The must-read eighth installment in the award-winning, New York Times bestselling young adult vampyre series. The House of Night is sure to keep fans hooked.
The “House of Night” series, I really have a good time reading about the teens and their transformation from a regular teen to a vampire teen with special gifts from their Goddess NYX. I think I continue to read the series because of all the other surrounding and supporting characters and not so much the main character Zoey Redbird.
“AWAKENED” really did awaken my reading inquiries regarding the series. My favorite character I must mention is HEATH, Zoey’s long time mortal friend, boyfriend and human familiar whom she has bonded with and drank from his blood. He loves Zoey to the dire end and she devotes her love to him as well, but there are other characters that have swayed her love and she has broken Heaths heart by giving her family jewels to another first. She was manipulated by one of her handsome teachers who was only seducing her for his real lover NEFERET. I can’t stand her! She is the root of all evil and her plot is to gain Power and Rule the House of Night School in Tulsa.(That was in another book, not Awakened)
*The five Elements Earth, Wind, Fire, Water and Spirit
Earth – Stevie Rae Wind – Damine Fire – Shaunee Water – Erin Sprit – Zoey
(hmm the twins elements could be vice versa, can’t remember eh!)
When the circle of friends get together and summon their elements, watch out NOW, they are unstoppable! They use their gifts to fight evil and NEFERET- I hate her! And to think Neferet was Zoeys mentor in the first book UGH!
I don’t think I blogged about the other 7 books so I’ll be mentioning some events and names of characters from the previous books. Zoey Redbird is the favored vampire, Stark- Red Vampire, Zoey’s Guardian and lover, Stevie Rae Zoey’s BFF and is now a Red Vampire, Aphrodite(one of my fave characters)-beautiful once was a vampire and is now mortal with the gift of foreseeing things to happen in dreams, and she’s a smart mouth, but is always on key when it comes to stopping evil, Darius- Aphrodite’s guardian and lover, Kramisha- Red Fledgling- the poet, thru her poems she foretells what will happen to those in her entrusted circle, the twins Erin and Shaunee- fledglings, Damien- gay f ledling, Jack-Damiens partner, Gramma Redbird- a wise, old Cherokee woman and Zoey’s grandmother.
The book was quite interesting, but in the beginning I was having a hard time reading because a lot of the story was about Zoey and yea whatever ha! But as soon as the book started talking about the other characters like Stevie and Rephaim (Raven Mocker) I was all up in the goodness. Stevie Rae is a Red Vampire Leader and Rephaim is half bird, halfman and they are bonded meaning they drank from each others blood so they are connected. One of the House of Night professors soul mate was killed by Rephaim when they were fighting against the school in the other book. Stevie Rae knows this can’t happen; the two of them can’t be together, he’s not a human or a vampire and how on earth would that work..hmm..Rephaims father is Kalona, the evil Raven Mocker who is a follower of Neferet and was once the guardian for Nyx, until he turned to darkness. Rephaim knew nothing but hatred, evil and anger from his father and everything changed when he met Stevie Rae. They both helped each other and thus were connected through the love they felt for each other. Their story is very interesting and we see that LOVE binds these two together. Will love conquer all in the end;we shall see.
A lot of innocent people die in this book. Jack, Damien’s partner, dies innocently due to Neferet’s greed and lust for power! She needed an innocent sacrifice and poor Jack was the victim. His partner Damien did not take it well and mopes around and is heart broken.
Another innocent victim who dies is Zoeys mother. She was at Gramma Redbirds house waiting for her mother to return when Neferet and the White Bull (Evil) showed up at the door. Neferet was riding the bull bare (naked) what the hell, who does that ha! Ne-ways, she knocks on the door and Zoeys mom has no idea what’s going on. Neferet went to Zoeys grammas house to kill her as a sacrifice of an old but wise Cherokee woman for the White Bull, in exchange, he would create a follower for Neferet to control and rule the House of Night and have all the vampires under her power! What a witch! Seeing that the gramma is not there, she offers Zoeys mother as a sacrifice, the White Bull is not happy but accepts the sacrifice.
Kalona is still in the picture and because he breathed a sliver of immortalness into Stark to save him, to repay his debt, a little part of Kalona remains in Stark. Kalona is able to get into Starks thoughts and emotions which is evident when he was making out with Zoey and bit her shoulder and getting a bit rough, it frightened her. She was scared of him for a second, but Stark said he was sorry and didn’t know what had come over him. I do, Kalona is messing with his thoughts, actions and emotions which equals TROUBLE!
Neferet has managed to fool the council at the House of Night, but she doesn’t fool Zoey, Stevie Rae or the others in their circle of friends. The battle will be proving that Neferet is evil and having Zoey and all her friends unveil Neferets wickedness to everyone!
A lot of other events happened in the book, but these were the ones that stood out to me and that I wanted to share. So let’s read it people so we can analyze and converse!
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