History Literature / Evernight

* DysfunctionalFamily: The Mores, very much so. Lucas’ family may count too.

* Kiss of the Vampire: If the person being bitten is willing, it can be an extremely pleasurable experience, as shown with Lucas and Bianca, and Bianca and [[spoiler: Balthazar]].

* WhatTheHellHero: Lucas and Balthazar towards Bianca when they learn she [[spoiler: inadvertently lead the Evernight vampires to the Black Cross cell]].

* ButNotTooBlack: Patrice, though it's justified in that she specifically states she's of mixed ethnicity. Also deconstructed / PlayedForDrama, as Patrice was born in the South of America prior to the Civil War and was 'black enough' to be enslaved, but 'white enough' to be considered 'attractive' and groomed for prostitution. Bianca is understandably disgusted and horrified when Patrice recounts this. Luckily, after Patrice became a vampire, she "[[SympatheticMurderer didn't have to put up with that anymore]]".

* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Balthazar tries this with Skye, due to his rule not to fall in love with humans as it might get them killed (and because of the obvious impracticalities of a vampire dating a human) but Skye’s having none of it and [[spoiler: they end up together anyway.]]

** Lucas (human, [[spoiler: later a vampire, then human again]]) and Bianca ([[spoiler: half vampire, later a wraith]]).

* DoppelgangerReplacementLoveInterest: A downplayed and deconstructed version with Balthazar and Bianca. She bears a strong resemblance to his LostLenore Jane and Bianca explicitly states that Balthazar "Wants me [Bianca] to be her [Jane]". Unfortunately for Balthazar, Bianca ''isn't'' Jane and is [[AllLoveIsUnrequieted already in love with someone else]]. Eventually, Balthazar [[spoiler: realises this and decides to stop pursuing Bianca, settling to just be friends with her]].

* TheBusCameBack: Patrice returns in ''Afterlife'', after being absent from the last two books.

* AssholeVictim: A few examples, including [[spoiler: Courtney]] and [[spoiler: Erich]]

* InterspeciesFriendship: Vic, a human, and Ranulf, a vampire. Also counts as a {{MayflyDecemberFriendship}}, as Vic in his teens whilst Ranulf is close to a thousand.

* StalkerWithoutACrush: Erich for Raquel in ''Evernight''. The wraiths for Bianca in ''Stargazer'' and ''Hourglass''.
* StarCrossedLovers: Bianca and Lucas play this very straight, complete with references to ''Romeo and Juliet''. [[spoiler: It works out okay for them]].
* StartOfDarkness: Christopher shows Bianca Mrs Bethany’s in the fourth book.

* WhoWantsToLiveForever?: Balthazar has shades of this. [[spoiler: Mrs Bethany]] turns out to have this too.

* Your Cheating Heart:

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Bianca and Lucas can finally be together, Mrs Bethany has been defeated and the vampires and humans of Evernight are saved. But, Lucas will inevitably die someday, though he says that living on in Bianca is fine by him, Balthazar is still all alone (though this is resolved in the spin-off when he falls in love with Skye), Lucas will probably never see his mother again and Black Cross will be hunting them.]]

* CallingOutTheOldMan: Bianca does this to both her father and her mother when she finds out they [[spoiler: have been lying to her about the circumstances of her birth since she was born]].

* AbusiveParents: Raquel’s parents probably qualify, for basically ignoring their daughter’s existence and forcing her go to Evernight. Lucas’ mother Kate may count, for [[spoiler: forcing him to become a vampire hunter from childhood and later for trying to kill him after he’s turned into a vampire.]]

** [[spoiler: Lucas (twice)]]. In ''Hourglass'', [[spoiler: Charity]] kills [[spoiler: him]] but he [[spoiler: comes back as a vampire. He then gets stabbed by a stake soaked in holy water, leaving him as good as dead, but Bianca uses her wraith powers to ressurect him - permanently, as a human]].

* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler: Stakes soaked in holy water. Bianca’s brooch and bracelet.]]
* CoolOldGuy: Mr Watanabe

* TheMasquerade
* MayflyDecemberRomance: Skye and Balthazar – she’s about 17, he’s nearly 400 but [[ReallySevenHundred looks 19]].
* MomentKiller: Bianca and [[spoiler: Balthazar]] nearly have sex, but are interrupted when they notice ice forming on the walls. Bianca and Lucas are making out and Bianca [[spoiler: accidently bites him and knocks him unconscious.]] They’re making out again and Bianca thinks Lucas wants her to turn him into a vampire – turns out he was actually talking about sex and abhors the idea of being a vampire.

* PowerofLove: Lucas decides his love for Bianca is stronger than his indoctrinated prejudice towards vampires, effectively kick-starting most of the events in the series. Also, in the fourth book, Bianca uses [[spoiler: her wraith blood to turn Lucas human again]] – Balthazar believes it only worked because of the connection between Lucas and Bianca.

* ShipSinking: Bianca and Balthazar nearly hook up in ''Stargazer'', but are interrupted by a wraith attack. Bianca then flat out tells Balthazar that whilst she wouldn’t have regretted it, it will never happen again and that she simply can’t force herself to love him; Balthazar agrees and Bianca ends up with [[spoiler: Lucas]], whilst Balthazar eventually gets with Skye. Also, Raquel and Vic. Bianca and Lucas tried setting them up but they never seem to click…Raquel, as it turns out, is actually a lesbian, pretty much nuking any possibility of shipping between the pair.

* {{Yandere}}: Charity has shades of this towards her brother Balthazar, of the non-romantic kind.

The ''Evernight'' series is a series of young adult supernatural romance novels, published between 2008 and 2012. The series was written by Claudia Gray (real name Amy Vincent). The series includes a total of five books: ''Evernight'', ''Stargazer'', ''Hourglass'', ''Afterlife'' and ''Balthazar''. The series (with the exception of ''Balthazar'') revolve around Bianca Olivier, a teenage attending the mysterious Evernight Academy, where she doesn't seem to fit in with the snooty, predatory students. Bianca falls in love with a fellow outsider named Lucas Ross, but their relationship is threatened when they find themselves caught on opposite sides of a deadly conflict between vampires and the humans that hunt them. Surrounded by enemies on both sides and not knowing who to trust, Bianca and Lucas can only rely on each other to survive and uncover the secrets behind Evernight Academy. The fifth book revolves around the vampire Balthazar's mission to protect a human girl from his evil sire, whilst coming to terms with his dark past. The series often draws comparisons to ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'', for obvious reasons.

* CursedwithAwesome – Bianca [[spoiler: gets turned into a wraith. Yes, she’s technically dead and wraiths have spent the last two books trying to murder her and her parents are terrified of wraiths, but she gains several perks and abilities (floating through walls, flight, near invulnerability, invisibility, fast travel etc.). She’ll never die (being already dead), she can guide other wraiths to the ‘light’ and she can even create a corporal form for herself and keep it indefinitely. Lucas even raises the possibility of them having children. All in all, being a wraith like Bianca sounds great. Even she eventually comes to admit being a wraith is one of the best things that ever happened to her.]]

* Good All Along:

* WhatTheHell,Hero: Lucas and Balthazar towards Bianca when they learn she [[spoiler: inadvertently lead the Evernight vampires to the Black Cross cell]].

* IWantMyBelovedtobeHappy: Balthazar tries this with Skye, due to his rule not to fall in love with humans as it might get them killed (and because of the obvious impracticalities of a vampire dating a human) but Skye’s having none of it and [[spoiler: they end up together anyway.]]

* KickTheSonAfABitch: Redgrave doesn’t take too kindly to [[spoiler: Lorenzo]] trying to kill Skye, whom he wants for himself. No one is too upset, least of all Skye.

* AerithandBob: On one hand, you get names like Kate, Lucas, Adrian, Bianca, Courtney and Vic. On the other, you have names like Charity, Balthazar, Patrice, Raquel and Ranulf. This is justified in that most of the characters with unusual names are vampires, who are hundreds of years old and from very different cultures. Bianca actually lampshades Balthazar’s weird name, stating that only he could’ve pulled it off.

* BeautifulElite: The 'Evernight types'.

* DarkandTroubledPast: Balthazar, Mrs Bethany, Raquel and Lucas.

* Face-HeelTurn: [[spoiler: Mrs Bethany pulled one in her backstory, going from vampire hunter to human-murdering vampire, after her husband was murdered.]]

* GreyandGrayMorality
* Happily Married:

* JerkwithaHeartofGold: Lucas can come across as this.
* KicktheDog: Charity killing [[spoiler: Courtney and Lucas]], Redgrave killing [[spoiler: Jane]].
* KicktheSonofaBitch: Redgrave doesn’t take too kindly to [[spoiler: Lorenzo]] trying to kill Skye, whom he wants for himself. No one is too upset, least of all Skye.

* Offing the Offspring: Of the ‘Bad Seed’ variety, at least from [[spoiler: Kate’s]] point of view. [[spoiler: Kate]] attempts to murder [[spoiler: Lucas]] after he becomes a vampire, believing he’s a soulless monster and that it’s the only way to ‘give him peace’. Never mind that [[spoiler: Lucas]] is exactly the same as he was before (just paler with a thirst for human blood) and is pleading with his mother to listen to reason.

* OurVampiresareDifferent: Vampires can have children (although its extremely rare) and staking doesn’t kill them, but renders them unconscious. Sunlight only kills them if they haven’t fed for a while; other than that, it doesn’t really seem to bother them.

* RoaringRampageofRevenge: Mrs Bethany went on one of these when [[spoiler: her husband was murdered]].
* StalkerWithoutaCrush: Erich for Raquel in ''Evernight''. The wraiths for Bianca in ''Stargazer'' and ''Hourglass''.

* TookaLevelinBadass: Bianca – starts out as naïve and dependent on her parents, becomes a powerful, ass-kicking [[spoiler: ghost]]. Skye also becomes more badass between ''Afterlife'' and ''Balthazar''.
* Tykebomb: Lucas and possibly Dana. Both were raised to [[spoiler: hunt vampires]] from childhood.

* Who Wants to Live Forever?: Balthazar has shades of this. [[spoiler: Mrs Bethany]] turns out to have this too.

* WoobieDestroyerofWorlds:

* FauxAffablyEvil: Redgrave comes across as this; even when committing heinous acts, he still remains pretty calm and well-mannered.
* Fingore: In ''Afterlife'', Lucas punches a tree until his skin is shredded and his finger bones are exposed. [[spoiler: Being a vampire, he heals quickly, but its still horrific.]]

* KnownByMyNickname: Maxine O’Connor is usually called Maxy.

* Mayfly-DecemberRomance: Skye and Balthazar – she’s about 17, he’s over 500 but looks 19.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone?: Bianca has one of these moments when she realises that sending her parents an email when Lucas told her not to resulted in [[spoiler: vampires attacking her vampire hunter friends, resulting in several deaths and one of her vampire friends getting tortured.]]

* ParentalNeglect: Raquel’s parents. Arguably Skye’s parents too, who spend most of their time lobbying and leave their daughter to her own devices, though they’re not nearly as malicious as Raquel’s parents and its sort of justified in that they’re grieving for their dead son.
* PimpedOutDress: Bianca gets to wear two at the Autumn Ball in ''Evernight'' and ''Stargazer''.

* WoobieDestroyerofWorlds: [[spoiler: Mrs Bethany]] – [[spoiler: her]] beloved husband was betrayed and murdered by people he considered friends, and the organisation [[spoiler: she]] risked [[spoiler: her]] life for and served loyally for years basically said “Oh sorry, nothing we can do” when they got off scot free, so [[spoiler: she]] becomes the creature she hates most to avenge him and then spends the next several centuries trying to find a way to be reunited with him in the afterlife.

* AlphaBitch: Courtney
* AssholeVictim: A few examples, including [[spoiler: Courtney and Erich]]
* AxCrazy: Charity

* BettyAndVeronica: Gender-swapped version with Lucas as Veronica and Balthazar as Betty. Bianca ends up [[spoiler: choosing the former, though she never actually loved Balthazar as anything more than a friend anyway.]] Also, Bianca is Betty and Courtney is Veronica for Balthazar, but its subverted because he never shows any interest in Courtney and Bianca is in love with someone else. Also, possibly for Balthazar, Constantia as Veronica and Skye as Betty (unusual in that Balthazar has known Constantia longer and used to be her lover).

* Good All Along: [[spoiler: Christopher. Yes he was trying to kill Bianca, but its only because he believes (rightly) that she was born to be a wraith and that, as a wraith, she would be able to help many people, whilst as a vampire, she would merely “be one of many”. He saves Bianca and Lucas from vampires on a number of occasions, attempts to communicate with her to explain his actions, offers her helpful advice and support and later sacrifices himself to save her.]]

The ''Evernight'' series is a series of young adult supernatural romance novels, published between 2008 and 2012. The series was written by Claudia Gray (real name Amy Vincent). The series includes a total of five books: ''Evernight'', ''Stargazer'', ''Hourglass'', ''Afterlife'' and ''Balthazar''. The series (with the exception of ''Balthazar'') revolve around Bianca Olivier, a teenage attending the mysterious Evernight Academy, where she doesn't seem to fit in with the snooty, predatory students. Bianca falls in love with a fellow outsider named Lucas Ross, but their relationship is threatened when they find themselves caught on opposite sides of a deadly conflict between vampires and the humans that hunt them. Surrounded by enemies on both sides and not knowing who to trust, Bianca and Lucas can only rely on each other to survive and uncover the secrets behind Evernight Academy. The fifth book revolves around the vampire Balthazar's mission to protect a human girl from his evil sire, whilst coming to terms with his dark past. The series often draws comparisons to Literature/''{{Twilight}}'', for obvious reasons.

* AdultsAreUseless: Most of the adults are either oblivious, unhelpful or outright trying to murder the protagonists. This isn’t quite as clear cut as it seems though, as some of the helpful characters look to be in their teens but are actually hundreds of years old due to being vampires.

* MoralEventHorizon: Kate trying to kill [[spoiler: her own son]]. Charity killing [[spoiler: Courtney.]]

* TheBusCameBack: Patrice returns in ''Afterlife'', after being absent from the last two books.
* TheMasquerade

* AffablyEvil: Redgrave comes across as this; even when committing heinous acts, he still remains pretty calm and well-mannered.

* Heterosexual Life Partners: Vic and Ranulf.

* InterspeciesRomance:

* Yandere: Charity has shades of this towards her brother Balthazar, of the non-romantic kind.

* Hybrid: [[spoiler: Bianca]] is half human, half vampire. Lucas may also count, as he starts to gain vampire abilities but is still human.

* InterspeciesFriendship: Vic, a human, and Ranulf, a vampire. Also counts as a {{Mayfly-DecemberFriendship}}, as Vic in his teens whilst Ranulf is close to a thousand.

* WhatTheHell,Hero?: Lucas and Balthazar towards Bianca when they learn she [[spoiler: inadvertently lead the Evernight vampires to the Black Cross cell]].

* Badass: Lucas, Balthazar and most of Black Cross.

* BreaktheCutie: Poor, poor Charity.

* ConflictedLoyalty: Lucas is torn between [[spoiler: his duty as a vampire hunter]] and his love for Bianca, who happens [[spoiler: to be half-vampire. He chooses her.]] Dana and Raquel are torn between their friendship with Lucas and Bianca, and their duty to Black Cross – [[spoiler: they wind up defecting to help their friends.]]

* EtTuBrute?:

* It’sPersonal: Possibly for Lucas. He reveals that [[spoiler: vampires killed his father when he was young.]] Later, Kate, due to the vampires [[spoiler: killing both her husbands and trying to kill her son.]]

!![[Evernight]] contains examples of:

* AllMythsareTrue: Averted: vampires and ghosts are real, but apparently witches and werewolves are not, or at least no one has ever found proof they exist.

* Ax-Crazy: Charity

* BettyandVeronica: Gender-swapped version with Lucas as Veronica and Balthazar as Betty. Bianca ends up [[spoiler: choosing the former, though she never actually loved Balthazar as anything more than a friend anyway.]] Also, Bianca is Betty and Courtney is Veronica for Balthazar, but its subverted because he never shows any interest in Courtney and Bianca is in love with someone else. Also, possibly for Balthazar, Constantia as Veronica and Skye as Betty (unusual in that Balthazar has known Constantia longer and used to be her lover).
* BewaretheQuietOnes: Ranulf.

* Chekhov’sGun: [[spoiler: Stakes soaked in holy water. Bianca’s brooch and bracelet.]]

* Grey and Gray Morality

* Non-humanLoverReveal: Lucas finds out his girlfriend [[spoiler: Bianca is a vampire (though the reader finds out sooner).]] He initially doesn’t take it too well, but he eventually comes around.

* PutonaBus: Patrice after the first book.

* StalkerWithoutaCrushErich for Raquel in ''Evernight''. The wraiths for Bianca in ''Stargazer'' and ''Hourglass''.
* StartofDarkness: Christopher shows Bianca Mrs Bethany’s in the fourth book.

* Woobie,DestroyerofWorlds: [[spoiler: Mrs Bethany]] – [[spoiler: her]] beloved husband was betrayed and murdered by people he considered friends, and the organisation [[spoiler: she]] risked [[spoiler: her]] life for and served loyally for years basically said “Oh sorry, nothing we can do” when they got off scot free, so [[spoiler: she]] becomes the creature she hates most to avenge him and then spends the next several centuries trying to find a way to be reunited with him in the afterlife.

* BlondesAreEvil: Charity and Constantia are both blonde and both pretty evil. Courtney was also a blonde and a real piece of work, though she was more of an Alpha Bitch than truly evil. Averted by Celia, who’s described as having “caramel” hair and is really very nice.