Name: Stargazer
ISBN: 9780061284403

Claudia Gray

Teenage vampire Bianca finds herself the target when evil wraiths attack her boarding school, Evernight Academy.

Stargazer

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Okay... firstly: YAY, VAMPIRES!
secondly: there is the thing that's called 'jumping into the action'. that when at the beginning of a story, they start at the climax or some big battle and then go back in time and work their way up to it. and I HATE IT when they do that.
unfortunately, it happened in both Evernight and this book, so probably the next one, too.
*Sighs* I guess I'll have to live with it.
thirdly: there is one point in the story in which she and lucas are making out, like, really really hard. and then, we know what Bianca does when they start making out real hard, and then they have this big argument I'm not going to get into right now. All I'll say is: if Lucas thinks that they'll ever be able to have sex without the both turning into vampires, his head is IN THE FREAKING CLOUDS.
Fourthly: the fact that Lucas can pick a lock is SOOO sexy.
Fifthly: this book definitely had me feeling sad for Balthazar, which reinforced my being on his team. I"m sorry, Lucas is badass with a stake and picking locks and being a vampire hunter in general, but Balthazar's story is so SAD. of course I'm going to side with him. 
And I'm still telling you, when the Black Cross finds out Bianca's a vampire (which they will) it will all go to SHIT and HELL from there.

Talia Dominguez 

Bianca breaks into Mrs Bethany's carriage house in an attempt to discover what Lucas wanted to know; why humans are allowed at Evernight. She discovers nothing and heads back to Evernight, disappointed. She sees someone in the hall, but decides that it was just her own reflection. Orientation day sees Bianca sharing a room with Raquel, as Patrice has left Evernight for a few decades. Raquel's parents forced her to return to Evernight, despite her having told them that she was stalked by Erich. Bianca catches up with Vic, who gives her a letter from Lucas. Bianca's mail is being searched for this exact reason, so they cannot keep in contact. The letter tells Bianca to meet Lucas in October at the Amherst train station.

As Bianca leaves her room to drink blood (she is the only vampire sharing with a human), she sees a blue light and thinks that there is a person on the stairs. This time, she is more curious, but is interrupted before she can investigate further.

Bianca tells everyone there is a meteor shower so that she can camp out on the grounds to watch it. Really she is going to see Lucas. She hitches a ride in the laundry truck into Amherst and is walking along to find Lucas when a young vampire girl joins her in her walk. She is afraid of someone following her, and Bianca thinks she looks so lonely and innocent that she cannot refuse. The girl says she once went to Evernight, but did not get along with Mrs Bethany and ran away. They arrive at the train station and Lucas follows shortly after. He sees the girl with Bianca and thinks she is going to harm her. It turns out that Lucas had been the one following the vampire girl and she is very frightened. She attacks Lucas and wants to kill him, but Bianca stops her in time. Lucas calls for the rest of the Black Cross to come, so Bianca tells the girl to run away. She escapes before the Black Cross arrives, and Bianca and Lucas share the weekend at the Base Camp, as Black Cross does not know she is a vampire. When she sneaks back, Balthazar catches her. In an attempt to reason with Balthazar and make sure he does not tell Mrs. Bethany about her visit, she mentions the vampire girl who turns out to be Balthazar's sister. Soon Bianca and Balthazar make an arrangement; they pretend to be dating so Balthazar could get her off campus, since he is a trusted student, so she could meet Lucas while in return Bianca and Lucas help Balthazar find his sister, Charity, which they do. She is now part of a clan and blames Balthazar for killing her. After Courtney finds out about Bianca and Balthazar leaving school she stakes her and then decapitates her before leaving.

An attack on the school by Charity and her clan while an attack by Black Cross is taking place leads Bianca, Lucas and Raquel to leave the school and head to Black Cross HQ. On their way out of the school they meets Charity who they think will kill them but as they prepare to run she is pushed against a tree and staked by a sharp branch. Although Lucas wants to finish her off he cannot find anything to destroy her with so agrees to leave her. When at Black Cross HQ Raquel volunteers to join and Bianca later agrees to join

The vampire in me was closer to the surface . . . Evernight Academy: an exclusive boarding school for the most beautiful, dangerous students of all--vampires. Bianca, born to two vampires, has always been told her destiny is to become one of them. But Bianca fell in love with Lucas--a vampire hunter sworn to destroy her kind. They were torn apart when his true identity was revealed, forcing him to flee the school. Although they may be separated, Bianca and Lucas will not give each other up. She will risk anything for the chance to see him again, even if it means coming face-to-face with the vampire hunters of Black Cross--or deceiving the powerful vampires of Evernight. Bianca's secrets will force her to live a life of lies. Yet Bianca isn't the only one keeping secrets. When Evernight is attacked by an evil force that seems to target her, she discovers the truth she thought she knew is only the beginning. . . .

Janna Niemi

This book was better than the first. There was more action in it and more mysteries. There wasn't so much Lucas in it and that was the only negative part of the book. Stargazer was also a little bit more complicated, there were many new details in it. I enjoyed it though and I am going to read the third part as soon as I can.

chloe mcpherson

I thought this book was very boring. Most of the book Bianca spent pining over Lucas, not a lot happened and the ending just annoyed me

Jade Flynn

Samantha Seney

Laura

Im zweiten Band der Reihe um Bianca und Lucas nimmt Bianca große Gefahren auf sich, um ihn wiedersehen zu können. Sie hintergeht ihre Lehrer und ihre Eltern, um das Gelände der Academy unbemerkt verlassen zu können und bekommt dabei Hilfe von dem Vampir Balthasar. Während Bianca Pläne schmiedet, wann sie Lucas wiedertreffen kann wird ihre Schule von unheimlichen Geistern heimgesucht. Außerdem versucht sie herauszufinden, wieso die Schulleitung plötzlich Menschen aufnimmt. Als die Gefahr, die von den Geistern ausgeht, ins Unermessliche steigt, entdeckt Bianca ein unglaubliches Geheimnis aus ihrer Vergangenheit. Ihr Vertrauen in ihr gewohntes Umfeld wird dauerhaft erschüttert. Sie zweifelt an ihrem Schicksal als Vampirin. Während einem schrecklichen Kampf in der Evernight Academy muss sie sich für eine Seite entscheiden.

In "Stargazer" ist die Figur der Bianca um einiges unabhängiger und selbstsicherer geworden. Außerdem kommt ihre vampirische Seite immer öfter zum Vorschein. Der Vampir Balthazar nimmt nicht mehr nur eine Nebenrolle ein. Er ist aufopferungsvoll und hilft Bianca (wenn auch nicht immer ganz selbstlos) wo er kann. Aber natürlich ist er kein Ersatz für den leidenschaftlichen Lucas. Man fiebert regelrecht mit, wenn Bianca auf ein erneutes geheimes Treffen wartet. Auch wenn diese Treffen nie eine unbeschwerte Stimmung aufkommen lassen, hofft man doch, dass Bianca und Lucas wieder zueinander finden.
Die Figur der Charity ist sehr interessant und bringt Abwechslung mit einer Prise abgrundtiefer Bösartigkeit in die Geschichte ein.
Das Auftauchen einer neuen Spezies kommt recht unerwartet und man weiß diese Geister nicht so recht in die Handlung einzuordnen. Genauso ist es mit den Gründen für das Aufnehmen von Menschen. Die Verwirrung macht die ganze Sache sehr spannend und auch die Action kommt nicht zu kurz.
Das Ende erfolgt etwas abrupt und lässt viele Fragen offen. Das Bianca plötzlich tagelang ohne Blut auskommt, nachdem sie vorher Schwierigkeiten hatte, ihren Durst vor ihrer menschlichen Mitbewohnerin zu verstecken, erscheint mir etwas unlogisch.

Ein spannendes, kurzweiliges Buch über eine junge Vampiranwärterin, die noch gar nicht weiß, ob sie überhaupt eine Vampirin werden will.

Stargazer

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