Evernight by Claudia Gray

Age Level: Teen

Format: Book

 

Raquel whispered, “Don’t you ever feel like there’s something at this school that’s . . . evil?”  Her voice shook.  “Do you believe in real evil?”

 

Nobody had ever asked me that, but I knew the answer.  “Yeah.  I do.”

 

Evernight Academy is a secluded boarding school tucked away in the middle of no where.  To outsiders, it seems like just another elite boarding school for the rich.  However, it’s a place that has secrets – many secrets – and these secrets have been around since the school’s founding centuries ago.  

 

Bianca is a new student at Evernight Academy.  Both of her parents have just signed on as teachers at the school.  She’s not happy about having to move away from all of her friends to this new place, where she knows, she does not fit in.  She’s resigned herself to a lonely existence at her new school, but then she meets Lucas, another student who doesn’t fit the mold and she knows she has found a rare friend.  Unfortunately, there are forces conspiring against Bianca and Lucas.  Their newfound friendship and love seems doomed.

 

I absolutely loved this book!  The story is tightly written with many great details about both the school’s forbidding character and the relationship between Lucas and Bianca.  There is a major twist in the middle of this book which caught me completely unaware.  I thought I knew where the story was going, why Lucas and Bianca’s budding romance was probably not going to work out, and what the evil at the school really was.  I was caught by surprise, and so will you. 

 

Give Evernight a chance.  You won’t be sorry.

 

Reviewed by Sara.