I'm an avid reader and my latest find is called the House of Night Series by P.C. Cast and her daughter, Kristin Cast. Posted above is the latest book in the series that I picked up today, which I have been highly anticipating. This series has been compared to Twilight, but I have no idea why.... Yes, it's about vampires. Um, what else...I guess hot guys are in it too. (The only guy I found attractive in the Twilight movie was Rosalie's boyfriend, I can't remember his name...)
I really don't see any other similarities. It's not all sappy and goofy like Twilight is, where you have the main chick swooning over one guy obsessively, so much that it makes you put the book down for a few days and make a few trips to the toilet to throw up. It has sex in it, and , oh my god...they're not married. It also has some F-words, S-words, W-words, B-words...etc. You get the point. Not that I need sex and vulgarity to make a book, but it definitely keeps the book in my interest a little longer. To me, Twilight was an over-hyped, boring, drawn out, predictable (especially the last book ) being weird as all hell book. So, it just wasn't my thing.
This series rocks. I started the first book called " Marked" about 2 months ago. I was just walking around Borders (like I do) and as weird as it sounds, the cover drew me to it. It was nonetheless in the Teen section, so after my disappointment with the Twilight shenanigans, I was very hesitant on putting myself through that again. I bought it anyway, giving it a fair chance. It was only 9.00, so it wasn't a total loss if I hated it. ;) The first couple of chapters of it, I had to admit were a little goofy, but soon after I was enthralled in the story. The dialogue was real and so were the people they interacted with. I started the second book called "Betrayed" a week or so later. It was awesome. I found myself getting more and more excited to go to the next page. I went back to Borders and picked up the last two books just a couple of weeks ago, so I could space them out in time for the book that came out today =) So, the moral of this story is ..."If you can read a book and it plays in your head as your reading it, keep going. But, if you're reading a book and all you see are words, you should stop because you are wasting your time."
Or if you're making gagging sounds and rolling your eyes frequently .... The Twilight Series.
