She makes new friends and learns that she has a special affinity unheard of in any vampyre. She is seen as a freak by the other fledglings in the school and has to adapt while finding out why the goddess has marked her. She’s been marked by the goddess Nyx, with a tattoo of a moon on her forehead. The Priestess Neferet guides her and promises to be there for her. Zoey Redbird is new at the House of Night. The fledglings have to live in special Vampyre schools so they don’t reject the “change.” If their body rejects the change into an adult vampyre, they die. However, no one had seen vampires done the way they were done in Marked. The mythology and folklore has been adapted in different ways, by different cultures and people. I am planning to continue reading this series as I hope to see the characters mature, and to read more of this unique take on vampyres! I recommend this book to fans of YA and of vampire stories. Mixing real life problems such as relationship issues along with paranormal worries made this book all the more interesting. Adding the question of whether or not Zoey, or those close to her, would die from the Change made the book suspenseful and created an extra layer of problems for Zoey to deal with. Instead of being bitten, one is Marked, and even then there is no guarantee that one would survive long enough to become a full-fledged vampyre. I really enjoyed the unique way that the authors approached the idea of vampyres. However while things like this were annoying, they didn't take away from the overall plot. Things like this were present throughout the book, in many different contexts, and contributed to Zoey's shallow side. For example, we have Zoey kind of throwing feminine gay guys under the bus, so to speak, making sure to explain that the gay male character was cute, but certainly not in an "overly girly" way, or a "swishy girly-guy" (pg 82 in my edition). Unfortunately, I felt like sometimes stereotypes were overused concerning these characters, or that the characters shamed people who did fit the stereotypes. I did like how the characters came from different backgrounds and had diverse identities. These characters reminded me more of preteens than of actual teenagers. This wasn't really the case, and her friends at the House of Night were also shallow, judgemental, and even immature at times. You'd think that after dealing with her own issues, including her unique mark, she might take a step back when it comes to making generalizations or assumptions about others. Zoey, the main character, is surprisingly shallow and judgemental, in my opinion. I read it a few years ago, and I had enjoyed it quite a bit during my first reading, but this time I saw things a bit differently. I recently found this book at a thrift store and decided to pick it up and give it a re-read. In order to take down Aphrodite, the shallow, selfish leader of the Dark Daughters, she'll need to use her goddess-given gifts. With her unique Mark and an invitation to join the Dark Daughters, Zoey looks to her grandmother and the goddess, Nyx, for guidance. There, she quickly makes friends, but also makes enemies. That is, until she is Marked to become a vampyre, and moves into the House of Night, a school and home for Fledgling vampyres. Now, in the eleventh and penultimate installment of the series, the action is more intense and the stakes even higher as Zoey and her friends battle to protect their school and home from devastating evil-all while balancing romances, precarious friendships and the daily drama of the House of Night's halls.Zoey is a normal teenage girl dealing with family issues, school, and her (almost) ex-boyfriend. With more than 12 million copies in print, rights sold in thirty-eight countries to date, and relatable, addictive characters, this series is unstoppable. The House of Night series is an international phenomenon, reaching #1 on U.S., German, and UK bestseller lists, and remaining a fixture on The New York Times Children's Series bestseller list for nearly 150 weeks and counting. Can Zoey stop Neferet in time to keep her anger from escalating to full-on war? Or will someone else have to step in to take the fall? Chaos is loosed in Tulsa and the House of Night is blamed. Revealed is the spellbinding eleventh and penultimate installment in the #1 New York Times bestselling vampyre series by PC and Kristin Cast.ĭrastically altered after her fall at the end of Hidden, Neferet is now more dangerous than ever-and her quest for vengeance will wreak havoc on humans, as well as Zoey and her friends.
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