Untamed (House of Night, Book 4)

So the story line is fantastic I’m just over the writing style and the repetition of character descriptions

For the first time so far in reading this series, I found myself enjoying the plot and actually on the edge of my seat interested in what was happening - but only for the last 50 or so pages, and I really doubt that this kind of interest can last for the next 8 books, the 4 sequel books, and the 4 spin-offs. Talk about milking it dry.

The beginning half of this book, however, set a new low for Zoey Redbird, our beloved Mary Sue. TWO DAYS after Loren died, and probably like, 5 hours after Stark got to the school, she's already experienced a "connection" with him. She's already so obsessed that she has to kiss him before he dies, and she thinks about him ALL THE TIME. How does she continue to fall so truly madly deeply in love with boys five seconds after she meets them? And then, about 5 hours after Stark dies, Erik comes back and she's having a little classroom make-out session with him. Because we didn't learn anything from Loren in the last book.

As another review mentioned, one of the worst things Zoey says in this book is that she doesn't understand how Erik can look at her so coldly when they were falling in love before. It's been like, three days since he caught her banging their professor, and he also knew she was macking on her human ex-boyfriend the whole time they were together as well. She is the most absurd main character I have ever read about.

Ugh the pacing of these books is so bad. The first 70% is always boring as hell and very repetitive, drawing out 24 hours of story time as long as possible…. and then the last part will be mindblowingly dramatic. I have been listening to these on audio and I might have to switch to EPUB just to give myself the option to skim.

When I was younger, I was a huge fan of the House of Night series. That's why I decided to re-read them. Unfortunately, neither of the books has aged well so far. There's a lot of misogynistic, racist and weird/awkward comments on homosexuality.

The general storyline is good and entertaining (that's why I gave it two stars and not one), but the writing is not only bad but also redundant. The author describes everyone and everything over and over again. Plus the condescending tone and a lot of judgemental stereotypes.

To make things worse, most characters are terrible, especially the protagonist. Zoey is a mess and slut-shames a lot, which is ironic since she's the one who sustains multiple romantic relationships at once without being honest with any of them.

Why am I still reading these awful books? This one added all these new rules to the world so I'm probably done now.