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Marked
- House of Night, Book 1
- Narrated by: Caitlin Davies
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Enter the dark, magical world of the House of Night series by bestselling authors P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast, a world very much like our own, except here vampyres have always existed.
One minute, sixteen-year-old Zoey Redbird is a normal teenager dealing with everyday high school stress: her cute boyfriend Heath, the school's star quarterback who suddenly seems more interested in partying than playing ball; her nosy frenemy Kayla, who's way too concerned with how things are going with Heath; her uber-tough geometry test tomorrow.
The next, she's Marked as a fledgling vampyre, forcing her to leave her ordinary life behind and join the House of Night, a boarding school where she will train to become an adult vampyre. That is, if she makes it through the Change—and not all of those who are Marked do.
It sucks to begin a new life, especially away from her friends, and on top of that, Zoey is no average fledgling. She has been chosen as special by the vampyre Goddess, Nyx. Zoey discovers she has amazing powers, but along with her powers come bloodlust and an unfortunate ability to Imprint with Heath, who just doesn't know how to take "no" for an answer. To add to her stress, she is not the only fledgling at the House of Night with special powers: when she discovers that the leader of the Dark Daughters, the school's most elite group, is misusing her Goddess-given gifts, Zoey must look deep within herself for the courage to embrace her destiny—with a little help from her new vampyre friends.
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- Anonymous User
- 30-05-2024
Poor writing and voice acting
Very basically and predictable storyline. The voices by the actor were shrill and not accurate to what teens sound like.
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- Anonymous User
- 21-06-2024
All time favourite
I’ve read this series again and again since I was 14, and it never gets old. Absolutely love it, it’s such an original take on the Vampire concept. To the authors, you really created something special, I go through all the books again every 1-2 years and love them more every time.
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- Anonymous User
- 17-04-2024
Poorly written and poorly read
One of the worst audio books I’ve listened to in a long time.
The writers have two very very distinct voices. The characters swear consistently until about halfway through, where everything suddenly becomes sanitised. The main character’s internal monologue is not only long and drawn out, it’s also simultaneously judgy as hell, and extremely childish.
It reads like what it is - a vaguely racist (Sylvia and Shaunee are walking stereotypes) baby-boomer mother and an inexperienced millennial daughter teaming up to write a book with a great premise and terrible execution.
The narrator, while valiantly battling her way through the dialogue, doesn’t help the situation. She mispronounces any slightly complicated name (eg Penthesilea, which she pronounces ‘Pen-thih-silly-ah’), and over-emphasises individual words, which makes it sound robotic or stilted in places. The voices she uses are also strange and exaggerated - Aphrodite is supposed to be a teenage girl and she sounds like a 45 year old. Damien sounds like a cringey guy out of a badly-dubbed anime.
Sorry for the whinge-fest. This is just so bad. Cannot recommend.
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