Tempted (House of Night, #6) in Once Upon a Twilight blog

Dec 09, 2011 Nancy (The Avid Reader) rated it it was amazing

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Zoey Grandmother tells her that she is A-ya incarnate and that is why she can’t fight Kalona’s advances. A-ya was made to love Kalona. Zoey is so stressed out about this thing with Kalona that when she runs into Erik that she breaks up with him. She breaks it off with him because he so possessive. She is so stressed that when she and the other fledglings have a meeting that she snaps ever ones head off.

Zoey and Aphrodite share a room and while Zoey dreams of Kalona, Aphrodite has a vision that Zoey Grandmother tells her that she is A-ya incarnate and that is why she can’t fight Kalona’s advances. A-ya was made to love Kalona. Zoey is so stressed out about this thing with Kalona that when she runs into Erik that she breaks up with him. She breaks it off with him because he so possessive. She is so stressed that when she and the other fledglings have a meeting that she snaps ever ones head off.

Zoey and Aphrodite share a room and while Zoey dreams of Kalona, Aphrodite has a vision that is linked to Zoey’s dream. Stark knows that Zoey is upset so he goes to her room to sleep with her. Kalona has a hard time entering Zoey’s dreams with another male in her bed. Darius comes in and Aphrodite takes him to Stark’s room. Stark pledges his warriors oath to Zoey. Aphrodite has another vision and it says that if Zoey is with Kalona the world will end but if she choose love and Nyx their goddess the world will be safe.

They all return to the House Of Night to find that one of their professors has been killed by a Raven Mocker. Most of the kids have taken off because they didn’t want to fight Kalona. Zoey finds some of the kids that stayed in the infirmary and she uses her powers to help heal them.

They find out that Kalona and Neferet want to get the old ways of the vampires back. Kalona and Neferet take off to Venice on the isle of San Clemente. Zoey and all of her friends except Stevie Rae go to Venice to speak to the vampire council. When they get their they find out that Neferet has declared herself to be Nyx incarnate and Kalona says he is Erebus. After the meeting is over Zoey and Heath argue because of Stark and he goes off alone. He sees Neferet and Kalona talking. They see him and know that he heard what they were talking about. Heath uses his imprint with Zoey to call her to him for help. When Zoey arrives she sees Kalona kill Heath. She uses her affinity spirit and throws it at Kalona. Her soul shatters and she goes to the Otherworld.

As Zoey's soul is shattering and going to the Otherworld Stevie Rae goes to the Benedictine Abbey to help clean up the mess after the big fight with Neferet and Kalona. She finds a Raven Mocker she hides him in a shed at the Benedictine Abbey and bandages up his injuries. She takes him to the tunnels to hide and the other red fledglings find him. They use the Raven Mocker as bait to get Stevie Rae to the top of the building. They trap her and the Raven Mocker in a wire cage so that when the sun comes up she will burn and die. The Raven Mocker helps her to escape but not before she is burned by the sun. They cross the roof and into a tree. Stevie Rae asks her affinity earth to open up and cover them to protect her from the sun. Aphrodite feels all of what Stevie Rae feels because of their imprint. Aphrodite is so upset crying that Zoey and everyone else thinks for a minute that Stevie Rae is dead but Aphrodite informs them that she is not dead that their imprint had been broken. Zoey calls the House Of Night school to tell Lenobia and Erik to go and find Stevie Rae and help her. Stevie Rae is hurt pretty bad so the Raven Mocker lets her drink his immortal blood so that she will get better. They imprint because she drinks his blood. Stevie Rae uses her earth affinity to hide the Raven Mocker from Lenobia and Erik.

What I like about the House Of Night books is that Zoey and all her friends have affinities for the five elements, air, fire, earth, water, and spirit. All of the House Of Night books has a lot of religion in them. They are based on Pagan and Wicca. Wiccan believe that you can do what you want but harm none. They have a Goddess named Nyx and they cast circles. They call on their affinities to help them. ...more

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