Can vampires and humans live side by side?!? Well that is exactly what is happening in Untamed by mother and daughter team, P.C & Kristin Cast is the fourth installment in the House of Night Series. This book begins right where the previous book left off. Zoey Redbird the main character, who is sarcastic, smart, and a vampire finds herself in the mix of some major action. Her entire school has been pushed to the limit by the killings of two vampire teachers. Zoey asks her grandma to help her and her friends get end and get to the bottom of what is happening at the school. Zoey’s grandma agrees, but gets hurt in an accident and ends up in the hospital. Zoey soon realizes that she needs to protect her grandma who is like extremely close to her, from some human/crow like creatures called raven mockers. In addition, Zoey no longer has a boyfriend and her friends have made her an outcast. One top of all that, Zoey finds out that her mentor High Priestess Neferet has decided to declare war on humans which Zoey is torn about. The action does not stop in this book all the event occur over the time span of a few days, but this does help to keep readers interest. Another bright spot is that the characters are well developed and interesting in the book. However one negative is that I was left slightly confused because I have not read any of the earlier installments to this series. Therefore, I strongly recommend reading the earlier installments first to understand more of the background information. This book has some mature language so I would recommend it for all upper-class high school students and younger students based upon maturity levels.
4 comments:
My daughter loves this series, but she does say graphic sex and the f word are used many times. She likes this series because it is interesting (she likes vampire love stories) and likes the storylines. She has read all the books in the series, but definately is for older reading for outside of school. Its a good fictional story that is for entertainment, not discussional insight.
I love this series, but it is somewhat loose with the swearing but nothing worse than you hear from kids everyday. There is a sex scene but it was well written in that afterward Zoey regretted her decision. And you definitely will need to read the series from the beginning in order to understand what is going on.
Hi Marcella,
This sounds like a interesting and popular series. Do you think that it has any application potential for inside the classroom? Or do you think it is more of just a independent read?
Sounds like you might run into some trouble using the book without parental difficulty. Parents tend to see the sex, and not the purpose of it in the text. As mentioned, Zoey regretted the decision, and this situation can be used to encourage teens to wait or to make smart decisions. Sex is so taboo for so many people.
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