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| Chosen (House of Night, Book 3) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Pc Cast, Kristin Cast
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
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Avg. Customer Rating:  56 reviews
Sales Rank: 285
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Young Adult
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Pages: 320
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Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.4 x 1
ISBN: 0312360304
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780312360306
ASIN: 0312360304
Publication Date: March 4, 2008
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 lame April 25, 2008
4 out of 8 found this review helpful
I think this is the only book that i have actually couldnt stand. I kept hoping it would get better, that maybe everything i predicted would happen and shock me, but no. It was like watching a movine that you knew the entire plot to in the first 5 minutes.
And the entire thing about her sleeping with a guy like its no big deal. Im srry but if you were dating someone for years and said no to them i would think you would know better than sleeping with a guy you barely knew for two months (and was a teacher). And i cont count how many times she said she was a ho or turning into one. Hello if you dont like who your being stop it.
If you like to read books that all about self pitty, stupid plot lines, flat characters, and barely has anything to do with the previous stories then read it.
Im not even going to bother with the next one
Being Chosen Doesn't Mean Everything's Easy June 9, 2008
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
After having been let down by Betrayed, the second book in the House of Night series, I wasn't sure what to expect with Chosen. Would Zoey be able to save her undead dead friend Stevie Rae? Would she ever resolve the boyfriend drama? What about her rivalry with High Priestess Neferet? It had seemed we were heading somewhere, and I wasn't sure it was going to be worth the ride, but I plunged ahead into Chosen anyway. And I was pleasantly surprised.
Zoey's world is crashing around her in Chosen. She's still got the boyfriend dilemma (why on earth didn't she just stay with Erik?), and her relationship with young professor Loren Blake is still just icky. Heath's still around, still Imprinted, and Zoey's still confused. In fact, this confusion takes a major amount of energy and drives a lot of the plot in Chosen. Meanwhile, Zoey's relationship with her mother and step-loser continues to deteriorate, and there's another Full Moon Ritual coming up. Zoey's unsure what to do to save her best friend Stevie Rae, but she knows she must do something, and it's going to have to involve arch-nemesis Aphrodite. Sound like enough turmoil? It's not. Adult vamps are turning up horribly murdered, and war against the humans is about to be launched.
I liked that this book showed us another side of Zoey--the confused teen who is led by her hormones to do things she knows she shouldn't. Yet Zoey still wants to protect her friends, though they don't understand. I was disappointed in their treatment of Zoey at the end; sure, she didn't make the best decisions but they are supposed to be her friends, the ones who have supported her throughout her transition into the House of Night. So now Zoey's alone, more confused than ever, and her worry over both Stevie Rae and Aphrodite will be driving her actions in the next installment. I hope the Casts will show us a continually maturing Zoey, not just a powerful one, in Untamed. I'll be waiting for it.
Horribly Written with Terrible Messages August 24, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Okay I tried to like this book. I'm young at heart and enjoy a good high school story, but this one has a some glaring problems that I could not get past.
1. There are more run-on sentences and typos in this book than I have ever seen in a professionally published novel. Two sentences cannot be hooked together with just a conjunction. The comma is not optional. This mistake is nearly on every page of the book, at least every other page.
2. It is never okay to portray a student having sex with a teacher as a good, exciting thing. This book is listed as a teen novel. What worse message can you send than it's exciting and wonderful to get physically involved with the teacher? I'm no prude, but it's not cool for a young high school girl to make out with an adult male teacher. It's not even legal.
3. Zoey is a spoiled and unlikeable character. She'll make out with anyone with lips, and we're supposed to think it's okay bc she has a fleeting moment of guilt? Wrong. She's spoiled and cruel. If a guy were physically involved with 3 or more women at the same time he'd be portrayed as a player and a jerk, not a hero. It's not okay to toy with people's emotions in a relationship by cheating on them, and it's not okay to describe it as a fun thing. If it happened in the book with the attitude that it was a bad thing, then it would be different. Honestly if a guy were playing Zoey like she is playing them, wouldn't we hate the guy? Then how can we like Zoey without having a sexist double standard? In fact the only redeemable trait I can find for Zoey is that she wants to help Stevie Rae. That's just not enough for me. Who wouldn't want to help a friend in an extreme circumstance?
4. Zoey's grandmother was the most likable person in the book for me up until when she became a hypocrite. She seems to be an open-minded accepting person bc she is kind to Zoey when her mother is not. However she is angry with Zoey's mother and step-father bc they won't accept Zoey's religion, but then she makes a blanket comment about Christianity's main tenant being that things that are different are evil. I don't doubt that many people claiming to be Christians behave this way, but there are idiots in every religion. The main tenant of Christianity is "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." (Love your neighbor as yourself.) That seems pretty tolerant of everyone to me. I KNOW many people don't follow this, but if they don't they're not really a Christian at all. You can't criticize someone for being intolerant of your religion while making a snarky, incorrect, generalization about another. It is hypocrisy, and characters that we are supposed to love should not be hypocrites. I'm all about tolerance, but it needs to be tolerance for all, not just those that you personally like.
5. The twins behaving like they're in a Doublemint gum commercial for the entire story also drove me crazy.
6. Every guy is described in the same way. They're all tall and drop-dead gorgeous. It's like they're all mannequins from the same department store, except for the one Christian male in the story. Characters need to be diverse, and love has to be based on more than being gorgeous. Don't get me wrong. There's nothing wrong with beautiful characters, but they can't be cardboard cutouts. Each needs to be unique, and if they're a romantic lead they need to have other admirable traits besides being Zoey's lapdogs (or how's about a personality?). In this book it's one cardboard cutout that's been xeroxed a few times.
I can enjoy a great dark story provided that it's well-written, with likable characters, and a good message. Even the most brutal tragedy can have a good overall message. Chosen, however, had none of these details for me. I'm sorry to leave a book a one star review, but I can't bring myself to rate it any higher.
 Get's better and better............... March 4, 2008
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
Chosen does not dissapoint. I love reading about Z and Heath and Blake and Erick....i was surprised at the turn it took but at the same time i had my suspicions.. anyway chosen was great and i cant wait to read Untamed in the fall. P.C and Kristin Cast make an awesome team.
 All in all, the first one remains the best March 24, 2008
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
I completely blew through both MARKED and BETRAYED with great enthusiasm. But upon getting to CHOSEN, I'm sorry to admit to some disappointment. While I agree that Zoey was starting to become more perfect than real and that she kind of needed a good harsh wake-up call, I do not think this was the kind of wake-up call she should have gotten.
Yes, teenagers can be fickle; but as we saw in both MARKED and BETRAYED, Zoey's friends are anything but. They are strong, close-knit group of people who were as tight as family, and yet...suddenly they are falling apart. Yes, she tried to avoid hurting their feelings about the birthmas presents- how many of you would honestly tell your best friends that you hate the present they got you? And yet, they all took offense over a private birthday card they shouldn't have read in the first place. And at the end, when they found out that Zoey had kept Stevie Rae from them...okay, I can understand being mad. But abandoning her when she needs them the most? What kind of friends does she really have?
I also think that the thing with Loren was ridiculous. No offense to the authors, because I do love their story. But...what? She goes from a rather strong resistance to him (as well as to Heath and Erik) on the whole sex front to suddenly sleeping with him in a public place? Kind of a tacky way to make her problems explode, don't you think?
Although, I have to admit the basic story and the fight to save Stevie Rae helped pull the book up, the whole fickle nature of CHOSEN's storyline drags it down.
That won't stop me from reading the next book...
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