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Nyx the vampyre goddess says, "Darkness does not always equate to evil, Light does not always bring good". For a book that is followed with eleven more books and several miniseries this is the quote that has always stood out to me. I started these books when I was in high school, and was hooked. As P.C. Cast and her daughter Kristin Cast released more and more to their series I found myself excited as a late twenty-something reader to read books I started ten years prior. These women have wrote an exceptional series that obviously appeals to several different age groups.
One thing I notice when I look at this novel from a writers outlook is how they make the characters so in depth. Especially when you look at the entire series there is so much character plot and development. One of the characters, Stevie Ray befriends our main character Zoey. They refer to her a "country blumpkin" many times, and I can here the twang in her voice when I read her narratives. Another character Aphrodite is the typical mean high school bully throughout the novel, but as the series develops she gets a major story arc and becomes one of the most beloved characters. When you read her narratives its like being in high school all over again, and hearing those mean girls pick at each other. “Nice dress Zoey. It looks just like mine. Oh, wait! It used to be mine. Aphrodite laughed a throaty, I'm-so-grown-and-you're-just-a-kid laugh." This is just one instance when Aphrodite torments Zoey and her friends.
I am obviously a little biased to this series from my love of it, but I do believe it is written lovely. If you read reviews it seems to get a pretty big mix of feelings, but overall it has been pretty popular in the Young Adult world. I would not recommend this box for a class library because it can be kind of raunchy. I would put this book in more of a high school class. Something they could look at in this text is how the characters are written. There is such a vast cast of characters to chose to discuss how they are described, their narratives, and their story arcs.