Claudia Gray has worked as a lawyer, a journalist, a disc jockey, and an extremely poor waitress. Her lifelong interests in old houses, classic movies, vintage style, and history all play a part in creating the world of Evernight, her first YA series.
Praise for EVERNIGHT series:
“Once I picked up ‘Evernight’ I couldn’t put it down! I can’t wait
for Claudia Gray’s next book!”
L. J. Smith, best-selling author of ‘The Vampire Diaries’
Gr 8 Up-Forbidden-romance cliches and heavy-handed class-system critiques run through this torrid tale of secrets, lies, and werewolves on the doomed Titanic. Pretty Tess Davies, beleaguered ladies' maid in a shallow and financially troubled English household, accompanies the family on the ill-fated voyage to New York, where she hopes to break free from service and start a new life. She finds herself a hunted pawn in the plottings of Mikhail, a powerful werewolf (an oily Count by day) who's onboard to steal an artifact in her employers' possession coveted by the evil international werewolf Brotherhood. Tess's only protection comes from handsome Alec-another gentleman werewolf, not yet committed to the Brotherhood, whose chestnut curls, muscled torso, and simultaneously frightening and protective air are too much for Tess to resist. Her account provides detailed descriptions of the ship itself, sometimes jarringly didactic details of 1912 life, and society's rigid and hypocritical customs. Her ostensibly defiant, spunky voice sometimes sounds like that of a modern American, and she's as astute about explaining complex social situations as she is foolish in her inability to figure out plot "surprises." With constant threats of physical or sexual violence, she's frequently a classic damsel in distress, flimsily clad and vulnerable, in need of instruction or protection. Fans of Gray and this ever-growing supernatural/romance genre will likely love this title, and Titanic buffs might too-but there isn't much substance here.-Riva Pollard, Prospect Sierra Middle School, El Cerrito, CA (c) Copyright 2012. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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