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published
October 2nd 2007
by St. Martin's Griffin
binding
Paperback, 310 pages
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setting
The United States
isbn
0312360282
(isbn13: 9780312360283)
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Fledgling vampyre Zoey Redbird has managed to settle in at the House of Night. She's come to terms with the vast powers the vampyre goddess, Nyx, has ...more
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Read in April, 2009
Don't do drugs, boys and girls. Drugs are for losers.
What else did we learn from this book? The lessons come fast and furious.*
Lesson one: Drugs make you a loser and only losers do drugs. In fact, if you have ever smoked pot or been to a keg party, that's reason enough that you might show up dead in the river.
Lesson two: If ginormous can't express an impossibly large enough amount for you, just put gi in front of other large words, and your editor will think y...more
What else did we learn from this book? The lessons come fast and furious.*
Lesson one: Drugs make you a loser and only losers do drugs. In fact, if you have ever smoked pot or been to a keg party, that's reason enough that you might show up dead in the river.
Lesson two: If ginormous can't express an impossibly large enough amount for you, just put gi in front of other large words, and your editor will think y...more
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I liked the Twilight Saga, but I'm CRAZY about The House of Night series. It's also about teenage vampires, but these teenagers are smart and funny and serious for the most part, yet still very believable as teenagers (I didn't really feel that way about Meyer's characters). I'm sure that's helped by the fact this is a mother and young adult daughter writing team who are absolutely fearless about what happens to their characters. Plus it's a new and interesting twist on vampirism, which I alwa...more
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Read in June, 2008
This book was faster paced and more engaging then the first, and now I'm going to be forced to read the third. The characters felt a bit more complex and a bit less idiotic, although there were still awkward vocabulary lessons and such. Also, the authors seem to have some strange impulse to explain why the main character knows things. Really, she can make a Brady Bunch reference without having to explain that she saw reruns on Nick at Nite, I promise.
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Read in October, 2008
While still a somewhat enjoyable read (if only because I like the idea behind the story & I enjoyed the ending), the overuse of the words (slut, stank slut, hag, hag bitch, skank, ho and ho bitch) was a bit much. It's always bothered me how casually teen girls throw around the word 'slut' as an insult .. not even teen girls, adults constantly toss that word around as well. It seems that if a girl isn't well liked, the automatic insult is to call them a 'slut' and it's really aggravating. I me...more
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Good Lord, was this terrible.
It had a great concept: a vampire finishing school. Say it to yourself a few times. Vampire. Finishing. School. I envisioned a dark mirror of Hogwarts, something that would feed my irrational* obsession with boarding schools while twisting it down new, hopefully black-humor-laden pathways.
This was not the book I got, but I'm flexible. What I got was a flat, contrived exercise in demonstrating the problems of YA writing, fantasy writing, and ro...more
It had a great concept: a vampire finishing school. Say it to yourself a few times. Vampire. Finishing. School. I envisioned a dark mirror of Hogwarts, something that would feed my irrational* obsession with boarding schools while twisting it down new, hopefully black-humor-laden pathways.
This was not the book I got, but I'm flexible. What I got was a flat, contrived exercise in demonstrating the problems of YA writing, fantasy writing, and ro...more
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Read in February, 2009
This book decided me against reading any more by these authors, even though I have the third book waiting. It is all just too painful and, I know this will sound ridiculous, unbelievable (Zoey had only been marked as a vampire fledgling one month earlier!).
I just can't be bothered with the purile writing style, pathetic 'slut/ho/gay' references, allusions to current celebrities, double standards, etc. Eg. 3 boys on the go at once and she can't decide on one but she thinks nearly ev...more
I just can't be bothered with the purile writing style, pathetic 'slut/ho/gay' references, allusions to current celebrities, double standards, etc. Eg. 3 boys on the go at once and she can't decide on one but she thinks nearly ev...more
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Read in September, 2008
recommended to Jackie "the Librarian" by:
Cleo, teen extraordinairerecommends it for: teen vampire fans
This second book of the House of Night series gets deeper into the creepy potential set up by the first book. Zoey Redbird, vampire fledgling, has unusual abilities for a fledgling, and her powers (and her attraction to the opposite sex) seem to be growing in this book.
Zoey has taken over as the head of the Daughters of Darkness, and wants to make it into something akin to a service club like you find at other schools. She researches ways to change the rituals into something positive...more
Zoey has taken over as the head of the Daughters of Darkness, and wants to make it into something akin to a service club like you find at other schools. She researches ways to change the rituals into something positive...more
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Read in July, 2008
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Read in December, 2008
This is the second book in the series "House of Night". I didn't enjoy the first book much, I thought it started out strange, the story was slow, and the language and a certain scene was a little much for me. BUT the last chapter or two got me a little intrigued and I wanted to see what happened, so I gave in and read the second book.
I thought the second one was far more interesting, and the language didn't seem as harsh this time (although it was still there). There was, o...more
I thought the second one was far more interesting, and the language didn't seem as harsh this time (although it was still there). There was, o...more
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Read in September, 2008
I really enjoy the idea of these books. I CAN'T STAND, however, the authors' tendency to re-tell the reader all of what happened in the previous books. I mean, who is reading book 2 without having read the other book? Do we really have to get the Cherokee translation for daughter again? PLEASE stop treating us like we are total morons with the memory of a two-year-old. The overt sexuality is a bit much for any teens that I teach, and I couldn't safely recommend this to any teens or pre-teen...more
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Read in November, 2008
recommends it for:
Meyer fans, vampire fans of any age
This is such a wonderful series! I could barely put this second installment down. The Casts aren't afraid to make bold decisions regarding their characters which means anything can happen at any time. That's what keeps the pages turning late into the night.
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Read in October, 2007
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MErecommends it for: vampire lovers
This is the second one in the house of night novel.
It was absouluty great!
I cant wait for the next one called chosen.
I love vampires of course...and this was my medicine while waiting for breaking dawn to come out!
this book made me cry, laugh,and frightend all through this 320 pg book.
If you love vampires read the first one Marked and then read this one
It was absouluty great!
I cant wait for the next one called chosen.
I love vampires of course...and this was my medicine while waiting for breaking dawn to come out!
this book made me cry, laugh,and frightend all through this 320 pg book.
If you love vampires read the first one Marked and then read this one
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fans of vampires
Zoey has settled in at the House of Night. She feels more welcome there than she ever did in her own house. She takes over as the leader of the Dark Daughters and makes some pretty big changes to the group. She has doesn't have any trouble in the guy department either. Actually, she has to figure out how she feels about three guys. But then tragedy strikes when human teenagers are being brutally murdered and it looks like vampyres at the House of Night had something to do with it. When someone c...more
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Read in January, 2009
The good news is that I'm still interested. I like the characters. I'm curious about what is going to happen in the next installment and I find the storylines interesting. The bad news is I feel like there is very little structure to this book. There are some kids, plopped down into a school in Oklahoma, and off we go! At the same time, I understand that you don't want to slow a story down by explaining a backlog of stuff to readers. World building is tedious, I get that. But, someti...more
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Betrayed is the second installment in the House of Night series. The book begins where Marked ended...or roughly a few weeks later. Zoey Redbird has been at her new school The House of Night for almost 2 months. She is marked, which means that she is destined to become a vampyre someday when the "change" is complete, or, her body could reject the change and she will die. But that is the least of her worries.
Zoey has other worries...like the fact that football players from h...more
Zoey has other worries...like the fact that football players from h...more
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Ok, this was definitely a waste of my time. I'm trying to remember why I thought that this was a good series in the first place. Perhaps the first book really was ok, but this one most certainly was not. It wasn't horrible, it was just disappointing. I hate it when books are written poorly, and this was a good example of bad writing. Maybe if the writing had been better then the plot would have been better ... but no, these are majorly lame vampires, lamer than Twilight vampires even. They can't...more
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I actually haven't read this book, but I just finished Marked, and I believe that this book would definitely be just as good as the first, if not better. I hear so many raving about the book series, Twilight, by Stephenie Meyer, and though I do love those books I happened to find Marked much more intreresting and captivating. Something was always happening, and I noticed that Zoey had more character compared to Bella. There was more personality, and everything somehow seemed less serious during ...more
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Read in April, 2009
I have really enjoyed the first two books of this series and am looking forward to reading the rest. In the basest of comparisons-- it's Harry Potter meets Twilight, with a little Charmed thrown in (I've never actually seen Charmed, so I'm really guessing there.)
Positives:
-Unlike Potter and Twilight, there is enough action to be PG-13 (Is there such a thing as PG 15?).
-It's a quick read.
-Reluctant teen readers (girls especially) will surely be turning the page...more
Positives:
-Unlike Potter and Twilight, there is enough action to be PG-13 (Is there such a thing as PG 15?).
-It's a quick read.
-Reluctant teen readers (girls especially) will surely be turning the page...more
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Read in May, 2009
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Me, myself, and Irecommends it for: Young adult paranormal readers
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Read in April, 2009
recommends it for:
people who like YA fiction, fantasy, vampires, wicca, goddesses
I enjoyed this book even more than the first one. I am going to have to get ahold of Chosen, now, too. I read this in about five days, which is really really fast for me. It usually takes me a month or so to finish a book. I think I read the first one, Marked, in about a week and a half but I'm not really sure.
I liked the book from the beginning, but once the plot and action really got going, the second half of the book went so quickly because I couldn't put it down. I even accidentally sp...more
I liked the book from the beginning, but once the plot and action really got going, the second half of the book went so quickly because I couldn't put it down. I even accidentally sp...more
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""Your way of life is sinful and wrong," he said fiercely.
"Thus says a man who admits to worshipping a God who vilifies pleasure, relegates women to roles that are little more than servants and broodmares, though they are the backbone of your church, and seeks to control his worshippers through guilt and fear."
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