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sverocchia's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
ccath's review against another edition
3.0
It didn't seem to be enough story for a whole book and if there wasn't the Stevie Rae thing I'd probably lower this to 2.
shubba_the_emo_reader's review against another edition
5.0
There is so many things about this book I just want to tell you but I won't that would be very naughty of me can't spoil it for those who have yet to read it. However, I will try to do this review spoiler free.
Awakened is the eighth installement in the amazing House of Night series. I have been hooked to these books from the first book Marked and I have enjoyed most of them. However, I was a little disappoinment with Tempted and Burned but Awakened is right back on form and the Casts havedelivered a fast paced story line that will make you laugh and cry.
Awakened picks up where Burned Finished. With Zoey and some of her friends on the Isle of Skye recovering from the events of Burned. While the rest are still in Tulsa. With the Cast change in point view we get to read a few of characters thoughts and how they are dealing with the events throughout the book. When the Casts decided to have a few points of views in their books, at first I wasn't sure but now that I am used to it I really like it. What I really liked was how we got to have Jacks point of view. He never really seemed to have a big roll in the books and getting his point to view was great. I love him.
My only negative is that even the Twins and Aphrodite (she is my favourite character, she's a bitch and fabulous) aren't really involved in the story as much as they usually are although it wasn't that much of a negative to stop it being a 5star book.
I promise if you are a fan of this series and haven't read it get right on it. Or if you haven't read any yet what have you been waiting for. It a great series but the magical twist on vampires.
WARNING!! DO NOT READ IN PUBLIC YOU WILL CRY!!
So overall, an excellent installement and I am looking forward to Destined. I am going to leave you with one word:
HEATH!
Awakened is the eighth installement in the amazing House of Night series. I have been hooked to these books from the first book Marked and I have enjoyed most of them. However, I was a little disappoinment with Tempted and Burned but Awakened is right back on form and the Casts havedelivered a fast paced story line that will make you laugh and cry.
Awakened picks up where Burned Finished. With Zoey and some of her friends on the Isle of Skye recovering from the events of Burned. While the rest are still in Tulsa. With the Cast change in point view we get to read a few of characters thoughts and how they are dealing with the events throughout the book. When the Casts decided to have a few points of views in their books, at first I wasn't sure but now that I am used to it I really like it. What I really liked was how we got to have Jacks point of view. He never really seemed to have a big roll in the books and getting his point to view was great. I love him.
My only negative is that even the Twins and Aphrodite (she is my favourite character, she's a bitch and fabulous) aren't really involved in the story as much as they usually are although it wasn't that much of a negative to stop it being a 5star book.
I promise if you are a fan of this series and haven't read it get right on it. Or if you haven't read any yet what have you been waiting for. It a great series but the magical twist on vampires.
WARNING!! DO NOT READ IN PUBLIC YOU WILL CRY!!
So overall, an excellent installement and I am looking forward to Destined. I am going to leave you with one word:
HEATH!
hixxup79's review against another edition
3.0
ok so this one was slightly boring to me. It was just a lot of going uphill to me, like this was the in-between book for major conflicts. I did however loved that Rephaim was given a chance by Nix. It was also nice to see a softer side of Kalona. And the whole heath thing, OMG wonder how that's going to pan out.
hauntedjen's review against another edition
4.0
The introduction of Darkness and Light mythos has greatly added to the House of Night series. While I enjoyed a nice break from Zoey in "Burned", I was glad to have everyone's favorite fledgling High Priestess back in action with "Awakened". While tempted to stay on the Isle of Skye to "recuperate" from her soul-shattering experience, Zoey's conscience pushes her to return to Tulsa to face Neferet, Kalona, and even Darkness itself. I was blown away by the Casts' choice to kill off a major character, yet congratulate them on their courage to do so. I was so completely engaged in the story that I read this book in one day. Now off to make a detailed list of what's been going on in the House of Night universe so far, so that in November I'll have a cheat sheet for the next book. And yes, there's no more denying it. I WILL be in line to purchase the next House of Night novel!
bookishtalkswithcece's review against another edition
5.0
It's an amazing book! The end will be a beautiful surprise!
itsjustnxkki's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
imsaragarcia's review against another edition
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.5
thebookberrie's review against another edition
1.0
Yup okay, that's it. I am done with this series once and for all. I wonder why I even let myself get this far into it but I thought I had invested too much into it to let myself give up but nope, there is only so much of these books that I can take. I did like the first book, I'm really sure I did. As each book goes on though, I cannot for the life of me remember exactly why I even liked it.
So this is House of Night book number eight, need I say how much overkill that even is? Apparently there is to be twelve before the so called epic finale happens. How exciting.
In this installment of House of Night, Neferet the super evil has returned to the Tulsa House of Night as high priestess. Now she has Kalona under her command and wants to start a war with the humans or something, honestly I still don't know as she is so generic bad movie villain and blah blah darkness, super evil, super beautiful. I think I stopped caring about her in book three.
Not like any of our protagonists are any better though. Do I even need to know how stupid, immature, and skanky I find our main character, Zoey? Yeah I think I'll skip that. But really, this is book number eight in this series. I do not forgive the writers for zero character development since the start.
Speaking of Zoey, I cannot take anymore, "heehees", "bullpoopie", "heart me some". Even the cute little sweetie or honeys that multiple characters said to each other. Does it matter who said what to each other? No, because eventually they all started to sound the same to me.
And also, oh my god stereotypes. Stop it! We have Kramisha, she apparently is a prophetess poet but apparently talks and sounds extremely illiterate. Oh it's because she is black right? Okay cool.
Then there is Stevie Rae and how her accent was portrayed and oh god it was painful. Not sure if as painful as how Jack and Damien have always come across, dripping with such stereotyped gayness that I am curious if the writer's have ever actually met a gay man.
Only Aphrodite stood out and I do still love her but even she isn't good enough to save how terrible and cardboard the rest of these characters are.
On to the plot, did anything interesting actually happen this time around? Eh, not really. A couple of people died, Rephaim got a human body, someone was brought back from the dead. Yay for them I guess. Neferet walked around naked a lot and lots of weird vampire PG-13 sex happened. Same old song for these books, along with the fun typos and grammar fails that I enjoyed laughing at. Please get a better editor as that isn't any different in these books either.
The only thing good about these books are that they are short, but they can't even stand by themselves. I bet if you cut out all the pointless pop culture references and other useless scenes, this whole series could be one big crappy waste of time. I do not even care how the ending goes, really I can't be bothered with it. I wasted enough time and money on these books and I hate each book more than it's predecessor. It's safe to say that I do not heart me some House of Night, if I ever did.
So this is House of Night book number eight, need I say how much overkill that even is? Apparently there is to be twelve before the so called epic finale happens. How exciting.
In this installment of House of Night, Neferet the super evil has returned to the Tulsa House of Night as high priestess. Now she has Kalona under her command and wants to start a war with the humans or something, honestly I still don't know as she is so generic bad movie villain and blah blah darkness, super evil, super beautiful. I think I stopped caring about her in book three.
Not like any of our protagonists are any better though. Do I even need to know how stupid, immature, and skanky I find our main character, Zoey? Yeah I think I'll skip that. But really, this is book number eight in this series. I do not forgive the writers for zero character development since the start.
Speaking of Zoey, I cannot take anymore, "heehees", "bullpoopie", "heart me some". Even the cute little sweetie or honeys that multiple characters said to each other. Does it matter who said what to each other? No, because eventually they all started to sound the same to me.
And also, oh my god stereotypes. Stop it! We have Kramisha, she apparently is a prophetess poet but apparently talks and sounds extremely illiterate. Oh it's because she is black right? Okay cool.
Then there is Stevie Rae and how her accent was portrayed and oh god it was painful. Not sure if as painful as how Jack and Damien have always come across, dripping with such stereotyped gayness that I am curious if the writer's have ever actually met a gay man.
Only Aphrodite stood out and I do still love her but even she isn't good enough to save how terrible and cardboard the rest of these characters are.
On to the plot, did anything interesting actually happen this time around? Eh, not really. A couple of people died, Rephaim got a human body, someone was brought back from the dead. Yay for them I guess. Neferet walked around naked a lot and lots of weird vampire PG-13 sex happened. Same old song for these books, along with the fun typos and grammar fails that I enjoyed laughing at. Please get a better editor as that isn't any different in these books either.
The only thing good about these books are that they are short, but they can't even stand by themselves. I bet if you cut out all the pointless pop culture references and other useless scenes, this whole series could be one big crappy waste of time. I do not even care how the ending goes, really I can't be bothered with it. I wasted enough time and money on these books and I hate each book more than it's predecessor. It's safe to say that I do not heart me some House of Night, if I ever did.
gartimar's review against another edition
adventurous
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.5