Hallowed by Cynthia Hand | Kindle eBook

Hallowed by Cynthia Hand Kindle edition

Not the sequel I was expecting still worth the read. - Emmy

★ ★ ★

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Hallowed is the second book in the Unearthly series by Cynthia Hand. It leaves off from when Clara thinks she has failed in her purpose by choosing to save her boyfriend Tucker, over Christian.

I'm honestly conflicted with this book. I was really hoping for a more of a Jeffrey based story line, to see why he was being such a jerk, even though it was obvious... It would have been interesting to see the siblings come together and either work it out together or totally go against each other in some kind of climatic event. Jeffrey was really only given 1-2 pages of actual explanation in the entire book, which really sucked, he didn't have any dimension or seemingly any real purpose in the plot, just filler mood. Once again the book is dominated by Clara and her love triangle with Christian and Tucker and although that was interesting in the first book, Unearthly, it was just over done and it took away from the plot progression and the danger posed by the Black Wings. 

Hallowed didn't live up to my expectations and it wasn't nearly as much fun to read as Unearthly. I'm hoping the final instalment, Boundless, which comes out in January 2013 will give me all the plot progression and character development I was hoping Hallowed would provide. It truly felt like a filler book and I was disappointed. Clara seemed even more dense in this sequel and you wanted to slap her sometimes! However, I did really enjoy the camping scenes and bringing in Clara's Father was a relief from the love triangle. It was sad to see Clara's mother die, although we knew it was coming at least we had a few things about her history revealed, it wasn't nearly as much as I'd have liked. 

NB: Unearthly #1 and Hallowed #2 are both available on UK Kindle.

Neither are available as Audiobooks. 

Boundless #3 will be available on Hardback from Amazon in January 2013, please click the Kindle link to let them know we want it available as a UK Kindle edition too!