Blog Tour: Earthbound by Aprilynne Pike

 

Title: Earthbound (Earthbound, #1)
Author: Aprilynne Pike
Publisher: Razorbill
Publication Date: July 30, 2013
Source: Publisher
Format: ARC
Pages: 352

Tavia Michaels is the sole survivor of the plane crash that killed her parents. When she starts to see strange visions of a boy she’s never spoken with in real life, she begins to suspect that there’s much about her past that she isn’t being told.

Tavia immediately searches for answers, desperate to determine why she feels so drawn to a boy she hardly knows. But when Tavia discovers that the aunt and uncle who took her in after her parents' death may have actually been responsible for the plane crash that killed them--and that she may have been the true intended victim--she flees for the safety of Camden, Maine, where the boy she sees in her visions instructs her to go.

Now, Tavia is on the run with no one to trust. No one, that is, except for her best friend and longtime crush, Benson.

Tavia feels torn between the boy who mysteriously comes to her at night and the boy who has been by her side every step of the way. But what Tavia doesn't know is that the world is literally falling apart and that to save it she will have to unite with the boy in her visions. Only problem? To do so would mean rejecting Benson's love. And that's the one thing Tavia Michaels swore she'd never do.
 

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Having loved Aprilynne Pike's Life After Theft, I was definitely excited to be picking this one up. I have to admit, the synopsis didn't sound that intriguing to me, but I still thought it was interesting. The main protagonist, Tavia, was the sole survivor of a plane crash that killed her parents. Sent to live with her distant aunt and uncle, Tavia starts experiencing weird things in the town. Tavia starts envisioning a boy that no one can see, and not only was he imagined, but he also looked like he just got pulled from the 1800's or something. Then we have Benson, who is Tavia's best friend and long time crush. I think Benson played a huge part of why I still continued reading this book, because I absolutely loved him! Yea, yea, everyone's probably fed up of best friend romances, but I'm still a sucker for those.

 As a character, I wasn't able to connect to Tavia at all. She just felt  blank for me. Thinking about it now, I don't think she was memorable at all. I think Benson felt like a better written character than she was. Tavia just felt like she was 2D. The twists and the mysteries in this book were what made me want to continue reading as well. I have to admit, the plot felt a bit lacking, and it was kind of boring at some point, but I still continued. There was a lot of shocking scenes and the book, but there were also some parts that made no sense for me whatsoever.

 Overall, Earthbound was an okay read for me. It was honestly a shame because I had such high hopes for it after reading Life After Theft. The ending was interesting, but I don't think I'll be picking out the second book when it comes out. I guess it was just one of those books that don't click with me. Of course, me disliking it doesn't mean that whoever is reading this is going to dislike it to. Give it a chance, and I hope you will enjoy it more than I did!