P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast's Marked
Yay, I found a new series of teen vampire books to read! The Casts, a mother-daughter writing team, spell vampire w/ a Y ("vampyre") so you can probably guess a little bit about the books from that. Anyway, it's sort of a Twilight meets Harry Potter thing, where teenagers suddenly start going through the capital-C change into vampires, and then get toted off to vampire boarding school. No, really. Protagonist Zoey is part Cherokee and the book merges Goddess vampire mythos with Cherokee ancestor spirits mythos in a fairly entertaining way. Everyone is sexy and whatnot, but this first falls strongly on the moralizing side of things (blow jobs and pot are explicitly bad). It's pretty much what you would expect--outcast teenager finds her niche and a motley crew of friends at vampire school, finds out she's Special, takes on the head bully girl, and gets involved with the requisite teen vampire hottie. Also, the writing is somewhat terrible--lots of exclamation points at parts. Still, I was thoroughly entertained and am totally reading the next one.
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