My main problem with the HON series? So much potential was wasted in favour of teenage-hum-drudgery that you can find in just any YA novel. Kayla could have been a better character, a foil if you will, to Zoey. Instead, I'm just left with the feeling that the Casts were forcing us to hate her and like Zoey, and yet her whining makes liking the main character impossible.
And this, with the scientists identifying 'junk DNA strands' that possibly cause some kids to turn Vampyric, and their attempts to manufacture the cure to vampyrism... that could have become a major, amazing, wonderful plot in a later book! Thrown out in the first, picked up in, say, the fourth, and that would have been a dream come true! By saying they were trying to revert the fledgling process, that's saying outright that they're enemies to the vampyrs - they could have been major Big Bads of XMenIII proportions and really given a modern feel to a series that IS SET IN THE 21ST CENTURY - and yet from the get-go all we get is 'The People of Faith are baaaaaad; Goode Ye Olde Nyx-worship is the TRUE RELIGION!'
But don't get me started on that - that's a real bee in my bonnet, personally.
Back to Kayla - I think it particularly bugs me how she's treated, especially in light of Zoey's hypocrisy later on (which also explains my soft spot for Aphrodite, who really doesn't deserve the slamming she always gets).
But yeah, you can see I have a lot to say on this.
Kayla could have been a better character, a foil if you will, to Zoey. Instead, I'm just left with the feeling that the Casts were forcing us to hate her and like Zoey, and yet her whining makes liking the main character impossible.
And this, with the scientists identifying 'junk DNA strands' that possibly cause some kids to turn Vampyric, and their attempts to manufacture the cure to vampyrism... that could have become a major, amazing, wonderful plot in a later book! Thrown out in the first, picked up in, say, the fourth, and that would have been a dream come true! By saying they were trying to revert the fledgling process, that's saying outright that they're enemies to the vampyrs - they could have been major Big Bads of XMenIII proportions and really given a modern feel to a series that IS SET IN THE 21ST CENTURY - and yet from the get-go all we get is 'The People of Faith are baaaaaad; Goode Ye Olde Nyx-worship is the TRUE RELIGION!'
But don't get me started on that - that's a real bee in my bonnet, personally.
Back to Kayla - I think it particularly bugs me how she's treated, especially in light of Zoey's hypocrisy later on (which also explains my soft spot for Aphrodite, who really doesn't deserve the slamming she always gets).
But yeah, you can see I have a lot to say on this.
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