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When Bianca chooses death over becoming a vampire, she doesn’t realise that another life lies in store… The fourth and final novel in the internationally best-selling EVERNIGHT series – a vampire romance with a shocking twist.
Bianca and Lucas have always believed they could endure anything to be together. When a twist of fate not only transforms Bianca into a wraith but also turns Lucas into a vampire – the very creature he spent his life hunting – they are left reeling.
Haunted by his powerful need to kill, Lucas can turn to only one place for help… Evernight Academy. But with the vampire leader of Evernight waging war on the wraiths, Bianca’s former home has become the most dangerous place she could be, despite the new powers her ghostly transformation has given her.
A battle between wraiths and vampires looms, and Bianca and Lucas face a terrifying new reality. Is their love strong enough to survive after life?
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This will contain spoilers for the rest of the series
In Short
In Short
- Claudia has done a great job of rounding off the series
- I really like how she took this book to places I didn't expect.
- Bianca showed quite a selfish side to her in this book but not enough to make me dislike her.
- Really liked how the romance was explored in a new way
In Long
Evernight has been a great series which I have really enjoyed reading. The story was left on a huge cliff hanger so I couldn’t wait to pick up Afterlife to see how things developed and where Claudia took things next. I think the main season I ‘struggled’ with the book at the beginning was because of the gap I left between reading Hourglass and Afterlife. The previous 3 books I had read quite close together therefore gained a bond with Bianca but because it had been quite a while I felt like that bond was lost. Also I found Bianca was selfish at a few points that kind of annoyed me a little bit but not to the point where I ever disliked her.
I also felt like I was almost angry with what had happened to Bianca, I really liked the interactions between Bianca and Lucas when she wasn’t a wraith and therefore this book felt like it had something missing from it. I just couldn’t totally connect with the whole wraith thing, although it was great for a story to be taken to a place I never expected.
The romance in this book was definitely different, after all they can’t be how they used to be when they are now ‘different’ (Wraith and Vampire) but I really enjoyed how Claudia actually made this an advantage when writing the book. The romance was, as always, very real and cute. I really enjoyed seeing their relationship develop even more as they went through more things together.
Towards the end I felt like things speed up, giving me less time for the whole wraith thing to bother me and I found myself actually loving where Claudia took the story. The romance became cuter, the storyline even less unpredictable (which is what I loved so much about the previous books) and relationships more interesting.
Final Thoughs
Claudia did a good job of rounding this series off, I found I was actually rather emotional towards the end as it was such a nice ‘round-off’ to the series and Claudia definitely did it justice!
Excellent review!
ReplyDeleteI've been quite skeptical as to whether or not to start off the series.
-Wendy from A Cupcake and a Latte: YA Reviews
I must catch up with this series. I have read the first two and seemed to come to a standstill.
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