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Hallowed: An Unearthly Novel
By Cynthia Hand
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Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars4.5/5 (125 ratings)
Length: 356 pages5 hours
- Publisher:
- HarperTeen
- Released:
- Jan 17, 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780062103475
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For months Clara Gardner trained to face the fire from her visions, but she wasn't prepared for the choice she had to make that day. And in the aftermath, she discovered that nothing about being part angel is as straightforward as she thought.
Now, torn between her love for Tucker and her complicated feelings about the roles she and Christian seem destined to play in a world that is both dangerous and beautiful, Clara struggles with a shocking revelation: Someone she loves will die in a matter of months. With her future uncertain, the only thing Clara knows for sure is that the fire was just the beginning.
In this compelling sequel to Unearthly, Cynthia Hand captures the joy of first love, the anguish of loss, and the confusion of becoming who you are.
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Hallowed: An Unearthly Novel
By Cynthia Hand
Ratings:
Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars4.5/5 (125 ratings)
Length: 356 pages5 hours
Description
For months Clara Gardner trained to face the fire from her visions, but she wasn't prepared for the choice she had to make that day. And in the aftermath, she discovered that nothing about being part angel is as straightforward as she thought.
Now, torn between her love for Tucker and her complicated feelings about the roles she and Christian seem destined to play in a world that is both dangerous and beautiful, Clara struggles with a shocking revelation: Someone she loves will die in a matter of months. With her future uncertain, the only thing Clara knows for sure is that the fire was just the beginning.
In this compelling sequel to Unearthly, Cynthia Hand captures the joy of first love, the anguish of loss, and the confusion of becoming who you are.
- Publisher:
- HarperTeen
- Released:
- Jan 17, 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780062103475
- Format:
- Book
About the author
Cynthia Hand is the New York Times bestselling author of several books for teens, including the Unearthly trilogy, The Afterlife of Holly Chase, The Last Time We Say Goodbye, and My Lady Jane and My Plain Jane (with fellow authors Brodi Ashton and Jodi Meadows). She currently resides in Boise, Idaho, with her husband, who loves typewriters as much as she does, two cats, two kids, one crazy dog, and a mountain of books. Visit her online at www.cynthiahandbooks.com.
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nbmars
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars(4/5)
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Note: This book contains a mild spoiler for book one (but NOT the big reveal), and no spoilers for this book, book twoThis is book two of the “Unearthly” series about teenagers who are part angels, and their problems they have because of this mixed status (see my review of book one, here). At the end of book one, Clara, who is now 17, defied her visions (which putatively are to direct her toward her purpose as an angel-blood) in order to rescue her boyfriend Tucker from a big fire instead of going first to rescue Christian, the boy in her visions. She worries about the repercussions, but so far, all that has happened is that she has new visions. Again, Christian is a part of them rather than Tucker. In the dream, they are going to a funeral, and Clara knows she is profoundly sad, but she doesn’t know yet whose funeral it is.Meanwhile, Clara and Christian get to be friends (much to Tucker’s chagrin), and Clara learns a lot more about angel “society.” There are some confrontations with a “black wing” (a fallen angel) and some lessons from a full-blooded (non-fallen) angel. The fact that both types of angels compete for the loyalty of the half-bloods becomes very important because of Clara’s resentful and rebellious younger brother Jeffrey. Tucker, as sweet and romantic as he can be, goes at it over Clara with Christian, who also happens to be sweet and romantic. We should all have such problems! But alas, we don’t, and Clara does, and she has to decide what is best to do to fulfill her destiny as well as satisfy her heart.Evaluation: This is a very entertaining, self-mocking series with plenty of good romance and both human and angel angst.
nbmars
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars(4/5)
Note: This book contains a mild spoiler for book one (but NOT the big reveal), and no spoilers for this book, book twoThis is book two of the “Unearthly” series about teenagers who are part angels, and their problems they have because of this mixed status (see my review of book one, here). At the end of book one, Clara, who is now 17, defied her visions (which putatively are to direct her toward her purpose as an angel-blood) in order to rescue her boyfriend Tucker from a big fire instead of going first to rescue Christian, the boy in her visions. She worries about the repercussions, but so far, all that has happened is that she has new visions. Again, Christian is a part of them rather than Tucker. In the dream, they are going to a funeral, and Clara knows she is profoundly sad, but she doesn’t know yet whose funeral it is.Meanwhile, Clara and Christian get to be friends (much to Tucker’s chagrin), and Clara learns a lot more about angel “society.” There are some confrontations with a “black wing” (a fallen angel) and some lessons from a full-blooded (non-fallen) angel. The fact that both types of angels compete for the loyalty of the half-bloods becomes very important because of Clara’s resentful and rebellious younger brother Jeffrey. Tucker, as sweet and romantic as he can be, goes at it over Clara with Christian, who also happens to be sweet and romantic. We should all have such problems! But alas, we don’t, and Clara does, and she has to decide what is best to do to fulfill her destiny as well as satisfy her heart.Evaluation: This is a very entertaining, self-mocking series with plenty of good romance and both human and angel angst.
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strongpieces
Rating: 3 out of 5 stars(3/5)
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Originally posted at The Wandering Fangirl.Unearthly was my first review kicking off my blog, and I really enjoyed it. Cynthia Hand's intro into the paranormal YA world was a great one, a great take on angels and a romance (even love triangle, gasp!) I could truly get into. Hallowed follows up on all the things I loved about Unearthly, but it doesn't quite hit the same mark Unearthly did for me.It's still a great second book in a series, don't get me wrong. We focus on Clara and her visions of her new purpose, a vision of a funeral. Someone she loves is going to die, and that sorrow she feels in her vision permeates the entire book. For that reason alone, I had to read this slowly; I couldn't take the constant sadness that Clara has to deal with. I loved her too much to read it in one go.We do get a lot more information on the angels, which I really appreciated and enjoyed, as it picked up the book and gave it some of the energy it was missing in the first quarter. New characters were delightful, and the secret Clara and Jeffrey discover are pretty good.As for the love triangle...I'm still not sure how I feel about it in this installment. I appreciated it in the first because there were reasons why Clara would fall for Tucker or Christian, and they're both really good guys. It felt like the love triangle was amped up a little in Hallowed, but it never went too over the top. It was still balanced and kept me invested in who Clara would end up with.Hallowed does really well at what it set out to do. I might not have enjoyed it as much as I did Unearthly, but that doesn't mean it isn't a great book. I simply prefer not to cry into my pillow without trying to wake my boyfriend at one in the morning because the last 30 pages kept me in tears.Can't believe I have to wait forever for the next book.
strongpieces
Rating: 3 out of 5 stars(3/5)
Originally posted at The Wandering Fangirl.Unearthly was my first review kicking off my blog, and I really enjoyed it. Cynthia Hand's intro into the paranormal YA world was a great one, a great take on angels and a romance (even love triangle, gasp!) I could truly get into. Hallowed follows up on all the things I loved about Unearthly, but it doesn't quite hit the same mark Unearthly did for me.It's still a great second book in a series, don't get me wrong. We focus on Clara and her visions of her new purpose, a vision of a funeral. Someone she loves is going to die, and that sorrow she feels in her vision permeates the entire book. For that reason alone, I had to read this slowly; I couldn't take the constant sadness that Clara has to deal with. I loved her too much to read it in one go.We do get a lot more information on the angels, which I really appreciated and enjoyed, as it picked up the book and gave it some of the energy it was missing in the first quarter. New characters were delightful, and the secret Clara and Jeffrey discover are pretty good.As for the love triangle...I'm still not sure how I feel about it in this installment. I appreciated it in the first because there were reasons why Clara would fall for Tucker or Christian, and they're both really good guys. It felt like the love triangle was amped up a little in Hallowed, but it never went too over the top. It was still balanced and kept me invested in who Clara would end up with.Hallowed does really well at what it set out to do. I might not have enjoyed it as much as I did Unearthly, but that doesn't mean it isn't a great book. I simply prefer not to cry into my pillow without trying to wake my boyfriend at one in the morning because the last 30 pages kept me in tears.Can't believe I have to wait forever for the next book.
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alcarinqa_1
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars(5/5)
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Read the full review here.The first thing that struck me about Hallowed was that it was tighter and flowed better than Unearthly. The characters develop well throughout the book and I felt, when I finished, that I understood them much better. I was hooked into the story very early on, and then found myself reading large chunks whenever I was free so I could find out all the juicy secrets within the pages.Cynthia Hand has not written a typical young adult paranormal romance, and she isn't afraid to make fun of herself. Clara stands outside Tucker's bedroom in a few scenes and at one point she admits that it is "dumb and admittedly creepy in an Edward Cullen kind of way". When confronted with the inevitable love triangle between herself, Tucker and Christian, Clara says"Before I moved here, I never got the whole love-triangle thing. You know, in movies or romance novels or whatnot, where there's one chick that all the guys are drooling over, and even though you don't see anything particularly special about her. But oh, no, they must both have her. And she's like, oh dear, however will I choose? William is so sensitive, he understands me, he swept me off my feet, oh misery, blubber, blubber, but how can I go on living without Rafe and his devil-may-care ways and his dark and only-a-little-abusive love?"The characters are not stereotypical, and cannot be pigeon-holed into typical roles. Everyone is realistic, has their motivations, vices and redeeming qualities. The author brings a freshness to the genre that I loved.This sequel has made me pine for more, and I hope the third and concluding book of the Unearthly series will be in my hands soon!
alcarinqa_1
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars(5/5)
Read the full review here.The first thing that struck me about Hallowed was that it was tighter and flowed better than Unearthly. The characters develop well throughout the book and I felt, when I finished, that I understood them much better. I was hooked into the story very early on, and then found myself reading large chunks whenever I was free so I could find out all the juicy secrets within the pages.Cynthia Hand has not written a typical young adult paranormal romance, and she isn't afraid to make fun of herself. Clara stands outside Tucker's bedroom in a few scenes and at one point she admits that it is "dumb and admittedly creepy in an Edward Cullen kind of way". When confronted with the inevitable love triangle between herself, Tucker and Christian, Clara says"Before I moved here, I never got the whole love-triangle thing. You know, in movies or romance novels or whatnot, where there's one chick that all the guys are drooling over, and even though you don't see anything particularly special about her. But oh, no, they must both have her. And she's like, oh dear, however will I choose? William is so sensitive, he understands me, he swept me off my feet, oh misery, blubber, blubber, but how can I go on living without Rafe and his devil-may-care ways and his dark and only-a-little-abusive love?"The characters are not stereotypical, and cannot be pigeon-holed into typical roles. Everyone is realistic, has their motivations, vices and redeeming qualities. The author brings a freshness to the genre that I loved.This sequel has made me pine for more, and I hope the third and concluding book of the Unearthly series will be in my hands soon!
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skaohee
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars(5/5)
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In Unearthly, Clara Gardner found out about her purpose, moved to a new town, and then tried her best to complete her purpose. In Hallowed, it's the after-effects of the first book and how Clara's purpose has perhaps been altered by the choices she made.I loved this book. Clara reminds me so much of myself and when I found myself literally screaming (yes, actually YELLING) at my Kindlebecause I was so angry (as well as crying so hard my eyes got all puffy), I knew that these characters were 100% real and very dear to me. Do I agree with everything that Clara did? UM, NO. But that aside, the message that Cynthia Hand gets across in this book is universal to every single human, angel, whatever, etc in the universe: "What is my purpose in life? What am I suppose to do? Does one single action determine if I'm good or evil? Why am I here!" These are things that everyone asks themselves.You guys, this book has it all: beautiful writing, wonderful characters, and the perfect boy (yes, singular) - Team Tucker!
skaohee
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars(5/5)
In Unearthly, Clara Gardner found out about her purpose, moved to a new town, and then tried her best to complete her purpose. In Hallowed, it's the after-effects of the first book and how Clara's purpose has perhaps been altered by the choices she made.I loved this book. Clara reminds me so much of myself and when I found myself literally screaming (yes, actually YELLING) at my Kindlebecause I was so angry (as well as crying so hard my eyes got all puffy), I knew that these characters were 100% real and very dear to me. Do I agree with everything that Clara did? UM, NO. But that aside, the message that Cynthia Hand gets across in this book is universal to every single human, angel, whatever, etc in the universe: "What is my purpose in life? What am I suppose to do? Does one single action determine if I'm good or evil? Why am I here!" These are things that everyone asks themselves.You guys, this book has it all: beautiful writing, wonderful characters, and the perfect boy (yes, singular) - Team Tucker!
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renkellym
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars(4/5)
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Unearthly was one of my favorite reads of 2011, so I was expecting big things from Hallowed. Unfortunately, it fell right into that rut that so many YA sequels do: the heroine gets a little more emo, the love interest gets a little less sexy, and the story gets a little less exciting. Clara spends the majority of the novel kind of bummed out, both because of the price she may have to pay for angering Samjeeza, but also because of her uncertainty in terms of love. I really wasn’t expecting Cynthia Hand to bring the love triangle back (considering it wasn’t much of one in Unearthly), but she does, and it’s frustrating. Tucker is such a sweet guy that you just can’t help feeling a little disappointed with Clara’s indecision.Hallowed isn’t all disappointment, though: Clara’s humor is still there, and so is Cynthia Hand’s lovely writing. The story is slower and less action-packed than Unearthly, but it still keeps you turning pages with big reveals. Hallowed is full of surprises, especially in regards to angel mythology. Clara knew that her mother was keeping secrets from her, but it’s incredible how much Hallowed shows us she was hiding. Cynthia hand does a great job of building on the mythology she introduced in Unearthly, and its complexity is great.If you loved Unearthly as much as I did, you’ll still enjoy Hallowed. It’s a little disappointing as a sequel, but it’s still worth the read, especially considering how much the overarching story progresses. I’m definitely eager for book three! Things can only get better from here.
renkellym
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars(4/5)
Unearthly was one of my favorite reads of 2011, so I was expecting big things from Hallowed. Unfortunately, it fell right into that rut that so many YA sequels do: the heroine gets a little more emo, the love interest gets a little less sexy, and the story gets a little less exciting. Clara spends the majority of the novel kind of bummed out, both because of the price she may have to pay for angering Samjeeza, but also because of her uncertainty in terms of love. I really wasn’t expecting Cynthia Hand to bring the love triangle back (considering it wasn’t much of one in Unearthly), but she does, and it’s frustrating. Tucker is such a sweet guy that you just can’t help feeling a little disappointed with Clara’s indecision.Hallowed isn’t all disappointment, though: Clara’s humor is still there, and so is Cynthia Hand’s lovely writing. The story is slower and less action-packed than Unearthly, but it still keeps you turning pages with big reveals. Hallowed is full of surprises, especially in regards to angel mythology. Clara knew that her mother was keeping secrets from her, but it’s incredible how much Hallowed shows us she was hiding. Cynthia hand does a great job of building on the mythology she introduced in Unearthly, and its complexity is great.If you loved Unearthly as much as I did, you’ll still enjoy Hallowed. It’s a little disappointing as a sequel, but it’s still worth the read, especially considering how much the overarching story progresses. I’m definitely eager for book three! Things can only get better from here.
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pollywannabook
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars(4/5)
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Review courtesy of All Things Urban FantasyCynthia Hand’s paranormal YA series stole my heart with UNEARTHLY, and with HALLOWED, it has now firmly cemented these books as my favorite angel series. Well conceived and always expanding angel mythology that doesn’t ruffle any particular religious feathers, swoon-worthy romance with a love triangle that actually works, characters you care about, and best of all, unpredictability.The love story was my favorite part of UNEARTHLY, and it’s just as captivating in HALLOWED. There are some achingly romantic lines in this book. Words that slip inside you and wrap around your heart to make it beat faster. I had expectations, and very firm desires for what I wanted to happen for Clara in regards to the previously introduced love triangle, and they didn’t happen. Not one of them. Yet, somehow, the author so subtly altered my desires along with her characters, that I’m not even disappointed (well, maybe a little, but I think things ended up just the way they needed to).I didn’t have quite the same connection with Clara this time. She was understandably more introverted and somber in HALLOWED. She has to deal with a lot of changes, and some fairly devastating ones at that. While I understood the more melancholy and occasionally cross Clara in this book, I did miss the lighter, witty version from UNEARTHLY. Keeping with the the surprising directions with the romance, HALLOWED didn’t skimp on the shocking plot developments. There were at least two jaw droppers that I was completely caught off guard by. Clara’s next story will be a HUGE departure in just about every possible way. I’m nervous about that, but based on how skillfully the author has handled the series so far, I’m extremely eager to read more. The next book in the Unearthly series is still untitled and won’t be published until 2013, but the series is being developed into a TV show for The CW network. Who else is excited about that?Sexual Content:Kissing. References to sex
pollywannabook
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars(4/5)
Review courtesy of All Things Urban FantasyCynthia Hand’s paranormal YA series stole my heart with UNEARTHLY, and with HALLOWED, it has now firmly cemented these books as my favorite angel series. Well conceived and always expanding angel mythology that doesn’t ruffle any particular religious feathers, swoon-worthy romance with a love triangle that actually works, characters you care about, and best of all, unpredictability.The love story was my favorite part of UNEARTHLY, and it’s just as captivating in HALLOWED. There are some achingly romantic lines in this book. Words that slip inside you and wrap around your heart to make it beat faster. I had expectations, and very firm desires for what I wanted to happen for Clara in regards to the previously introduced love triangle, and they didn’t happen. Not one of them. Yet, somehow, the author so subtly altered my desires along with her characters, that I’m not even disappointed (well, maybe a little, but I think things ended up just the way they needed to).I didn’t have quite the same connection with Clara this time. She was understandably more introverted and somber in HALLOWED. She has to deal with a lot of changes, and some fairly devastating ones at that. While I understood the more melancholy and occasionally cross Clara in this book, I did miss the lighter, witty version from UNEARTHLY. Keeping with the the surprising directions with the romance, HALLOWED didn’t skimp on the shocking plot developments. There were at least two jaw droppers that I was completely caught off guard by. Clara’s next story will be a HUGE departure in just about every possible way. I’m nervous about that, but based on how skillfully the author has handled the series so far, I’m extremely eager to read more. The next book in the Unearthly series is still untitled and won’t be published until 2013, but the series is being developed into a TV show for The CW network. Who else is excited about that?Sexual Content:Kissing. References to sex
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