Top critical review
3.0 out of 5 starsGood Story, but so unbelievable.
Reviewed in the United States đșđž on December 30, 2009
My problem with the first book in this series was that I liked it, but I could put it down for a few days and not be in agony that I couldn't get back and finish reading it. I love vampire stories, and have been known to not sleep and eat very little when I have a good book in my hand that I want to know the ending to. After reading the first book, I was like "okay this isn't going to be a set of books I spend the entire weekend just sitting down and reading." This book, just got more and more cliche and more of the writing just became so unrealistic (usually not a bad thing in a vampire story) that I just cannot even think of starting the third book anytime soon.
The lead character, Zoey, is the most special vampire that has ever been marked. Okay, fine with that in the first book. She took down her arch enemy at her new vampire high school. Okay, fine with that. She starts to feel sorry for her enemy, cliche, but still okay. Now her friends are all becoming special because they are friends with her, started to become too cliche. The head of the school has an evil side and Zoey starts to question if this High Priestess is good or not, have we hit too many cliches? Best friend 'dies' and Zoey gains even more special powers, I really start thinking there are too many cliches and this is just not even about vampires anymore. Her new enemy is now the head of the school, who she feels she can take down because the Godess has choosen her and believes in her. You lost me, you hit one to many cliches and without developing the vampire side of the story at the same time I have lost interest.
I have read the reviews about poor writing, grammatical errors, shallow characters, not really being a teen book. I figured I'll over look it, because when I first read the Vampire Diaries when they came out, they got the same types of reviews. I thought it might just be a few people who don't get that vampire stories are usually not 100% ground in our reality, which to me makes them fun to read. Like I said earlier, I love to read vampire stories and had hopes that this would be a good enough vampire story to make me over look a few things. I can't tell if they marketed it wrong and should be about witches, or the supernatural, or if it is just a boring read. The different way people become vampires in this series was the only interesting thing in it, but that happened in the beginning of book 1 and hasn't really been touched upon since.
