Marked book1/12/2023 ![]() ![]() Her blossoming romantic feelings for her dream guy felt shallow. Once she got to the House of Night, Zoe seemed a little easier to impress and her friends seemed a little more worthy. Why did Mom do that? Because she’s stupid and annoying. Her family and human friends were half-characters sort of slapped together without any deep thought to their own motivations or personalities. I found it snobby and really off-putting. She started off angry and bitter at the world, smarter than everyone around her. Many things about this book disappointed me. ![]() Unfortunately, some other students see Zoe as a threat to the well-established hierarchy, and they will do whatever it takes to sabotage her. Her vampirism seems to be developing at an advanced pace and her mentor has high hopes for what this might mean. There she’ll be educated and wait to see if her body is strong enough to undergo the transformation into an adult vampire.Įven among other fledglings, Zoe is far from normal. An instant outcast, she retreats to her grandmother’s house for some much-needed advice and then turns herself over to the House of Night, a sort of boarding school for fledgling vampires. Zoe’s friends and family totally flip out when she’s marked as a vampire. If you've read this far, there's no way you're not reading this one.Published Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Goodreads It's nice to have the different enemies of earlier books occasionally turn into allies over long periods of time, and Verus' slow improvement into a divining badass is neat.īashed through it in a very small number of hours, and I suspect it's convinced me to go back to the others in the series in order to gain a better understanding of the troubles that are going on. There are gambits piled on gambits, and I'm beginning to suspect I need a flowchart to keep track of all of the different alliances. There is a slight problem with this in that at this point, it's getting a bit byzantine. It starts with a cool cold open following Verus' chasing down of one of the artefacts stolen from the vault in the previous book, and bashes through a collection of different disasters, to a climax that's surprisingly personal. Verus' place in the inner circle of the magical council has brought him closer than ever before to the troubles and tribulations of the higher echelons of the hierarchy, and the tangled webs they have to weave are great fun.Īs always, it's a speedy book, with Jacka's sneaky tendency to end every chapter on a cliffhanger that doesn't half make you want to keep reading. The major strength of these books has always been Jacka's determination to dig through the politics of the magical world, and that's on full show in this volume. Especially with the fear that she might still be linked to a tricksy djinn. And finally there's a rather closer problem, in the form of Anne, who he's finally allowed to act as his aide, but for whom his ongoing feelings are getting more complex. So he's got a few political enemies to deal with.Īlong with that, he's still got his personal nemesis in the form of Richard, who is running his shadowy plans in the background, to an as-yet unknown end. ![]() Of course, even though he was coerced into acting as Morden's aide by Richard Drakh, that doesn't mean that the rest of the council are particularly happy about his aspirations. Verus has taken up a seat on the junior council, following Morden's arrest, having previously acted as his aide. On with a little summary of where we're up to. So I recommend if you've not read any of them, start with the first. Now, fair warning, there will be many spoilers for previous books in this. Hooray! I always look forward to the next book in the Alex Verus series, so obviously I read this pretty damn close to release. ![]()
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