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After reading Gray's, Fateful, I thought she was a decent author. You know, she's got a few good ideas here and there. She can write well, I suppose. Not bad! So I decided to read the first book to her Evernight series.

She was bad. Bad to the bone.

So this is the story about Bianca. She's timid, awkward, and very childish. Stupid-childish, not cute childish, may I say! She's sixteen, but she acts like a five-year-old. She's a new student at Evernight Academy, a creepy, Gothic- More...

Pretty much, I think this rating is going to come as a massive shock to... well, anyone who's ever read a review from me before.

The thing is, Evernight really isn't that bad. In fact, as far as sappy YA paranormal books go, it's not THAT bad.

I don't actually know what to do with myself. I kind of expected a REALLY painful and agonizing reading experience before I came on GR and vomitted vitriol into everyone's faces. I guess you're all spared of that... for now! *Cue evil laugh*

Evernight is the More...

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Rant: Every professional review of this book somehow mentions Stephenie Meyer and/or the Twilight series. Is it just me, or does that annoy anyone else seven ways to Sunday? I get that people want to allude to some of the bestselling series of vampire books ever, but saying "enjoyable (...) for fans of that other vampire series who need something to read while they wait for Breaking Dawn (Meyer, 2008)" (Kirkus) is downright insulting, as it implies that Evernight is no better than a placeholder. More...

The first words that come to mind are dumb & instalove. I've read worse (really, I have -- just recently, in fact :P). But I've read better. So...there you go.

Part of the problem is how everyone talks & acts like they're 7 instead of 17 (or 19, in other cases). The romance is schmoopy-lovey-dovey-eyes for no good reason other than the fact that it's instalove, & therefore everyone should be on board with Bianca & Lucas as a central pairing. Alas, Bianca & Lucas are personali More...

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Deutsche Rezension:
Ich habe mich wirklich lange zusammen gerissen und versucht dieses Buch zu Ende zu lesen, aber bei bestem Willen habe ich mir bei der Mitte dann das Genick gebrochen und musste es einfach abbrechen! Sowas Absurdes habe ich ‘Gott sei Dank’ schon lange nicht mehr gelesen und ich habe keine Ahnung wie jemandem das gefallen kann? Ich bin das ganze Buch lang nicht mit der Hauptperson Bianca warm geworden. Keine Ahnung wa More...

Surprisingly, I really enoyed this book. It was almost on the edge of eyerolling, but was rescued just in time.
Bianca, an awkward, shy young teenage girl, begins the year at a new school where she meets Lucas, a mysterious boy with bronze hair that warns her away from him while yet another dark haired and muscular boy, Balthazar, whom she thinks of as only a friend, is also interested in her. Sound vaguely familiar?
Bianca spends too much time thinking about Lucas, almost to where I was starting More...

I was really torn between giving this book 3 or 4 stars but in the end settled for 4 coz i really did enjoy it.

Evernight follows Bianca, a girl who is sent to Evernight Academy with her parents when they get jobs there. She doesn't fit in at all, you have the in-group who are posh, snobby and bitchy who Bianca really doesn't fit in with and then you have the out-casts who she doesn't feel like she fits in with at all. She feels like the only one who doesn't belong there and the only one who does More...

I read this for two reasons: because I teach literacy to adolescents, and because Robin's coworker wrote it. So don't even bother to read this review unless you like teen vampire novels. If you DO, then I am pleased to report that I really enjoyed this book! In the story, Bianca Olivier is a teenage girl whose parents have insisted that they all move to a creepy boarding school called Evernight. Her parents will teach there, and she will attend as a student. Bianca hates the school from the star More...

I enjoyed this!

I have seen this around the book store a couple times, but didnt really think anything of it. Then one day my mom saw the newest one in the series, and said "Sarah this one look good". Of course I knew that there where three more ahead of that one so I went and picked it up. Glad I did.

For me there where 3 twists in this book. The two that happened at once, the third later on. I was pretty shocked actually. I did suspect the vampire thing though. Bianca is likeable, I didn't mind More...

I've known this book existed for a very long time but never actually had the urge to read it. I guess the covers never caught my attention and I never bothered to read the synopsis, so when the Love is All Around challenge started I decided to give it a go because hey it's red haha.

So the story follows Bianca when she first starts Evernight academy with her parents as professors. She soon meets her other classmates who are full of themselves except for a few, the ones that made this story actual More...

Where as I did like this book, I just couldn't get into it as much as some of the other recent best selling young adult books and it's probably because this one actually felt like a YA novel.

The central protag of Evernight, Bianca, is a sixteen year old girl who has just arrived at Evernight Academy to begin school for the next year. She's not too happy about it and the novel opens with Bianca deciding to get the heck out while the getting's good. A mysterious student by the name of Lucas stops More...

I didn't like this book for a few reasons, but the biggest one is probably that it was so...weird. In a bad way. I mean, like they go through half the book and they make her out like she doesn't know anything about what’s happening at the school, and then BANG, all of a sudden, well she knows everything, and had all the time... its just weird. Plus I thought her character was poorly made. First she's all shy and stuff, but then she's like not, and then she is, and so on. And she meets Lucas ONCE More...

if you have any interest in contemporary YA fantasy and particularly if you're into vampires (which I myself am not, so take that as evidence that this book is a great read), you need to check out Claudia Gray's Evernight (HarperTeen, May 2008).

I already knew that Claudia was an excellent writer from reading some of her short stories, so I wasn't surprised that I enjoyed her rich and vivid but never overblown narrative style; I also expected the plot would be complex yet readily comprehensible a More...

What I like:
>The book has vampires and vampire hunters in it.
>The book has an interesting love triangle.
>I love Lucas.
>It wasn't boring and a nice quick read.
>Truth is it's hard to put the book down.
>I love that the story has twists in it.

What I don't like:
>Lacks originality, the plot is a mix of Twilight (average girl goes to new school, falls for hot, mysterious guy) and Vampire Knight (love story between a vampire and a vampire hunter).
>Cheesy dialogues that made me wa More...

I was surpised to realize that I completely enjoyed myself with this book. It is somewhat of a Romeo & Juliet story of star-crossed lovers whose families are enemies, but with vampires.

The characters are sweet, secretive, and charming at the same time. I loved Lucas throughout the entirety of the book, while it took me a little while to adjust to Bianca. However, once I did I felt that the pairing of these two characters was meant to be!

I ended up being surprised twice during this book, whi More...

I thought I had this novel pegged from the beginning and then BAM, what I thought was true was flipped. I was duly impressed from that moment on and it assist me in overlooking some of the more cliched developments. One quibble would be Bianca's labelling of herself as 'shy' yet that instantly disappears in Lucas' company. I never buy that for an instant in any literature.

You are expected to buy into the love that develops between Lucas and Bianca and I did to a degree, but it was impeded by two More...

I just can't give it one star, though I really didn't like it. One star ratings are for books that made me want to pluck out my eyeballs. I didn't want to do that, but only by a little.

This book was so stupid. It was just stupid. The world, the ideas, the vampires... just stupid. The only thing that even remotely made it interesting was Lucas and the bit he brought into it. Still, even the Black Crosses weren't enough to save this one for me.

I took notes as I was reading. There were many times More...

I started this book last year; which is less impressive than it seems as I started it right after Christmas. Still, it took me a while to get through it. At first I just didn't care enough to pick it back up; the writing was okay but the book felt too... teen-y. I know it's a book meant for teens, but I've read young adult books that made good reads for older readers too. This one just... didn't.

More than half the book later, I came upon the first plot twist... and then I started paying attentio More...

Evernight is set in a very Vampire Knight setting, and is about a girl who is secretly a vampire (yeah right) who falls in love with a boring, uninteresting, controlling Romeo-wannabe and that's it.

Yes, that's it. There is no plot other than that.

This book managed to meet all of my expectations: It blew.

Now some of you may ask me why I bothered reading a book that I knew I wouldn’t like, right? Well the answer is simple: I’m a masochist. I’m somebody who faps over how terrible books are, and More...

3.5 stars

My thoughts on Evernight are quite conflicted, and before I get booed off the stage or egged, let me try to explain. I loved the concept, star-crossed lovers, Romeo & Juliet style feud, dark, gothic setting casting a menacing, edgy aura, interesting characters and some pretty suspenseful writing. So what you ask was my problem?? The first 100 pages or so are a little slow, lots of teen angst and striving to fit in, then a surprise development. Now there's nothing wrong with surprise More...

Interesting read. A little bit copy cat of Meyer's Twilight except one big surprise midway through the book. Once I hit that chapter, I was up until after midnight. The protagonist is a 16-year old sheltered girl who is shy to attend the gothic Evernight academy. She meets an older guy, a student, with whom she quickly falls in love, but there are, of course, complications. He's strong and knocks out three guys in a bar without even thinking. BUT - its not the ending you expect. And that makes t More...

"How to start?
ILOOOOVETHIIIS BOOK! In the page number 15 i couldn't get my eyes and my head out of it! It is just incredible i love all the characters that are in it, they all have a great personality, i felt in love with Lucas as fast i felt in love with the book, don't you even dare to compare this book with "twilight" this is 100000- times better, it has everything to be the perfect book and more, if you haven't read it YOU HAVE TO!
This book is one of my favorites books and with every book More...

This book was actually very enjoyable for me, despite the fact that almost everything in it I'VE SEEN BEFORE. Not that I don't mind authors using common themes but after a while it get's kinda old. Especially when it gives you a feeling that you already know exactly the course that this book will take. In fact, this boook had many problems. We even had a conversation.

Book: look at Bianca! She's a loner and unpopular and really pretty but she doesn't know it!
Me: um.........I've read about main ch More...

well, i liked it more than i thought i would, it was kind of boring at first, but i got into it after i found out she was a vampire. i had heaps of questions for my sister who has read it already. i was confused that there were vampires who are hundreds of years old, acting like teenagers in a school with humans. it made no sense to me. obviously as it went on, it went to explain (well, sort of) why the humans were there.... and why and how the vampires went to see their parents on holidays? the More...