Former school friends also drink and use drugs, a behavior of which Zoe disapproves. Zoe attends a ritual at which marijuana is burned like incense. Like every other firstborn son, he has inherited the sins of his ancestors.
The dragons have abandoned them, and it’s Akrist’s fault. That’s what the elders say, but 11-year-old Akrist has squinted at empty skies his whole life. In one scene, a human boy is threatened by vampires. Dragons once led our people across the wastelands, away from storms, and toward hunting grounds. Along with the fledglings, they participate in elaborate rituals and ceremonies to honor the goddess. Zoe connects with her Cherokee spiritual heritage in a spiritual encounter. Very strange.īrief description of a couple engaging in oral sex and several references back to that scene. Also – despite the use of explicit sexual language in earlier scenes, Zoe refers to her responsibility cleaning a stable as shoveling “horse poopy.” She also refers to breasts as “boobies.” I’m not a fan of the explicit language, but the infantile words seemed equally out of place. Vampire-lit lovers: I recommend Julie Kagawa’s The Immortal Rules.Įxtreme profanity and crude sexual language used with moderate frequency. Devi battles personal and literal demons in her quest to stop a supernatural killer. It’s definitely more the steamy-vampire-novel than the deep, introspective story of a young girl experiencing an unpredictable transformation. In fairness, this book had been on my reading list for a long time and I may have had unreasonable expectations for it. Why isn’t she concerned about his behavior with his apparent ex? She was kind of concerned for a minute but then pretty quick to dismiss it. Her blossoming romantic feelings for her dream guy felt shallow. Once she got to the House of Night, Zoe seemed a little easier to impress and her friends seemed a little more worthy. Why did Mom do that? Because she’s stupid and annoying. Her family and human friends were half-characters sort of slapped together without any deep thought to their own motivations or personalities. I found it snobby and really off-putting. She started off angry and bitter at the world, smarter than everyone around her. Many things about this book disappointed me. Unfortunately, some other students see Zoe as a threat to the well-established hierarchy, and they will do whatever it takes to sabotage her. Her vampirism seems to be developing at an advanced pace and her mentor has high hopes for what this might mean. There she’ll be educated and wait to see if her body is strong enough to undergo the transformation into an adult vampire.Įven among other fledglings, Zoe is far from normal. An instant outcast, she retreats to her grandmother’s house for some much-needed advice and then turns herself over to the House of Night, a sort of boarding school for fledgling vampires. Zoe’s friends and family totally flip out when she’s marked as a vampire. Published Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Goodreads
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