Flux Reviews: Betrayed by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast
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Title: Betrayed
Author: P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast
Publication Date: October 2, 2007
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Format: Trade Paperback
Price: ₱366 (Philippines) - $8.99 (Amazon)
Plot Synopsis:
Fledgling vampyre Zoey Redbird has managed to settle in at the House of Night. She's come to terms with the vast powers the vampyre goddess, Nyx, has given her, and is getting a handle on being the new Leader of the Dark Daughters. Best of all, Zoey finally feels like she belongs—like she really fits in. She actually has a boyfriend or two. Then the unthinkable happens: Human teenagers are being killed, and all the evidence points to the House of Night. While danger stalks the humans from Zoey's old life, she begins to realize that the very powers that make her so unique might also threaten those she loves. Then, when she needs her new friends the most, death strikes the House of Night, and Zoey must find the courage to face a betrayal that could break her heart, her soul, and jeopardize the very fabric of her world.
The Review
Betrayed is the second book of P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast's vampyric YA House of Night series. My review on the first book, Marked can be found here.
If you've read their first book, Marked then chances are you probably hated the guts out of Aphrodite for being such a total hagface bitch (pardon my language) and for her bossy and snobbish personality. But when you read this book, you'll find out why she acts the way she does. I mean, how's you feel if both of your super-expectant and douchebaggy parents are too damn controlling and always treating you like dirt? They expect you to become super successful or else they'll disown you or something (Most likely so that they can mooch off you). Her being annoyingly mean to Zoey Redbird is somewhat justified.
If you liked Celeste from Kiera Cass's The Selection series, I think you'll like Aphrodite.
"Try eighteen years of more than just 'pain in the ass parent issues' and maybe you'll start to get something about it. Until then, you don't know shit." Then, like the old Aphrodite I knew and couldn't stand, she flipped her hair and stalked away, wiggling her narrow butt like I cared.
Her character development was really like first book: what a bitch. Second book: eh, still a bitch but she helps Zoey a couple of times so I think she's somewhat ok.
*Clears throat* Introducing Loren Blake, vampyre professor and vampyre poet laureate, also on of the most handsome guy in the campus Zoey's ever seen, enters her already complicated love triangle of Heath Luck (Her boyfriend from her previous, human life) and Erik Night (Shakespearean monologue finalist and the crush of most of the girls in school) who is secretly flirting with her, which would make her love life hell, I mean, a love square?!
Author: P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast
Publication Date: October 2, 2007
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Format: Trade Paperback
Price: ₱366 (Philippines) - $8.99 (Amazon)
Plot Synopsis:
Fledgling vampyre Zoey Redbird has managed to settle in at the House of Night. She's come to terms with the vast powers the vampyre goddess, Nyx, has given her, and is getting a handle on being the new Leader of the Dark Daughters. Best of all, Zoey finally feels like she belongs—like she really fits in. She actually has a boyfriend or two. Then the unthinkable happens: Human teenagers are being killed, and all the evidence points to the House of Night. While danger stalks the humans from Zoey's old life, she begins to realize that the very powers that make her so unique might also threaten those she loves. Then, when she needs her new friends the most, death strikes the House of Night, and Zoey must find the courage to face a betrayal that could break her heart, her soul, and jeopardize the very fabric of her world.
The Review
If you've read their first book, Marked then chances are you probably hated the guts out of Aphrodite for being such a total hagface bitch (pardon my language) and for her bossy and snobbish personality. But when you read this book, you'll find out why she acts the way she does. I mean, how's you feel if both of your super-expectant and douchebaggy parents are too damn controlling and always treating you like dirt? They expect you to become super successful or else they'll disown you or something (Most likely so that they can mooch off you). Her being annoyingly mean to Zoey Redbird is somewhat justified.
If you liked Celeste from Kiera Cass's The Selection series, I think you'll like Aphrodite.
"Try eighteen years of more than just 'pain in the ass parent issues' and maybe you'll start to get something about it. Until then, you don't know shit." Then, like the old Aphrodite I knew and couldn't stand, she flipped her hair and stalked away, wiggling her narrow butt like I cared.
Her character development was really like first book: what a bitch. Second book: eh, still a bitch but she helps Zoey a couple of times so I think she's somewhat ok.
*Clears throat* Introducing Loren Blake, vampyre professor and vampyre poet laureate, also on of the most handsome guy in the campus Zoey's ever seen, enters her already complicated love triangle of Heath Luck (Her boyfriend from her previous, human life) and Erik Night (Shakespearean monologue finalist and the crush of most of the girls in school) who is secretly flirting with her, which would make her love life hell, I mean, a love square?!
I wanted Heath
I needed Erik
I was Intrigued by loren
I had no damn idea what I was going to do about the mess my life has become.
But seriously, her life must suck like crap; first book, she gets Marked and her friends and family shuns her, Imprinted (Kinda like some vampyre attachment-thingy) boyfriend can't come to into her new school and vice-versa. Book two, someone extremely close to her betrays her, and her closest friend dies,
(WHY, WHY, WHY!!!!! WHY MUST YOU KILL HER?!?!)
Her ex-boyfriend Heath Luck gets abducted by strange creatures whom she suspects are the dead vampyres who didn't survive the Change, two Football jocks she knew from her previous school goes missing and turns up dead.
Seriously, when Zoey's closest friend (She was my favorite character so far and in my opinion the best one in the series) was about to die, I literally raged and yelled "WAIT, WHAT?!!?! WHAT?!!? YOU CAN'T DO THIS!!" and when she finally drew her last breath; "WHY!!? WHY!!? WHY!!?" Honestly P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast, you better damn revive her or something in Chosen. She was so quirky and jovial and cheerful! Why would you want to remove a character like that?! They better reanimate her or something in the next book, like, legit reanimate and not that b.s. undead whatever.
Anyways, their headmistress, Neferet, can be considered to be a female version of Dumbledore from Harry Potter except she's young, beautiful, and always seems like the motherly figure in the school, she's also a redhead.
But be wary, like she said in several instances: "Darkness does not always equate to evil, and just like light does not always bring good."
The title really reflects on the storyline of this book extremely well.
Seriously, when Zoey's closest friend (She was my favorite character so far and in my opinion the best one in the series) was about to die, I literally raged and yelled "WAIT, WHAT?!!?! WHAT?!!? YOU CAN'T DO THIS!!" and when she finally drew her last breath; "WHY!!? WHY!!? WHY!!?" Honestly P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast, you better damn revive her or something in Chosen. She was so quirky and jovial and cheerful! Why would you want to remove a character like that?! They better reanimate her or something in the next book, like, legit reanimate and not that b.s. undead whatever.
Anyways, their headmistress, Neferet, can be considered to be a female version of Dumbledore from Harry Potter except she's young, beautiful, and always seems like the motherly figure in the school, she's also a redhead.
But be wary, like she said in several instances: "Darkness does not always equate to evil, and just like light does not always bring good."
The title really reflects on the storyline of this book extremely well.
"Why?" He slid his hand across the table and puts it on top of mine. "I don't care about the vampyre stuff. You're still Zoey, the same Zoey I've known forever. The same Zoey who was the first girl I ever kissed. The Zoey who knows me better than anyone else on this Earth. The Zoey I dream about every night."
My Rating:
3 1/2 out of 5 Fallen stars
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