I got around reading Marked thanks to my husband. I was bored, trying to find something to read, something mind stimulating or at least entertaining. You see, as much as I love my job I tend to get the need to have some creative stimulation. Weird, I know. Anyway I was working at my old office, my husband got there when I was getting ready to leave and out of his backpack came Marked. I got excited because I then had something to read, something new. Bad thing, it was in spanish. You see, we didn't get Marked in english until several months later so he had to get it in spanish. I've read the Charlaine Harris series in spanish before so we thought, no big deal.
Marked is written by P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast. It was published on 2008 and it is the first of now 7 books.
The Marked story is simple and not so simple. It is simple when you try to tell what it is about. It is about a girl, Zoey, in whose world vampires are chosen by higher authorities (or a goddess) to become a vampire. When a teenager is chosen to become a vampire they either survive the change they have to go through and become a real vampire or they die. Through this process they have to move to a school in their "district" or state (I'm embarrassed to say I do not know that tiny detail) where they go through the process of becoming a vampire or not. These schools are called The House of Night. Zoey goes to The House of Night in Tulsa.
Zoey becomes friends with the outcasts of the school and soon you can see that she had been chosen by Nyx (their goddess) to be a special vampire. The book takes you through the first months of Zoey's life as a soon to be vampire. The classes she takes, the friends she has made, the difficulties with her family rejecting her, except for grandma Redbird, and finding out that the popular crowd is the where the Dark Daughters can be found.
This is the part where talking about it is not so simple. The Dark Daughters is a group of important and popular girls that perform some kind of ritual to thank Nyx for their lives. The whole ritual, thanking Nyx and calling in the elements to help the vampires is a bit too much for me to talk. It gets easier to read about it in the book than explaining them.
Anyway, Zoey soon finds out that the leader of the Dark Daughters, Aphrodite (not her real , name you are allowed to choose your name once you enter The House of Night), is up to something weird and she decides that she has to save, not the world, but his housemates.
Of course there's a teen love story in here. Zoey likes this guy, Eric Night, but he belongs to her now enemy Aphrodite and these brings a new log to the fire of hatred between the girls.
Do I like it? I can't give you that answer. The thing is that reading Zoey in spanish made me hate her! I couldn't stand her, I felt she was like a bimbo girl and that the teenager language was forced into the book in order to make it current and fun for girl's around Zoey's age. When I finished the book I put it aside and decided that I wasn't particularly interested on the series.
Months later I found Betrayed in paperback english version and since I had nothing to read I decided to give it a try. Turns out that Zoey in english is quite acceptable and more enjoyable than in spanish. I still think that sometimes the teenage lifestyle is forced into the book but not as bad as it was in spanish. I got interested in the series of books and now I've read almost all of them. ( I still need to get some of the last ones in english, I will not read Zoey in spanish never again)
So, in short, you might like Marked in english. I did not like the experience at all and wouldn't read the book again but if you do not like Marked that much I do recomend to wait for the next books since Marked is just the intro to a world of entertaining and weird vampires. Gotta admit that the Casts' vampires are different but just as interesting as any other vampire ( I mean the Cullens' sparkle in the sun!!!).
This story won't give you any intellectual stimulation and won't give you much to think about, except when you come to the part of Nyx's rituals and the spiritual part. You have to pay a bit of attention to it all. Maybe that is just me since the whole candle lighting, calling the earth and offer a prayer thing has never attracted me in a book.
In the end you get an entertaining book that might get you hooked into the series.
Have a Fangtastic Tale
Marked is written by P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast. It was published on 2008 and it is the first of now 7 books.
The Marked story is simple and not so simple. It is simple when you try to tell what it is about. It is about a girl, Zoey, in whose world vampires are chosen by higher authorities (or a goddess) to become a vampire. When a teenager is chosen to become a vampire they either survive the change they have to go through and become a real vampire or they die. Through this process they have to move to a school in their "district" or state (I'm embarrassed to say I do not know that tiny detail) where they go through the process of becoming a vampire or not. These schools are called The House of Night. Zoey goes to The House of Night in Tulsa.
Zoey becomes friends with the outcasts of the school and soon you can see that she had been chosen by Nyx (their goddess) to be a special vampire. The book takes you through the first months of Zoey's life as a soon to be vampire. The classes she takes, the friends she has made, the difficulties with her family rejecting her, except for grandma Redbird, and finding out that the popular crowd is the where the Dark Daughters can be found.
This is the part where talking about it is not so simple. The Dark Daughters is a group of important and popular girls that perform some kind of ritual to thank Nyx for their lives. The whole ritual, thanking Nyx and calling in the elements to help the vampires is a bit too much for me to talk. It gets easier to read about it in the book than explaining them.
Anyway, Zoey soon finds out that the leader of the Dark Daughters, Aphrodite (not her real , name you are allowed to choose your name once you enter The House of Night), is up to something weird and she decides that she has to save, not the world, but his housemates.
Of course there's a teen love story in here. Zoey likes this guy, Eric Night, but he belongs to her now enemy Aphrodite and these brings a new log to the fire of hatred between the girls.
Do I like it? I can't give you that answer. The thing is that reading Zoey in spanish made me hate her! I couldn't stand her, I felt she was like a bimbo girl and that the teenager language was forced into the book in order to make it current and fun for girl's around Zoey's age. When I finished the book I put it aside and decided that I wasn't particularly interested on the series.
Months later I found Betrayed in paperback english version and since I had nothing to read I decided to give it a try. Turns out that Zoey in english is quite acceptable and more enjoyable than in spanish. I still think that sometimes the teenage lifestyle is forced into the book but not as bad as it was in spanish. I got interested in the series of books and now I've read almost all of them. ( I still need to get some of the last ones in english, I will not read Zoey in spanish never again)
So, in short, you might like Marked in english. I did not like the experience at all and wouldn't read the book again but if you do not like Marked that much I do recomend to wait for the next books since Marked is just the intro to a world of entertaining and weird vampires. Gotta admit that the Casts' vampires are different but just as interesting as any other vampire ( I mean the Cullens' sparkle in the sun!!!).
This story won't give you any intellectual stimulation and won't give you much to think about, except when you come to the part of Nyx's rituals and the spiritual part. You have to pay a bit of attention to it all. Maybe that is just me since the whole candle lighting, calling the earth and offer a prayer thing has never attracted me in a book.
In the end you get an entertaining book that might get you hooked into the series.
Have a Fangtastic Tale
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