Evernight by Claudia Gray

"Bianca wants to escape. 

She's been uprooted from her small hometown and enrolled at Evernight Academy, an eerie Gothic boarding school where the students are somehow too perfect: smart, sleek, and almost predatory. Bianca knows she doesn't fit in. 

Then she meets Lucas. He's not the "Evernight type" either, and he likes it that way. Lucas ignores the rules, stands up to the snobs, and warns Bianca to be careful—even when it comes to caring about him. 

"I couldn't stand it if they took it out on you," he tells Bianca, "and eventually they would." 

But the connection between Bianca and Lucas can't be denied. Bianca will risk anything to be with Lucas, but dark secrets are fated to tear them apart . . . and to make Bianca question everything she's ever believed."

     You should all know early, I am not fond of Vampire books.   To me they just don't quite make sense and so are stupid.  Don't get me wrong, I did enjoy the Twilight series but other than that I have not found very many vampire books that are redeemable in any sense.
      As with all books there is a twist in Evernight that comes swiftly but not unexpectedly.  I knew what Bianca was all a long and I had already guessed what Lucas was but still the twist was not as l expected.  To me the author, Claudia Gray,  just seemed to want to surprise you in to shock.  Which she succeeded in doing.  But in the wrong sense. I was so shocked at the suddenness, fakeness and over all disconcerting way it was thrown on you, that I was tempted to throw the whole book away at that very moment. At first Bianca acts like she doesn't know whats going on, like she's a perfectly normal human being.  Because of this, I figured that she would find out at the same time as us.  But no.  Bianca already knew! Which makes almost no sense!  Why was none of this mentioned before! The word vampire and blood thirst or any of that didn't even surface before. It just kind of hits you in the stomach leaving you breathless! (And angry).  As I said before, I was tempted to stop reading the book.  But I didn't.  Which I am glad I did because the redeeming qualities come now.
      After that first twist things were a little messy, I was still confused and shocked over the twist.  A little over half way through the book there is another plot twist, which left me as breathless as before but this time for different reasons.  This twist in the plot was unexpected, exiting and, best of all, made sense! That first twist was lame but the book really developed after that in both the characters and the plot.  Also,  I really enjoyed the writing style.  Evernight has more redeeming qualities than  any other vampire book I've read so far.
   I will be reviewing the next book in the series, Stargazer, next week.