BOOK REVIEW: EVERNIGHT, CLAUDIA GRAY

Title: Evernight (Evernight, #1)
Author: Claudia Gray
Edition: Paperback
Published: February 10, 2009
Publisher: HarperTeen
Pages: 327
Genre: Romance, Fantasy, Paranormal

She's been uprooted from her small hometown and enrolled at Evernight Academy, an eerie Gothic boarding school where the students are somehow too perfect: smart, sleek, and almost predatory. Bianca knows she doesn't fit in.

Then she meets Lucas. He's not the "Evernight type" either, and he likes it that way. Lucas ignores the rules, stands up to the snobs, and warns Bianca to be careful - even when it comes to caring about him.

"I couldn't stand it if they took it out on you," he tells Bianca, "and eventually they would."

But the connection between Bianca and Lucas can't be denied. Bianca will risk anything to be with Lucas, but dark secrets are fated to tear them apart... and to make Bianca question everything she's ever believed.

If you think this is another book like Twilight, well think again. The first book in the series is actually kind of boring for me. Nothing actually happens until the end. The story is somehow slow-paced at the beginning up to the middle. There's just characterization and the forming of the story. But I do have some advice for you: don't give up on the book just yet.

The story picks up its pace...

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when Lucas is revealed to be part of Black Cross, a group of vampire hunters.

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If you read that, even with the warning and strikethrough, I'm very much sorry but I think you ruined the plot twist of the story. Overall, I give it three stars because I think the story needed more action and/or more questions that will keep you hanging for the next book. But I do really recommend you to read it because this is one of the best vampire series I have ever read.

"What had seemed like love was betrayal."

"Self-knowledge is better than self-control any day."

"If you loved someone, you couldn't let lies come between you. No matter what happened - even if you'd already lost each other forever - you owed each other the truth."