Marked - PC and Kristin Cast
The concept for the House of Night series is not a promising one; Vampyre Finishing School. It just shouldn't work. Apart from being an obvious Harry Potter moneyspinner rip-off, it just feels like there is something basically wrong in the concept. Vampires are solitary creatures of the night, predators, driven by bloodlust, so how many lessons are you going to need to learn how to suck blood from a neck? Evidently the concept needs a twist and it's in the fact that we are in an alternate world here where vampyres are if not an acceptable part of society, at least one that dominates the arts, with nearly every prominent musician, movie-star and writer (going right back to Shakespeare) having been chosen to wear the mark of the Vampyre. So when a dead man appears and places the mark of the crescent moon on her head, 16 year-old Zoey Redbird Montgomery almost welcomes the opportunity to escape from an unhappy life with her weak, inattentive mother, religious fundamentalist Step-l...