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| Betrayed (House of Night, Book 2) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Pc Cast, Kristin Cast
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  39 reviews
Sales Rank: 601
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Young Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5.4 x 0.9
ISBN: 0312360282
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780312360283
ASIN: 0312360282
Publication Date: October 2, 2007
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 So. Freakin. Awesome. October 2, 2007
5 out of 10 found this review helpful
This book rocks so much I don't know where to start. I mean, what's not to love? Great characters, a completely fresh take on vamps, odd happenings, wicked cool tattoos, super powers and a delicious selection of hot guys. Dude, count me in.
What's even cooler is that this book is written by a mother/daughter team. Can you imagine? So fabulous, there aren't enough words! Buy one for yourself and one to lend out because you are NOT going to want to share your copy.
Really Impressive October 11, 2007
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
Zoey Redbird is the most powerful vampyre fledgling the House of Night has ever seen. In fact, as far as anyone knows Zoey is the most powerful fledgling in vampyre history. She has been touched by Nyx(The Goddess of Night.) It's clear by Zoey's accelerated rate of change and ever growing abilities that she is meant for somthing profound. But for all that Z still has to go through all the growing pains that come with being a teenager. She's got boys coming out of the would work. There's her almost ex boyfriend Heath, who she's imprinted with
and who's blood she craves, Zoey's Vampyre Superman, upper classman Eric Night(yep that's really his name.) And to help complicate matters, Zoey seems to be conecting on a very personal level with part time tacher and poet Loren Blake who is as amazing as he is forbidden. Whats a girl to do?
Zoey has taken over leadership of the Dark Daughters and Sons, and is determined to change the school oganization from an elitist clique to a group with meaning, value and substance. she is getting comfortable in her skin and things are getting easier to deal with. But Zoey's strength is about to be tested again. In new and truly terrible ways. She must learn to cope with a soul deep sadness, deal with a betrayal that cuts to the bone, and keep a promise that may turn out to be impossible.
Any doubts I had about this series were erased with this book. This for me is one of those reads that make you grumble at being interupted and reevaluate the need for sleep and food, then grumble some more cause the wait till the next book(in this case Choosen in March '08) is intirely to long.
You should know that unlike most of P C's books this is not a stand alone story. You don't abosolutely have to read Marked first to understand Betrayed But it really helps and I recommend it highly. If you read Marked and weren't thrilled with it, please reconsider and read Betrayed. It really is that good!
Courtesy of Teens Read Too October 24, 2007
5 out of 9 found this review helpful
Having defeated her arch-nemesis in the previous book, Marked: A House of Night Novel (Book 1), Zoey should be on top of the world. But she's got the nagging feeling in the back of her mind that something's drastically wrong. At first, she thinks it could be all the stress she's under from her first ritual she's planning, or maybe the various boys in her life. She admits she's worried about the boys from her old school who have turned up missing.
Then Zoey witnesses a conversation between Aphrodite and Neferet that leaves her breathless. Now Zoey's scared.
Zoey needs her friends more than ever, but she's not too sure whom she can trust.
The mother-daughter team of P.C. and Kristin Cast creates another suspenseful tale with a down-to-earth character blessed with magical powers. Fans of the Stephenie Meyer books are sure to gobble up this series.
Reviewed by: Jennifer Rummel
 Why do people like this? May 22, 2008
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
I have read 100's of books but this series by far has been one of the worst wastes of time I have had. I read Chosen, thought it was a cool concept. However, nothing is done with the concept. The characters fall flat, each feels no different than any other and by the end I realized that I couldn't even remember half of their names. To include Zoey!! I had to go back and look. The ending was so juvenile and cliche that it felt like the other didn't even know how to end it. Now, I am aware that sometimes first books can't develop characters in a series well so I decided to read Betrayed. What a colossal steamer that turned out to be. The characters once again were flat and I could careless about any of them. Erik wasn't even in the first quarter of the book, completely pointless and uninteresting character we know nothing about. Too many love interests/attractions and not enough relationship development between characters. Juvenile writing style that is insulting to read. I love this genre of YA fiction but I would point you towards series like Twilight, Vampire Academy, Tithe, Great and Terrible Beauty and the Sweep Series which are all well written and creative stories with strong and interesting characters. I finished this book two days ago and now can barely remember anything specific about it. Not a good sign...
 Teen paranormal? January 20, 2008
4 out of 7 found this review helpful
Parent's beware, this one is a bit more explicit than the first. Zoey becomes more daring with her love interest(s), especially since she has decided to juggle three boys (all boys of interest would be considered an adult since they are all 18 or older).
I really liked the first book in this series, but I was a bit disappointed with this one. I didn't feel as though the story went anywhere. With the exception of Aphrodite, I felt the characters did not grow whatsoever. All the reader learned was about Zoey's plans of how she would like to change the Dark Daughters and Sons. We already figured out there was something fishy with Neferet and the dead kids were not staying dead, so it was a major let down for me reading this book.
I still plan to read the next, since it has been my experience that second books often lack that oommph. I've got my fingers crossed for the next one.
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