Nov 19 2008
V is for veering off course
So while I impatiently await the midnight showing of Twilight tomorrow, I’m in the throngs of another vampire series: House of Night.
It’s an interesting take on the whole modern day vampire fiction. While Twilight is about teenagers who are spending their waking minutes being old for their age (literally in the case of immortal vampires) But Bella, in all seriousness, is pointedly against the teen girl thing. She has music and movies, briefly, but they’re not anything that exists in true pop culture. The twilight kids are boxed up in a small, very green town, in the middle of no where, cut off from most of the world. That works for twilight, and it’s kind of nice to pretend some things don’t exist for a while (like MTV) even if it’s strange that a teenage girl is completely isolated. She doesn’t even like the internet… Whatever, though, she’s into the classics, namely old fashioned immortal vampires named Edward that also happen to be super hot.
By the way, I don’t want to think about how badly they could have messed up on the Twilight movie, so from now until midnight tomorrow and hopefully throughout the movie, all I will be concentrating on is hot vampires. It’ll lessen the dissapointment I hope.
Moving back to my original topic, Marked is the first book of the series House of Night. And immediately in the first paragraph you can tell that it’s not one of those “the world doesn’t exist” kind of fictions. Which is a very good thing in this case. Marked is extrememly readable, unlike most vampire novels. Usually, in the case of Anne Rice and Bram Stoker anyway, Vampire novels get extremely wordy and broody. They’re still brilliant, but for me, it’s an epic challenge to force down. Twilight even has it’s moments, which I’m sure the movie will cut out. Marked, however, is action packed. The main character Zoey is constantly surrounded by people, and every page is something new to learn.
Which makes sense because she’s slowly becoming a vampire and has to go to a school called the House of Night. No spoilers fer ye! That be stuff ye can learn on the back cover, arrrgh!
Anywho… Although it’s teeny bopper maximum, with MTV and something about that DiCaprio fellow, Marked ain’t bad. It even swears! I was starting to think I was the only author that let her characters drop F bombs! yay!
- Location:house
