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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN num: 9780312360306
ISBN number: 0312360304
Label: St. Martin's Griffin
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 320
Printing Date: March 04, 2008
Publishing house: St. Martin's Griffin
Age index: Young Adult
Release Date: March 04, 2008
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Dark forces are at work at the House of Night and fledgling vampyre Zoey Redbird’s adventures at the school take a mysterious turn. Those who appear to be friends are turning out to be enemies. And oddly enough, sworn enemies are also turning into friends. So begins the gripping third installment of this “highly addictive series” (Romantic Times), in which Zoey’s mettle will be tested like never before. Her best friend, Stevie Rae, is undead and struggling to maintain a grip on her humanity. Zoey doesn’t have a clue how to help her, but she does know that anything she and Stevie Rae discover must be kept secret from everyone else at the House of Night, where trust has become a rare commodity. Speaking of rare: Zoey finds herself in the very unexpected and rare position 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, and Zoey’s horrid step-father in particular, are tired of living side-by-side with vampyres. But, as Zoey and her friends so often find out, how things appear rarely reflects the truth…
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Chosen was even more action packed than the very first two books in the series. Things started off slowly, and by then end, I was left sort of shell-shocked, wondering how everything had spiraled out of control so easily.
Still reeling from the events of Betrayed, Zoey is trying to continue in her position of leadership of the Dark Daughters, while attempting to figure out how to untangle her romantic life, save her best friend, and deal with the fact that the High Priestess of the school has become twisted and evil. Zoey makes some hard choices, including keeping secrets from her friends and lying to her boyfriend Erik, in order to do what she thinks is right; only in the end does she realize that her lies and deceptions have played right into Neferet's hands.
The third book was really hard to read, because all along, I knew that Zoey's secrets would eventually catch up to her. In lying to her friends, who would have helped her with Stevie Rae and tried to keep the secret, she demonstrates that she doesn't trust them, and that she is in turn not worthy of their trust. Even though she makes decisions, she doesn't stick to them, like with her decision to stop seeing Heath and not allow herself to be swayed by Loren Blake. All of her strength of will seems to have disappeared.
The hardest part to read was her betrayal of Erik, during his Change, with Loren. All along she has been telling Erik that she was better than Aphrodite, and her actions made her look, to him, exactly the same. Zoey had a long, hard fall off of that pedestal.
The one-dimensionality of supporting characters continues to bother me. All the realness of Zoey's friends seems to have vanished in this book--how could only one of them have known that she didn't like Christmassy birthday presents? And, even if they were hurt by her lying to them about Stevie Rae, the fact that they were supposed to be her closest friends and they couldn't even give her the chance to explain why she did it rankled. Even Neferet is extremely one sided, and as the villainess, she should have something interesting to bring to the table. We've only seen glimpses of her hatred of humans, and her darkness--give us a real reason to root for Zoey, other than the fact that the story is in her head.
I'll be reading the 4th book, but I'm definitely hoping for a stronger storyline, less romantic moping, and more strength and determination from Zoey.
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Honestly I'm not sure how this author has won so many awards. And I worry about whether her daughter actually speaks like the teens in this series do. I've gone this far in the series just because....I'm not always good at letting a series drop once I've started. It's like watching a movie you think isn't so good, but you've already started so you might as well finish. Some aspects of the story are interesting, but honestly I cannot stand how some of the main character's speak. They sound SOOOO immature. Real teens would be highly embarrassed to speak like that whether they are "innocent and pure" or not. Honestly. The twins get on my nerves and the main characters use such babyish/lame words and phrases that I can't even remotely take them seriously when they talk about feeling womanly or talk about anything regarding sex. They use elementary school insults and talk about peeing themselves on a regular basis. I kept hoping I could ignore how they speak or that it would get better, but they do it way too often to be ignored. Like I said, some of the story is interesting. But I am way too often annoyed by the main characters to root for them properly. If there are to be many more books in this series, I hope I can wean myself off. Books like Vampire Academy are just so much better. They put this series to shame.
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As I read "Marked" and "Betrayed" i was just impressed. I loved the story, the characters and everything around them. i liked how it turned out with zoey and erik. But since the very first time that Loren Blake appeared, i knew that it would end of bad.
so it did. i was a bit dissapointed. i nearly cried. everytime Zoey said she has to break up with Loren and she didn't. Now this. I'm really really sorry for Erik! ;) But i do hope that in untamed, the two will have a second chance, or at least, the two will work it out to be friends.
i really can't wait until October. I'm so excited what will happen!
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Great series but this book was a bit of a let down. I like happy endings! I can't help it. So the unresolved ending was off-putting plus all this other negative stuff happened to the heroine, which she didn't quite triumph over. I hope the subsequent one ends better.
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Once again the Cast ladies keep me flipping the pages. I can't wait for book 4!
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