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September 06, 2008
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| Betrayed by P. C. Cast and Kristen Cast | Reviewed by Harriet Klausner |  | Publisher: St Martin's
http://www.stmartins.com
ISBN: 0312360282
Genre: Children/Y-A
Subgenre: Teen
Release date: Oct 07
Format: Trade
Pages: 320
Price: $8.95
| When Zoey Redbird was Marked by the vampyre goddess Nyx, it was known that she would turn into a vampyre or die while being at the House of Night, a school and home for fledglings who need to be with their own kind and away from humans. However Zoey is not a normal fledgling; because unlike her so called peers, she has am that is filled in and an affinity for all elementals.
Thanks to her mentor the high priestess, Zoe is the new leader of the Dark Daughters and the enemy of Aphrodite and her clique, who tortured others and called up vampiric ghosts. High school football players that Zoe knew when she was human are found dead. When her former boyfriend, Heath, whom she still cares about in spite of her changing into a vampyre, turns up missing, Zoe vows to go to hell to find and rescue him and save her school from the murderous invaders. Instead she is captured by the killers due to a betrayal by someone she trusts.
Although this is classified as teen fiction, adults will also enjoy this as we do the works of André Norton. The mother-daughter author team casts a spell on readers with a book in which vampires are accepted as a real species by humans. In some ways Zoe is a teenage Anita Blake before experience made the latter wary of sentient beings. The storyline is fast-paced with a bit of an amateur sleuth mystery solved the hard way--being captured as Zoey fights for her freedom and being true to her school. | | |
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