Evernight review

Title: Evernight (Evernight #1)

Author: Claudia Gray

Published: February 10th 2009

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What it’s about:

Bianca Oliver knew her life had changed when her parents uprooted her from her small hometown, her old friends, her old life, and sent her to Evernight Academy. Everyone at the eerie gothic boarding school is different to Bianca. They’re sleek, elegant, and almost … predatory.

Then Bianca meets Lucas. He’s like her: an outcast. And he likes it that way. He ignores the rules, stands up to snobs, and cautions Bianca to be careful—especially about fitting in.

But then Bianca finds out that she actually does fit in. That she’s the ‘Evernight type’ after all. Despite this, she is determined to make it work with Lucas. But her dark secret is destined to tear them apart … and Bianca soon finds out that Lucas was hiding something life-changing himself.

My thoughts:

Evernight is one of my favourite books. It was one of the first paranormal romance novels I read (before I even readTwilight). I first borrowed it from my school library a couple of years ago, and I read it in less than a day. My friend at the time and I went around the library picking out random books and borrowing them for each other, and my friend picked out Evernight and borrowed it for me, daring me to read it. So, like the daredevil that I am, I read it. And boy, did I love it. I ended up borrowing the sequel and counting down the days until the next book came out.

Bianca is a very nice character. She’s lived her whole life in the same town, and suddenly she’s being sent to a strange, scary boarding school where she knows no one and doesn’t fit in.

When I first read this book, I thought it would be the usual idea of the girl finding out the guy is a vampire and her whole world turning upside down. But Evernight is much different. It has an amazing twist that just makes the story immediately much more exciting. The whole idea of two people who come from completely different worlds falling for each other yet being torn between living the life they’ve always known and being together has always enticed me. Evernight shows this wonderfully, and that’s probably one of the reasons I love it so much.

I was very surprised twice during this book. It’s hard for an author to shock me once, let alone twice. I think this happens to everyone who reads it. The reader assumes they know what’s going to happen, but Claudia Gray is a great writer and manages to shock everyone when a secret is told.

Gray creates wonderful characters and an action-filled plot that makes you want to read more.