After a Vampire Tracker Marks her with a crescent moon on her forehead, 16-year-old Zoey Redbird enters the House of Night and learns that she is no average fledgling. She has been Marked as special by the vampyre Goddess Nyx and has affinities for all five elements: Air, Fire Water, Earth and Spirit. But she is not the only fledgling at the House of Night with special powers. When she discovers that the leader of the Dark Daughters, the school’s most elite club, is mis-using her Goddess-given gifts, Zoey must look deep within herself for the courage to embrace her destiny – with a little help from her new vampyre friends (or Nerd Herd, as Aphrodite calls them).
Zoey, High Priestess in training, has managed to settle in at the House of Night and come to terms with the vast powers the Vampyre Goddess Nyx has given her. Just as she finally feels she belongs, the unthinkable happens: human teenagers are being killed, and all evidence points to the House of Night. While danger stalks the humans from Zoey’s old life, she begins to realize that the very powers that make her so unique might also threaten those she loves.
Dark forces are at work at the House of Night and Zoey Redbird’s adventures at the school take a mysterious turn. Her best friend, Stevie Rae, is undead and struggling to maintain a grip on her humanity. Zoey finds herself in the very unexpected and rare situation of having three boyfriends. Mix a little bloodlust into the equation and the situation has the potential to spell social disaster. Just when it seems things couldn’t get any tougher, vampyres start turning up dead. Really dead. It looks like the People of Faith are tired of living side-by-side with vampyres. But, as Zoey and her friends so often find out, how things appear rarely affects the truth…
The (collective) review:
As I was going through my books the other day I spotted Marked and I thought I'd give it a try
since it was a quick read. A day, and a book, later I thought I'd read the next two and write a
collective review.
The series presents a world where Vampyres and humans live alongside each other in an uneasy peace. Here Vampyres occur because Changing is programed into some humans' DNA.This Change takes four years to complete during which the fledglings, Vampyres going through the Change, attend a school called the House Of Night where they receive a Vampyre education.
It focuses on Zoey Redbird, a young girl from Tulsa who's life is a living hell because of her step-father, a sort of leader from the People of Faith. She is Marked and sent of to the House Of Night in Tulsa where she behinds her new life and discovers an affinity for the five elements, air, fire, water, earth and spirit. Unique abilities and remarkable progress make her stand-out as the most powerful fledgling the world has ever known.
In the first book we see how she struggles to fit in and bring down the head-bitch, Aphrodite, and make herself leader of a prestigious school club called the Dark Daughters and Sons and a run-in with the evil side of that world.
In the second book Zoey deals with her human imprinted (basically infatuated) boyfriend Heath, her Vampyre boyfriend Erik, the death of her best friend, who didn't appear to survive the Change, and the murders/disappearances of Tulsa teenagers that are made to look like Vampyre attacks.
In the third book she comes to terms with her mentor's, Nepheret's, darkness and Aphrodite's wish to patch things up which turns her into a human, heals her undead best friend and creates a new race of Vampyres, and develops and steaming romance with her poetry professor which leads to her first taste of sex and the abandon of her friends and boyfriend at the end of the book.
Zoey, although very immature at times, is a very strong character and as the book progresses you can feel the change in her character and I really liked that. I also loved her kick-ass powers and really hot boyfriends.
During the three books we see how Nyx, the goddess Vampyres adore, Marks Zoey as her own by giving her a new set of tattoos every time she accomplishes something extraodinary.
Erik Night is really nice, hot, an amazing actor and really really loves Zoey, and she goes and cheats on him with Heath Luck and then Loren Blake. Heath is a human boy, a year older than Zoey, and her boyfriend before she was Marked. He's strong but not really bright which means Zoey has a hard time making him believe they're suppose to break up. In the first book when he tries to 'bust her out' of the House Of Night he cuts himself and Zoey laps up the blood causing an imprint to form between the two. This imprint is what saves him from the undead fledglings who want to kill him in book 3. However the bond breaks at the end of the third book when Loren Blake exchanges blood with Zoey and replace the previous impint with his own.
Stevie Ray Johnson is best and closest friend and roommate. Nyx has blessed her with an affinity for earth, which they only realise in the second book, and she becomes the first of the new race of Vampyres after she dies the undies and Aphrodite sacrifices her own Mark for her.
Aphrodite is a the 'queen bitch' of the school when Zoey arrives so Zoey brings her down. She has the unique gift of having Terrible visions which help her save people from general disasters. Zoey, her circle, and Aphrodite all hate each other but they have to live with each other when Stevie Ray dies and Aphrodite takes her place as earth in the circle. During the second an third book Aphrodite's attitude lessens and she helps Zoey many times. She is also the only person apart from Zoey who is able to hide her thoughts from Neferet.
Damien, Erin and Shaunee are also part of Zoey's circle and are each blessed with an affinity for air, water and fire, respectively. Zoey isn't as forthcoming with them as she is with Stevie Ray but that's only because Erin and Shaunee, or the Twins as the call themselves, because Neferet's crazy intuition will pick up on their thoughts and that would put them in danger. However her keeping secrets leads to them abandoning her when she needs them most.
Neferet is Zoey's And Aphrodite's mentor. She's a very powerful High Priestess gifted with an affinity for cats and an amazing intuition that almost allows her to read minds. During the whole first books she appears caring and motherly but her facade unravels in the second and as she threatens Zoey in the third Erik Night has a glimpse of her true nature. She has been touched by darkness and somehow manages to bring fledglings who's body has rejected the change back to life. This causes them to lose their humanity and turn into the grotesque vampire stereotypes that are known today (need for blood, burn in the sun, evil, etc...)
Loren Blake is Zoey's third boyfriend. He's the youngest Vampyre Poet Laureate and the first male in over two centuries. He is unbelievably hot (take hottest guy and increase his hotness by 100), charming and seduces Zoey to get information for Neferet. He's the one who takes Z's virginity an forms an imprint with her which is broken hen he's killed. He is also the main reasons Z's friends abandoned her at the end o the third book.
I so far I really like the plot but I don't like the reason her friends abandon her and the large amount of cursing going on in this book. Another thing I don't like us how Zoey thinks of her dorkiness/geekiness like it's a bad thing. I'm a geek and I'm proud of it
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