Hourglass-Claudia Gray

Bianca and Raquel have joined Black Cross, the vampire hunting cult. Bianca and Lucas are planning to escape together eventually. Bianca's struggling to find sources of blood, but once their Black Cross cell moves to the New York HQ, she's able to sneak a few pigeons. Mrs. Bethany attack the HQ after tracking Bianca's email to her parents. Black Cross goes on lock down. Balthazar is their prisoner and Bianca and Lucas come up with a plan to let him escape. Later on Black Cross finds out what Bianca is because Raquel caught Bianca drinking Lucas's blood. They take her and Lucas in a van to be studied somewhere, and Dana, another hunter who saw Bianca drinking from Lucas, helps them get away. Bianca and Lucas go to Philadelphia and get a hotel and get cleaned up and then meet with Vic. Vic let's them stay in his wine cellar while his family takes him and Ranulf to Tuscany. Vic already knows that Ranulf is a vampire and well as the other Evernight students including Bianca.

Bianca becoming sick and losing her taste for blood and food and she's dying because it was her destiny to become a Wraith. The only other choice besides full vampire.

It was a pretty good book, I admit. This series gets more and more interesting. This was tyhe 3rd Evernight book. I recommend it.

~*Haley*

Stargazer-Claudia Gray

This is the second Evernight book. Bianca starts the new school year without Lucas and Vic gives her a letter from Lucas saying to meet him is Amherst in October. She runs into another vampire there, a young girl who later turns out to be Charity, Balthazar's sister who he made a vampire way back when. Lucas was hunter her and thinks she's part of a gang. Later on Bianca and Balthazar strike a deal that he will help her meet Lucas from time to time if they help him get his sister back. They make an arrangement to pretend to be dating. Meanwhile, ghost of "wraith" activity has been going on at Evernight and when it does things seem to frost over, ice crystals everywhere. The wraiths are after Bianca, her parents have kept a secret from her-that her parents made a deal that their child would become a wraith instead of a vampire in exchange for the wraiths' help to conceive the child. Bianca's love and life are both on a thin line.

Overall, I liked this book. It was much easier to read after having read the first. I like Balthazar better than Lucas, I think. Balth's more charming.

~*Haley*