Life sucks when your friends are pissed at you. Just ask Zoey Redbird - she's become an expert on suckiness. In one week she has gone from having three boyfriends to having none, and from having a close group of friends who trusted and supported her, to being an outcast. Speaking of friends, the only two Zoey has left are undead and unMarked. And Neferet has declared war on humans, which Zoey knows in her heart is wrong. But will anyone listen to her? Zoey's adventures at vampyre finishing school take a wild and dangerous turn as loyalties are tested, shocking true intentions come to light, and an ancient evil is awakened in PC and Kristin Cast's spellbinding fourth House of Night novel. (Recommended for readers age 13 and older)
Children's Literature - Heather Robertson Mason
Zoey Redbird has problems. Besides being a vampire, a favorite of the goddess Nyx, and the enemy of the head priestess, all of her friends hate her. All but Aphrodite, that is, and Aphrodite is hated by everyone else anyway. But weird things are happening. Aphrodite's prophetic visions are of Zoey dying, and invisible ravens are attacking Zoey in the dark. Soon she realizes that Kalona, a long buried evil being, might be rising again. Evil seems to be all around and Zoey may be the only one who can stop it. This is the fourth book in the "House of Night" series, and in order to truly understand this book, you must have read the other ones. Character relationships are not described fully and references are often made to past events. The assumption is that readers will continue on to the next book since there is no satisfying ending. The novel is completely entrenched in the vampire genre without any elements to bring in other readers. Plus, there is a strong religious element that conservative parents may not be comfortable with. Despite this, readers of this series will certainly enjoy it and read it with relish. Others will probably pass it by. Reviewer: Heather Robertson Mason
Zoey Redbird is losing friends even faster than she's losing boyfriends -- she's lost three friends in the last week alone. To make matters even more complicated, her last remaining buddies are undead and unmarked. As if vampyre finishing school wasn't complicated enough! The fourth entry in the spellbinding, neck-biting House of Night series.
From the Publisher
"Cast reeled me in from paragraph one. I snorted and giggled through the whole thing, and devoured it in one sitting." -MaryJanice Davidson, New York Times best-selling author of the Undead series, on Marked
New York Times bestselling author of the Undead se MaryJanice Davidson
Cast reeled me in from paragraph one. I…devoured it in one sitting.