Evernight - Claudia Gray

After the pandemonium that Twilight saga had caused a couple of years ago, I thought there was no other vampire story that would catch my attention. I know I was kind of biased, thinking Edward was the best looking vampire I met, but I realized, I didn't give myself a chance to broaden my horizon.

Then one day, I chanced upon Evernight by Claudia Gray. I didn't have any idea what this book was all about; I didn't even accessed Google nor Wikipedia for a glimpse. I was so intrigued about this boarding school that made Bianca ran away on her first day. And then she met Lucas and fell in love..

Bianca Olivier is a new student to Evernight Academy, a Gothic boarding school with "perfect" but predatory students. Ahe knows she doesn't belong but she can't escape because her parents are now teachers at the school. Bianca believes the best of her parents and trusts them about everything even when her brain tells her not to.

As school progresses, Bianca befriends Lucas, Raquel, a loner like her, and Vic, Lucas' roommate. She develops enemies, like Courtney and Erich, who are what Bianca calls "The Evernight Type". At a party, she befriends a handsome, popular, but friendly guy, Balthazar More.

Balthazar asks her to the Autumn Ball. There, she, Lucas and Balthazar get into an argument, and Balthazar leaves them alone. Outside, under the gazebo, she and Lucas kiss for the first time. Bianca gives in to temptation, bites Lucas and drinks his blood. After she realizes what she did, she screams for help. Upon hearing, Courtney comes out and says "Well, it's about time you grew up and became a vampire like the rest of us.".

At first, the story was a little dragging, that it took me about 7 chapters before I learned about Bianca's true identity. I got excited from there on. The end of the story was left hanging which is good because it allowed me to come up with my own theories about the Vampire academy.

So far, I enjoyed the first book, and I can't wait to finish the second one. Kudos to Claudia Gray :) I think I like her story more than Stephenie Myers'. With that, I give Evernight a 4-bookmark rating :)