Fans of Stephenie Meyer and P.C. Cast will enjoy Stargazer, the second book in Claudia Gray's young adult series. The gothic vampire romance has a likable cast and Gray deftly portrays teenage angst in the heroine as she tells the story in first person. It brings some cleverly plotted twists to a genre that seems flooded with teenage vampires.
Summer is over and sixteen year old Bianca returns to Evernight Academy where her parents are professors. Not yet a full vampire she doesn't fit in with the humans or the vampire students at the gothic boarding school. In the previous book she fell in love with another outcast, Lucas, who turned out to be a vampire hunter. When the truth about his identity was revealed, he fled the school. Now he and Bianca meet secretly. She will do anything to see him again, even if it puts her in danger from the Black Cross, a group of vampire hunters.
In Stargazer the plot thickens and the story is more engrossing than it was in book one. Bianca is becoming stronger and it's only a matter of time before she becomes a full-blooded vampire. All the characters are more developed and new revelations raise the stakes. A love triangle develops between Bianca, Lucas and Balthazar. Which one will she choose? Ghostly wraith hauntings are aimed at Bianca and her parents have been keeping secrets from her. There are enough loose threads to make me eager to read book three of this darkly entertaining series.
Reading Level: Young Adult
Publisher: HarperTeen; 1 edition (March 24, 2009)
ISBN: 978-0-06-128440-3
Hardcover: 336 Pages
Price: $16.99
Gail Pruszkowski reviews for "Romantic Times BOOKreviews" magazine and her work has been published in the "Cup of Comfort" Anthologies.
http://mysite.verizon.net/bookworm.gp/
[http://write-juncture.blogspot.com/]
Geen opmerkingen:
Een reactie posten