Main Character: Zoey Redbird
Love Interest: Heath, Eric
Series: House of Night, Book 1
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Enter the dark, magical world of The House of Night, a world very much like our own, except here vampyres have always existed. Sixteen-year-old Zoey Redbird has just been Marked as a fledgling vampyre and joins the House of Night, a school where she will train to become an adult vampire. That is, if she makes it through the Change—and not all of those who are Marked do. It sucks to begin a new life, especially away from her friends, and on top of that, Zoey is no average fledgling. She has been chosen as special by the vampyre Goddess Nyx. Zoey discovers she has amazing powers, but along with her powers come bloodlust and an unfortunate ability to Imprint her human ex-boyfriend. To add to her stress, she is not the only fledgling at the House of Night with special powers: When she discovers that the leader of the Dark Daughters, the school’s most elite group, is misusing her Goddess-given gifts, Zoey must look deep within herself for the courage to embrace her destiny—with a little help from her new vampyre friends.

When I first read this book, I was trying to keep up with both Ames and my cousin Domi. My cousin Domi was reading them and she absolutely adored all of them so I was all about reading them. You should have seen us at the girl’s basketball games. Her younger sister plays on the same basketball team that Brenna plays on and every weekend while we were making our way through this series, we should be on those bleachers chopping it up.

We were super addicted to this series and when I did a quick re-read of the book so that I could review here on this blog, I could totally see why I was so addicted. The Cast writing duo did such a phenomenal job of world building in this first book without overdoing it that it was so easy to fall into the characters and the story.

In this book, we meet Zoey Redbird who is marked a vampyre while she’s at school and you see her as a scared young woman who doesn’t know what to do or think now that she’s not “normal” anymore. We follow her as she makes her way over to the House of Night, where she’ll go to school and learn how to be a vampyre and we see her leave behind her life that she knew before the mark appeared and walk into a life where she’s the new kid in school. It’s hard for her to start this new kid status under the radar because her mark has already filled in, which is something that only happens to adult vampyres.

Watching Zoey maneuver her way through the House of Nights and make her mark on the school made for some entertaining reading. Between her new blossoming friendships with Stevie Rae, the twins and Damien and then her stuff with her human boyfriend Heath, not to mention the drama that pops off at every turn it seems made this book was fast, action packed story that leads perfectly into the next book.

This book is a great start to a series that is easy to become addicted/obsessed with and I enjoyed it a great deal. If you haven’t started this series, you totally should because you’ll definitely want to know why I call Zoey…Hoey Zoey. =)

..and that’s your scoop!