Hourglass by Claudia Gray

Rating:

Characters: 16/20

Plot: 15/20

Originality: 18/20

Writing: 17/20

Recommendation: 17/20

Overall: 83/100 or B
Source: Publisher

Hourglass starts where Stargazers left off. Bianca and Lucas have finally found a way to be together, but it means that they will have to lie to the person that they care about the most. They are now on the run with the Black Cross, after running away from Evernight Academy. Bianca thinks that everything will be okay and that they can get through this, until her friend Balthazar is captured by the Black Cross. She knows that she has to save him, even if that means that she might expose herself.

Bianca is an interesting character, and she has potential. It just seemed to feel overdone to me. Lucas was sweet like in the last books, but at times he seemed to be annoying. I love Balthazar and felt that there was not much of him in the book. I really liked the previous book in this series, but I liked Hourglass until the end. The end just disappointed me. The ending seemed too hard to follow. The plot was interesting and original, but it just seemed too far out there. Gray is a pretty good writer. I just didn't connect to this book as much. Yet, I am still interested in the sequel and the possibility of what could happen.

Winner for a few contest...

Winner of Silver Phoenix by Cindy Pon:
Brooke Reviews

Winner(s) of Twenty Boy Summer by Sarah Oakler:
MJ
Jenna Erica
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Winner of Signed copy of Evernight by Claudia Gray:
Yan

Bonus Winner of Signed Kelley Armstrong Bookmark:
...MY NAME IS ELENI AND I AM A BOOKAHOLIC...

Please e-mail me your address, to Sarahbear119(at)hotmail(dot)com with the subject "Contest winner of_____" Thanks for all the entries and Congrats to the winners. There is a very cool one coming in the future.

Supernatural Summer...

Hey everyone,
Hope that you had a great weekend. I went to Supernatural Summer event with Kelley Armstrong, Claudia Gray, Aprilynne Pike, and Kim Harrison, It was super fun. Anyways, beforehand I was on Twitter and I @replied to Aprilynne Pike, because she said that there were two hundred people at the event at Powells. So, I get a @reply from Kimberly Derting (Author of The Body Finder, it is amazing and I loved it.) saying that she was going, too. So, that was really excited. Anyways, my dad and I left at 11:40 and got to Borders at 1:20, I went and found the authors books. So, I am waiting in line and Kimberly comes over to me and says that her huband and her saved a seat for me, since I asked someone and they were saving it. I bought Once Dead and Twice Shy and 2 copies of Evernight (one is for giveaway that start tomorrow and will have some swag and the other for Hope) . So there is a big Q&A section and I asked "What do you think of Teen Bloggers?". Kelley, Claudia, Aprilynne said that they are all very honest and sweet. Kim hasn't had much experience with them, yet. It was really awesome and sweet. I also met Caitlin Kittredge, who is another Tenner and book The Witch's Alphabet sounds fantastic. She also has very awesome hair, too. I also ran into Realm Lovejoy, who I met at the Mitali Perkin's launch. She has the most awesome name and business cards. I am going to try go a few more events soon, since they are so much fun.

Here is Kimberly and I. You can see a bit of Kelley Armstrong and Caitlin with the braids and black purse. This picture was taken by Kimberly's Husband Josh. Thanks Josh!
Peace out, Sarah.