Oh Yeah, Neferet? SO Not Dumbledore.

I am referring to my post on Marked, the first book in the House of Night series by P. C. and Kristin Cast (Betrayed happens to be the second). I said there were a lot of similarities between the Harry Potter series and this vampyre series. Which there are...
... So it makes sense that Neferet, Zoey's supposed mentor and headmaster of the House of Night vampire school which Zoey attends since she is now on her way to becoming a full-fledged vampyre, would be the Dumbledore to Zoey's Harry Potter, right?
WRONG. In Betrayed, we see how there is seriously something wrong with Neferet. She has some strange connection to the vampire-zombie things that have been roaming around. And by vampire-zombies, I mean vampyre fledglings who were witnessed to have died and are now back, roaming around with major redeye. Really creepy; they actually scare me. So Zoey is trying to figure out this conundrum, but she's also got a lot more on her plate: she's the new leader of the Dark Daughters, her school's equivalent to student council, she's cheating on her vampyre boyfriend Erik who is away with her human exboyfriend Heath, and her friends have discovered THEY have powers too, and each friend has a power tied to a specific element. Things just keep getting stranger and stranger at the House of Night, don't they?
I love how Zoey makes some unexpected allies throughout this book, while she also has to cut ties with those she KNOWS are bad for her. Like she starts to take advice from her ex-mortal-enemy, Aphrodite (yeah, remember her? The meanie popular prat?) and she also forms bonds with a human detective from the police force investigating mysterious disappearances...
Things just get better and more suspenseful through this series, I love the twists and turns. And yes, some plot twists I could see coming, but others, such as the whole Heath plotline, were totally unexpected. And while Zoey deals with normal teenage problems, she also has zany crises like how to deal with the fact she longs to drink her human boyfriend's blood and he actually wants her to.
All in all, a great book and I'm so looking forward to reading the rest of this series. I gotta see what Zoey does next. ♠♠♠♠♠