework to people like Hitler.

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