I knew the Twilight deal was too good to last and about three hours after my blog post, the price was increased to over $46 (which means it is cheaper to buy the individual ebooks instead of the collection). Hopefully some of you managed to take advantage of the low price.Marked ($2.39), by PC and Kristin Cast, Book 1 of her House of Night series, is aimed at the same audience (young adults and those wanting paranormal without the explicit sex of some other series). The only problem I saw with the book is the formatting (in the sample) -- it looks like the PDF used was one with a footer on each page, containing the authors' names and where the page breaks in the PDF would have been, the two author names are jammed into the text, with no spacing between the words. It's typical of a PDF-Mobi conversion that was not proofread or edited before being published. A second problem with the formatting is the excessive use of white space between paragraphs. It may only be two blank lines, but it looks like a lot more and interrupts the reading flow when several small paragraphs occur in a row (especially as only maybe two fit on a page, with all those blank lines, even at font size 2).
Book Description
Enter the dark, magical world of the House of Night, a world very much like our own, except here vampyres have always existed.
One minute, sixteen-year-old Zoey Redbird is a normal teenager dealing with everyday high school stress: her cute boyfriend Heath, the school’s star quarterback who suddenly seems more interested in partying than playing ball; her nosy frenemy Kayla, who’s way too concerned with how things are going with Heath; her uber-tough geometry test tomorrow. The next, she’s Marked as a fledgling vampyre, forcing her to leave her ordinary life behind and join the House of Night, a boarding school where she will train to become an adult vampyre. That is, if she makes it through the Change—and not all of those who are Marked do. It sucks to begin a new life, especially away from her friends, and on top of that, Zoey is no average fledgling. She has been chosen as special by the vampyre Goddess, Nyx. Zoey discovers she has amazing powers, but along with her powers come bloodlust and an unfortunate ability to Imprint with Heath, who just doesn’t know how to take “no” for an answer. To add to her stress, she is not the only fledgling at the House of Night with special powers: when she discovers that the leader of the Dark Daughters, the school's most elite group, is misusing her Goddess-given gifts, Zoey must look deep within herself for the courage to embrace her destiny—with a little help from her new vampyre friends.
