Marked by P.C and Kristin Cast

    **1/2 out of ****

        Ahh, another book about vampires. Today, it seems like the vampire thing is really, really overdone. But Marked is interesting.


        In the book, Zoey, the protagonist of the story, lives in a world similar to ours today, but vampyres live among them. Wow, every teenage girl's dream (haha). Vampyres are considered freaks by humans, where they are abnormal, they don't belong, and are outcasts. So it doesn't get better for Zoey when she is marked as a vampyre. Her mother and step-father don't approve, so Zoey turns to her beloved Cherokee grandmother. All fledgling vampyres are sent to a House of Night, where they train them to make it through the "Change" into an adult vampyre. Along the way, Zoey faces abnormal problems like special, supernatural powers, and normal problems like the classic mean girl.

        So it's a **1/2 stars out of ****. The Casts' style of writing was very good, but the plot wasn't that interesting. It's the average story, the heroine takes down the mean girl, gets the her boyfriend, and becomes popular. I do recommend this book, however, because Marked is the first book in the House of Night Series, and the following books in the series are more interesting and different.