Synopsis: Destiny awaits Bianca and Lucas...
Bianca and Lucas have always believed they could endure anything to be together. When a twist of fate not only transforms Bianca into a wraith but also turns Lucas into a vampire--the very creature he spent his life hunting--they are left reeling.
Haunted by his powerful need to kill, Lucas can turn to only one place for help... Evernight Academy. Bianca is determined to remain with him. But with the vampire leader of Evernight waging a war against wraiths, her former home has become the most dangerous place she could be, despite the new powers her ghostly transformation has given her.
A battle between wraiths and vampires looms, and Bianca and Lucas face a terrifying new reality. They've overcome every obstacle life has thrown at them, but is their love strong enough to survive the challenges after life?
First I would like to mention that I do not have reviews up yet for the first three books in this series (Evernight, Stargazer, and Hourglass, in that order). In time they will come and I will post a link for them here as soon as those posts become available.
When we finished Hourglass, Bianca had transformed into a wraith, her only other option to becoming a vampire, which her parents had never warned her about. Lucas was also about to awaken from his own transformation-becoming a vampire. We left Bianca sick and scared of the options that faced her. She had made the choice to let Lucas rise from the dead to become the one thing he never wanted to be and now, in the beginning of Afterlife, we are only minutes from his awakening. Bianca is in the company of Vic, Ranulf, an Balthazar, in the place that Lucas had lost everything-the place that Charity had killed him. Bianca blames Balthazar for Lucas being undead and for that she struggles with even being in his presence.
When Lucas awakes, cold to the touch and bloodthristy, Bianca is the only person who can get his to see through his blood hunger. Lucas, although eventually gaining control, struggle with this through the whole book; the insatiable need to drink from something living. Lucas battle with himself is not the only one that he must face. He also has to face his mother, who he believes to love him enough to look through the monster that he has become and see the son that she loved and cared for all the years of his life.
Bianca has a similar battle to overcome, she has to learn to be a wraith and understand what that means for her future with Lucas and the other people that she loves so much. This becomes harder when everyone decides that the best place for Lucas is at Evernight Academy. Because Mrs. Bethany cannot refuse to help any vampire in need of sanctuary and protection, she lets Lucas stay. But, at Evernight, Bianca is in danger because Mrs. Bethany is in a war against the wraiths, and she has no intention of giving this up.
There is no way that they could make it through this on their own and Balthazar, Ranulf, Vic and a few others are beside them all the way trying to make this time as easy as possible for both of them. When Lucas and Bianca discover the real reason behind Mrs. Bethany's war with the wraiths, they realize that they must take action immediately because she is willing to destroy everything, and everyone, in her way to have what she desires most.
Both Bianca and Lucas struggle in this book with their new identities, their fears of disapproval of their loved ones, and the question of whether their love can withstand their new transformations. This story is raw and emotional, with many twists that I never would have expected but was delighted to discover. Never disappointing, Claudia Gray has made this final book perfect to end the series and there is never a point in the story where you stop and feel like you are missing something. The voice of Bianca is special and makes you want her to make it through because you begin to love her and her friends more and more with every turn of the page. As always with the Evernight series, the story is a page-turner that will keep you up late into the night to finish it because you will not rest until you reach the end.
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