The bestselling series has returned! Join P. C. and Kristin Cast in celebrating the tenth anniversary of the House of Night series by going on a thrilling new adventure with your beloved Nerd Herd. It’s Zoey’s eighteenth birthmas and the Nerd Herd has been scattered across the country busily adulting for almost a year when Stark calls them back to Tulsa to surprise Z. But all is not well in … all is not well in T-Town. Strange, dark signs are appearing–could it be possible Neferet is stirring? Not willing to chance disaster striking again, Zoey calls on her newly reunited friends to circle with her and add a layer of protection over Neferet’s grotto jail. Easy-peasy, right?
Wrong. Nothing at the House of Night is ever as it seems.
With rabid red vampyres closing in, Zoey and the Nerd Herd must come together again and battle evil. But a year is a long time. Have these old friends grown too far apart?
When the world fractures and allies become enemies, will darkness devour friendships or will light save those she’s loved?
“Twilight meets Harry Potter.”–MTV.com, praise for the series
“Both intense and thoroughly entertaining…this outing will not disappoint House of Night fans.”—Kirkus Reviews on Destined
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This book is as good as the other’s..a little short..have to wait for next book.
When I was in high school I fell in love with the House of Night series by PC Cast and Kristen Cast. This series followed Zoey Redbird, marked as a fledgling to attend the House of Night, a school for those who are making the transition from human to vampyre. That series, from what I remember, was so good. It went from teenage drama to a battle between good and evil between immortals. There was love and loss and it truly enraptured me. Seeing that they wrote a new House of Night series, Otherworld, which followed Zoey and her friends after their transition. The first book in that series was Loved, published by Blackstone Publishing.
The beginning of this series, I’m sad to say, did not live up to its predecessor. One thing I will credit the mother-daughter duo with is worldbuilding. From the original series, there is so much that goes into how a vampyre changing, what these vampyres are like, the different types of vampyres, the religion they worship, etc. All of this is communicated through the narrative without an info dump. Also, in the new series, it was nice to see old familiar characters, but I found them this time to be rather one-dimensional, which brings me into why I really didn’t like this book.
For one, it seems like the writing style has gotten worse. I don’t know if it actually has or my tastes have changed since I was fourteen. Probably a little bit of both. There were a lot of anachronisms–over the course of the original series to now, the characters have only grown two years. It should still be 2013, but there are pop culture references to present day (or, present day at the point of publication in 2017). Those anachronisms might be fine if they didn’t still use dialogue that was normal in 2011. I don’t know anybody who still uses the phrase “awesomesauce.” Plus, these teenagers are too mature. Normally, that’s not a problem, but whenever there might be any sort of tension or conflict, they just have to say “but we love you and care about your mental and physical health” and that fixes everything.
Speaking of fixing everything, the main conflict in this novel is solved total Deus ex Machina. It’s a total cop-out, with the characters doing very little work.
Finally, I’m fine with incorporating the message that we should celebrate diversity, etc. But Aphrodite’s mom mimicking Donald Trump was a bit too on-the-nose. Like, don’t get me wrong, I agree that the whole “make it great again” is ridiculous, but I wouldn’t incorporate that word-for-word in an urban fantasy.
Unfortunately, and sadly since I loved the original series so much, I have to give this series one star out of five. I don’t think I’ll be reading the rest of the books.
I loved it! I’ve never been into vampire or vampyre stuff before but this just pulled me in! I defiantly need to go to the books before this one but I loved this!
P.C. and Kristin Cast create an amazing spin-off series starting with Loved (House of Night Other World #1). Stark reunites the nerd herd for Zoey’s eighteenth birthmas (Birthday on Christmas Eve). Simultaneously, they are getting signs that evil is lurking, and they need to fight off zombie red vampires. This story takes place in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
I love the House of Night Series and was thrilled when I discovered that P.C. and Kristin Cast were coming out with a spin-off series. I was not disappointed with this thrilling first book. I loved that the nerd herd were reunited. I enjoyed the humor in the story. The politics in the story were interesting. It was full of action. The plot was original and skillfully executed. I recommend this book to followers of the HON series. I voluntarily reviewed an advanced reader’s copy of this book.
Great series once you start you can’t put the books down. Great series
After 10 years Zoey and the Nerd Herd are back. Loved starts off where the House of Night ended, it is very easy to keep up and know what is going on.
Loved kept my attention even though I predicted a few of the situations, The story line is pretty simple. I was hoping the characters grew up more than what they have, all the original characters from the original HON series range from 18 to 22ish, I was surprised they still said “brown pop,” or “poopie”. I did like how the writers introduced new characters and the “Other World” this really helped make this book go forward in a good way. I did enjoy this story and look forward to reading book 2.
It was a typical House of Night novel. Good continuum of the story.
Love this book series. Really like the update to the series. I highly recommend starting from the beginning!
Classic HON all the character back again. You wait with anticipation for the next book.