Hallowed - Unearthly #2

Cynthia Hand

Harper Collins Australia

2012

448 páginas

14h 56m

ISBN-13: 9780732292614

Clara Gardner knew that as a part angel she would one day have to fulfill her purpose, rescuing Christian from a forest fire...what she never considered was what might happen if she were to fail.

Now, torn between her increasingly complicated feelings for Christian and her love for her boyfriend Tucker, Clara must deal with the repercussions of what happened the day of the fire as the two boys vie for her heart. And, as she is drawn further into the world of angels and part angels and the growing conflict between White Wings and Black Wings, Clara learns of the terrifying new reality that she must face: someone close to her will die in a matter of months. With her future uncertain after a shocking revelation, the only thing Clara knows for sure is that the fire was just the beginning...

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.*