I really thought there will be an improvement in writing or character growth or anything else that would make reading those 300 pages of first book worthwhile. Unfortunately, Zoey and her friends continue to be awful, judgmental and at times even horrible. 
 To put it simply, this is the quote from first page, the very first page: 
 Damien nodded toward the petite girl with seriously black hair who was showing the lost-looking new kid around the dining hall, his sharp, fashion-wise gaze checking out the two girls and their outfits--from shoes to earrings--in one fast glance. "Clearly her fashion sense is better than Sarah's, despite the stress of being Marked and changing schools. Maybe she'll be able to help Sarah out with her unfortunate ugly shoe propensity." 
 "Damien," Shaunee said. "Again you are getting on my damn--" 
 "--last nerve with your unending vocab bullshit," Erin finished for her. 
 Seriously, who talks like this. Also that is a weird place in a sentence to take over and finish for someone else. 
 By the way, this is what Zoey had to say about her "almost-boyfriend" Erik Night : 
 He was tall, dark, and handsome-- like an old-time movie star (without the latent homosexual tendencies). He was also incredibly talented....... Plus, Erik was truly a nice guy--which only added to his hotness. 
 Once again, Aphrodite is the only character with any dimension or growth. It is revealed that Aphrodite's parents are rich, ambitious and horrible(stereotype again). They are disappointed that Aphrodite is no longer the leader of Dark Daughters. I don't understand the importance of Dark Daughters but I digress. So this is the passage which shows why Aphrodite is the only character worth reading about. I would have happily read the story if she was the MC. I mean she said this to her parents, 
 I messed up. Big time. That's bad enough, but there's a girl here whose powers are stronger than mine. Even if Neferet gets over being mad at me, she's not going to give me back the Dark Daughters." Then Aphrodite said something that totally shocked me. "The other girl is a better leader than I am. I realized that on Samhain. She deserves to be head of the Dark Daughters. I don't." 
 So, even though I really liked this, I have a nagging suspicion that this paragraph is included only to show proof that Zoey is special even the antagonists appreciate her. 
 Aphrodite also have visions which are always about tragedies from the future. That sounds awful so of course ,Zoey thinks of this situation with as much nuance it deserves. 
 So Aphrodite purposefully keeping her visions to herself was one of the things that made me decide that I had to take her position as leader of the Dark Daughters..........I'd just known that Aphrodite was bad news, and that I had to do something to stop her. Now I was hearing that some of the crap she'd been doing was because she let her hateful parents boss her around! Her mom and dad actually thought it was okay to keep quiet about information that could save lives. 
 Zoey wastes no time thinking about how these visions might affect Aphrodite, seeing people die in the future is not like going on a vacation. I feel bad for Aphrodite now, she is stuck in between authoritative parents and judgmental people like Zoey. 
 We meet a new character Loren Blake who is Zoey's teacher. 
 Just another teacher. That's all. Yeah, right. Just another teacher who looked like every woman's dream of The Perfect Man. 
 Zoey comes up with five ideals that every Dark Daughters member should hold: 
 The Dark Daughters and Sons should swear to be authentic for air, faithful for fire, wise for water, empathetic for earth, and sincere for spirit. 
 This doesnt even make any sense. Isn't authentic and sincere almost the same? But Loren is impressed. 
 Then, slowly, he reached out and traced one finger over the fluid line of my tattoo. [...] "Beautiful and intelligent and innocent," he whispered 
 This is so creepy. Is this how teachers behave with their students? Is he going to be Love Interest (3). I don't think I can handle that. 
 Fledglings are dying in the House of Night but Zoey sees their ghosts. Because everything is about Zoey in this book. Zoey also thinks that the vampyre community must make friendship with humans. So she suggests vampyres should work with the cat rescue charity. What? Why not do something more important? No offense to cat but you are trying to make humans okay being friends with vampyres. One would think there are so many different ways to create awareness about co-existence. But rescuing cats? How will this change the prejudice about vampyres? 
 It's not like humans will be like "I hate vampyres, oh, did you say they rescued cats?, I'm totally on their side now". None of this makes any sense. 
 So many things happen in this book, yet not much is happening. Now, Zoey is having boy troubles, she doesn't know whether she should go after Loren (her teacher) or Eric (her "almost-boyfriend", her words), not to mention Heath ( her human ex-boyfriend). Also remember, when Zoey was judging Aphrodite for not sharing her vision with others. Now, Aphrodite is having another one of her visions and Zoey has this to say : 
 Who knew what was going on with Aphrodite? She was probably making some pathetic play for attention, and I didn't have time for this crap. "Fine. Let's say I don't believe you either," I told her. "Stay here and have your vision or whatever. I have other things to worry about." 
 I don't believe I have ever read about an MC worse than Zoey. The only reason Zoey hears about the vision is because it is concerned with Zoey's grandma. As per the vision, some river bridge collapses and a lot of humans die in this accident. So how is this plot point resolved? 
 Zoey and her friends make a bomb threat call to FBI. Also Zoey drinks Heath's blood which causes some kind of imprinting. I like how Zoey called Heath stupid and thoughtless and not her boyfriend in the last book but now she is totally all over him. Another example of Zoey's hypocrisy, where 
 she keeps cheating on her "almost boyfriend" with two other guys, but slut shames other characters. 
 Zoey also uses this hilarious dialogue in her call with FBI. 
 "Down with government intervention and pollution and up with the power of the people!" I yelled and then hung up. 
 Some more boy-drama comes her way. 
 I wanted Heath. 
 I needed Erik. 
 I was intrigued by Loren. 
 I had no damn idea what I was going to do about the mess that my life had become. 
 I'm on chapter 18, Erik doesn't even show up in this book yet and they seemed to be dating for a month off-screen. She doesn't think he is her boyfriend. So why does she "need" him? 
 Moving onto next plot point, Stevie Rae dies yet somehow everything is still about Zoey. 
 Her eyes fluttered and she smiled again. "Good. Mamma will make chocolate chip cookies for you." With obvious effort, she opened her eyes again and looked around at Damien, Shaunee, and Erin. "Y'all stick with Zoey. Don't let anything pull you apart." 
 We must learn what not to do in an emotional scene from the above passage. 
 Zoey goes into shock over her friend's death, so her other friends must use all the elements to revive her. 
 The team is in mourning, meanwhile Heath is missing and Zoey admits to Erik that she is sort of cheating on him. Erik, being a better person than Zoey , suggests her she can use the imprint to figure out where Heath is. Zoey goes to find Heath where she meets the fledglings who died in the House of Night, along with Stevie Ray (Gasp!). Zoey and Heath are surrounded by the undead creatures where this happens. 
 "Zo, you know you love me." [Heath] winked at me and I couldn't help smiling back at him. 
 "Fine. I love you." 
 Is this some kind of cruel joke? I have not seen one meaningful moment between these people in the two books I have read. 
 Neferet shows up and is revealed as the reason behind the dead fledglings turning up undead. She attacks Zoey and Heath, but Zoey gains consciousness she says this to the detective. 
 I met his eyes steadily. "No, I'm a fledgling who is leader of the Dark Daughters and a High Priestess in training. Believe me, that's a lot more than just a teenager." 
 Also for some convoluted reason, Zoey cannot share with anyone that Neferet is the bad guy which means time for Neferet to start acting like a cartoon villain. 
 So close that only I heard her whisper into my ear, "If you speak against me I will make sure no human or fledgling or vampyre will believe you." 
 Now that Heath is saved, Zoey vows to find Stevie Rae and help her. Also Zoey gets more tattoos from Nyx. I will let the book explain what this means. 
 "Congratulations, Zoey. I imagine this means that you continue to be special to your Goddess" 
 Not surprising, considering the theme of this book is that Zoey continues to be special 
 THE END. 
 I'm not continuing this series because I simply don't enjoy it and I don't see the point. Also, I hate Zoey.