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Evernight by Claudia Grey was provided to me as part of the Amazon Vine program.

Evernight is a teen drama about a girl named Bianca. Her parent's are teachers, and have landed jobs at an exclusive boarding school named Evernight Academy. Most of the kids there are perfect: smart, attractive, world travelers, and very clique-ish. Bianca doesn't fit in, until she meets Lucas. Lucas has issues, but Bianca loves him, even over another boy he seems better in every way.

The first half of this book seems like your typical teen novel. Trouble fitting in. Back stabbing kids. The works. And then it takes a serious turn. I liked the book after the turn, but I was a little frustrated in the secrets which were kept. The second half of the book is full of action and intrigue, and a few smaller twists along the way.

You definitely want to think of this as a modern fantasy book. I will watching for Stargazer (the sequel) when it comes out next year.

I read the hardcover edition. The dust jacket was pretty normal (if you like red) but the cover itself had a wonderfully embossed Evernight title.


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Evernight Claudia Gray Books Reviews

Evernight started off "okay." I semi enjoyed the first chapter, where Bianca is afraid of her new school and wants to run away - and in the process meets Lucas. It was cute. From there, this book really went downhill, and at the 50% mark it became almost unreadable. While it picked up around 80%, that middle potion was nearly impossible to get through.

****** SPOILERS BELOW *********

On her first day of school, Bianca's internal narration is nonstop "Oh where is Lucas? He should know how afraid I am and be here to protect me!" Are you that pathetic that you need some boy you met the day before to "protect" you from the big bad high school kids? Bianca is afraid of all these high schoolers who seem too worldly and perfect to be true - you definitely get a sense of Bella Swan and the Cullen family (in Twilight before she finds out they're vampires). I'm fairly certain this is intentional by the author - Bianca is in awe of the stunningly beautiful and seemingly perfect rich people who populate her school.

From there she wanders through her high school life and ends up going to the prom-like Autumn Ball with a guy named Balthazar (!!). At the Ball she ends up ditching Balthazar and meets up with Lucas. While making out with him, she bites him and drinks his blood and OMG SHE IS A VAMPIRE!! She has always known she is a vampire and the author was tricking us by not giving anything away! She drinks blood every morning for breakfast and her parents are hundreds of years old.
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Okay, fine. Stupid plot twist designed to be a shock, but I'm willing to go with it. Then you start learning more about her fellow students. Keep in mind she is at a boarding school with extremely strict rules and chaperones. Parties are broken up, there are curfews, lots of rules, classes like normal high school kids would get (history, chemistry, english, etc). Some of her fellow students are also hundreds of years old (some are well over 1000 years old). Why does a 400 year old vampire need to attend a boarding school where they get treated like children by vampires younger than them? IT MAKES NO SENS.

Then Bianca goes to a class where the teachers are giving instruction on how to use an ipod. So all of these 1000 year old vampires have been living in a hole since the middle ages and suddenly need to be taught how to use a cell phone and an ipod? It's made very clear that these vampires are extremely wealthy and love to jetset around the world, skiing and doing other things wealthy people do. They have equestrian competitions and fencing competitions, so they're obviously already integrated into the "real" world. But they don't know how to use a microwave or a cell phone? It's stupid.

And why do all these 1000 year old vampires act like catty teenage girls? It makes no sense whatsoever, except that the author has to make them act that way otherwise the super surprising OMG BIANCA IS A VAMPIRE plot twist won't be as much of a surprise.

The last few chapters (once we find out the truth about Lucas) is much more interesting and I wish the whole book had been more like that. It's too bad I had to read through 80% terrible in order to get there. I may check out the sequels, as there hopefully won't be any ridiculous plot twists to screw things up.
I thought Evernight was good, I think the only thing that I didn't connect to was how abruptly it began and how abruptly it turned from what seemed like a non paranormal read turned into a supernaturally engrossed book.

That was probably mostly my fault because I grabbed this book on the spur of the moment because I got it for fifteen cents and I liked the cover.

Yes, guilty... I'm a cover buyer. There are a great many times I just look at a cover and I grab without ever having read to see what the book was about.

This habit has lead to some great finds and not so great ones yet this is one that I felt was a good one. It did take me a little over half way into the book before I really felt drawn into the characters and the story which is why I think I went out and got the second book after the cliff hanger ending left me frustrated.

It wasn't a fantastic or exciting read for me but it was interesting none the less. I didn't feel the need to go beyond the second book just because it felt like it echoed many other YA paranormals I had been reading at the time so much that I felt like I was reading the same book over again.

If you're into YA paranormal books this is a decent series to invest in but if you lean toward something more mature and exciting you might want to look somewhere else.
Bianca Oliver doesn't want to be at Evernight Academy, a boarding school. Her parents took jobs at the Academy moving her from her life. With a chip on her shoulder she reluctantly attends not realizing she is about to find out that some truths about who she is has been hidden from her.

Bianca meets Lucas right away and he is different from everyone else she encounters. Lucas though has his own mystery surrounding him and there are others trying to tear them apart. Will they be able too?

Intriguing read. Was not what I expected, a bit darker than your standard academy reads. I really liked Bianca, she beats to her own drummer and thought the whole back story was fascinating. Great read, going to check out more in this series.
Evernight by Claudia Grey was provided to me as part of the Vine program.

Evernight is a teen drama about a girl named Bianca. Her parent's are teachers, and have landed jobs at an exclusive boarding school named Evernight Academy. Most of the kids there are perfect smart, attractive, world travelers, and very clique-ish. Bianca doesn't fit in, until she meets Lucas. Lucas has issues, but Bianca loves him, even over another boy he seems better in every way.

The first half of this book seems like your typical teen novel. Trouble fitting in. Back stabbing kids. The works. And then it takes a serious turn. I liked the book after the turn, but I was a little frustrated in the secrets which were kept. The second half of the book is full of action and intrigue, and a few smaller twists along the way.

You definitely want to think of this as a modern fantasy book. I will watching for Stargazer (the sequel) when it comes out next year.

I read the hardcover edition. The dust jacket was pretty normal (if you like red) but the cover itself had a wonderfully embossed Evernight title.