Happy Halloween Readers,
I was recommended this book series by my friend while we
were still at school and I loved it. She reread them recently and I thought I
would join her then we realised I was missing betrayed which I then borrowed
off her. I love how the Cast’s have infused the vampire genre with their own
unique twist. This is one of my series that bother me because I have some on
paperback and some hardback.
House of Night is a series that follows the adventures of
Zoey Redbird, a fifteen-year-old girl who has just become a "fledgling
vampyre" and is required to attend the House of Night boarding school in
Tulsa, Oklahoma.
The way vampires are created in this book is interesting
I’m going to explain how Zoey was “Turned”
Zoey Redbird finds herself marked as a vampire in the
middle of the hallway one afternoon at school. Aside from the total abject
humiliation of having an outline of a blue crescent moon appear on her forehead
after some tall-dark-and-weird dude announces she is one of the marked, Zoey
also has to deal with faster-than-instant-pudding ostracization from her peers.
More pressing, if Zoey didn’t get herself over to the House of Night, a boarding
school/incubator for fledgling vampires, she was going to die. If a fledgling
is not in constant proximity to adult vampyres, the fledgling will die; so the
fledglings rarely leave the school. About one in ten fledglings die anyway
since their bodies cannot tolerate the Change.
Fledglings are marked by a sapphire blue crescent-shaped
outline on their foreheads; when they become full-fledged vampires, this mark
becomes solid and they receive more tattoos which extend (these usually
represent some personality aspect; for instance, Zoey's equestrian teacher,
Lenobia, has tattoos that look like horses.) Older fledglings and adult
vampires need to drink small quantities of human blood, but House of Night
vampires do not attack humans to get it, instead of getting it from blood
banks.
The Five Elements (Air, Fire, Water, Earth, and Spirit)
play a huge part throughout the series as the Vampyres and fledglings are
gifted by the Goddess Nyx. Elements are
called upon in many rituals throughout the series.
In vampire history, Nyx has been worshipped by all
Vampyres as the Goddess of Night since ancient times by means of rituals such
as the Full Moon Ritual, held in her honour each full moon. There are temples
dedicated to her in every House of Night. Vampyres also honour her by living in
a matriarchal society, where women have the rule, however, men are honoured and
respected as guardians and companions and consorts.
I honestly have a lot of love for this series still and
would highly recommend it
Books in the House
of Night series
Marked
Betrayed
Chosen
Untamed
Hunted
Tempted
Burned
Awakened
Destined
Hidden
Revealed
Redeemed
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