A house of night novel: Awakened by P.C. and Kristin Cast
Book 8. Atom, 2011. ISBN: 9781907410093.
Neferet is back. Re-instated as the Tulsa House of Night's high
priestess she plots her revenge on Zoey Redbird. While Neferet is
distracted the immortal Kalona (bound by oath to Neferet) and son
Rephiem (a raven mocker) focus on the first red high priestess
believing she would be susceptible to darkness. What Kalona and Neferet
do not know is that their plan is being threatened by Rephiem being
imprinted with Stevie Rae. In short this whirlwind of a book should
hold the reader's interest long after it's been read.
After finishing Awakened my thoughts are comparing and
confirming the
similarities with a number of best selling books. P.C. and Kristin
Cast have done something I know many authors have been trying to do:
Make a new story which has all the popular elements of interest. Names
are familiar from well-known legends and quotes said to have been from
Merlin have been used. This book is one of the rare ones that draws the
reader into a new universe of magic and keeps the readers attention
focused on the complicated plots rather then pondering the familiarity
of it all.
(Kayla Gaskell, 15)