Title: Betrayed
Genre: fantasy (contemporary)
Author: PC Cast and Kristin
Publisher: Editions Nord
Year: 2008
Pages: 365
Plot
After becoming head of the Dark Daughters, Zoey believes he has fulfilled the task for which he branded the Goddess. Must now think again, because for a strange reason the people I met during his human life are involved in disappearances resulting in death. Death from bite wounds that only beasts, or vampires, they can provide. And the investigators' suspicions fall on human Zoey. Despite the justifications provided by Neferet, Zoey's mentor and his second mother, she feels that the threat discovered at the end of the Marked is at work. Thanks also to the unexpected help of Aphrodite, Zoey discovers the terrible plan that is hidden behind the red-eyed ghosts of dead vampires, and learns that his most trusted people can be fearful of traitors.
Comments
Betrayed is less Marked. I can not understand how the technique could be vary much from the first book in the second, from good to bad special, nor is unclear to me why the inconsistencies in the character of Zoey. The story turned out to be quite boring, with only two interesting twists on Neferet and the ending. The rest is a continuous wandering adolescent vulgarity on American Pie and such trivialities as the new set-up to Dark Daughters. Of course two things are not important to the story. The characters are not detailed at all, are a bunch of stereotypes, except for Aphrodite that reveals many surprises. Loren Blake at the beginning is interesting, but then he ends in the prototype of the beautiful and damned cool, and actually plot something. Zoey, in the first book that seemed to be a bit 'of salt and at least one character rather becomes a hypocrite worse than it was Aphrodite and worthy to be on par with Heath and his friends means deficient. It may well be there a teenage girl complexed and nuisance, the ramps too gooders in fantasy, but we must manage it well. You can not put sentences moralistic into the mouth of a vampire with a future as a real horny slut that criticizes the behavior of others too exuberant, and vulgar. In addition, at least that it had any role in the history! But no, you do not add anything of value, even the psychology of the protagonist. That normal teenager but charismatic, becomes disagreeable Sue worse Nihal. Of course, not whimper to get what they want, but uses way more "persuasive". I get the idea. Busy
how to juggle three suitors (yes, all drooling for her, although each for a different reason), I do not see why it should bother the spirits of the dead vampire and all the mess in the school. First he says he does not want the power, Then you come to the delusions of leadership and heroism. The only valid reason is when Aphrodite has the vision to his grandmother. Good also the scene of the reception parents. Let
writing. Annoying, even if the tone is sarcastic comic in part and makes the story smooth and enjoyable. The infodump sprout like mushrooms, long and horrible, absolutely not desirable. The summary of previous games to do fiction on TV! For the rest, good descriptions, as Marked. The authors, but the smears already indicated, they know quite well the main techniques of writing. That however does not compensate for the banality of the story and characters. Betrayed is the level of Twilight, I just think it on enough, and I do not think that going forward may improve the story. I have already read the threads in detail in other books, as well as those released in America, and the trend is that, except a few grains here and there. Perhaps they read out of curiosity, that's all, but I would not advise them.
rating
6-Sufficient
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