Marked
by P.C Cast and Kristin Cast is a different kind of Vampire novel. Zoey
Redbird is your typical teenage girl going to public school with a love affair
that has been going on since elementary school, when her life gets changed drastically.
Zoey gets “marked” as you would say and is sent to the House of Night to go
through the change into a Vampire. When Zoey arrives she is thrown into a whole
different world than she is use too. She must find where she fits in, who her
real friends are, and who is good and who is evil. But is evil always as it
seems? “You are old beyond your years Zoeybird. Believe in yourself and you
will find a way. But remember darkness does not equate to evil, just like light
does not always bring you good.” How will you find out what good and evil is
when you have to consider that bad might bring you good, and good might bring
you bad. That’s not the only thing Zoey has to get use too, she has to get use
to the fact that moving to the House of Night may create a love triangle she
never asked for; deciding who she can’t live
without and who she can.
At the House of Night, all vampires
have a best friend too, a cat. You don’t get to choose what cat you want
though, they choose you. It’s an odd phenomenon that you would never expect,
but cats have it in good with the vampires goddess, Nyx. They are protectors
and the most loyal animals alive. Although, I think it is a bit odd. In the
book cats are described as describing your character, “I’ve found that the way
a person feels about cats – and the way they feel about him or her in return –
is usually a gauge by which to measure a person’s character…” I personally
think this is an unnecessary part in the book that Cast fits into the plot of
it in a weird and unique way.
The plot of the novel starts to
take shape when Zoey and he group of friends, “The Gang”, notice some
misgivings happening in one of the schools top leading groups, and it is their
job to fix it and get rid of the wrong. As they all discover new abilities
about them self as they go through this challenge. The book itself is a good
read if you love the paranormal world of vampires and the god gifted powers. If
you don’t, well then don’t even bother picking the book up.
The language in the book could be
more sophisticated, it is more surrounded by slang and how teenagers talk, so I
suggest if you are older than 20, don’t even bother picking it up because it
won’t appeal to you. I think it is more appealing to the younger generation
also because of the way the story is formatted, it’s an easy read. The plus
side to the book though, is the visuals of everything. They go into great
detail about what the characters look like and their personality traits so you
can actually visualize what they look like in your head. Not to mention they
have created a rather “hip” website that goes along with the book that has a yearbook
of all the main characters in it.
Overall the book is worth the read
if you love twisted love stories, with some darkness, magic, and the
unexpected. The main plot throughout the series of the House of Night is, will
they survive the change into a vampire, or will they die fighting for it? It may
seem like a burden when you first get marked, but in the end it turns into more
of a blessing than you could ever imagine.
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