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Marked: A House of Night Novel review

Posted : 9 months, 3 weeks ago on 16 February 2009 02:17 (A review of Marked: A House of Night Novel)

Zoey is sixteen when she is Marked as a fledgling vampyre. Unless she gets to the House of Night very soon, she could very well die - not all those who are Marked actually survive the transformation to complete vampyre.

Attempting to reach her Grandmother to help her get ready for the House of Night, Zoey has an accident. While unconscious, she meets the vampyre goddess Nyx, who reveals to her that Zoey has been chosen to be Nyx’s “eyes and ears in the world today, a world where good and evil are struggling to find balance.”

Zoey soon learns that having been Marked by Nyx as her own, she has been marked differently than other fledglings - and this is cause for great interest at the House of Night. Soon she has the attention of the popular (and nasty) leader of the Dark Daughters, Aphrodite, as well as the hot Erik Night. Her old friends having shunned her as soon as she was Marked, Zoey must lean on her new friends to help take down Aphrodite and put an end to all of the sketchy stuff the Dark Daughters have been dealing with.

As much as I disliked high school, if I had to go back and relive it, I would either want to attend the Gallagher Academy (from Ally Carter’s Gallagher Girls books) or the House of Night. The kids in House of Night get to take fun classes - fencing lessons? Really?? I want to take fencing lessons!

This book reminded me more of Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Avalon books than your run of the mill vampire novel. It focused so much on the whole matriarchal society idea - the high priestess, the fact that men aren’t necessarily on equal standing with women, etc. It was different than I expected. Not in a bad way at all - just different. Actually, other than the blood drinking thing, it was very much unlike your traditional vampire story.

The characters were fabulous. Zoey’s new friends were a little stereotypical, but a lot of fun. The other kids at school … well, Aphrodite seemed to personify the typical Queen Bee at any high school. Erik, however, I found disappointing. Something just doesn’t seem to add up about him - I kept thinking he had ulterior motives, but he didn’t. I don’t know what it is, but something about him just doesn’t add up. Maybe he was TOO good.

I am definitely going to have to read the next book in the series. Soon. It was so much fun, and I read the majority of it in one day. I really hope the rest of the books in the series are as enjoyable as this one.

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