I completely agree! I loved the Uglies series. It was nice to see a strong female heroine who thought for herself. The young girls portrayed in some of the recent YA vampire books make me a bit ill.

Oh, I know. Me too.

i don't argee with yal. the other books in the series are way better. Though, i do love the uglies series too.

I just finished reading this yesterday and pretty much felt the same way about it.

I felt like I was reading the journal of some teenager with ADD. I don't mind pop culture references, but the characters are unstable when they are distracted by trivial celebrity BS when they are in the middle of a serious situation. The whole tone of the book was annoying.

All the characters were such hypocrites too. The main character and her friends try to act all self righteous and good but go around being just as mean as the "evil" girls. How is calling someone a hoe-bag and slut and plotting how to take them out any different than what the Dark Daughters were up to? And she acts all prudent and appalled at sexuality... only to make out with some guy she has spoken to only about two times. So... sexual favors for a guy you have been dating for a long time... slutty. Making out with some guy you have known for three days... not slutty? Wha..?

haha...I know!!!

I totally agree with this thread. I read the whole series and mildly enjoyed it knowing it was complete fluff, but I did notice all of the things you mention. There is a VERY definite moral agenda going on there, and all the pop culture references are going to make the books very dated, very fast. The teenage vibe felt very forced.

In addition, Zoey's behavior only gets worse in later books. For all her high-mindedness about sexuality and friendship she does some pretty unbelievable things.

Even with all this, though, I did enjoy the books as a quick, fluffy read.

I agree - this book was horid! I love YA, but this was junk. they were trying way to hard to be "hip like the kids". I'm reading the Uglies next - hope it's much better.

It is, trust me! The first two are great, I did have a hard time getting into the third one, though.

I agree with the comments above...I was VERY disappointed with this book. I thought that I was really going to enjoy it and I was apalled at the language and one scene in the first 83 pages...I couldn't read anymore. I don't mind some language, but this was terrible. I'm not a prude by any means, I just know that I wouldn't let my daughters read this book!

yeah, Nikki - it's pretty trashy. you can write an entertianing novel for the YA audience that is sexy, but not dirty. Need to leave some things to the imagination.

I blame the publishers for this one!

Me Too! Thanks for backing me up.

Yay for hating trashy YA literature! It scares me what young girls are going to just pick up and start reading!

Exactly...I picked this book up at Walmart in the YA/Children's section.

I agree, this book was so awful!

I'm so glad so many people hate it! There's still hope for the quality of YA fiction!!!! :)

wow, i'm glad i'm not the only one who thought this... YA fiction back in the day with authors like Christopher Pike, Joan Lowery Nixon, etc were much better than this crap.

I couldn't agree more. The whole 'oral sex' thing was a bit much, I could have done without the lecture on how real girls no better than to do that, yadda yadda. But as someone else mentioned ^, the language to me wasn't so bad, it's how teens really talk/think/act- it was possibly the most genuine thing about the whole book- oy!
Oh and I'm only halfway through it.

Your old,your not supposed to like this book!
It's for teens!
DUHHH!

But no! Don't you know how open minded the authors are? They have a gay character!!!! You know how he's gay? They tell you about it EVERY FEW PAGES OR SO!!! I like the idea of being open-minded and not judging people based on who they love or what species of human they are, but they're just so freaking heavy-handed about it.

I do agree with you about the pop-culture referances, it makes the authors sound silly and makes me feel uncomftereable, but I do like a bit of the setting. Also, I LOATHE hoe they made famus celeberties vampires! And I'm only half way through!

Totaly agreed.

Nikki wrote: "I just finished reading this yesterday and pretty much felt the same way about it.

I felt like I was reading the journal of some teenager with ADD. I don't mind pop culture references, but the ch..."
its fairly simple, that is how a teenage girl mind is nowadays, at lest where i live and what i have seen. you also have to take into account that growing up in one state can be completely different then another place, growing up in different atmospheres leads to thinking a certain way, and feeling a certain way about things.i think every one should go back and read it again, i bet you will have a different opinion about it.

o and not to come off rude or anything, but what would you know about reading a journal of a teenager with ADD, maybe stereotyped ADD, but not real ADD, you cant tell the difference between someone with ADD and someone without ADD, based on there writings.

This review has seemed to confirm my suspicions. I've only read the first chapter and I'm already getting irritated with it. In that chapter alone, it's already managed to offend me.

The main character, so far, seems to thrive off of stereotypes and shallow, physical judgments. Within only a few paragraphs, she insulted a lot of social circles I'm quite partial to (such as "geeks" and "goths"). She makes it sound as if having a unique style, wearing creative makeup, and changing your hairstyle is a horrible thing. And she described the "geeks" as being "tall, thin," and having "messed up teeth". I'm sure the typical thick-glasses wearing, pocket-protecting stereotypes go right along with it in her mind. Being quite a geek (by real life's standards -- not hers) myself, I found that offensive.

Another thing that bothered me is how she perceives her boyfriend. He celebrated a football game and drank. Like most people would. She was mad about it...because it would make him fat. And her friend proceeds to go "Ewww!" and profess how she doesn't want to imagine such a "hot" guy being FAT! Oh no, fatness! I've been overweight my entire life and so that's always been a touchy subject with me. Hearing anyone making fun of anyone for being fat touches a nerve.

When her friend's phone rang and the ringtone was "Material Girl"...I think that pretty much set the tone for the rest of the book. Haven't read it yet, but we'll see. I have a bad feeling I'm right, though...

got this series for my step daughter for christmas; i always read what the kids have before i let them read it. i am SO GLAD i did! completely appalled at the almost instructional information about blow jobs! boo to the authors.

I totally agree. I'm 15 and I was appalled by this. Honestly, this is not how teenage girls think, it never was, and it probably never will be. The main character is entirely judgmental and can do practically no wrong, and when she does, it's like a major sob story. Unfortunately enough, this book was good enough for me to read the next few, but that is also because I hate starting a series and not finishing it. Anyways, great review, and I'm definitely sure that this series will die out very quickly because of the constant stream of pop culture references.

And to the other teens commenting on this, at least check your spelling and grammar before you slam someone's honest opinion. Otherwise, YOU look like the idiots, not the person you're trying to slam. Also, just because people have kids doesn't mean their old. Believe it or not, people older than you still have brains.

I believe you meant "they're old" :)

Låurå wrote: "I believe you meant "they're old" :)"

Haha, I even read that like 3 times to make sure!!! I'm so hypocritical gosh... But thanks. :)

I agree. Do teenagers really talk like that?
It was annoying to read the dialogue...

COMPLETELY agree with you guys!! I just finished this book last night and was gagging through the whole thing. Everything is so forced and heavy-handed it's just sickening. It's like the authors have never been teenagers!! I just wrote a long-but-funny review of it here:
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Thanks for sharing! I'm glad to see other people agree with me!

I'm planning on reading more in the hopes that it in fact, does get better. HOWEVER, our points about the FIRST book are true. I think most authors get better and better as they keep writing though -- so I still have hope for the rest of the House of Night series.

I agree with you, as mostly everyone commenting has. I checked the book out from the library some days ago and was appalled because it's actually sitting in the recommended section. It was horribly written, and I never talked like that when I was 15, which was barely 3 years ago. My friend pointed out to me that I didn't like the first Vampire academy book, when I read it and that after reading book 2 I was hook, but I read the book 2 of this series and I felt even worst.
And also just because they have some gay character, it does not mean they are open minded. My mother has friends who are homosexual yet she is very close minded about their relationship.
I guess the bottom line is that the writing did nothing for me. The book was HORRIBLE.

Wosed book. It has made no kind of it-touched-me effects. Well, it did give me a head ache.

Think about what you guys are talking about. Think about being 16 years old and you think your life is really bad (maybe it is and maybe it isn't) and all of sudden with no fault of your own you have to leave the only life you have ever known. You have to give up your hopes and dreams for the future because this thing happens that you can not change. The worst part of it all is you don't really have family and friends to lean on. Of course you are going to ADD you mind is going a million miles a second.

I don't think anyone's really saying that the general story idea is bad -- it's the execution. The writing is contrived and not believable. It was so obvious that the "voice" was PC's and not Zoey's.

Great story, love the plot but this has to be the worst series I have ever read!! The writing style of this author is horrid. Too bad they can't take this series idea and give it to an author that can actually tell a good story without all the ridiculous tangents about what they think is cool or not. Who wants to read about what some middle aged women thinks about baggy jeans, Pamela Anderson’s boobs and Ashton Kutcher and honestly who’s going to think of something so stupid like this during a life and death situation?!?! Their references are annoying and have no valid reason to be in the book. I don’t expect these type of books to be realistic but I do expect them to be logical. It's a great story but terrible execution.

U don't think it's just for teens im eleven and I read them and loved them

Ugh, i agree totally with this review! The book was terrible. Just terrible.

What the Hell? How can an 11 year old read something with sex in it? That is sick. this is coming from a 14 year old!
Seriously I read books with sex in it because I'm older I am not a total whore. But and 11 year old reading it and loving it? What the fuck has our society come too? Its the parents fault they have no idea what the hell there kids are doing thats why 85% of girls lose there virginity at age 15. Trust me Im in high School I know

agreed. I only finished it so I could get my $2.99's worth.

I agree utterly. I got halfway through before giving up. This book has no good qualities whatsoever.

I think it depends on yourself on how you think about this book. Yea it has weird scenes but if you really are offended then you simply stop reading that's your decision. If others want to keep reading then that's their decision. Everyone thinks differently.

I agree a lot of good writing was covered up in the annoying parenthetical's and heavy religion. Im very I'm neutral about religion but this book felt like an outlet for them to bash bible beaters. It got old and annoying.

i love this series and plane on reading the whole thing

This series is like a B-movie. It's so sad how bad it is that you just wanna finish it, am I right? I'm gonna read the rest just to burn them all. *evil laugh*

Hated the love triangle in this book so much! this book remined me of those little shy girls, so giddy giddy, ugh