** spoiler alert ** 
 This book was recommended to me by my friend. She said it was a fun read. But this book made me sad. Not the book per se, but the idea of books like this being published and becoming popular made me sad. I read this book with an open mind but it did not last long. Not surprising, if you consider the tone and the writing style and the insufferable MC. I kept reading because even a book this bad must have something worth knowing, no matter how small it is. Alas, that moment never came. 
 Our MC, Zoey is a teenager, who is marked to become a vampyre fledgling by Goddess Nyx. Now , she has to join a special school 'House of Night' and learn to complete the 'Change' to become an adult vampyre. There are some students who die because their bodies reject the 'change'. Zoey meets some people and becomes friends very quickly. Not because they have anything in common, but because they all hate Aphrodite. But what you don't know is that Zoey is the special one ever in the history of vampyre. Why? Because Zoey is special. Don't worry, the book will remind you more often than necessary. Zoey got into some trouble? Never fear! Goddess Nyx has given her special 'gut feelings', which will tell her exactly what to do to get out of trouble. 
 Aphrodite is opinionated, arrogant,sexually active girl who heads a council in the school called 'Dark Daughters'. Naturally, she is the bad guy here. Zoey and her friends think that this council is not inclusive of all students, hence Zoey should become the leader of Dark Daughters. But why Zoey?!? Has she shown some leadership skills? No. Was she naturally perceptive? No. Is she a people person, one who is empathetic to everyone's problems? No. Then why you ask? Because she is special. Were you looking for a more clarifying reason? How silly of you! 
 Moving on, Zoey also have affinity for all elements. Zoey defeats Aphrodite and becomes the leader of Dark Daughters. Given that the original complaint was all about how exclusive this coucil was, you would think, that the new members will be assigned based on the interests and expertise of the students. But no. Zoey assigns all of her friends as council members and includes only one new kid. 
 So let's categorize what's bad in this book in sections. 
 Characters: 
 Zoey Redbird : This book will tell you, that she is most special one ever. But we are inside her head the whole time, she is the most annoying, immature, judgmental, whiny and hypocritical MC you could ever hope to read about. She lacks empathy and stays completely unlikable throughout the story without any redemption or growth. Here are some words about her powers. 
 "But right before I said the words I got a weird feeling, like someone had just hit me in my stomach. It was clear and it was specific, and it was telling me to shut up." 
 "... same feeling that was ordering me to be quiet was also clearly telling me that I had to keep eye contact with her, that I had to try really hard to look like I wasn't hiding anything, even though I didn't really have a clue why I was hiding anything." 
 All of her friends are one-dimensional characters without any personality of their own and are sterotypes as you would expect from this story. 
 Stevie Rae : Blond girl from country side who wants to be a country singer. She is nice and sweet and stands by Zoey's side no matter what. 
 Erin : White girl who owns a lot of shoes and calls 'Shaunee' twin. 
 Shaunee : Black girl who is perky and calls 'Erin' twin. They complete each others sentences, but they are not twins. (Didn't see that coming, did you?) 
 Damien : Gay and teaches the group vocabulary. Every time he appears in the story, his gayness is mentioned without fail.( Don't believe me, count the number of times these words appear : 'not gay enough', 'gayly', 'gayish smile'). 
 Heath : Human boy who may have issues dealing with alcohol (MC's Love interest 1) 
 Kaylee : Zoey's human friend. Heath cheated on Zoey with Kaylee. 
 Eric Night : Good looking guy. Drama actor. Interested in Zoey. A dating history is suggested with Aphrodite. (MC's Love interest 2). In Zoey's words, 
 He was tall and had dark hair that did that adorably perfect Superman curl thing. His eyes were an amazing sapphire blue. 
 Goddess Nyx : A beautiful Goddess who calls Zoey 'daughter' and 'special'. She also gives powers to vampyres. Like the 'strong gut feeling' which tells Zoey what to do. This is what Nyx had to say. 
 "Zoey Redbird, Daughter of Night, I name you my eyes and ears in the world today, a world where good and evil are struggling to find balance." 
 Uh? How about letting her make her own mistakes and learn from life. What about free will? 
 Why does an all powerful goddess need a teenager to be her eyes and ears? 
 Neferet: Vampire High Priestess and Zoey's mentor. Suggested that she could be a bad guy. 
 Aphrodite: Antagonist. Introduced as 'mean' girl and the leader of Dark Daughters. She is the only character with any personality in this story. She also has visions about death and dangers in the future which I thought made her interesting than anyone else in this story. 
 Writing ,plot & world building: 
 The writing is bad. Extremely bad. I would like to show some examples here. 
 "I wasn't really talking; I was just making words come out of my mouth." 
 Seriously?? 
 I wished it was cold and Kayla would freeze her over-developed boobies right off. 
 Who even talks like that? 
 "Actually, now that I think about it, no one else noticed him until he spoke, which is, tragically, more evidence of my freakish inability to fit in." 
 Um. No. It's not. They simply haven't noticed him because they weren't looking at that direction. 
 Zoey is also extremely judgmental of everyone. Don't believe me. Here are Zoey's thoughts about some people. 
 Her teacher 
 "my more-than-slightly-insane AP biology teacher" 
 Her step-dad 
 "Step- Loser" 
 Her school mate 
 "there was only one other kid in the math hall--a tall thin dork with messed- up teeth" 
 Her family 
 "I just wanted to attempt to be normal, despite the burden of my mega-conservative parents, my troll-like younger brother, and my oh-so-perfect older sister" 
 Her bf's friends 
 "Dustin and Drew were retards-- totally immature beer-brains." 
 Rich people 
 "No one else had been shocked that those rich kids were majorly into drugs." 
 Aphrodite 
 " Actually, she reminded me of a young version of Sarah Jessica Parker (who I don't like, by the by--she's just so...so...annoying and unnaturally perky)" 
 "How could anyone normal choose Aphrodite as her name? Please. Talk about delusions of grandeur." 
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 Stevie Rae 
 " If she thought boys were stupid she and I would get along fine." 
 This is only tip of the iceberg. Every random thought that comes out of her is a judgmental opinion. I would have been happy if she had learned anything from her experiences, but there was no chance of that, since the book seems to think she is already perfect. An opinion, I don't share with this book. I'm reading the next book just to see if there is any saving grace.