Their lack of compassion or understanding, their unwillingness to accept that a vampire could be anything other than an evil killing machine made them come across as a bunch of one-dimensional psychos. Which they did in a fairly random and indiscriminate manner – along the lines of see-a-vampire, kill-a-vampire. I think it was because they came across as a somewhat over-the-top group of people who clearly suffered hardships (everything from having no proper places to sleep or shower, to having little food, to the increased likelihood of dying a violent death) for the pleasure of hunting and killing vampires. Personally I found the Black Cross the most annoying part of the novel. Black Cross makes an effective impediment to romance, even though Bianca and Lucas are together all the time they can’t actually be together because they are never alone and can never be their true selves. The first part of Hourglass sees Lucas and Bianca stuck in a less than ideal hideout – a Black Cross vampire hunter cell – where Bianca must hide her vampire nature everyday or risk exposure of her true identity followed by an unpleasant death at the hands of the over-zealous vampire hunters. After being separated by circumstance for most of the previous book (Stargazer) and following a Black Cross attack on the Evernight Academy that left the school a smoking ruin – Bianca grabbed her chance to be with Lucas, evading her parents and absconding with him during the confusion of the fire. Hourglass raises the stakes (no pun intended) for star-crossed young lovers Lucas and Bianca. With a plotline and romance that spans multiple books it is best to read these books in series order – starting with Evernight. Well-written stories about the trials of first love have an appeal beyond the teenaged reader – making these books a guilty pleasure for many readers older than the target age-group, and I include myself in their number. Aimed at young adult aged readers the series follows a forbidden first-love theme and is set against an increasingly dangerous supernatural background of vampires and vampire hunters. Hourglass is the third book in Claudia Gray’s popular Evernight series. Yet no matter how far they travel, Bianca can't escape her destiny.īianca has always believed their love could survive anything… but can it survive what's to come? The Review Soon, Bianca and Lucas are on the run again, pursued not only by Black Cross, but by the powerful leaders of Evernight.

But when Black Cross captures her friend – the vampire Balthazar – hiding is no longer an option. Bianca must hide her supernatural heritage or risk certain death at their hands. After escaping from Evernight Academy, the vampire boarding school where they met, Bianca and Lucas take refuge with Black Cross, a fanatical group of vampire hunters. Published 2010 339 pages Summary (from the publisher)īianca will risk everything to be with Lucas.

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