Marked (House of Night, Book 1)
Enter the dark, magical world of the House of Night series by bestselling authors P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast, a world very much like our own, except here vampyres have always existed.
One minute, sixteen-year-old Zoey Redbird is a normal teenager dealing with everyday high school stress: her cute boyfriend Heath, the school's star quarterback who suddenly seems more interested in partying than playing ball; her nosy frenemy Kayla, who's way too concerned with how things are going with Heath; her uber-tough geometry test tomorrow.
The next, she's Marked as a fledgling vampyre, forcing her to leave her ordinary life behind and join the House of Night, a boarding school where she will train to become an adult vampyre. That is, if she makes it through the Change—and not all of those who are Marked do.
It sucks to begin a new life, especially away from her friends, and on top of that, Zoey is no average fledgling. She has been chosen as special by the vampyre Goddess, Nyx. Zoey discovers she has amazing powers, but along with her powers come bloodlust and an unfortunate ability to Imprint with Heath, who just doesn't know how to take "no" for an answer. To add to her stress, 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 group, is misusing 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.
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The book is also RIDDLED with "just say no" anti-drug messages, "I hate sex, and sluts" comments, and desperate try-hard attempts to make it out that our main character is not racist or homophobic - except for that one time when she says one of the mean girls' hair must be a weave?
They have a mean girls clique led by a beautiful, too perfect blonde who is loved and followed unconditionally. This blonde, Aphrodite, invites our main character to the clique on her first day as a form of sabotage, but also because she's SO new and fascinating.
The love interest is also the blonde's ex-boyfriend, and getting on his good side means getting even further on her bad side. But he's like, super not interested in Aphrodite anymore, despite her best efforts to be all over him.
The vampyre plot is pushed almost entirely to the side for preference of ANGST about how she has to drink BLOOD now as a VAMPYRE - woe be Zoey. A number of things are never even explained in this first book - why are trackers the ones that do the marking, and how the hell do they just point at a person and go "boom, you're marked?"
As a number of other people have pointed out in the reviews, this book reads like fanfiction, mary-sue lead and all. With that said, it's young adult supernatural romance, so I was hardly expecting it to be the next Shakespeare.
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