With its morose backdrop of lives (or afterlives) gone sadly wrong Afterlife makes a gloomy and slightly lack-lustre ending the Evernight series. Previous books have hinted that Mrs Bethany, the sinister vampire headmistress, has a secret agenda when it comes to wraiths – in Afterlife Bianca and her usual crew of vampire, ghost and human friends get to find out first-hand exactly what Mrs Bethany is plotting. The lovers can be together forever now because they are both dead and immortal but once again fate conspires to keep them apart – this time it’s Bianca’s poisonous wraith blood and Lucas’s dangerous nightmares that make it unsafe for them to be intimate.īianca persuades Lucas to return to the sanctuary of Evernight so that he can learn to cope with being undead and this is where the mystery and action parts of the plot start to take form. The hunger for blood is overwhelming and when combined with Lucas’s loathing of what he’s become – he’s turned into a sad and desperate character overnight.
When it came down to it Bianca couldn’t kill Lucas but he has terrible problems with being a vampire. Afterlife begins from the exact point that Hourglass left off but somehow it loses Hourglass’s spark and turns from compelling dark tragedy to just plain gloomy in the transition. Tragic, dramatic and gripping – Hourglass was always going to be a hard book to follow. Leaving Bianca with the terrible choice of letting Lucas rise as a vampire (something he’s always said he’d rather die than be) or killing him before he rises as an immortal. Bianca had just died and risen as a wraith but before she can get to grips with her new powers Lucas is killed by a vampire. Written for the Young Adult market these books are primarily a fantasy romance serial – so they are best read in order from the start.
The Evernight books have followed the star-crossed romance between Lucas, a young vampire hunter, and Bianca, a child of vampires, who met and fell in love while students at the shadowy Evernight Academy.
They've overcome every obstacle life has thrown at them, but is their love strong enough to survive the challenges after life? The ReviewĪfterlife is the fourth and final book in Claudia Gray’s popular Evernight series. But with the vampire leader of Evernight waging a war against wraiths, her former home has become the most dangerous place she could be, despite the new powers her ghostly transformation has given her.Ī battle between wraiths and vampires looms, and Bianca and Lucas face a terrifying new reality. Haunted by his powerful need to kill, Lucas can turn to only one place for help… Evernight Academy. 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. Published 2011 360 pages Summary (from the publisher)īianca and Lucas have always believed they could endure anything to be together.
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