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Chosen (House of Night #3)

by P.C. Cast (Goodreads Author), Kristin Cast

3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 · rating details · 92,337 ratings · 2,936 reviews

Dark forces are at work at the House of Night and fledgling vampyre Zoey Redbird’s adventures at the school take a mysterious turn. Those who appear to be friends are turning out to be enemies. And oddly enough, sworn enemies are also turning into friends. So begins the gripping third installment of this “highly addictive series” (Romantic Times), in which Zoey’s mettle wi...more

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Published March 4th 2008 by St. Martin's Griffin

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Jun 14, 2011 Cari rated it 2 of 5 stars

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...more 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 actual readers off. I feel like throwing up, (seriously) every time I read the Twins talking. It's like this author is starved of ideas for their dialogue. They, Damien, Jack, Zoey have all failed to develop in the slightest. Their banter is really getting on my nerves.

I've read other reviews on this site and many are saying the same thing. Why not try some different dialogue for a change? Recognize that your readers, since they've been reading a book with the 'F' word in it and sexual content, they aren't little children who can't take big vocabulary words and who have to have repetition thrown at them, as well as stupid pop culture references every few seconds.

Zoey, the main character, could use a bit of maturing. It doesn't help that the first three books progress over the time span of only a few months and she is still a freshman (third year former) in her school. Since she has such wonderful powers you would think she would learn a bit of responsibility and sense. As for her three boyfriends, you would think she would have a bit of sense and compassion to not cheat around. But noo, hormones took over. This did add some much needed conflict to the story, but the whole concept was just 'ugh' since she was fooling around with three guys at once. (great message for little girls there!)

The characters I have to compliment are Stevie Rae, Aphrodite, and Neferet.They have developed and Stevie Rae's change into an undead creature was interesting, as well as Aphrodite's character development.

A good thing about this series (possibly the only reason I kept on reading) is the action. It happens too fast in places, but the whole concept of the Priestess, blood drinking/imprinting, etc is very good. I also enjoyed many of the action scenes, but as the books went on they became less and less. It's a shame the good in this book is overridden by the bad writing and characterization as well as the author's laziness in thinking up new plots and character development. I'll keep on reading them, but I won't stop wishing that there was an improvement. (less)

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Aug 16, 2012 Samantha rated it 1 of 5 stars

Shelves: least-favorites

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.

First off, the thing that bothered me most about the book...more 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.

First off, the thing that bothered me most about the book was the racism. P.C. and Kristin Cast are always writing about characters' skin color, but ONLY WHEN THEY'RE BLACK. If a character is black the authors always mention it in great detail, but if the character is white or anything else, they leave discussions of their ethnicity alone. The most offensive and racist part of the book was when Zooey was (innappropriately) grinding one of her boyfriends, Heath, in public. The line, "two black guys were just a few feet away... wearing the stereotypical ridiculous sagging pants," was used. This line pretty much sums the scene up. The authors stereotype black people, making these black guys vulgar, wannabe hoods. And then Zooey kills these guys for talking trash to her, and nothing much is made of it later on in the book. It's as if the authors are saying it is somehow okay to murder blacks, and that if you do there won't be any consequences. This made me really mad. Revealing the race of two characters who were only in the story for two pages was completely unnecessary. The scene could have worked regardless of the two guys' ethnicity, and the Casts identifying the two men as black sent a loud and clear message: black peoples' lives are meaningless.

The character Zooey is a horrible role model. She and her friends constantly bully a girl on campus, their only reason being they deem her a slut. The girl, Aphrodite's, only crime was sleeping with a boy she'd been in a long-time relationship with! Then Zooey turns around, has three boyfriends, lies to all of them, and sleeps with a teacher. The fact that Zooey, the main character and supposed heroine of this series, sleeps with a teacher is disgusting beyond words. It shows her complete lack of good judgement and her willingness to betray her perfectly nice, loyal boyfriend Erik. I hate how Zooey manipulates the boys in her life and has no regard for anyone's feelings but her own. She lies to all her friends throughout the book and tries to have three boyfriends at once instead of doing the responsible thing and breaking up with two of them.

Besides the fact that the main character is an obnoxious slut and the book is blatantly racist, the story just suffers from poor writing. The authors waste a lot of time giving us long summaries about what happened in the previous books, and sometimes review things that just happened a few chapters ago! There were also a lot of little typos throughout the book, which detracted from the story becuase it was like they were in such a rush to get the book published they didn't leave time for editing. Most of the characters are not fully drawn, and all Zooey's friends are stereotypes. There's Erin and Shaunee, two loud-mouthed girls who are tough as hell, but love to shop for shoes! There's Damien, who is the smart gay guy who holds them all together. In truth, the only thing this book had going for it was the suspense. Every chapter ended in a cliffhanger and the storyline of teachers at the House of Night showing up murdered compelled me to read on. But not even mediocre plotting can save a sinking ship. To conclude: don't waste your money buying this. Don't waste your time reading it.(less)

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Jul 21, 2012 Namratha Kumar rated it 1 of 5 stars

Shelves: urban-fantasy, ya-lit, fantasy, house-of-night-series, vamp-lit

CHOSEN was a long-drawn out account of Zoey Redbird dealing with (in her own words) her 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)
c) Loren Blake, temporary teacher (...more

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Feb 23, 2011 Dakota rated it 1 of 5 stars

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. I had a crazy idea last night. I decided that I would go to the library and read Hush, Hush, House of Night, Fallen, Evermore and its sequels, and Shiver. After hearing several bad reviews for each of these books, I avoided them. But curiousity got the better of me and I couldn't very well complain about how much the standards for YA novels have fallen without reading some of the alleged best sellers. My plan was foiled and the only book they had available was the third book in the House of Nigh...more I had a crazy idea last night. I decided that I would go to the library and read Hush, Hush, House of Night, Fallen, Evermore and its sequels, and Shiver. After hearing several bad reviews for each of these books, I avoided them. But curiousity got the better of me and I couldn't very well complain about how much the standards for YA novels have fallen without reading some of the alleged best sellers. My plan was foiled and the only book they had available was the third book in the House of Night series, Chosen. Maybe I should be grateful. If the quality of those other books are anything like Chosen, I fear for my sanity.
I have not read the first two books in the House of Night series, but I could gather what was going on. Zoey's best friend Stevie Ray is undead or something and she tried to kill Zoey's boyfriend/Imprint, Heath. Zoey's rival Aphrodite (who is much more likeable than Zoey despite being her rival) saved him. All this is told to me within two pages. The book starts off by Zoey trying to see how many times she can say suck while complaining about her awful birthday. Her birthday is near Christmas, which means that everyone does the cliche thing and gives her Christmas themed gifts. Zoey whines to her kitten about how she'll have to put on a fake smile while people give her lame presents she doesn't like. She makes a few stereotypical remarks regarding her gay friend Damien while she opens her presents. There's a notable scene when Zoey's boyfriend Erik gives her a really pretty necklace and she's estastic until she sees it has snowmen on it. That just ruins the present. Then Zoey's first boyfriend Heath gives her a bracelet and she's happy. Erik and her friends get mad that Zoey acted like an ungrateful bitch, and she has the audacity to say that it's not her fault. Zoey, it is your fault, sweetie. You didn't tell your friends you didn't like Christmas themed gifts for your birthday. You were too busy whining about having sucky birthdays to mention this fact. Just say casually, "I don't like Christmas themed things for my birthday!" Make light of the fact! There's no need for you to make it into a scene where you confessed you were abused.
So Chosen follows Zoey's struggle to help her best friend Stevie Ray regain her humanity. I can tell Zoey just misses Stevie Ray so much. Without Stevie Ray, Zoey has to have bad birthday presents! You see why she needs Stevie Ray in her life? Saving your best friend from a bad birthday- that's a real friend. The whole thing with Stevie Ray goes back and forth. Zoey insists that she hasn't changed, Stevie Ray says she isn't human anymore, blah,blah,blah. What's Zoey's reason for Stevie Ray to be human? The clothes are better. That's right. Never mind that her best friend is losing her humanity and chomping down on humans- the important thing is that Stevie Ray looks gross as a feral vampire and her victims might have lice. Teenage priorites. Gotta love them. There's also tension with Zoey's rival Aphrodite joining Zoey's group of friends because she has an affinity for earth. I liked Aphrodite.I liked how she was trying to make up for past mistakes. I liked her bitchy attitude, her insults towards Zoey showing not everyone worshipped her, and the fact that she gave Zoey a dose of reality. Not every girl who has sexual desire is a ho.
Now, that brings me to my next issue. Zoey is fond of using the word ho. The words ho and slut are tossed around a lot these days, and not in the right context. Zoey seems to think that having any sexual desire whatsoever makes you a ho. Zoey is a filthy hypocrite. One of her other problems is that she has three boyfriends. There's her old boyfriend Heath who she imprinted on and now shares some sort of sexual bond. There's her current boyfriend, Erik, who understands her. There's her Professor Blake, or Loren, who is a man that makes her feel like a woman. For a good bit of the book Zoey goes around kissing Loren and then feeling guilty and whining about it. Of course she never does anything to stop it. Then she still has feelings for Heath as proven when she basically humps him in public. But she's not a ho. Just saying.
But the clincher comes at the end of the book. Zoey's crying because Erik's been Changed and it reminds her of when Stevie Ray died. I'm not too sure on the details, at that point I only had thirty pages to go. Anyway, Zoey runs into Loren and he comforts her. He takes her to his dorms- apartments- I don't know, nor do I care. The main thing is that they form an Imprint, which overrides Heath's imprint. Imprints make you feel sexual desire and she and Loren have sex. Zoey wakes up the next morning and describes herself in the most vain way ever. The little issue of Erik crops up, not to mention that she still hasn't dumped Heath, but Loren goes all possessive and says Zoey belongs to him. That's what I like to see! Possessive boyfriends! If I wanted to read this "you belong to me" crap, I'd go read fanfiction. There's plenty of that possessive mates/bond crap floating about. But oh no, Erik comes and see Zoey naked with their Professor. What follows is my favorite moment of the book and Erik's crowning moment of awesome to me. He calls Zoey a slut, accusing her of playing all innocent and virginal while she's been seducing her Professor. He calls her out on being a hypocrite and then says what a fool he was to have fallen in love with her. Then Zoey finds out that Loren was using her and he's in love with the baddie, Neferet. Who didn't see this coming? I've read the same plot in countless fanfictions.
Some shit happens, something about Stevie Ray and some people who are supposed to combat the threat of religious fanatics. Zoey's friends find out that she cheated on Erik. Do they reprimand her for it? No, they just talk about how fiine Loren is. When Erik is still understandably upset, Aphrodite makes a remark that people take an incredibly long time to get over things that happened before. Yes, Erik, how dare you not forgive your girlfriend for cheating on you within an hour? She can get away with that shit; she's a main character. Stevie Ray comes, it's a trap, I don't know. At this point I just wanted the fucking book to end. Stevie Ray is back to normal(which means she can plan decent birthday parties for Zoey, yay!) and Aphrodite is human. The stereotypical religious group that Zoey's stepfather runs, kills Loren, so the vampires are declaring war. I was going to go into a mini-rant about how parents are the worst thing ever next to Christians, but I don't have the energy. There's a wonderful scene when Neferet tells Zoey how much she sucks. I hope Neferet kills her. But since this series is twelve books as far as I'm aware, nothing can kill Zoey. To quote Yugioh the Abridged Series- she's a main character! Everyone else can go right ahead and die!
This book sucks. I suppose I could write down some creative similies, but I don't have the energy. My brain still has to recover. I will say that I couldn't believe that this is a bestseller. But after reading an informative book on the publishing world, now I can. Best-seller does not mean quality. It just means that the publishers haven't lost any money on this book. I don't know whether to weep for the future of YA books, or feel confident that my novel might have a fair shot. (less)

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Jan 16, 2012 FashionDayDreamer rated it 1 of 5 stars

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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 useless at destroying Zoey. To think tha...more

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Mar 11, 2010 Kim rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: young-adult, fantasy-romance

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.

Yes, I know you're a teenager, Zoey, and yes, I know the plot requires some stupidity on your...more

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Dec 01, 2008 Jackie rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: 5-star, pleasure-reading, series, vamps-and-other-paranormal-pleasure, ya

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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Jun 06, 2011 Lindsay rated it 1 of 5 stars

Shelves: books-i-own, cover-lust

House of Night by P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast

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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 out. I mean, usu...more

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May 01, 2008 Brother Odd rated it 2 of 5 stars

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 adult book in wh...more

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Nov 06, 2012 Jahlia ((thing 10 Evil 1)) rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: vampires-immortal-creatures, filled-with-fucking-morons

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...more 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 but not as severely as zoey's or as bad. I have a birthmas bracelet from my grandma that i love and wear to this very day. With that being said, zoey's friends are assholes. They got mad because she neglected to tell them that they shouldn't have all gotten here birthmas presents? Braincells people! Now my number one reason why i hate zoey(there are many reasons why but this is my top) is the three boyfriends. Really? You had to have three?

Heath I understand that you guys have history. Eric? You shouldn't be dating him at the same time but i can understand the atraction. Atraction but not the obvious making out/erotic bloodrinking because according to you Zoey you ''love' heath and has since you were nine years old. You don't do that to somebody you love. You just don't. Now to the center of the reason why i hate you zoey. It's name is LOREN BLAKE. There is absolutely no reason why you made him your third boyfriend. Does child molestation mean anything to you Zoey? No? How about statatory rape? Still nothing? I wonder why? Maybe it's because you're a fucking dumbass! Seriously people! BRAINCELLS! I'm serious stupidity is becoming a fucking epidemic here!

I don't know what pissed me off more, the fact that he won your trust and affection that easily or the fact that I was 3 years younger than you and I knew that eric would catch you two in the act. It was obvious that by the end of the book zoey would go from having 3 boyfriends to none. And then her reaction, gah. She was crying, crying! What the hell are you crying for? Don't let this review fool you, I'm usually very forgiving and generous towards books. But this, this book has to burn. Yes, it must pay for the pain it put me through. IT CAN NOT GET AWAY WITH THIS!

The point; I hate zoey but I love aphrodite and stevie rae. And of course heath, the boy Zoey ruthlessly and selfishly tore apart. He didn't deserve that because out of her many suiters he was the best. He was willing to (and eventally did) sacrfice every thing for her even though she CHEATED on him.

So, the book though was okay, however if zoey wasn't a dumbass it would've been better.

The last thing that irked me was the people of faith annoyed the hell out of me. I'm a christian so it's hard not to get offended. Especially since they go against pratically EVERY christian policy known to man. It's so annoying! So this book only gets 3 stars. Luckily the others are better

I've changed portions of this review and will more likely change more because it contained things present me doesn# agree with.(less)

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Aug 20, 2012 Fuglsang rated it 1 of 5 stars

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I don't know why I keep doing this to myself. I'm crazy scared of needles and if I eat as much as a little raw onion, I almost puke. Yet, I keep downing these books. It's getting old.
I'm too old for this, friends. I should be out in the sun, talking walks at the beach and seducing hot, nerdy guys. I should get a boyfriend, settle down in a house with a dog and a car and I should get a job and get mar...more

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Apr 14, 2009 Elizabeth rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 2009, in-by-of-the-americas, vamps-and-other-mythical-beasts, reviewed, fantasy-sci-fi

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...more

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Jun 22, 2010 Elektra rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. I am being generous with this two stars for one reason- Aphrodite. She grew so much as a character, she's definitely my favorite now. And the hinting at a Cherokee legend I've never heard of before.

Zoey was the most unlikable character out of all of them. She had three boyfriends, which is kind of understandable, considering the consequences and the storyline. I didn't like the grammar errors and typos, but I put up with them. The Twins, Jack and Damien were horribly cliche. I started referring...more I am being generous with this two stars for one reason- Aphrodite. She grew so much as a character, she's definitely my favorite now. And the hinting at a Cherokee legend I've never heard of before.

Zoey was the most unlikable character out of all of them. She had three boyfriends, which is kind of understandable, considering the consequences and the storyline. I didn't like the grammar errors and typos, but I put up with them. The Twins, Jack and Damien were horribly cliche. I started referring to the Twins as Captains Obvious because that's what they did; repeated what we, as the reader, were supposed to pick up. I can see what the Casts are trying to do with Jack and Damien, being a gay teenage couple without a lot of prejudices over their lifestyle in the way, but they were completely stereotypical gays and Jack was conveniently the tech wizard Zoey needed, which made me roll my eyes.

Then there were the boyfriends-- they were all the same; smart, good-looking, supportive, and completely bland, including Heath, who magically gave up drugs and alcohol to be with Zoey without withdrawals or becoming an outcast, just because he was her imprint. Her friends were horrible to her- they got mad at her because she tried to protect their feelings by not telling them that she hated "Birthmas" gifts. Even I could tell you that combined birthday and Christmas gifts suck, especially for your best friends. Maybe it was pride that made them get mad at her, which I can understand. Zoey ends up needing Aphrodite's help for Stevie Rae because Neferet can't read Aphrodite or Zoey's minds, but can read her friends. They get angry with her without even knowing her side of the story, making them the world's worst friends. Zoey, stick with Aphrodite. Maybe she's a bit slutty and mean, but she's a better friend to you than the Twins, Damien and Jack.

One thing that creeped me out to no end was how when Zoey went to break up with Heath and then, she almost killed a few black kids in the park. That bothered me a lot-- Zoey wasn't even that remorseful over it five pages later when she got back to the school. That's when I decided I liked Zoey the least in the whole series. I thought the first Rede of Wicca and Paganism was "An it harm none, do what ye will." There was no consequence for Zoey almost killing someone.

And Loren. OMG. What a creep. If Zoey's so special and smart, why did she fall for Loren Blake? If a teacher had hit on me in high school, I'd have gone running and reported them. I was screaming "Zoey, run! He's a perv!" Never happened, and somehow, he talked her into sex and strategically got Erik to walk in and catch them. I knew from the first exchange between Zoey and Loren that he was a creep.

I felt kind of bad for Erik, for his lack of dimension. Zoey walked all over him with Heath, whom he knew about it, and... She lied to him about Loren.(less)

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Apr 09, 2009 Abigail rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2009

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?...more

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Feb 20, 2013 Chloé天赋 Ƨнα∂σωнʋитɛяǤιяℓ ♉ rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Zoe got used and then the asshole dies later! Everyone hates her now and I hate her too. This is my least likable of this series but theirs still more to come. Actually, I ABSOLUTLY HATE THIS BOOK FROM THE SERIES! But then I kind of like it, does that make sense? lol

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Dec 01, 2008 Tara rated it 1 of 5 stars

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 ideas, and badly...more

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Nov 23, 2012 Hannah rated it 2 of 5 stars Recommends it for: No one.

My rating: 2 stars out of 5

I thought Marked was just okay, and I loved Betrayed, so I thought to myself that I'd enjoy Chosen. But boy was I wrong.

Of all the books I've read so far in the series, Chosen is by FAR my least favorite. I just wanted to go inside the book and slit Zoey's throat for being so STUPID! I admit I enjoyed her in the first two books; but this book, Zoey makes Bella Swan look like she was well-written. (Yeah, I just went there.)

Zoey was basically asking for all the misery s...more

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Mar 10, 2012 Teresa rated it 1 of 5 stars

I HATED this book more than I think I ever hated any other book in my life. Zoey is an annoying slut. The Twins are dumb bitches. Don't get me started with the love interests. Zoey thinks that anybody who has even a small dose of sexual desire is a hoe-bag, but yet throughout the series she had seven boyfriends (I kid you not). Talk about hypocritical, bitch. I strongly disliked Erik, Heath, and Loren. But Erik won me over at the scene when he called Zoey a stupid slut and a filthy hypocrite, am...more

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Oct 19, 2008 Julie rated it 4 of 5 stars Recommends it for: vampire fans, teens

Recommended to Julie by: Shannon

Shelves: young-adult, paranormal, 2008, signed-out

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 that the only way she is...more

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Jul 25, 2008 Shannon (Giraffe Days) rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2008, paranormal, vampires, ya, romance, cover-love

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. While I do enjoy these books, I have some quibbles with them, but first, plot!

In brief, the series is narrated by Zoey Redbird, half-Cherokee vampyre fledgling who's only been at the House of Night in Tulsa for about two months, but who has already demonstrated that she's powerful and a favourite of their goddess, Nyx. She's the only one at the House who manifests all five elemental powes - air, fire, water, earth and spirit - and her body is already decorated in beautiful tattoos, which simply...more

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Mar 18, 2008 Christiana rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: vamps, angsty

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Mar 11, 2013 Shelly rated it 1 of 5 stars

Shelves: vamp-lit, young-adult, march-book

When the book started I had high hopes for it. I've started to really enjoy this series. Unfortunately, the plot was dropped to the wayside as Zoey starts to focus on her ho behavior. It was more than a little ridiculous to be completely honest. I wish this book was more plot driven because it seems like there are some seriously awesome things to come.

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Jan 31, 2011 Colleen M rated it 2 of 5 stars

I skipped a lot of the first part of the book because I think the whole repeat thing is getting boring.

I was getting really sick of the three boyfriend thing.... and then that got resolved and I hated it more! I'm hoping as I read the rest of the series that Loren managed to put a spell on Zoey, because otherwise, its really unbelievable that she just fell into bed with him on whim after managing to get through several years with Heath and not having sex with him.

I'm disappointed with the Aphro...more

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Apr 16, 2008 Amanda rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: paranormal-romance

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...more

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Mar 05, 2009 Kristyn rated it 5 of 5 stars

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 have sex w...more

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Jul 25, 2008 Brigid *Flying Kick-a-pow!* rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: wtf, gave-up-on-series, vampires, young-adult, slut-shaming, bad-romance, paranormal, romance, fantasy, i-threw-up-in-my-mouth-a-little, insta-love

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,...more

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Dec 12, 2011 Katie rated it 1 of 5 stars

Shelves: young-adult, vampires, read-in-2010, fantasy, paranormal

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 kind of solution, but...more

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May 08, 2011 Debora rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: preferiti, fisicamente_posseduto, ebook

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

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Apr 18, 2013 Sydney rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: house-of-night

*Warning this review contains spoilers and vulger language*

Ok. With that out of the way I can begin.

I cannot explain how ungodly pissed off this book made me (I warned you about my language). I was a mad to start for these 4 reasons

1) Her whorish jugling around not one, not two, but THREE boyfriends
2) Her lying to her friends and not telling them anything
3) The fact that Stevie Rae is a soulless demon from Hell
4) The fact that Neferet (who I had liked a lot in the beginning) is fucking evil.

Lets...more

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Feb 02, 2013 Samantha rated it 1 of 5 stars

What I liked:
-Aphrodite. Again, she is my favorite character. She’s funny, sarcastic, rude, and yet I can tell she’s trying to do good to make up for the bad things she’s done. She’s the only character that actually wants to become better. She’s the only character that knows she’s not perfect.
-Stevie Rae. Her storyline was more interesting than anything else in this entire book. I liked the struggle she’s going through, and how she has to fight to keep hold of who she was in the last books. Even...more What I liked:
-Aphrodite. Again, she is my favorite character. She’s funny, sarcastic, rude, and yet I can tell she’s trying to do good to make up for the bad things she’s done. She’s the only character that actually wants to become better. She’s the only character that knows she’s not perfect.
-Stevie Rae. Her storyline was more interesting than anything else in this entire book. I liked the struggle she’s going through, and how she has to fight to keep hold of who she was in the last books. Even though I really didn’t like her character in the first two books, she grew on me in this one. She and Aphrodite are the only good parts of these books.
-The ending. I loved that Zoey got what was coming to her. Seriously, she annoyed me so badly I wanted her to lose all of her fiends. And she did. She got exposed as the lying, manipulating, cheating, hypocritical bitch that she is. Erik was totally justified in telling her off like he did. The ending, Aphrodite, and Stevie Rae were the only things that made this book worth more than zero stars.

What I disliked:
-Zoey. I swear this girl gets worse in each book. She is rude, judgmental, stupid, and just all around a horrible person. She calls every other girl a ho or a slut, but she's the one trying to juggle three fucking boyfriends.
-Supporting cast. The Twins are as terrible and as usual, they’re still sharing the exact same personality. They’re basically the same character with just different names and appearances. Damien and Jack have a mystical happy romance that came out of nowhere, and they’re both still walking clichés. They’re only together because they’re the only two gay characters in the book.
-Family drama. The family bullshit is so over the top and overdone I just laughed throughout the whole thing. I hope PC Cast doesn’t honestly think unhappy families are this way, because they’re not. I know plenty of ultra-religious people, and I’ve never met anyone that talks the way John Heffer does. It’s amazing this book got published.
-Plot. There really wasn’t one, again. It feels like the author adds the bare minimum requirement for plot just to say that there is one. But ninety percent of this book is boy drama, useless interactions between friends and god awful teen speak that doesn’t make any sense.
-Boyfriend drama. Three boyfriends. Three. Fucking. Boyfriends. Zoey is cheating on the only good guy, Erik, with her ex-boyfriend Heath. And she’s cheating on Erik and Heath with Loren, who she has sex with in this book. And of course Erik walks in on it, and he gets upset, which he should, and everyone turns it around and tries to make him the bad guy even though Zoey is the whore that cheated on him.
-Editing. Seriously, was this book even edited? You would think a teacher would know the basic fundamentals of writing, but apparently not. Punctuation was bad, there were run-on sentences, there were double-negatives, there were page-long paragraphs of nothing but inner rambling, and the characterization is non-existent. What editor let this be published?

Overall, this is the worst book of the three so far, but I’ll keep reading this series until I finish it and find out what happens. 1.25(less)

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