UGHHHH I decided to read some of the vampire books besides Twilight. I was kind of hoping this would all go away but people keep asking me about vampire books and I just sort of assume they are all like Twilight. But House of Night--at least the first one--is WAY WORSE THAN TWILIGHT OH MY GOD.

This book has an annoying protagonist who's basically the Best Vampyre Ever (a lot like Bella, actually, but at least Bella spells "vampire" correctly). Also, she's part Cherokee and has Cherokee Magick too. I will let Debbie Reese handle that: http://americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/search/label/House%20of%20Night

Also, she's really into slut-shaming other vampyres.

Reading this book made me appreciate Meg Cabot even more than I already did. Zoey (that's our annoying narrator) talks in a way that's reminiscent of Princess Diaries' Mia, but TERRIBLE. Meg Cabot makes that kind of spazzy teenage voice sound, like, totally natural and not annoying. Zoey makes it TERRIBLE. (Random example: "My cute Bug was sitting there where she always sat--right in front of the third door to our three car garage. The step-loser wouldn't let me park her inside because he said the lawnmower was more important. (More important than a vintage VW? How? That didn't even make sense. Jeesh, I just sounded like a guy. Since when did I care about the vintageness of my Bug? I must really be Changing.")

I skimmed about the last third of this book. God, I hated it. It made Twilight look sooo good.