Hunted
by Kristin Cast, PC Cast
Series: House of Night #5
Series Rating:
Published by St. Martin's Griffin on March 10, 2009
Genres: YA Paranormal Romance
Pages: 323
Format: Paperback
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Also in this series: Marked, Betrayed, Chosen, Untamed, Tempted, Burned, , Revealed , Awakened , Destined , Hidden , Redeemed
What if the hottest guy in the world was hiding a nameless evil, and all he wanted was you? At the start of this heart-pounding new installment of the bestselling House of Night series, Zoey’s friends have her back again and Stevie Rae and the red fledglings aren’t Neferet’s secrets any longer. But an unexpected danger has emerged. Neferet guards her powerful new consort, Kalona, and no one at the House of Night seems to understand the threat he poses. Kalona looks gorgeous, and he has the House of Night under his spell. A past life holds the key to breaking his rapidly spreading influence, but what if this past life shows Zoey secrets she doesn’t want to hear and truths she can’t face?
Different things have been happening.
This book series, to me, seems like it could be a good one. I think if they went through third to seventh forms instead of making it all go in one year. How much stuff can a seventeen year old, third former, is excepted to go through just after being marked? Okay I know I shouldn’t do that to the amazing authors. Though I’m just saying how much better it would be. Along with making more sense. The House of Night series starts out in 2007 and Hunted by PC and Kristin Cast was published in 2009. Three years have passed since Marked by PC and Kristen Cast was published. With a whole lot of things changed. The Casts should try to keep with what year they are supposedly writing in and keep track of it. I’m guessing this whole series is going to be in Zoey’s third former year and maybe her fourth former year. To read my other reviews of this series: Betrayed, Chosen, and Untamed.
The Review
Anyways back to the review of the fifth book. It took me a little bit to get into it since my inner editor kept on finding mistakes. I had to read out what would have made sense before continuing on with the sentence. I mean the Casts are really good writers but they must have gotten a crappy editor for this book. They might not have had an editor. There are a lot of mistakes and mistaking Darius and Damien up on us. I guess I’m going to say that this book for me is 3 1/2 stars. On my Goodreads account that it will be a 4 stars on there. I mean it’s good but I had to wait until the middle of the book to get really into it.
Zoey and her boyfriends
Further on about the book is that I wish that the Casts would stop giving Zoey boyfriends all the time. I mean yeah I get it that she is a teenager but when I was a teenager I didn’t have this many boys, okay so I didn’t have any boyfriends but still, this girl has way too many. Even more so that they have it where Zoey is A-ya but then again I guess I should have seen that coming.
Let’s recount how many boys Zoey has/had, even though I still believe that she isn’t a ho or a slut, Heath – Imprinted again with Zoey, Erik – her boyfriend vampyre once again, Loren – her dead Imprinter, Kalona – the one that she was created for in another lifetime, and Stark – her undead dead crush that is know the second red vampyre. Okay yeah I know I have revealed some stuff in this review but I don’t really do that often and I thought it was necessary to get my point across on some of the things that the Casts did.
Messing up with somethings
I believe that the Casts have an interesting plot/idea but I would love it if they tried to keep with the year that they are supposedly writing in and not make Zoey seem so Mary-Sue. This is the first time I badmouthed the main character but Zoey seems kind of full of herself in this book. I mean yeah in the other books she did too but she kept on looking at the scar she got from a Raven Mocker in the beginning. Come on I know that it must be bad but that is what you get for trying to save Heath and being all angry at Erik for being all possessive of you.
Then again what else can I say but the Casts should really try working a little bit more on sounding more like a teenager if they keep writing in first person. Or try writing in third person since that seems to work more on a book series like this one.
Ending
And I think that is it that I want to say about this book please comment or something with this review. Merry Meet, Merry Part, and Merry Meet again on my next review for Tempted. Yup I am going to be reading and reviewing this whole series. Though I believe that I only have the second to last book but I don’t mind since I can easily get the other one soon I hope. And now farewell my fellow readers and bloggers.
This Review was previously posted on my blogspot site which I closed.
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About Kristin Cast
Kristin Cast is a NY Times and USA Today bestselling author who teams with her mother to write the House of Night YA series. She has stand alone stories in several anthologies, as well as editorial credits. Currently Kristin attends college in Oklahoma where she is focusing on attaining her dream of opening a no kill dog rescue shelter in midtown Tulsa.
About PC Cast
P.C. Cast was born in the Midwest, and grew up being shuttled back-and-forth between Illinois and Oklahoma, which is where she fell in love with Quarter Horses and mythology (at about the same time). After high school she joined the United States Air Force and began public speaking and writing. After her tour in the USAF, she taught high school for 15 years before retiring to write full time. Ms. Cast is a New York Times Best-Selling author. Her novels have been awarded the prestigious: Oklahoma Book Award, YALSA Quick Pick for Reluctant Readers, Romantic Times Reviewers’ Choice Award, the Prism, Holt Medallion, Daphne du Maurier, Booksellers’ Best, and the Laurel Wreath. P.C. Cast is an experienced teacher and talented speaker.
