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zelda_queen

Marked: Final Assessment

Mar 15, 2011 21:24

ZeldaQueen: And thus, we conclude our journey through Marked, the first of PC and Kristen Cast's very long and still ongoing vampire series. *cracks knuckles* Right, let's KO this baby
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suethor: kristin cast, final assessment, fic: marked, book 1, series: house of night, suethor: pc cast

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zelda_queen March 16 2011, 02:54:05 UTC

Probably not. ^^;

carakasla March 16 2011, 02:39:41 UTC

Dude o.O, I have to say, your entry went all wonky for some reason and turned into a big block of text and the entire 'World building' section is missing. I don't know what's going on o.o.

zelda_queen March 16 2011, 02:53:50 UTC

I had to take out the entire "World Building" section because otherwise the tags and the Table of Contents link kept getting crammed over the post. -_- I swear to the good lord, I have no idea what was wrong with it. And yeah, there were problems with the paragraph breaks. I'm sorry for any confusion, I think everything's all fixed up now.

carakasla March 16 2011, 03:13:53 UTC

Awww! I really wanted to read the 'World Building' section! Stupid Livejournal.

Ah, well, it's okay, I like your final thoughts, I think you hit the nail on the head. I personally believe this book suffers from 'attempting to capitalize on a trend instead of writing a book' problem.

zelda_queen March 16 2011, 03:16:31 UTC

I might put it up later in a different post. Or I might save it for a later final assessment. ^^; Remember, there's going to be eleven other books of fail to deal with.

Thank you very much! ^_^ I agree, that was one of the problems. It wasn't even their own idea, it was their publicist who told them to write a vampire boarding school series to follow up on Twilight.

yemi_hikari March 16 2011, 10:31:42 UTC

I personally suggest and recomend the cartoon, Horseland? A lot of what the Cast writers do wrong, the series does right. It has its cliches, but I like certain asspects in the story. The girls do at times talk about how guys are cute and 'hawt', but they also treat said males with respect. There are a set of twins who are supposed to be the counter mean girl and it is pulled off well. The characters each have their depth to them to, or at least what I have been able to see. I wish we had more stuff like this to give young ladies, honestly.

zelda_queen March 16 2011, 11:39:07 UTC

I'll have to check that out.

witty_screename March 18 2011, 04:00:34 UTC

Congrats on finishing! :D ( ... )

zelda_queen March 19 2011, 22:33:13 UTC

Thank you very much! ^_^ And yes, I wish there was some way.

It's really weird, the two go on about how PC is treating her daughter like an equal, and Kristen keeps going on about how much she loves it when she writes something and the editor likes her work better than her mom's. It's really...it feels like they're one of those "we're so cool!" parent/child teams. :/

angel_renoir July 5 2011, 01:24:46 UTC

*sigh* Yes. Zoey is a bitch, so much so that slugging through the first 50-or-so pages just killed me. I can't stand her voice AT ALL. The only thing that stopped me from doing anything to the book was because it was a library book. I thought the book had an interesting concept, like the Cherokee thing and the Wiccan-inspired Elemental ritual or whatever, but the Casts didn't fuse the myth inspiration right and made everything seem out of place.

Ugh, I hope I don't make the same mistakes in my story... Myth-fusing IS hard...

zelda_queen July 5 2011, 02:40:14 UTC

Yeah, Zoey's an idiot and just horrible.

I have no idea how the freak the mythology works in this. The vampires worship an ancient Greek goddess, but they use Wiccan rituals, but later it turns out that a fallen angel tried to seduce said ancient Greek goddess so she used ancient Cherokee magic to seal him underground. Also, said fallen angel's half-human descendents are also Cherokee evil spirits called Raven Mockers. No one seems to notice how awkwardly this goes together. Um... O_o

angel_renoir July 5 2011, 02:49:03 UTC

I know! It's just undescribable... What kind of myth are we trying to have here? It's one thing if there is "one true religion" and all these various myths are just various interpretations of this one religions, correct or otherwise, but it's another to moosh together bits and pieces of various religons and beliefs and expect us to think they go together.

Like Greek myth-wise, angels don't really exist (I think). There's gods and titans and demigods and nymphs and spirits and sprites. I'm not well-versed in Cherokee stuff, but so far I know, they don't have angels too. Do they ever establish how exactly this "religion" works? So far I see they're just cribbing names and terms from various others. I mean, okay, they may say that this Ultimate Goddess they worship is called Nyx by the Greeks. Okay. But is her real name Nyx to the vampyres? How did the Greeks interpret her as so and so? Etc etc etc... I mean, Nyx DID claim she was the inspiration for various goddesses and holy figures in various beliefs...

zelda_queen July 5 2011, 02:55:52 UTC

From what I gathered, Nyx is known in pretty much every polytheistic religion, where she stands in as the mother/creator goddess. This includes Cherokee mythology (also, for some reason, she's known as both Nyx and Gaea, even though BOTH WHERE GREEK GODDESSES! >_<). The vampires know her as Nyx, because their ancestors (who apparently were all from Greece because yeah, vampires certainly weren't from anywhere else in the ancient world I'm sure) looked to the Goddess of Night as their patron goddess and protector. From then on, all vampires worship Nyx. I have no idea if they know that she is present under other names in other religions because as far as I can tell, Zoey Redbird is the only character to meet Nyx face-to-face thus far ( ... )