But obviously our lead survives it because she was given the mark by Nyx for not-even-author-knows-what reason. The writing - its irritating! That is the only word that comes to mind. Zoey and her friends bicker like fifth graders! Cast had done this on purpose so that it'd feel like we're reading book by a teenager She mentioned this in acknowledgements, I'm not making it up but I'm really sorry to say Cast-ladies that readers feel like they are reading diary entry of a bunch of bimbos instead!
They are so darn corny and unfunny you'd want to drag them through their hair. With every page I read I felt a bit more dumber and dumber. Their group just keeps chittering and chattering to no extent. Anything they say has no use in the story; it is just included to increase the thickness of the book. When this was not enough, there's the gang of Dark Daughters who try to imitate Plastics from Mean Girls.
Who has names like that anymore? And how can you go around flaunting and being a bitch to everyone with such a name? I would die of shame. The authors have tried to create the environment of a high school in Vampire format, tried to.
You can just tell by the language that they've tried way too hard to do that. All the girls keep squeaking all the time and talk about hot guys as if they have nothing else to do. The book covers the events of 2 or 3 days but in that short span of time itself Zoey finds a soul-mate.
Boy, I wish it was that easy for me too. Erik is supposedly a out-of-the-world hot guy who winks at Zoey in a classroom full of people the first time he sees her and the next time he meets her, they kiss.
And the third time they meet he tells her "that you make me feel different". They don't even exchanged names properly but start sloshing their tongues down each other throats because they are apparently 'made for each other'. Everything about Marked screamed stupid, immature, senseless, waste-of-time literature to me! To sum it up in one line - I simply hated it! I gave the book 1. I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone, but I am going to read the 2nd book sometime later only because a friend of mine although, I have huge doubts about it now is a huge fan of the series and she is forcing me to.
Lord, save my soul! View all 25 comments. May 16, Annie rated it did not like it Recommends it for: The slum of society. Shelves: ya , vampires , crap , paranormal. This is — literally — the worst published book I have ever read in my life. Every chapter, every paragraph, every sentence annoyed me. The showing, not telling. The unrealistic dialogue. The fucking Twins. The religion. The vampires that are not vampires, but witches.
And can I just mention how much of a Harry Potter rip off this is? Because of this special mark, everyone knows instantly who she is, having a polarizing effect — some love her, others hate her. There are all kinds of cool classes with the odd teachers. Stephenie Meyer is not as to J. Rowling as the Casts are not to Stephenie Meyer. Stephenie Meyer is Shakespeare, the Bronte sisters, Dickens, Tolstoy and anyone else you can think of compared to this garbage.
Then I embarrassingly found out two of my very nice, smart friends actually like this, so huh, who knew. Not my fault I stumbled on this.
In fact, she gave several more to me, and I actually stopped mid-book. Stupid book. View all 6 comments. Aug 23, Sophia Triad rated it it was amazing Shelves: favorites , 1paranormal-lovestories , vampires , superpowers-specialpowers , witches-wizards.
I remember that it was very entertaining and so unbelievably addictive. I wanted to read one book after the other nonstop. And I did. I read the first books in greek translation and the rest in their original version because they hadn't been translated. I don't "Zoey Montgomery! I don't know if they are translated now in greek language. And I don't care because I have decided to do a reread and read the first books in english as well.
I am happy to say that the first book is still as entertaining as I remembered it. The series follows the adventures of Zoey Redbird, a 16 years old girl who has Cherokee heritage.
One day she will be chosen to become a new vampire and she will need to attend a school for vampires. Vampires are not dark creatures of the night that humans ignore their existence.
At least in the first books. Vampire girls behave more like witches than vampires with their rituals and their affinity in elements. Most of the evil characters, villains and monsters will become well- intentioned misunderstood characters with tragic personal stories at some point and everyone will like them.
Zoey will be betrayed and heartbroken by her first lover. The first book describes thd first days of Zoey at the House of Night, her new friends, her new enemies and her new wannabe boyfriend. View 2 comments. Mar 01, Brooke Watson rated it did not like it. This book was so bad, I wanted to quit reading it, but then I could not have fairly rated it. So despite my better judgment - I read on, wincing all the way! Marked tries so hard to be hip - but "like totally" fails.
I know you have to be careful when choosing YA books. Some of it is great - it resonates with those of all ages. And some of it, like this book, is YA crap. The main character was also very poorly created. She enjoyed reading the horrid Gossip girl series, yet was critical of her sexu This book was so bad, I wanted to quit reading it, but then I could not have fairly rated it.
She enjoyed reading the horrid Gossip girl series, yet was critical of her sexually-active classmates? It was a battle of agenda's and viewpoints. Check out my read list to find better YA reads! Jul 06, Aura rated it did not like it Shelves: horrible. Call each other degrading terms because women are apparently so empowered now it doesn't matter. This book is just vile, and worse still it's aimed at teens.
I can see why people are going to get sucked into this, as I almost was, but do yourself a favour, fully analyse the sick values in this book and you will begin to see where I am coming from…. I think the success of this series comes down to crafty marketing, nice covers and the brain-dead masses. Do not read this book, unless you genuinely want to waste pages of reading time. One was black, with impossibly long hair must be a really good weave. Not all of them wear weaves or even want to, so to suggest that long straight hair is somehow more superior and beautiful than curly afro hair is just rude.
Best selling authors, HA! This whole series is a joke, whoever thought it was a good idea to turn it into a movie should have the blood sucked out of them. Shelves: annoying-heroines , magical-tats , anti-feminist , crap-flick , bad-body-image , squeaky-clean-not , cliche-series , dumb-ass-heroines , paranormal , prissy-preaching. To experience the whole drinking game click here. I've decided that it's time that this blog has a drinking game. And I decided that if we're going to do it right, we might as well use one of the worst in my opinion series in YA to drink, too which is The House of Night.
Note, there are several ways you can play the drinking game. But I advise you not to do all steps at once. Doing so would probably cause organ failure. About the House of Night as I said before, they drive me bananas. I only rea To experience the whole drinking game click here. I only read halfway through the second book before I through the towel in on the series, but amazingly the series is doing fairly well.
It's been on bestseller lists, optioned, and they even have House of Night merchandise you can buy. I'm not going to try to understand the popularitiy of this series. Instead, we're going to drink. If you're under twenty-one or worried about your liquor you can do what I did and indulge in root beer put some ice cream on it and you have a float. It's really delicious and makes this book slightly more bearable.
Oh, and if your wondering what I rate this book a big fat zero. That's right it doesn't even get a one star. It might be because she failed her Mary Sue litmus test multiple times or the fact she's so judgmental on everyone. For example, our introduction is her bashing her ex because he drinks a lot and smokes.
So, freaking what? It's his life not hers. Yes, I get that drinking and doing drugs is bad, but she's not his mother. And she's broken up with him. And she makes sure that she berates them for it.
Especially when it concerns her mother's relationship with her step father. I know I'm suppose to feel sorry for Zoey after reading this, but I don't. I really don't. The one sided judgements that are made just made me angry. Whenever her family's mention you can also take a sip per number three a. Look, eating disorders are bad, but so is making fun of someone's body shape.
No, just no. Plus, Zoey there are people who are naturally skinny. Who as much as they'd like to have curves don't. Calling them hos just because the way they look is wrong. Aphrodite and Poor Sarah Jessica Parker: Zoey hates Aphrodite right off the bat for no apparent reason Aphrodite even attempts to be nice to her and tells us that she looks like an annoying hag, just like Sarah Jessica Parker.
A popular girl looking like SJP? Have you seen SJP as a teen. Sort of awkward looking. Plus, how can you find SJP annoying? She is Carey Bradshaw and she probably has the best wardrobe in television history. I kid you not. And just brushes off his death because he's apparently butt ugly. It's constantly hammered into the reader's head: Zoey's an outcast, she's beautiful, she has random out of body experiences, her mark is special, she can control all the elements just like Captain Planet though heart is replaced with spirit , and all the boys love her.
If you decided to drink to this one you'll probably be angry while you get smashed. If you look at her the wrong way you're going to be branded a slut. If she just doesn't like you All I have to say is this, grow up! While I'm proud of my heritage, I'm not really connected to it like Zoey is. However, I'd say that Zoey takes the very cliche route when it comes to being a descendent of a Native American.
I think her only exposure to her culture is through a Cherokee bingo parlor or whatever. She has relatives who live in Oklahoma and they are the same. And an Oklahoma accent isn't that different from a Texan accent. Just saying. Conservatives: I might not be a conservative, but I know lots. And their good people. Do we disagree about our values, yes, but they're usually not evil zealots. Men get raped too.
I don't get why that's a hard concept to grasp. I kid you not, there's even some line in the book where the Casts sort of break the fourth wall and admit it. It's beyond annoying. This book makes me want to read Stephenie Meyer's take on vampires again. It's that bad the mythology is so confusing and does not make sense see number six and the Casts actually have the gall to mock Bram Stoker's Dracula.
But honestly, the way Zoey talks about it reminds me of a really bad PSA. Slut slamming is okay, if the girl's not your friend: I've already talked about this before, but really the amount of girl hate based on appearances in this book is obscene.
But it's not called excrement, it's called poopie. How old is Zoey suppose to be again? I guess I shouldn't be surprise since she uses the words boobies frequently as well. If that's not bad enough Damien gives us an educational vocabulary lesson every time he appears. Although, it's not that educational to me since I knew most of these words by the time I graduated from middle school.
Seriously, no explanation whatsoever. Guess that makes sense becuase the mythology in these books is really odd too. I don't understand the vampire origin other than it involves the goddess Nyx a Greek goddess and the Cherokee people. Oh, and somehow the Amazons are involved as well. And why do some fledglings die and do vampires I meant vampyres live forever?
I'm sorry these vampires are not vampires, they're Captain Planet wannabes meant Charmed wannabes. We have many people loving Zoey-it only gets worse as the series progresses. He likes Zoey for no explained reason and they share about as much chemistry as Bethany and Xavier Woods. On the bright side, I did prefer him to Heath, but then again that's not saying much.
What really amazes me though, is that the Cast women fought so much about this love triangle that they eventually resolved it by introducing a new douche in the series. Honestly, from what I've seen I don't know why anyone who'd pick Heath.
He pops in occasionally just to tell Zoey she's hot before staring at someone's "boobies". Though apparently Zoey might've imprinted on him. Here are some things I randomly wondered when reading it. If they weren't marked wouldn't they be normal. Why are we even putting them in the same category was this just done for marketing purposes? Because this film would be worse than Twilight and there would be at least five of them. Next month, or in a couple of weeks depending on how glutton for punishment I am and the library's reservation list, I'll read Betrayed.
The title alone is worth drinking too. Mar 27, Thomas rated it it was ok Recommends it for: No one. Shelves: romance , fantasy , lgbtq , young-adult. Marked is one of the worst written books I've read in a long, long time.
Although it's understandable how someone could get swept up in the average, mundanely composed storyline, the writing - oh man, I think I might have lost a few brain cells. Hopefully reading this book hasn't permanently damaged my own writing. One of the most annoying things was Zoey, the main character, had a tendency to think in Marked is one of the worst written books I've read in a long, long time.
One of the most annoying things was Zoey, the main character, had a tendency to think in random tangents hee hee, see that alliteration! They all start with t! She also had a massive, gargantuan amount of immature catchphrases. By the end of the book I felt like ripping my hair out every time I read one of the following: "Oh, hell!
It's realistic when an author includes the occasional cuss word or discreetly mentioned sexual innuendo.
But when the main character starts spewing stupid things like how large her teacher's chest is, it's just plain irritating. Oh, and Zoey has officially earned her rank in the top five most annoying protagonists of all time. I refuse to believe that ANY teenage girl could empathize with her - when people say things like "oh, this book would be perfect for teenage girls! Zoey is mindless, exasperating, and completely one dimensional.
She is pretty much the anti-role model. One moment she's discussing the utter normality of sex, the next moment she's talking about how wrong it is to want to kiss a boy. Hypocrite, anyone? The first reason is because after reading this novel I'm more aware of what not to do if I decide to write a book. The second reason is because sometimes the plot was so pointless it was actually funny. View all 13 comments. Oct 17, Charlotte rated it did not like it Shelves: less-than-one-star , young-adult , rereads , prereads , urban-fantasy , nope , reviewed , vampires-and-werewolves , stay-far-away-from-this , original-english.
I recently read an article about how reading bad or below-average books can actually help improve your writing. So, for improvement's sake, I decided to reread this lovely twelve-book series I devoured and loved! I mean, wow. I'm not even certain enough of my brain cells survived reading this to actually write something after, good or bad or any I recently read an article about how reading bad or below-average books can actually help improve your writing.
I'm not even certain enough of my brain cells survived reading this to actually write something after, good or bad or anything in between. I'm pretty sure they invented How Not To Write guides after this was published - and for good reason. I just want to know the Casts' secret. Did they bribe their publisher? Read out loud from this book until he was begging them to stop? How in the world did they convince someone to publish this?
I passionately hate-read this book and prepared to tear it to shreds in this review. I cannot stress enough that I do not mean to insult either P. Remember, when I was 12, I loved this series and genuinely waited for each new release. Cause it seriously looks like they're winning. I honestly didn't think there was any other book out there that had a worse storyline than After. Boy, was I wrong. What happens when you get Marked is basically: some dude shows up, points at you, recites the worst monologue I've ever laid my eyes upon, and finally, you faint and wake up with a brand new half-moon tattoo on your forehead.
Because apparently, vampyres aren't just super strong and super fast here, they're also super good at tattooing people without any equipment or physical contact whatsoever. It's truly magical. Lo and behold, our dear freshly tattooed Zoey makes for the vampyre boarding school, the House of Night, where she is supposed to go to class for four years and participate in random subjects before completing the Change into an adult vampyre or dying a painful, slow death.
By now I'm totally hoping it's the latter, but I'm out of luck. Why changing into a vampyre would take four entire years in the first place is beyond me. Instead of coughing up a lung or two, Zoey ends up running around like she owns the place, makes four new friends in one day, gets a hot boyfriend, and challenges the House of Night's resident Queen Bee for her position.
Bitch, I don't even have four friends. What the hell? I mean, the plot literally takes place over the span of four days, and by the end of it, Zoey is not only the most popular girl in town, but the only fledgling in all of history with a filled-in mark.
And she scores the hot, popular Senior dude after talking to him approximately once. Unless jamming your tongue down somebody else's throat is a weird new vampyre greeting, I'm calling bullshit. Don't even get me started on that part where Zoey becomes leader of the Dark Daughters, an elite school organization, even though she's, you know, only been there for one week. She knows next to knothing about the vampyre world, has no experience whatsoever, and her greatest deed so far was calling Aphrodite a "ho-bag" times in a row, but sure, let's make her the leader of an important and respected student organization that upholds rituals deeply rooted in vampyre tradition and represents the school.
Instead of someone who - just a wild thought here - actually knows what they're doing and didn't move in yesterday. My head hurts. As a comedic ensamble, they'd be priceless. Like your average Young Adult-Mary Sue, Zoey is sixteen, in high school, and way too cool for you - except she keeps complaining about having no friends and being so unique and different.
Gee, Zo, I don't know, maybe if you developed an actual personality people would want to befriend you? All she consists of before she's Marked is the following rather short, but colorful list: hating on her stepdad whom she so very eloquently calls "step-loser" ; complaining about teenagers who party, drink, and have sex; and feeling superior to her alleged best friend, Kayla, and her ex-almost-boyfriend, Heath.
Calling either of them stupid is a brave call from someone who uses the word "gihugic" unironically. No, I did not make that up. Even my creativity has its limits. Besides being annoying and dumber than a sack of sand, Zoey is also a plain old hypocrite: she loves complaining about Aphrodite and her friends, claiming that they run around acting like they're so much better than everyone else, but then doesn't take two seconds to turn around and talk about "some loser kid's blood" which she would very much like to consume because she's, you know, a vampyre and Elliott from Lit class is just a refrigerator because he has bad hair.
If hypocrisy was an Olympic sport, Z-bird would take home all the medals. Other than that, Zoey constantly talks about fashion - Maui Jim this, Prada that. They don't even talk fashion this much on Project Runway, and that's a show about making fashion.
Or she likes to remind everyone of how different she is because she doesn't have oral sex. She's truly earned a gold star, that one. I'm also pretty much convinced that Zoey invented the "overpowered MC" trope that has been ripe in Young Adult fiction these past few years, because get this: she's not only the first fledgling ever to have a completely filled-in Mark, no, she can also control all five elements, which has been unheard of in vampyre history, and ends up High Priestess in training with a full vampyre tattoo at the end of book one.
While your average adult vampyre will have a half-moon tattoo on their forehead and then, after completing the Change, some ornamental tattoos on their cheekbones, Zoey is a fledgling with tattoos all over her body within four weeks.
Of course, lovely Zoey isn't enough to bear just yet, so the Casts have come up with an entire quirky! Stevie Rae used to be my absolute favorite character when I first read these books. What a blind fool I've been. Truly amazing. There's DAMIEN, the token gay guy who doesn't fit in with the other gay guys at school because they're too girly, so he hangs out with a group of straight girls instead.
I suspect he maybe does it to feel smart, because the female parts of their little gang seem to have a combined IQ of 45 on a good day. I would have rather read about Henrietta's Fighting Hens than spend one more chapter reading the cringy and embarrassing "banter" between Ms.
I mean, Zoey pretty much acts like Aphrodite crawled out of hell to torment her personally with how gorgeous and sexy she is. Yay for reinforcing the demonization of female confidence in this absolute blast of a novel. Of course there's also some fun side characters, such as NEFERET who admittedly has a cool name but is, other than that, the worst mentor ever seriously, Dumbledore is Teacher of the Year compared to her and functions as a flat, two-dimensional villain later on in the story.
I'm tragically bored by now. Last but not least, we have the pleasure of meeting ERIK NIGHT who has possibly one of the worst names I've ever heard and is about as charming as a piece of gum stuck to your shoe: he's clingy, annoying, and sugary sweet. Shakespeare's currently laughing his gay ass off; he wouldn't be caught dead with a bunch of losers who think they have the moral high ground because they've never sucked a dick.
The House of Night itself is quite vacuous itself: I recall a vague description of a bunch of stone buildings and a temple, dedicated to the vampyre goddess Nyx. That's pretty much it. However, those three turned out to be some of the most horrible, offensive, stereotype-ridden representation I've ever seen which has to mean something, because it's not like there's an abundance of awesome rep out there. Damien is soft-spoken and feminine, interested in fashion and cross-stitching - which, in itself, is fine.
What's not fine is the blatant homophobia seeping through these pages: "And this is the token guy in our group, Damien Maslin. But he's gay, so I don't really think he counts as a guy.
Thanks, Stevie Rae, for reinforcing the notion that gay men aren't real men. What the literal fuck? Or, three pages later, the actual use of the f-word: "'Think National Merit Scholar in charge of the Honor Society mixed with cheerleaders and band fags.
I think my spirit just fucking launched itself into the sun or something. This is some Grade-A-Straightie nonsense. Shaunee, the Resident Black Girl, is only described in terms of food: latte macchiato, mocha, you name it.
Anything edible that remotely resembles the color brown immediately becomes a substitute for her name. The bar is literally on the floor and the Casts dug a hole to avoid it. The stereotyping continues in a rampage of slut-shaming: Zoey's really thinking about Aphrodite's sex life a lot.
I doubt if there's a teenager alive in America who isn't aware that most of the adult public think we're giving guys blow jobs like they used to give guys gum or maybe more appropriately suckers. Okay, that's just bullshit, and it's always made me mad. Of course there are girls who thinks it's 'cool' to give guys head. Uh, they're wrong. Those of us with functioning brains know that it is not cool to be used like that.
Because giving a blow job makes you morally bankrupt and sucks out your brain cells. All I can say is that there are so many parentheses. Seriously, so many. Instead of trying to describe it, though, I decided to compile a list of quotes from the book for both your and my amusement. FYI, the little blowjob-excerpt was not from a conversation Zoey was having. It was an actual descriptive passage in the text.
Behold the beauty of words, employed by the Casts in the House of Night -series in a manner formerly and thankfully unbeknownst to mankind: "I guess it was time I took things into my own hands after all, they were well manicured.
A tingling sensation that crawled over my skin and made my new Mark burn. I felt power. Somewhere, J. Rowling is pissing her pants laughing. I'm a Redbird and a daughter of the sun, but I'm turning into a monster of the night. To herself. I'm going to have a stroke. I was staring up at a light, which miraculously didn't hurt my eyes.
Instead of the glaring light of the sun, this was more like a soft rain of candlelight filtering down from above. I sat up, and realized I was wrong. The light wasn't coming down. I was moving up toward it! I'm going to heaven. Well, that'll shock some people. I glanced down to see my body! Or, my all-time favorite, unparalleled in its astonishing phrasing: "I enjoyed the way the world looked, sparkling and new, but it was my body that kept drawing my attention.
I floated closer to it. I was breathing in short, shallow pants. Well, my body was breathing like that, not the I that was me. Talk about confusing pronoun usage. White face, blue lips, and red blood! Am I patriotic or what? Thanks for the confidence boost, guys, because if a book that uses the terms "gihugic" and "birthday-cake-frosting-blue" can make it, I probably can, too.
I don't know which illiterate demon possessed twelve-year-old me and told me these books were good, but I'm glad he's gone now. View 1 comment. Jul 18, Britt rated it it was ok Shelves: fiction , identity , fantasy-sci-fi , ya. Typical teen story in which there is a black and white delineation between the heroes and the villains, and you will never mistake one for the other.
Our heroine comes from a troubled family, longs for a place to belong, is marked as incredibly and shockingly extraordinary amongst her new peers, butts heads with the queen of the school who is also the flatly drawn villainess, immediately catches the eye of the hottest guy at school who is also the ex of our villainess, shows remarkable powers an Typical teen story in which there is a black and white delineation between the heroes and the villains, and you will never mistake one for the other.
Our heroine comes from a troubled family, longs for a place to belong, is marked as incredibly and shockingly extraordinary amongst her new peers, butts heads with the queen of the school who is also the flatly drawn villainess, immediately catches the eye of the hottest guy at school who is also the ex of our villainess, shows remarkable powers and wields them with a confidence and skill even the most advanced prodigy would not have after one day in a new world with new rules after suffering from slight self-esteem issues easily erased by her upbeat and encouraging friends , and is wise beyond her years leading her to take on the benevolent savior leader role amongst her friends and eventually the entire school.
The author captures the teenage voice well enough though it did seem she was trying a bit hard at times , but all the pop culture references got annoying. She spent a good deal of time passing harsh judgments against particular types of people and behavior. Girls who wear lots of makeup are losers as are a great many other people throughout the book. Teenagers drinking and smoking is horrifying and disgusting. Wanting to kiss someone you are attracted to apparently makes you a slut.
She dislikes one of her classmates because he is not only annoying but also unattractive. While I am not saying that teenagers having sex and drinking and smoking is a good thing, I felt this moralizing had more to do with the author wanting the kiddies to know how dirty these things are than with the character really holding these opinions.
It felt that her reaction to them was more immature than the character the author wanted us to see. Also, not a fan of all the hatred for religion. More of the author pushing her point of view than creating anything compelling within the story. What does this really add? The author does more telling than she should, which always annoys me. Who am I supposed to go to all of our football games with? I clamped down on the sick, hurt feeling inside that threatened to make me burst into tears.
My eyes dried instantly. I was good at hiding tears. Still grimacing at the pain in my head, I stood up. Looking around I felt a small measure of relief that K and I were the only ones in the math hall, and then I had to choke back what I knew was hysterical laughter.
I coughed again, this time a really wet, disgusting cough. The dork made a squeaky little sound and scuttled down the hall to Mrs. Guess the chess club had changed its meeting time to Mondays after school. Do vampyres play chess? Were there vampyre dorks? How about Barbie-like vampyre cheerleaders? Did any vampyres play in the band? Was I going to turn into a Goth kid?
Or worse, an Emo? All this whirled through my mind while I felt another little hysterical bubble of laughter try to escape from my throat, and was almost thankful when it came out as a cough instead. Are you okay? I sighed and felt my first sliver of anger. K and I had been best friends since third grade, and now she was looking at me like I had turned into a monster.
The same me I was two seconds ago and two hours ago and two days ago. I could tell by her rabbit-in-the-headlights expression that it was her boyfriend, Jared. I watched her rush across the east lawn to the parking lot.
I could see that she had her cell phone smashed to her ear and was talking in animated little bursts to Jared. The problem, of course, was that turning into a monster was the brighter of my two choices. Choice Number 2: My body rejects the Change and I die. I just wanted to attempt to be normal, despite the burden of my mega-conservative parents, my troll-like younger brother, and my oh-so-perfect older sister. I wanted to pass geometry. But most of all, I wanted to fit in—at least at school.
Home had become hopeless, so all I was left with were my friends and my life away from my family. Now that was being taken away from me, too. I rubbed my forehead and then messed with my hair until it semi-covered my eyes, and, with any luck, the mark that had appeared above them. Keeping my head ducked down, like I was fascinated with the goo that had somehow formed in my purse, I hurried toward the door that led to the student parking lot.
But I stopped short of going outside. Through the side-by-side windows in the institutional-looking doors I could see Heath. Girls flocked around him, posing and flipping their hair, while guys revved ridiculously big pickup trucks and tried but mostly failed to look cool. No, to be fair to myself I should remember that Heath used to be incredibly sweet, and even now he had his moments. Mostly when he bothered to be sober. High-pitched girl giggles flitted to me from the parking lot. Kathy Richter, the biggest ho in school, was pretending to smack Heath.
Even from where I was standing it was obvious she thought hitting him was some kind of mating ritual. She has been Marked as special by the vampyre Goddess, Nyx. But she is not the only fledgling at the House of Night with special powers. When she discovers that the leader of the Dark Daughters, the school's most elite club, is misusing her Goddess-given gifts, Zoey must look deep within herself for the courage to embrace her destiny--with a little help from her new vampyre friends.
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