Book Review: Marked:: Chapters 16-END

Sorry it's a day late!!

Marked in the last few chapters was AH-MAZING! So, here's the deal:

Zoey worked and worked, and tried and tried, with the constant assistance of her friends. Learning everything was hard enough. But as the goddess inside her directs her to things, she makes right decisions. Zoey is a leader stuck in a teenager's body.

However, I do have something to say about her "boys"! First off, Heath. If it wasn't for the fact he's a druggy, and heavy and drinker, I would like him. The bloodlusty sexual scene between him and Zoey was mouth-watering. Literally. (Oh, and that Kayla bee-itch, can go screw herself) But, I do pick Erik over Heath. He is the friend and the boyfriend...and the vampire. It's generally easier and makes more sense for Zoey to be with Erik. He just screwed with Aphrodite and got stuck there. Poets are just hot, okay? (But then again, so is the jock football thing) Right now, I'm siding with Erik Night.

Oh, and I SOOO want a gay friend now. Damien is just awesome. Seriously, the boy would be my best friend. So sweet, smart, and funny...without attraction/relationship complications.

Stevie Rae is awesome, too. I just love her.

The Twins are, um, unique in their own cool way.

Alright, now to the good stuff, Aphrodite, evil bee-itch, has been defeated. I respect her for her visions, but that's about it. Um, she's an evil ho. A had from hell. Oh, and Neferete, was so rock-on-woman-powering it. LOVED IT! The ending seemed rushed and was very suspensful. But that did allow me to get more into how Zoey is seeing all this. Oh, and not like I was expecting a happy ending, or anything (with, what, like six books to go?), but Aphrodite had to come and ruin the mometn. Sigh. Go Zoe-bo!

[Next week, I will be reviewing the first few chapter of Book 2, Betrayed.]

Overall, I give Marked an 8/10 rating.

Peace Love Twilight

Book Review: Marked::Chapters 9-15

*Sorry this review is late, I didn't have time to type it up yesterday. And as is natural, this review will have several spoilers, so if you have not read the book, do not continue reading on*Chapter 9 was very entertaining, I guess because we mainly just started to know more, and get to appreciate what is going on with facility. And getting to meet new friends, and even the confrontation with Afroditie...it was all needed. However, I am disturbed on some note that Neferet isn't spending alot of time with Zoey. I thought she was going to be a big part of the story...

In Chapter 10, you basically catch up on your gossip and get to know Stevie Ray a little better. I don't want to refer to it as a filler chapter, because it is more than that, but...you know. The short chapter got a lot in for being, well, short.

Chapter 11 is simply the introduction to Zoey's first real day at The House Of Night. You could feel a routine being started, and I actually am quite jealous. I wish I could be at a school liek that. :-( Even being a vamp like that would FRIGGIN AWESOME! But, that's just my opinion...Seriosuly, though, I wish I could've gone to a school like this. I have to say, being a vampire in the House of Night world, seems to be much more simple than in the Twilight world. [The change, the whole newborn vamp thing, having someone to teach you, being marked not bitten, etc]

Hot. Chapter 12. That the only way to describe it...: hot. I want that Erik kid... Sigh. But, Heath seemed hot and awesome, and the jock football player--which totally just gets to me--in the beginning, and I wanted that too. How is it fair that she can have to awesome guys!? And they're practically throwing themselves at her? Sigh. Oh, and this Elizabeth No Last Name? That made me laugh-out-loud. Wonder if she's just a filler or what...And FYI, poetry turns me on, too. Why can they're just be the literal perfect guy--poetry, football, jock, kind, risky, sensitive? Sigh. Daydream.

That Elliot kids a freak. The teachers seem pretty dang awesome right about now. Oh, and Zoey cussing in her mind is just so teenage like and I love it! But anyway, they've got to do something with Elliot! I had a kid like him in my high school, and he had so much potential that was wasted...maybe this character won't be wasted too...

Fencing and horses? I want classes like that! And I love how Zoey keeps suprising people with all her talents...I'm really getting into the story. Damien is an awesome kid, and I'll say this over and over again until you guys--and Eric (don't ask)--get it...: gay best friends are awesome. With the occasional awkward. But mostly awesome. Seriously, is anybody game to go to this school with me? Anybody? Anybody?

Chapter fifteen was breath-taking, and I could've lived in the moment forever. The description and Zoey's feelings are so amazing and breahttaking, and true. I would be feeling the exact same way! This book is amazing, and I am officially hooked. However, I am trying to spread it out so I don't find myself in the same position Team Switzerland is in. Hooked and Desperate for the next book, and possibly the end of the saga. I want to spread it out. [Oh, and I'm still desperate for Neferet to become a bigger character] AND POOR ELIZABETH NO LAST NAME GIRL! I guess she isn't going to be a key character...:-(

Alright, join me next Saturday for my next review!

Peace Love Twilight

House Of Night: Marked (Book 1):: Chapters 1-8

*SPOILERS, Will OBVIOUSLY Be Shown Below*Alrighty, so I've done a lot of reading in this book, and got through eight chapters. It is nothing like Twilight, except for the obvious fact that there are vampires involved. There is no hot vampire boy or girl, there is no mysterious or new student, etc. It's just a girl who very quickly started turning into a vampire. Oh and they don't even spell vampire, 'v-a-m-p-i-r-e,' they spell it, 'v-a-m-p-y-r-e.'

Now, the general overview is this girl, who's life was a little hetic already, has been Marked. She was marked by a very powerful Vampire Tracker. The mark looks like an outline of a crescent moon on the forehead...at least typically. Then, after talking with her parents about the mark, thye decide to alert everyone in their church and call the family doctor. So, Zoey snuck on the window to consult her grandmother. While trying to find her, she tripped, her pain worsening. She had a "hallucination" or "dream" or "happening." Visited my a vampire goddess, Nyx, her Indian blood and vampiric abilities make her very special. When she awakes, she finds herself in the House Of Night--or vampire academy, which she had to go to. Her choices were simple: A) go to the house of night and save yourself OR B) die. But, she could die anyway. Depending on if she survived the change. But, after her grandmother got her settled, a mentor--who is a healer--helped her get situated. Zoey sees something very strange, then meets her roomate. Meanwhile, everyone has been wondering about her mysterious filled in mark, and why it isn't just an outline.

Chapter 1 and 2 at first pulled me in, then got me bored. After a while through, I ended up getting slightly interested again. What I love about the House Of Night, is that the main character talks like a normal teenager. I mean, it's great that Bella's smart, and thinks different, and everything else, but it's still funny and entertaining to hear from a normal teenager. She is having a hectic life, and the last thing she needs is to be marked by a vampire. But she is. And it. Was. As simple. As. That. It seemed like less of a big deal than it would be in Twilight. Maybe because in this alternate universe, humans know about vampires. I guess you could say that vampires are simply freaks. Not threats.

Chapter 3 got pumped more information, and got us that insight on the character's personal and "normal" life. The writing here was so powerful that I actually felt the angry, and felt angry. At the "step-loser" and at her mother for just wanting the cash that came along with the guy, and to get that, ignored the NEEDS OF HER DAUGHTER! And, NOW, her daughter is becoming a vamprie and you think she's better of dead. WTF!?

Chapter 4 was more of filler, giving us that information while she's bored to death thinking in her room. And once again, I'm thrilled by the fact that she thinks like a normal teenager. Although, may i just say, I would've left LOOONGGG before she did. I kept thinking, 'leave, leave, leave. get the hell out, already.'

Chapter 5 was the panic button. Everything is happening, and everything she doesn't understand. Although, it's very descriptive, creative, and I *heart* the ideas. Putting yourself into your position, and starting the story behind the plot. Chapter five explains a few unanswered questions, that are key.

Chapter 6 begins the transition period, and just leaves the readers off having to read 7.

Chapter 7 gets you to the bone. And also, it explains alot of the vampire tricks and traits. Obviously, the call for blood isn't as strong to these vampires as it is to the Twilight vampries. And clearly, being a newborn vampire, doesn't really change anything. It's REALLY different from Twilight there. I read part of this in my office, and kept thinking AWKWARD in one part. And I know all of you who've read it, know what I'm talking about. I wanna figure out why that was necessary to show us. However, i think it's hilarious and still entertaining to get into the head of a REAL teenager.

Chapter 8 is getting the details of the transition, so they don't have to explain in little bits and pieces that make no sense along the way. You get into the head, get the details, know a little bit more about vampires, etc. It's one of those chapters. :-)

So far, I'm really liking this book!

Peace Love Twilgiht