Of rocks and stargazers
New York Times best-selling author. It's a proud enough boast. But is it a promise of quality writing within, or just playing fast-and-loose?
Stargazer is the second in Claudia Gray's Evernight series of four books
, the other entries into the literary canon being: Evernight; Hourglass; Afterlife…and…err…Balthazar. Clearly, she doesn't include counting up to five among her talents.
It entered the NYT bestsellers list of children's chapter books at #4 on 12 April 2009. Despite what Wackypeedeeya might tell you, that was the highest position it reached. It dropped out of the top ten after three weeks, made a brief one-week resurgence at #10, and then was gone for good.
The Evernight saga is a series of romantic fantasy novels set in the Evernight Academy, a private boarding school for vampires. I shit you not. For any Star Wars fans still wondering why Into The Dark is so risible, or even just why?
; wonder ye no more, for all is laid bare. Here's an excerpt from that NYT #4 bestseller, taken from Gray's website:
I still didn’t know how to handle the fact that Lucas belonged to a group of people dedicated to destroying my kind. Nor was I sure how Lucas felt about the fact that I was a vampire, something he hadn’t realized until after we’d fallen in love. Neither of us had chosen what we were. In retrospect, it seemed inevitable that we would be torn apart. And yet I still believed, down deep, that we were destined to be together. Hugging my pillow to my chest, I told myself, At least soon you won’t have so much time to miss him. Soon school will start again, and then you’ll be busier. Wait. Am I reduced to HOPING for school to start? Somehow, I have discovered a whole new level of pathetic.
Claudia Gray, Stargazer
Bloody hell. At least it gives Stephenie Meyer a run for her money. As for a whole new level of pathetic
, by 2009 Claudia Gray had barely started!