Book Title: Marked (House of Night, Book 1)
Pages: 306
Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin
Genre: YA-17+/Science Fiction/Fantasy
(Scale Explanation: 1) Meaning awful, 5) Meaning not good, but not bad, equal, 10) Meaning wonderful)
PLOT - 9
CHARACTERS - 7
BEGINNING - 7
ENDING - 7
FLOW - 8
OVERALL - 7
What I liked about this book:
I liked the interesting new take on the world of vampyres. It’s one that made the book pretty interesting and made it to where I could ignore the majority of the shallowness and crap that made being a teenager suck. I actually liked that it was realistic though, in the way that the teenagers acted and their actions. Even though it was something that I kind of didn’t like, it was something that make the book more believable even though the concept is fantasy.
What I disliked about this book:
As stated above, the shallowness and teenage drama that made being a teenager suck. That’s about it.
Who I would recommend this book to:
Anyone that enjoys books about vampyres, anyone that enjoys YA, and anyone that enjoys a quick read that is also a bit fun.
What I felt the book was about:
Zoey gets Marked as a vampire fledgling at the beginning of the book and her best friend, kind of her boyfriend, and her family all disown her and try to take care of the situation. She leaves her home and goes to see her grandmother even though she knows she only has a short amount of time to get to the House of Night before she dies. For some reason, the fledglings have to be in the House of Night or they will parish. She gets to her grandmothers house and falls and passes out. While passed out, she see the Goddess Nyx and finds out that she is to be someone special in the vampire world. When she wakes up, she is in the House of Night and ready to start her new life. Everyone is weirded out by the fact that her mark is fully filled in already, instead of like the other fledglings who just have the outline of a mark. She quickly makes a few enemies in the Dark Daughters and a few friends in her roommate and her friends. She meets Eric, a boy that is smitten with her at first sight, who used to date the head B of the Dark Daughters. Zoey’s ex-boyfriend visits the school to try to bust her out, but she has no desire to leave now. She finds that she has a strange affliction to blood already and she shouldn’t want it yet. Strange beings are popping up over the school, looking like kids that have died because their bodies had rejected the vampire change. In the end that is a major conflict in which Zoey has to take on the head B of the Dark Daughters and she prevails, but in order to prevail she has to complete a crazy ritual to extinguish some very bad spirits. After the ritual, everyone is shocked to see that Zoey’s mark has collected marks to it. Instead of just a basic mark around her eyes, the mark goes down her neck and her back and she is now the most marked in the House of Night. She is supposed to be something greater.
Favorite excerpts or quotes from the book:
"Actually, since I'm gay I think I should count for two guys instead of just one. I mean, in me you get the male point of view and you don't have to worry about me wanting to touch your boobies."
