House of Night Graphic Novel #1 by P.C. Cast Review

I read 6 pages on the Dark Horse website. That may as well be enough to review this. The only way I survived was by listening to this song during it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEHHW0_kH...
I might have not made it. So what did I think of those six pages?
The art work was so regular graphic novel-ish that it didn't stand out in any way. I love how once again Zoey is so self righteous and she and Aphrodite both can wear a short skirt, but Zoey doesn't look like a slut. Great, the slut shaming continues.
The story was taking place after what appeared to be the first book. So you'll have to read more than the first book (which I didn't, I wouldn't have made it because the song probably wouldn't have been released yet). I was slightly confused. Really the story was boring and as predictable as the first book.
So is this really any good? No. But this is the freaking House of Night, which I hate. So I read six freaking pages.
Oh and when Nyx kissed Zoey I almost burt out laughing. As if the HON wasn't so homophobic (girls kissing girls is so gross, stereotypical gay guy who's probably gay to be more "edgy" and he won't date any other gay guy at school cause they're too "girly" for him, so he's a total hypocrite, and I read on Wikipedia he later gets a boyfriend who the Casts have get killed. Why is that so important? Because as a good feminist blogger pointed out in this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DInYaHVSL...
It's an extremely common media trope to kill off women and gays in stories; and because of all the dead gay superheroes Perry Moore wrote Hero. Yes I know women and gays can die, too. But the Casts only had two gays in their entire series and she made the main one a depressed dude because his boyfriend had to die. Why couldn't Zoey have died instead? Oh they also began killing off women, too. Great tolerance towards gays and women *sarcasm*! So yes, HON is homophoic. I don't think the Casts have ever met anyone GLBT.) I want to see a picture of the gay guy. I can just imagine him wearing a rainbow scarf or as a drag queen!
Oh and one more thing on the slut shaming: Later in the series Zoey has three boyfriends at once. Ruby Oliver alert! Man, Aphrodite and every other woman is a slut, but not self righteous Zoey.
I'm not reading page seven.
Oh, and I now realize even Perry can't make this better *sobs*.

Marked By P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast Review

I  finally  got  onto  to  reading  this  series,  my  friends  read  it,  but  I  never  came  along  until  now.

OK,  so  here's  a  summary:

Zoey  Redbird has  been  marked  and  will  become  a  vampire,  who  is  now  a  mere  fledgling.  She  is  horrified  and  her  brainwashed  mother  and  father  can't  stand  it.  She  goes  to  her  grandmother's  house  and  has  a  head  injury.  Her  grandmother  takes  her  to  The  House  of  Night,  a  "vampire  finishing  school". 

OK,  I'll  just  give  my  raing  here:  2  out  of  5  stars.  Blah.

Reasons:

1.  The  language.  Who  says  "poopie"  and  "boobies"?  I  say  "turd",  "poop",  and  "boobs".  At  one  point  Zoey  says  "shit  puppies"  like  people  say  "shit  bricks".  "Shit  bricks"  makes  sense  to  me,  but  "shit  puppies"?  Shit  bricks  refers  to  something  that  usually  could  scare  someone  and  they'd  have  an  accident  in  their  pants,  like  if  you  met  Pennywise  the  clown.  Isn't  releasing  a  turd  that's  a  dog  every  little  kid's  dream?  And  in  one  scene  the  class  was  told  they'd  eventually  all  die  and  return  to  Nyx's  bosom?  It  means  someday  they're  going  to  return  to  Nyx's  boob,  that  sounds  sick!

2.  The  So  Called  "Feminism"  of  the  book.  So  this  isn't  the  whole  helpless  girl  vampire  book,  but  the  "feminism"  in  it  was  not  feminism.  The  whole  thing  about  girl  vampires  being  stronger and  more  needed  than  guy  vampires,  basically  reversing  gender  roles,  is  not  what  feminism  is  about.  Feminists  just  want  gender  equality;  they  aren't  hypocrites.  Also,  the  Dark  Daughters  hating  all  male  humans?  I  wasn't  convinced  considering  how  hypersexual  they  are.  Also,  when  Aphrodite  tries  to  force  her  ex  to  have  oral  sex  with  her  I  was  so  mad.  It  was  never  reported  like  all  the  other  sexual  assaults  performed  on  men  whether  by  a  man  or  woman.  It  wasn't  even  called  sexual  assault  (I  won't  call  it  rape  because  rape  refers  to  intercourse)  or  even  considered  it.  Forcing  someone  to  have  sex  with  you  is  a  form  of  sexual  assault  even  if  it  isn't  done  by  a  man  to  a  woman!

3.  Using  the  term  "hag".  "Hag"  refers  to  an  old  woman,  often  wise  or  ugly.  It  never  refers  to  a  sixteen  year  old  girl  with  size  XL  boobs  and  the  looks  of  a  Playboy  model.  If  Damien  was  so  into  using  big  words  then  why  did  he  use  that  term,  also?  A  "hag  from  hell"  would  be  an  ugly  old  woman  from  hell!

4.  Nyx.  Nyx  had  the  weirdest  need  for  worship,  you  have  to  make  a  circle  with  candles  and  vampires  to  tell  her  your  prayer,  no  folding  your  hands  and  going  "Nyx,  please  help  me."

5.  Famous  Vampires.  What  if  Shania  Twain  or  Faith  Hill  didn't  want  to  be  vampires?  They're  two  of  the  listed  famous  vampires  in  this  book!  Did  they  have  any  consent  in  this?

6.  The  "Sex"  and  the  "Slut".  Zoey  calls  a  girl  who  sleeps  with  the  entire  football  team  a  slut?  Slut  means  whore and  whore  means  prostitute  and  prostitute  means  someone  who  has  sex  with  someone  for  cash.  Did  that  girl  get  paid  her  rightful  $3.95  for  sleeping  with  them?  If  not  then  she  isn't  a  slut.  Also  the  constant  use  of  "slut"  A.K.A.  "whore"  to  refer  to  a  girl  who  has  sex  with  her  boyfriend  is  stupid.  If  your  boyfriend  doesn't  pay  you  then  you  aren't  a  slut!  Also  Zoey  remarks  about  girls  who  sleep  with  a  bunch  of  guys  who  think  they  won't  get  pregnant  or  an  STD  as  idiots,  what  if  she  used  spermicide  foam,  both  male  and  female  condoms  correctly,  those  things  doctors  insert  in  a girl's  armpit  (forgot  the  name)  that  controls  a  girls  fertility  for  about  five  years,  and  they  both  used  the  (the  new)  male  and  female  birth  control  pill!  If  she  got  preganant  or  an  STD  I'd  go  buy  a  lottery  ticket  worth  one  million  or  more  because  they  are  the  picture  of  a  couple  having  safe  sex!

7.  The  Cats.  Cats  being  closely  related  to  vampires  isn't  anything  new.  Darren  Shan  said  vampires  were  closely  related  to  wolves  in  the  Cirque  Du  Freak  series. 

8.  Another  Darren  Shan  rip-off.  It  was  said  that  Shakespeare  was  a  vampire,  in  Darren  Shan's  series  he  wasn't  a  vampire  but  was  close  friends  with  a  vampire  prince  named  Paris.  Shakespeare  and  vampires  have  been  used  before!

9.  Zoey  thinks  the  The  Taming  of  the  Shrew  was  beautiful!  Has  she  actually  read  it?  It's  one  of  the  most  misogynistic  plays  ever  written!  In  it  a  man  tries  to  get  his  eldest  daughter  married  and  basically  turn  her  into  a  female  robot.  Zoey  and  Chrissie  Hefner  are  alike,  they  are  both  female  chauvinist  pigs!

Parts  I  sort  of  liked:

1.  The  Ghosts.  They  were  interesting  and  really  the  only  good  scenes  in  the  book.

2.  I  sort  of  liked  Damien.  I  only  read  this  for  gay  vampires  since  all  the  paranormal  romances these  days  are  so  heterosexist,  but  he  didn't  really  work.  I  mean  him  bringing  up  penises  and  getting  mad  at  the  dicussion  of  menustration?  As  The  Zac  Brown  Band  said,  "You  get  what  you  give."  And  he  really  wasn't  that  great,  he  wasn't  the  shiniest  apple  on  the  tree. 

3.  When  I  Finished  The  Book!  It  could  no  longer  hold  me  down!

I'm  not  reading  the  sequel  because  it  looks  boring. 

So  2  out  of  5  stars,  it  was  pretty  blah.        

Instead  of  reading  this  I  recommend  these  books:

Salem's  Lot  by  Stephen  King  along  with  the  short  stories  "Jerusalem's  Lot"  and  "One  For  The  Road"  in  his  short  story  collection  Night  Shift.

Throat  by  R.A.  Nelson

The  Vladmir  Tod  series  by  Heather  Brewer

This  Totally  Bites!  by  Ruth  Ames  even  though  it  is  a  little  kiddish,  but  I  love  it!



This  book  is  getting  great  reviews  and  I  don't  know  why.  So  here's  this  to  make  everyone  know  about  it: