Review: Evernight by Claudia Gray
Evernight is the first book of the Evernight series as well as Claudia Gray debut novel.
The book start off with an exciting prologue (excerpt from the near end of the book) which we learn that our, Bianca, and her prince charming, Lucas, are stuck in a place on fire while the vampire are outside waiting for them.
Just before the beginning of the first day of class, Bianca is running away from Everynight Academy, a boarding school which she just moved with her parent. On the way, she met Lucas, also a new student. Despite from her fear/uneasiness of strangers, she is able to talk to him and tell him how she felt about this new life at Evernight Academy. Somehow, she end up coming back home without her parent noticing her escape.
Class is now starting and Bianca is moving out from her parents apartments to her room at the dormitory. Everybody at Evernight are too perfect and snob, but she notice some people like her and Lucas who just don’t fit in. She was really happy to see Lucas, but somehow he decided to ignore her. She is very disappointed since she though they got a connection.
The first part of the book is introducing the characters, how Bianca just in her new life, the relationship she is trying to make with Lucas, lot of mysteries and question. We knew from the beginning that Bianca was obsessed with Lucas since she keep thinking about him. We know they love each other, but it’s so hard to feel it since everything is more about what they do then what they think or feels. I don’t really know how to explain it, but I don’t feel it. It was more like, “Oh OK, you guy like each other?”
The second part of the book start with a revelation, I wasn’t expecting it and I was annoyed by the way it was reveal. We didn’t have any hints on it. Then the story goes in a pace that I couldn’t keep up for a while because I was still shock. I know it must be call suspense, but believe me, it was annoyance. I was so upset that I even though to stop reading. In the last part of the book, we had another revelation and it was nicely done, I was shocked AGAIN, but not upset, hehe.
So there was two things that I did not like in the book or it was more like the way it was told, but overall the book was interesting and original even though we might want to say that it’s “another” vampire story. I read a lot of vampire stories, so believe me, this book have something that we did not see in other vampire book.