Hallowed (Unearthly #2) -

Cynthia Hand

HarperTeen

2012

403 páginas

13h 26m

ISBN-13: 9780061996184

Por meses Clara Gardner, parte anjo, fora treinada para enfrentar o incêndio florestal de suas visões e resgatar o sedutor e misterioso Christian Prescott do incêndio. Mas nada poderia prepará-la para as decisões fatídicas que ela seria obrigada a fazer naquele dia, ou a surpreendente revelação de que seu propósito: A tarefa que foi destinada a ela na terra - não é tão simples como pensava. Agora, dividida entre seus sentimentos cada vez mais complicados por Christian e seu amor por seu namorado, Tucker, Clara se esforça para dar sentido ao que ela deveria fazer no dia do incêndio. E, quando ela é puxada mais para dentro do mundo dos parte anjos e o crescente conflito entre os Asas Brancas e Asas Negras, Clara descobre a nova terrível realidade que ela tem de enfrentar: Alguém próximo a ela morrerá em questão de meses. Com seu futuro incerto, a única coisa que Clara sabe ao certo é que o fogo foi apenas o começo.

Descrito por Richelle Mead como absolutamente cativante, “Unearthly recebeu elogios de New York Times bestselling autores.

Resenhas (6)

4 (Muito bom)

Read complete review here: http://notjustnonsense.blogspot.com/2012/01/review-hallowed-unearthly-2-by-cynthia.html

Hallowed starts right where Unearthly stopped. Clara ends up saving Tucker from a fire (that turns out to not be natural, but manmade), instead of saving Christian, like in all the visions she had of her purpose as an angel-blood. She then discovers that Christian is also an angel (and could have saved himself from the other fire in the woods) and that he thought that his purpose was to save her. They are now both confused about their real purposes and afraid they might have failed.

Clara starts having a new recurring dream. In it, she's in a very beautiful place, surrounded by people she knows, but intense sorrow fills her. As she looks around, other grieving faces meet her gaze. She searches for Tucker, but can't find him anywhere. Only Christian is there to give her comfort. She assumes that he's the one that dies. Then she decides she will not allow that to happen, God's wish or not.

Samjeeza, the leader of the Black Wings, who tried to kill Clara's mother and herself in the first book, comes back to stalk her. We have some deeper insight on some of the reasons for his sadness and obsession about her mother.

The love triangle starts to get seriously interesting. It seems as if everywhere Clara looks, there is Christian. He speaks in her mind, he is kind and thoughtful, he waits outside her window to check on her, he takes her skiing... and Tucker is not amused, even with Clara clearly "stalking/babysitting" him all the time to try and avoid his apparently imminent death.

Angela, Clara's friend, founds the Angel Club. She invites her BBF, her brother Jeffrey and Christian to join. Jeffrey starts to act weirder and weirder. He gest ruder and more violent. Clara questions him about the night of the fires, when he disappeared, but he comes out very evasive and irritated. And highly suspicious.

I liked that in Hallowed Clara discovers more about her powers and lineage. She has empathy, which means she can pick up on the emotions of the people around her very easily. Sometimes even read their thoughts. Which comes in handy, most of the time. We also see more of the other angels (who were closer than she could've ever imagined), their meetings and other secrets.

*I received an e-ARC of this book from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.*