Yes, I did it again. I read another one.
Honestly, this book wasn't as bad horrible as the other ones. I may even have liked it a little bit. I shall give it a three and a half or four-star review just to show the authors how much more people can like their books once they start editing. Don't get me wrong, this book had its flaws. I'm just saying it was much better than the first two.
One of the most annoying thing about this book was Zoey, of course, but also how lazy the authors have been. They have forgotten to write things and sometimes written things contradictory to what they had written earlier. Once, Zoey had told a guy that she will use his matchsticks for lighting the candles during a ritual she was going to perform. They usually used a lighter, but she said she would use the matchsticks since they were so pretty, or some other reason. During the ritual, the authors wrote that Zoey "picked up the ritual lighter" and lighted all the candles. Neither she nor any of her friends said anything about it before, then or after. One can only assume that the authors forgot what they had written before.
Some other things I hated about this book -
Zoey was still ungrateful. This girl is the height of being mean and ungrateful. The entire first chapter is about Zoey getting gifts on her birthday. You'd think she would say the words 'thank you" or "thanks" at least once in the entire chapter, right? No. She is so ungrateful, all she does is call her gifts names (in her mind) and give overly fake smiles to her friends (on their faces). Her birthday being on the 24th of December, all her friends give her snowman themed gifts. Zoey allegedly does not like "birthmas" presents, but the least she could have done is tell her friends before they bought any presents for her. I don't even see her remembering her friends' birthdays or giving them even terrible gifts on their birthdays, so she had no right to complain about how bad her friends were.
Zoey thought she was a great girlfriend. To Erik, I mean. And the fact that I needed to specify which boyfriend were are talking about is proof enough of her misconception. She currently had two more boyfriends and kept reminding Erik of how his ex-girlfriend was so horrible. She also kept so many secrets from Erik, and hardly cared about him. She was only ever worried about herself, and the night he changed, she did not even bother texting him to see if he was okay. In fact, she was busy Imprinting with Boyfriend #3.
Creepy Erik and creepier Loren Blake. The hype about these two guys among everyone in their school was so fake and undeserved. They were extremely overrated. Erik, for one, kept coming out of the shadows of trees and buildings into Zoey's path to confront her. It is not that hard to talk to anyone in a normal way in the cafeteria or wherever they meet. Loren Blake (a.k.a. Boyfriend #3) was another story entirely. He approached Zoey only when she was alone in a secluded corner of the library in an empty room. He kept touching her face tattoos and asking intruding questions all of which Zoey soaked up and swooned. Great, more proof about how horrible a protagonist she was.
The authors are evidently not-very-nice people. This series is filled with stereotypes, racial discrimination, insults toward poor people and everything else young readers should not be told is good. All the characters of one type (blonde, handsome guys, usual teachers) fit into one category, and nobody has a personality apart from that.
The authors are getting so repetitive in their writing style. The first half of the book is basically explaining what has happened so far. The authors assume that people will randomly pick up the third book of an infamous series and start reading. It is also very tiresome to read the character's bickering. All the twins ever say is "Ditto" and call boys "Fiiiiine", and all Nala does is "complain" and scare the "bejeezus" out of people.
The Casts really need to improve their vocabulary.
Here are some phrases you will find in every single House of Night book -
1. poo
2. u-we-tis-a-ge-ya, the Cherokee word for daughter
3. my mom and step-loser
4. "Ditto, twin"
5. "He is so fiiiine"
6. I felt myself swimming in his blue eyes (or something along those lines)
There must be hundreds of examples like these but let's move on.
The only thing that got better in this book was the fact that Zoey's friends and boyfriends finally started realising how horrible she was. Of course, Zoey kept believing that she was in the right, but at least all her loyal "nerd herd" realised how unfaithful she was.
Also in the first two books, the beginning had been extremely dull and slow, and all the action suddenly happened at the end. In this one at least there had been a little semblance of a plot in the starting, and a little more towards the end. Zoey remained as stupid as she always was though. Boyfriend #3 had been suspicious right from the start. I could tell he was trying to extract information from her, but Zoey was too engrossed in staring at his face to notice.
I was very happy when Loren Blake died. Good riddance of bad things. Zoey should have died right along with him. But alas, where do we find a world so pure?
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