Dark forces are at work at the House of Night and fledgling vampyre Zoey Redbird’s adventures at the school take a mysterious turn. ... read full description
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Jun 14, 2011
Cari
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I have to say I became addicted to these books when I started them (and I had nothing to do over the past few days,) but now they're really starting to irritate me. I have started the fourth book but put it down because I can't just stand the horrid writing anymore. The author is extremely repetitive, starting with her introduction to the books. She thinks random people would start reading at the 3rd book without reading the previous ones, and in the process of her 'introductions' she pisses her
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Feb 23, 2011
Dakota
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Jan 16, 2012
Azure
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!!!First line is a spoiler!!!
<spoiler>What part of having sex with a teacher is right?</spoiler>
Not that that is a big surprise *rolls eyes*
Zoey is a Mary Sue. She is. How many guys are after her? I have lost count. Whatever she does she is always forgiven and hardly gets hurt. Everyone wants to be Zoey's boyfriend or friend because she is sooooo popular and everyone can relate to her. The only character I liked was Neferet and even then she's usel More...
<spoiler>What part of having sex with a teacher is right?</spoiler>
Not that that is a big surprise *rolls eyes*
Zoey is a Mary Sue. She is. How many guys are after her? I have lost count. Whatever she does she is always forgiven and hardly gets hurt. Everyone wants to be Zoey's boyfriend or friend because she is sooooo popular and everyone can relate to her. The only character I liked was Neferet and even then she's usel More...
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Dec 28, 2011
Samantha
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The first two books in this series were pretty good. Definitely not phenomenal, but a good guilty pleasure series, like cotton candy in the world of literature. But Chosen was just too much. It starts off a month after Betrayed left off. Zooey is juggling three boyfriends, trying to keep the fact that Stevie Rae is a monster a secret, and struggling with the fact that her former mentor, Neferet, is an evil vampyre creating an undead army.
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Mar 11, 2010
Kim
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This third installment of the House of Night series starts to feel a little preachy in its declaration of the heroine's personal values and opinions: I have, after all, listened to the exact same sentiments for three freaking books now. For much the same reason---that is, my experience of the previous two books---my tolerance for the heroine's idiotic decisions and lovelorn melodrama began to wear thin.
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Dec 01, 2008
Jackie
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This series just keeps getting better and better. The Casts are fearless about adding new dimensions to their beloved characters. I admire the creativity of their world--it's extremely well thought out and cohesive while blazing new paths in the vampiric realm. I really can't praise this series enough.
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Oct 15, 2011
Lindsay
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Mini Review
I really hate giving bad reviews but this book truly disgusted me. I am really disappointed in P.C. and Kristin Cast. I mean honestly, do they think that all teenagers act like this because if they do, they need a reality check.
Love triangles are overused but I can admit, that some writers can really do it well. This love square thing Zoey had going on was ridiculous. I mean, come on? When I read about the teacher suddenly popping up in the picture, I was so grossed ou More...
I really hate giving bad reviews but this book truly disgusted me. I am really disappointed in P.C. and Kristin Cast. I mean honestly, do they think that all teenagers act like this because if they do, they need a reality check.
Love triangles are overused but I can admit, that some writers can really do it well. This love square thing Zoey had going on was ridiculous. I mean, come on? When I read about the teacher suddenly popping up in the picture, I was so grossed ou More...
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Dec 02, 2011
Namratha
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CHOSEN was a long-drawn out account of Zoey Redbird dealing with (in her own words) ho-ish existence.
All we read about is Zoey’s hormones getting pulled every which way with:
a) Human imprinted partner, Heath (who she intends breaking up with but instead has a hot ‘n’ heavy make-out session with)
b) Erik, her handsome fledgling boyfriend (who she wants to come clean with about her roaming eye but instead ends up having hot ‘n’ heavy make-out sessions with)
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All we read about is Zoey’s hormones getting pulled every which way with:
a) Human imprinted partner, Heath (who she intends breaking up with but instead has a hot ‘n’ heavy make-out session with)
b) Erik, her handsome fledgling boyfriend (who she wants to come clean with about her roaming eye but instead ends up having hot ‘n’ heavy make-out sessions with)
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May 01, 2008
Brother
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This book has the worst grammar of any published novel I have ever read. Whoever edited this should be ashamed. Besides that, the authors do write a story that is fairly interesting. Authors are pretty good, but the editors can't possibly speak English.
Down points of the novel are that every guy is described as being exactly the same. They're all perfectly gorgeous without a flaw or even different personalities. The homosexual characters are flat stereotypes. And, having a young adul More...
Down points of the novel are that every guy is described as being exactly the same. They're all perfectly gorgeous without a flaw or even different personalities. The homosexual characters are flat stereotypes. And, having a young adul More...
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Jan 24, 2012
Amanda
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Apr 14, 2009
Elizabeth
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I had nice things to say about the first two books. I excused the racist comments. I tolerated the stereotypical characters (it's cool to have a gay friend now, but don't make him actually sexual in any way). I mocked the terrible grammar, fake words, and poor editing, but I didn't distain it. The author was trying to create an authentic narrative voice of a scared, confused, and insecure teenage girl. Lots of things about being sixteen result in stupidity (lots of things about being thirty-some
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Jun 22, 2010
Elektra
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Apr 09, 2009
Abigail
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Okay let me just start by listing all the things that made this book terrible. Terrible writing. It repeated things we already knew over and over and over and over again. The gay boy thing? Taken way too far and i was not amused. And let me just say that i have never hated a main character as much as i hate Zoey. Jesus, what makes her so damn attractive that not one boy/man/guy whatever can stay away from her? NOTHING! SHE HAS THE PERSONALITY OF A WET MOP! so why does everyone want in her pants?
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Dec 01, 2008
Tara
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I just read a review of this book that says it has the worst grammar of any book ever published and that the editors should be ashamed.
That is probably the real reason I continue to read this series. I would like to see how much worse it can get. I never thought I would read a more poorly written story than Jean Auel's The Shelters Of Stone, which read like a NaNoWriMo novel that never got fleshed out. But I was wrong. This series is full of annoying characters, half-baked plot idea More...
That is probably the real reason I continue to read this series. I would like to see how much worse it can get. I never thought I would read a more poorly written story than Jean Auel's The Shelters Of Stone, which read like a NaNoWriMo novel that never got fleshed out. But I was wrong. This series is full of annoying characters, half-baked plot idea More...
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Aug 03, 2011
This was the first book of the series that i had read. It was by accident of course; i thought that chosen was first instead of marked, oops. So i was surprised when i fogured out that zoey had been at the HON for a while.The point i hated zoey for a variety of reasons. But first thing's first; birthmas. This is the only part of the story where i could feel empathy for zoey, i too have a birthday close to christmas, in fact my birthday is right before zoey's. Birthmas presents happen to me too b
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Oct 19, 2008
Julie
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Book 3 of the House of Night series is another fun read. I have to say, I could not believe some of the choices Zoey was making—so obviously idiotic at times—but I was saved from actually starting to dislike her by how obvious it was that she knew she was being an idiot. ("I think I'm turning into a ho.")
She's also a very typical teenage girl, despite all her special abilities and extra responsibilities. The actions she takes are fairly predictable, and you can just see tha More...
She's also a very typical teenage girl, despite all her special abilities and extra responsibilities. The actions she takes are fairly predictable, and you can just see tha More...
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Jul 25, 2008
Shannon
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Mar 18, 2008
Christiana
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Jan 02, 2009
Erika
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I honestly tried reading these books since I absolutely love vampire novels. But this is incredibly and thoroughly horrible. Zoey and the rest are so irritating. The whatevah's and totally's are distracting. Zoey comes across as selfish in so many places, which has made me lose my respect for her as a character along with another, and more important aspect. In one passage, she describes Stevie's attire when she finally sees her again in an alley, "a long, nastily stained black trench coat l
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Apr 16, 2008
♪♫♪~*Music*Luver*~♪♫♪
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O MY EFFING GOSH! HOW STUPID CAN ONE PERSON BE? I WANTED TO STRANGLE SOME SENSE INTO HER!...*WARNING...CONTAINS SPOILERS...I MEAN A LOT OF SPOILERS*****...first she cheats on her BOYFRIENDS..thats right...as in more than one boyfriend...then (i sorta agree on this one)..she doesn't tell her friends about her not so dead friend because she did not want to risk the teachers finding out by reading their minds(cause they cant read hers)...then she goes and does the dirty deed with a teacher she thou
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Mar 05, 2009
Kristyn
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Okay, I do agree the grammar is horrible, as well as the dialogue, and the way P.C. Cast always repeats things that her regular readers already know. Like when she keeps repeating how "The cats choose the fledgling," like seriously shut the freak up already! I also have some issues about what happened with the Zoey charater and Loren Blake. I mean, I just find it sickening that Zoey is supposed to be this strong, smart, independant young woman, yet, she's not intellegent enough to not
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Aug 31, 2011
Brigid *Flying Kick-a-pow!*
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i still like the overall story of the series, but the characters are starting to bug me. idk... they're all getting pretty obnoxious and i'm getting a little sick of them. i want to just yell at them or something. i mean, in the first book zoey was this innocent teenage girl who got turned into a vampire; now she's all like, 'oops! i have three boyfriends! one of which is my teacher! i feel so bad for myself. boo-hoo.' sometimes i just want to slap her for being so annoying. but other than that,
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Dec 12, 2011
Katie
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Whereas last book showed us at least some kind of improvement, "Chosen" destroys it completely. This book's a complete bitch fest, it's full of Zoey's irritating whining, arrogance and deceit.
In "Betrayed", the readers were introduced to a love... umh... square, in which Zoey was involved with no less than three boyfriends at once. I coped with her complaining of how hard it was, because I hoped that she'd do something about it in this book. Well, the problem did find some ki More...
In "Betrayed", the readers were introduced to a love... umh... square, in which Zoey was involved with no less than three boyfriends at once. I coped with her complaining of how hard it was, because I hoped that she'd do something about it in this book. Well, the problem did find some ki More...
May 08, 2011
Debora
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Assolutamente entusiasta. Molto probabilmente il mio entusiasmo deriva dal fatto che trovo questa serie molto giovanile, spigliata ed originale.
Tra tante storie di vampiri che ci ripropongono più o meno la stessa solfa imbellettata, le scrittrici ci propongono una nuova 'visione' dell'insieme. Creano un nuovo 'ambiente' nel quale far interagire i loro personaggi.
Il vampirismo è riconosciuto, i vampiri adulti sono affascinanti ma mai banali ne tantomeno addomesticati, e noi, leggendo, riusciamo a More...
Tra tante storie di vampiri che ci ripropongono più o meno la stessa solfa imbellettata, le scrittrici ci propongono una nuova 'visione' dell'insieme. Creano un nuovo 'ambiente' nel quale far interagire i loro personaggi.
Il vampirismo è riconosciuto, i vampiri adulti sono affascinanti ma mai banali ne tantomeno addomesticati, e noi, leggendo, riusciamo a More...
Jan 25, 2012
Liz
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In Chosen, the third installment in the House of Night series, Zoey Redbird tries to help her best friend, Stevie Rae (who has recently become “undead,” for a lack of a better word), return to her lovely old self. Her attempts to restore her friend’s humanity at whatever cost is very sweet, engaging, and makes for a good story. Unfortunately, the quality of the novel as a whole is off-set by the other accompanying storylines, including a somewhat questionable subplot involving Zoey and her three
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Jan 12, 2012
Joey
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Things are cracking down at the Tulsa House of Night. After Professor Nolan is killed with a note left that seems to lead to the People of Faith Security is upped, leaving the school filled with Son of Erebus hotties. Although Zoey is dating Erik, the best catch in school, she is still strongly tied to Heath through imprint due to her unusual bloodlust and although she tries to break things off with him, she always comes back to the same thing. Then there is Loren Blake, the sexy poetry teach
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Dec 19, 2011
Charlynn
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Flat, frustratingly immature, and predictable, the third novel in the House of Night Series - Chosen - was an utter disappointment. As Zoe struggles with Neferet's various deceptions, she also attempts to juggle three romantic relationships, one of which completely undermines any intelligence or common sense she had displayed thus far. To believe that an adult vampire was interested in her and to go so far as to lose her virginity to him paints her into one of two unfavorable lights: either she
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Dec 13, 2011
Lisa
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I only keep this book around because I started reading it, which means I have to finish. I only read it when I'm taking a bath. There's no need to waste my precious time on this garbage any other waking moment.
First off, it's so badly written it makes me want to pull my hair out. The immature, inane dialogue is so stupid and ridiculous, it makes me feel embarrassed for the writer, who is obviously trying way to hard to sound like a cool teenager, when in fact, it makes her sound the way Dr More...
First off, it's so badly written it makes me want to pull my hair out. The immature, inane dialogue is so stupid and ridiculous, it makes me feel embarrassed for the writer, who is obviously trying way to hard to sound like a cool teenager, when in fact, it makes her sound the way Dr More...
Nov 27, 2011
Czargei
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i think it was ok.
the reason?
well, i kinda have along list. ready?
*clears throat*
1. i don't get why they have to make out in every single odd setting in the book. example, outside the temple (heyy it rhymesss).really? i wouldn't do that even if that guy is my boyfriend or Jared Leto for that instance.
then another one: car. you can't keep that pants buttoned long enough, can you, zoey?
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the reason?
well, i kinda have along list. ready?
*clears throat*
1. i don't get why they have to make out in every single odd setting in the book. example, outside the temple (heyy it rhymesss).really? i wouldn't do that even if that guy is my boyfriend or Jared Leto for that instance.
then another one: car. you can't keep that pants buttoned long enough, can you, zoey?
second to the weird shit:the alley. *sighs* zoey dear, you shoud stop tellin More...
Nov 21, 2011
Christopher
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What starts as another House of Night book in the first chapter quickly changes into a more refined story. Yes, its still silly. Yes, it still has a LOT of slang. BUT, these girls have hit a rhythm writing with each other. The banter of the characters finally turns believable. The Twins still need that unfortunate accident down some stairs. Even just one of them, I could tolerate one. Then maybe they wouldn't finish each others shallow, misguided, tacky sentences. They aren't twins because they
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