Awakened by P.C. Cast + Kristin Cast

Title: Awakened
Author: P.C. Cast + Kristin Cast
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Series: House of Night
Series Number: Book Eight
Page Amount: 290
Chapter Amount: 26
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Overall Rating: 9 out of 10

Warning:
This is the eighth book in the House of Night series. Although I do not intentionaly put spoilers, the following synopsis and review may contain spoilers to earlier books. Do not read unless you have read Marked, Betrayed, Chosen, Untamed, Hunted, Tempted, and Burned by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast.

Exonerated by the Vampyre High Council and returned to her position of High Priestess at Tulsa’s House of Night, Neferet has sworn vengeance on Zoey.  Dominion over Kalona is only one of the weapons she plans to use against Z.  But Zoey has found sanctuary on the Isle of Skye and is being groomed by Queen Sgiach to take over for her there.  Being Queen would be cool, wouldn’t it?  Why should she return to Tulsa? After losing her human consort, Heath, she will never be the same – and her relationship with her super-hot-warrior, Stark, may never be the same either…
And what about Stevie Rae and Rephaim?  The Raven Mocker refuses to be used against Stevie Rae, but what choice does he have when no one in the entire world, including Zoey, would be okay with their relationship?  Does he betray his father or his heart?
In the pulse-pounding 8th book in the bestselling House of Night series, how far will the bonds of friendship stretch and how strong are the ties that bind one girl’s heart?

Plot: The plot was paced OK but for the first third of the book I had to force myself to pick it up and when I was actully reading it I couldn't really get into it. But after that part of the book It got really interesting and I could actully enjoy it. So an OK plot.

Characters: The characters where as good as all of the other books but they *knocked off* a favorite person of mine and I got SO mad! You don't kill *spoiler here* ! But luckily one of my favorite characters changed for the better and that sorta made up for it but still, that made me mad. So the characters where pretty good it was just me and that one character.

Creativity: Whoa! This book just got crazier than before! (If thats even possible!) More and more chaos is introduced and I LOVE IT! Gotta love the action so the creativity is really good! ( and even better than before!)

Writing: The writing is about the same. Good but nothing I would be TOTALLY raving about. So, okay writing.

Ending: The ending was shocking and left you with a cliffhanger like in all of the House of Night books. But I love cliffhangers so it was okay. So great ending!

Cover: The cover covers (heehees) both things that are important to me in a cover. 1 It goes with the story. 2 It's pretty.(or better) So cover is good with me. :B

All in all: I loved this next installment of the House of Night series and even though it falled a little flat I loved it just the same. Maybe if it would have drew me in better in the beginning I would have definitly given it a full 10 stars but 9 stars is still better than like 2 so not a bad book by any means. So, that was my book review! Hope you enjoyed!

First Sentence: A disquieting sense of irritation awakened Neferet.

Toxxic Rainbowz