Life We Have Chosen, The - Carcer City

My newest Chosen read

Advantages: Enjoyable, very readable story
Disadvantages: Very Americanised, including some slang I didn't really get

Chosen is the third book in P.C. and Kristin Cast's House of Night saga.. I bought my copy for £4.89 new from Amazon, but the jacket price is £6.99, as with most books now, if you shop around you are pretty much guaranteed to get a deal on it. At present the first five books are available, the sixth (Tempted) is due for paperback release on October 27th 2009, but doesn't seem to be being released in hardback. A seventh book, Burned, has been announced with an expected release date of May 2010. **History and background** This is another saga of teenage/young adult vampire fiction, a genre which regularly comes back into vogue. Cast seems to have piggybacked on the huge success of the Harry Potter series, and I suppose possibly on the Stephanie Meyer Twilight saga which were written earlier than House of Night. This isn't a criticism ...

M.Newcastle 25.10.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Chosen: House of Night - P.C. Cast

Chosen.....yes indeed!

Advantages: Fast paced, mysterious yet still funny in places!
Disadvantages: There are only six in the series!

new vampire boyfriend Erik and her being seduced by the gorgeous and cool professor Loren, her life seems to be rather complicated at the present! Can she help her newly ?dead/un-dead? best friend Stevie Rae, to remember her humanity and overcome her ?deadness?, can she stop anymore unnecessary deaths within the school and can she stop her ? love quadrangle? finding out about each other before hell breaks loose??..literally! Believe it or not this all happens within the first few pages of the book, and doesn?t go anyway to explaining the complexities of the story within, you certainly get your money?s-worth! Once again the central characters stay the same as the previous two books with the addition of Jack, Damien?s boyfriend, he doesn?t have any affinity for the elements like the others do, but is an integral part of the story ...

sarahbarrow 05.09.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Chosen: House of Night - P.C. Cast

Will you be "Chosen"?

Advantages: Easy to read and very engrossing
Disadvantages: Young and Naive lead role

abilities and powers have started to manifest in the first book, Zoey is more advanced than all of the other students and has many powers that even the adult vampires have never seen in a fledgling. She has a close knit group of friends and even made friends with an old enemy. Zoey has also got a boyfriend (or 3) and a unique link to the vampire goddess of night ?Nyx? which is helping her to understand some of the more sinister motives behind their vampire version of a principle, high priestess Neferet, who isn?t as nice as she seems. I will not give away any major plot points for the first two books, as I said, I do not wish to spoil it, but that is the overall basics. She keeps getting in trouble and solving problems with her gifted fledgling ways. About "Chosen" --------------------- In this book we follow on the story as Zoey ...

chugglebunny 01.07.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Chosen: House of Night - P.C. Cast