Hidden

A few months after I graduated from college, I was introduced to the House of Night series by PC Cast and Kristen Cast by my friend, Alex. She told me it was like a cross between Harry Potter and Twilight. In a way, I guess she was right. It's teen lit, so noone actually expects it to be good, and having read all ten books in the series, I think I can say, it's not good anymore.

The series had potential to be great, but it "jumped the shark" early in the series, and has never really recovered. I just read, as I said, book ten in the series, Hidden.

In this installment, Neferet is wreaking havoc (what else is new?), and Zoey and the nerd herd have to save the day. Again, what else is new? You'd think that after ten books, the Casts would be able to think of something more creative.

My main problems with the series are as follows:
1. They are vampyres in name only. Everything they do suggests witchcraft, not vampyres. Blessed be, Merry meet, and calling the elements? Totally witchcraft.
2. The heroine, Zoey, is a whiny teenage girl. For crying out loud, make the heroine a stronger person. I have no problem that she's a teenager, but, for heaven's sake, does she have to whine and snot cry so much?
3. Neferet is evil. No, really? Got it. Perhaps changing the villain with each book might help. The whole "Neferet is trying to take over the world and Zoey is in her way" is old.
4. The authors try to hard to talk like modern teenagers and fail miserably.
5. The characters are annoying, except perhaps Aphrodite. She's the only "real" one in the whole series.

I'll finish the series. I have too much time and money invested in it to quit now, but I don't expect them to get better.