Marked: Final Assessment

[zelda_queen]

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

Comments

I just read this book (and the spork)

[often_partisan]

"In this case, it's regarding how everyone treats the poor guy. Yeah, that stereotypical description I gave him, how he was hot, involved with the theater, and a geek?"

Stuff like this (the male-female inversion thing with the Dark Daughters being dominant over the Dark Sons) could have made for an interesting inversion from a patriarchal human society, for example if Zoey had been raised to expect to be a housewife and mother as per the ultraconservative People of Faith and having to adjust to different views on the role of men and women, or something like that. Or Erik had been raised to be a dominant male etc. Instead we get nothing.

A rant about Elliott...Elliott's death irritated the crap out of me. Simply because of their reactions to it. Elliott could have been an interesting character, one who doesn't want to be part of the vampire world and one that knows he's doomed due to his failing grades but doesn't want to die. The characters' reaction to his death is not realistic I mean firstly they would be more freaked out but

Re: I just read this book (and the spork)

[zelda_queen]

"Stuff like this (the male-female inversion thing with the Dark Daughters being dominant over the Dark Sons) could have made for an interesting inversion from a patriarchal human society, for example if Zoey had been raised to expect to be a housewife and mother as per the ultraconservative People of Faith and having to adjust to different views on the role of men and women, or something like that. Or Erik had been raised to be a dominant male etc. Instead we get nothing

[anonymous]

It's a bit funny that somebody called PC writes something so offensive.

The only upside of this book, for me, is that the Jamaican character wasn't as annoying as I thought she'd be.

[zelda_queen]

Would this Jamaican character be the upcoming Kramisha, who according to TV Tropes falls under Soul Sister and Jive Turkey?