#kristin cast

[afterblossom]

Book cover illustration for Draw Down the Moon by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast

Graphic Designer: Kerri Resnick

#book cover #illustration #book cover art #draw down the moon #P.C. Cast #Kristin Cast

[bookaddict24-7]

NEW YOUNG ADULT RELEASES! (APRIL 2ND, 2024)

___

HAVE I MISSED ANY NEW YOUNG ADULT RELEASES? HAVE YOU ADDED ANY OF THESE BOOKS TO YOUR TBR? LET ME KNOW!

___

NEW STANDALONES/FIRST IN A SERIES:

Otherworldly by F.T. Lukens

Hearts Still Beating by Brooke Archer

The Reappearance of Rachel Price by Holly Jackson

The Misdirection of Fault Lines by Anna Gracia

The Black Girl Survives this One by Various

Your Blood, My Bones by Kelly Andrew

The Break-Up Lists by Adib Khorram

Trajectory by Cambria Gordon

Darker by Four by June C.L. Tan

Draw Down the Moon by P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast

Something Kindred by Ciera Burch

No Going Back by Patrick Flores-Scott

Fate be Changed by Farrah Rochon

Call Forth a Fox by Markelle Grabo

Every Time You Hear that Song by Jenna Voris

What if...Loki was Worthy? by Madeleine Roux

NEW SEQUELS:

Wrath of the Talon (Talon #2) by Sophie Kim

___

Happy reading!

#New Releases #New Books #young adult #yalit #yareads #on books #on reading #tbr #to-read #book list #booklr #readers of tumblr #April 2024 #Sophie Kim #Madeleine Roux #Jenna Voris #Markelle Grabo #Farrah Rochon #Patrick Flores-Scott #Ciera Burch #P.C. Cast #Kristin Cast #June C.L. Tan #Cambria Gordon #Adib Khorram #Kelly Andrew #Anna Gracia #Holly Jackson #Brooke Archer #F.T. Lukens

[xdarkeningkrystals]

If HoN's Live Action Adaptation ever gets our of Development Hell, I would not be surprised at how much they will have to clean up everything and even make it completely something different, especially with PC and Kristin's approval. Even Vampire Academy had to be cleaned up and changed up and the books weren't even 1/3 as offensive HoN was. Even for 2007, HoN was very unacceptable so you can't say it was product of its time like VA was.

Plus since Legacies went downhill and even Vampire Academy flopped, I just don't see another Vampire School show doing well nowadays.

#Zoey Redbird #House of Night #PC Cast #Kristin Cast #HoN #Vampire Academy #Legacies

[books-in-a-storm]

JOMP February BPC: Day 15 Love Yo' Shelf

#justonemorepage #jompbpc #booklr #bookblr #book photo challenge #p c cast #kristin cast #alyson noel #funko pop #funko and books

[the-final-sentence]

After all, Naya had proved she and Yana could handle getting a little seasick.

Kristin Cast & Pintip Dunn, from Seasick

#kristin cast #pintip Dunn #seasick

[semper-legens]

30. Revealed, by PC and Kristin Cast

Owned: No, library Page count: 306 My summary: Neferet has been exposed. Disgraced, abandoned even by Darkness, she flies to safety under a tree to regroup and rethink. Meanwhile, Zoey and her friends have problems of their own. After the shocking death of their friend Erin, splinters have formed - can Zoey and her friends accept more red fledgelings coming to the Light? And Aurox is becoming more like Heath, causing Stark's possessiveness to go into overdrive. Zoey's got a lot on her plate… My rating: 1/5 My commentary:

So! Close! To! The! End! The last book is on its way to the library, but it's coming from outside my county so it's probably gonna take a while. Which means both I and you will have a break from it for a bit, thankfully. The penultimate book in the House of Night series. It's all coming to a dramatic climax, you guys! By which I mean more teenage angst, more circling around the same five plot points, and more dumb bullshit drama for no reason. As is the trademark of this series. So, without any further ado, let's get into…all of that.

First off, this book comes with a helping of Neferet's backstory. And it's stupid as hell! See, apparently Neferet was abused by her father as a child before being Marked. This is all kind of glossed over in a few paragraphs, no need to focus on it. Because the real pain for her came from when her cat died. She prayed to Nyx to save the cat, and Nyx gave her the ability to soothe pain…but the cat still died. And that was Neferet's start of darkness. Because God didn't save her cat. She then goes on to be a slutty slut slutterson, getting with different creepy guys for no particular reason other than to feel power. One of whom is a vamp Warrior who, like, is a masochist - literally, sexually - and that's both his whole characterisation and a bad thing for some reason? Because he's into being hurt? And then she drives one of her would-be suitors to off himself, because he annoyed her? For a subplot that should exist to make Neferet less one-dimensional, it's really not succeeding. She's just an oversexualised villain, at the end of the day. And seriously, girl, why was the cat the breaking point here?

Zoey's anger issues are a large part of the plot here, especially the later plot, but as usual they are not really handled well at all. The idea is that Zoey is getting angrier and more influenced by Old Magjyk (ugh) and will eventually end up doing something bad that she can't come back from. Aphrodite sees this in a vision and, despite her entire characterisation being 'blunt bitch mean girl who is reluctantly on the side of Good', doesn't say anything about it and instead recruits Shaylin to stalk her for a bit and spy on her magical aura in both an underhanded and unsubtle way which just makes the situation worse. Once again, characters picking up the idiot ball for drama. And the explosion comes with Zoey accidentally using her Seer Stone to kill two homeless guys in a park, which…one, I feel like if it's accidental it kind of negates the idea of it being a facet of Zoey's character if it was an unintended magical side-effect. Two, we've literally had this plot point before when Zoey smashed a car into some guys, and she didn't face any real consequences then? And three, it comes pretty much out of nowhere - there is a build with Zoey becoming more pissed off with everything around her, but it's not that unreasonable a reaction to her environment and the things that are happening to her. Once again, a minor character trait is introduced as a massive flaw just to give the characters some extra drama.

One big thing that Zoey et al keeps going on about with Thanatos is that 'We're not bickering kids!' - she wants herself and her friends to be taken seriously as adults and as sensible people, and resents being infantilised. The problem is that Zoey and her friends are just acting like bickering children constantly. They care more about their interpersonal issues than anything more important. They bitch and moan at each other constantly. They deal with everything like a stereotypical teenager from a mean girl Disney Channel movie. It's so obviously meant to be a 'don't underestimate teens!' style power fantasy, but the kids aren't being smart about anything they do. That kind of power fantasy only works if the teens do have a point and are being talked down to by the adults in their lives! Not if the adults are being pretty reasonable and the teens are making everything worse!

Stark's possessiveness rears its head here - by which I mean, shows up again because we gotta have a love triangle. Man, one of the very few things I was going to give to this series was that it seemed to have dropped the love triangle bullshit in the later books but nope, here it is again, this time between Stark and Aurox. Which is dumb for several reasons, mostly that Zoey doesn't consciously want to be with Aurox, she's just got the spiritual hots for him because he's Heath and soulmates are a thing apparently. And Stark is pissed, despite the fact that Zoey is trying to talk to him about it and trying to open communication about it and trying to work through it, and Stark is just doing the caveman NO ME ANNOYED thing, and it's exactly the goddamn same as every fucking time that a love triangle has shown up in this series. Exactly the same! It wasn't even interesting the first time!

And finally - hey, remember how there's been this whole thing about Erin going over to the bad guys for no real reason and none of her so-called friends seem to care about her? Yeah, so she dies at the start of this one. Just, boom! Neferet ghosts through her and she dies. And the gang get over it pretty damn easy. Shaunee is the only one who actually seems to give a fuck. Meanwhile, her replacement is coming in with the form of red fledgeling Nicole, who wants to come over to the good guys also for no stated reason. And she kisses Shaylin, I guess? Just as I was about to criticise the series for not realising lesbians are real. Still, this is a penultimate-book romance between two incredibly minor characters - if you were going to add lesbians, why not have Stevie Rae and Aphrodite be a thing around when they were Imprinted, or have like Erin and Shaunee get together or something? Not these two girls who got introduced very last-minute who I don't care about and have no connection to.

Next, something thankfully different - a trip to the North Pole.

#Revealed #PC Cast #Kristin Cast #bookblr #book blog #book blogger #1

[moirald]

“𝕀 𝕤𝕖𝕖𝕜 𝕤𝕥𝕣𝕖𝕟𝕘𝕥𝕙, 𝕟𝕠𝕥 𝕥𝕠 𝕓𝕖 𝕘𝕣𝕖𝕒𝕥𝕖𝕣 𝕥𝕙𝕒𝕟 𝕠𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕣𝕤, 𝕓𝕦𝕥 𝕥𝕠 𝕗𝕚𝕘𝕙𝕥 𝕞𝕪 𝕘𝕣𝕖𝕒𝕥𝕖𝕤𝕥 𝕖𝕟𝕖𝕞𝕪, 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕕𝕠𝕦𝕓𝕥𝕤 𝕨𝕚𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕟 𝕞𝕪𝕤𝕖𝕝𝕗.” -ℤ𝕠𝕖𝕪 ℝ𝕖𝕕𝕓𝕚𝕣𝕕

This is the quote that I used on my first House of Night post here on Instagram (not my first HoN cosplay because I loved drawing the marks on before I ever posted). It’s crazy how many years have passed since joining an amazing community I didn’t even know existed.

This quote means a lot to me because I know my greatest enemy is the doubts I have of myself, and I know many of us feel that way. I am so thankful to the people who lift me up and support me no matter what. Many of those people are from the House of Night community, and I feel like that just goes to show how amazing this series, authors, and community are! I hope House of Night gets picked up soon, so even more people around the world can experience the love and magick it has to offer!

#book series #vampire #hontv #house of night #houseofnight #pc cast #zoey redbird #zoeyredbird #kristin cast #ya books #actress #books #fantasy #fledgling #photography #bookseries

[maepolzine]

The Era of YA Vampire Books

Talking about YA Fantasy (Vampire) books from the late 2000s and early 2010s.

I was looking at my bookcase, and I still have a bunch of books from when I was a teenager. I went through a serious vampire phase. Don’t get me wrong I still love a good vampire book. But there’s something about the late 2000s and early 2010s in young adult fantasy books, where there were a lot of books featuring vampires. Now, I didn’t read all of them and most of the book series I’m going to…

View On WordPress

#blue bloods #book #book series #fantasy #fiction #house of night #kristin cast #lj smith #melissa de la cruz #pc cast #Pop Culture #richelle mead #stephenie meyer #the vampire diaries #twilight #vampire academy #vampires #young adult

[strawberryshortpace]

I’m re-reading the house of night series and god I want to make these books into a tv/movie series so badly cause I can picture it so perfectly

Almost the entire show will be ironic and have a campy feel to it will lean heavily into the basic early 2000s trends (the main character voice over, preferably while writing in a diary. The outfits. The phones. The references)

The whole thing will have everyone questioning whether it’s satire or not

#answer: it is #though obviously I would be changing some of the language #get rid of all the vaguely homophobic ableist language that was so normal back then #house of night #pc cast #kristin cast #zoey redbird

[anotherenglishmajorxo]

also i have an itch to go and reread one of my favorite comfort books once i’m done with Drizzt. 

And that book (series) is the House of Night and the Vampire Academy/Bloodlines by PC & Kristin Cast and Richelle Mead

#booklr #comfort reads #house of night #pc cast #kristin cast #vampire academy #bloodlines #richelle mead

[katsotherworld]

I want a set of novellas like what P.C. and Kristin Cast did for the House of Night series for The Hunger Games, like just shorts that explore characters, I'd love a little short thing about Cinna, Katniss' parents meeting and falling in love (maybe even featuring the baker who lost out), Haymitch's game, like there's so much to explore with novellas.

#kats thinking things #the hunger games #house of night series #pc cast #kristin cast #house of night novella

[sierratimberlyn]

House of Night🌙

Zoey Redbird: @moirald

Shaunee Cole: @charmedchay

Stevie Rae: @sierratimberlyn

#hontv #house of night #houseofnight #cosplay #stevie rae #stevie rae johnson #stevierae #house of night series #zoey redbird #zoeybird #stevie rae johnson cosplay #stevieraejohnsoncosplay #stevie rae cosplay #house of night the series #pccast #kristin cast #kcastauthor #sierra timberlyn #sierra #actors #cosplayer

[booksnotbombs]

Wrap Up July 2022

No school and only a halftime job so this meant lots of time for reading books and the ENTIRE HEARTSTOPPER SERIES! Fuck Yeah :D

Boyfriend Material - Alexis Hall: Another highly anticipated YA book and it DID NOT DISSAPOINT, found myself wanting to scream at the main characters and wanting to bang their heads together in a KISS NOW fashion... :p

Explore Your World: Weird, Wild Amazing! - Tim Flannery & Sam Caldwell (illustrations): picked this one up for the beautiful illustrations and learned some new animals... also the author Tim Flannery shares a lot of funny anecdotes.

HEARTSTOPPER SERIES - Alice Oseman: After I read the first graphic novel I was HEART OVER HEELS about the book: the characters, the drawing style, the plot and the angst... I bought the other three a couple of months ago and read all four of them this month.... looking forward to number five next year!

The Switch - Beth O’Leary: I loved her debut The Flatshare so I was very curious for this one... And I loved it just as much... Nice Feelgood! ❤️

Big Panda and Tiny Dragon - James Norbury: A poetic book with beautifull drawings and wisdoms...

Marked (House of Night series #1) - P.C Cast & Kristin Cast: Discovered this teenage vampire series in English at my local library. Hidden in the long forgotten English Fiction section and it has five books in the series :p It has all the teenage vampire tropes but also some nice twists. Be prepared for a lot of swooning over the love interests...

#booklr #books #review #alexis hall #tim flannery #sam caldwell #alice oseman #james norbury #pc cast #kristin cast

[books-in-a-storm]

Unicorn

#mybooks #booklr #bookblr #books #funko pop #funko and books #pop boxes #p c cast #kristin cast #alyson noel #funko collection #january 2024

[semper-legens]

29. Hidden, by PC and Kristin Cast

Owned: No, library Page count: 302 My summary: The truth is out. The world know how terrible Neferet is - or, at least, they should. But while she's been shunned from the House of Night, Neferet is working her evil magic on the humans surrounding it. She's conned herself into the mayor's office, into a penthouse suite, and into a dangerous position for Zoey and her friends. The Darkness still needs sacrifices. And what better victim than Grandma Redbird? My rating: 1/5 My commentary:

Speedrun, speedrun, only got three more of these let's go! What else is there to say about the House of Night at this point? Not a lot. It's still bad, it's still offensive and bigoted, it's still a giant piece of shit. And I'm still getting a perverse kind of joy from seeing just how bad it is. Seriously, though I'm going to be glad to see the back of this series, I don't actually regret having read it. If nothing else, it's a great what-not-to-do when it comes to crafting a story. Just do the absolute opposite of House of Night, and you've made a reasonably solid story! Yay! Anyway, let's get into it.

So, picking up from the pointlessness last time, we kick off here with Lenobia and a fire in the stables. And we learn one more thing about Lenobia! Is it about her as a character, or about her relationship to sex and romance? Surprise! The latter. Yeah, turns out Lenobia's pointless sexy cowboy is actually the reincarnation of her lost love from when she first came to America in the 1700s. After he died (because she failed to save him, natch) she swore she'd never love another person. Travis is that guy's soul come back to her after so long, and it's a stupid plot point for two reasons. Reason one - the dead lover was a black man from New Orleans, while Travis is explicitly white. Which…is not a good look. Black lover is fridged, white lover is endgame. Given that the only other men of colour are Kalona and Rephaim (maybe? I don't remember if Rephaim is actually described as looking Cherokee) this is not a particularly good look. Reason two - we're just doing soulmates, I guess. Lenobia has exactly one person she's allowed to be in a relationship ever. Zoey's thing with Heath (more on that later) is a very similar vibe, they're just ~cosmically connected~ and so they've gotta be endgame. People aren't allowed to develop attractions to each other! Don't be silly! You've got to get with the one person you're cosmically destined to be with! Bleh.

Most of the ongoing plot of this one concerns Neferet's rise in human society, a plot point that…does not really go anywhere. It's not even that Neferet needs to struggle to get to the top in human society, she literally just goes up to the mayor like 'you support me unconditionally now' and he's like 'duh you're hot okay sure'. It's bizarre how mundane the conflict between Neferet and Team Zoey is here. Team Zoey are trying to make her seem like a disgruntled ex-employee, and both sides are using the news media to influence people to their way of thinking. Which, given that Neferet's 'exposing' Stark as a murderer, feels…disproportionate? The worldbuilding, or lack thereof, is being thrown into focus here. Surely the police would have something to say about Stark being a murderer? Like, it's established that the vamps are allowed by the police to take care of their own security and policing and such, which is fine, but a) this has not come up so often and b) the amount of vamps there are in the world makes this suspect? At various points, the worldwide vamp population has been implied to both be substantial and not so much. Almost every celebrity has been said to be a vamp in this world, and yet vamp numbers are actually small enough that the world governments apparently just let them take care of themselves with no other oversight. Vampires are supposed to be both incredibly powerful and influential and also a minority, both at the same time? It's vague to the point where you're obviously not meant to think about it, but incidents like this just bring into light the fact that it hasn't been well thought through. Hey, Casts? If you're not gonna worldbuild this stuff, don't bring it up.

More Aurox…ugh. Once again, we're circling the 'badboy redeemed' trope. Honestly, it wouldn't even bug me that much if it wasn't exactly the damn same every time it showed up. The Boy has done some shitty things, but feels bad about them and wants to change. Some people won't give him the time of day, but at least one other person, usually his love interest, is ride or die for him and totally believes he has changed. Over time, the change is proved to be correct, usually with one big heroic action. Stark, Rephaim, and Kalona have all had this arc. Can we have a different arc please. It's getting boring.

So the big climax to this one comes when Neferet kidnaps Grandma Redbird to use her as a sacrifice to the Darkness, which means it's time to talk about Grandma a bit more. Grandma is Zoey's Cherokee grandmother. That is also the extent of her characterisation. She is loving, forgiving, spiritual, and always knows the right thing to say. Everyone loves her. She has no flaws. She is perfect. She knows everything. And she's boring as hell. She's not a character, she's a plot device! Grandma Redbird exists either to be a perfect moral guide or to give exposition about Cherokee culture and spiritual practice (which, as we've talked about previously, isn't by necessity actual Cherokee culture). Oh, and to be in danger. This is, what, the third time her life's been endangered? There's no tension in it anymore, because there's no way that the Casts will actually have anything bad happen to her. Zoey's mother can die, because she was a bitch, but Grandma? Nah, she's too good to die. I never got the feeling here that anything bad was actually gonna happen to her, because she's bounced back from being the damsel in distress so many times.

And finally…good Lord, I cannot believe that it has taken me this long to realise exactly what's wrong with Nyx as a plot element. To be fair, I haven't given much thought to Nyx as a character to this point; she literally just shows up to be a perfect mother goddess and be right about everything and then disappear. But the climax of this book comes about when Zoey and co are scared and unsure of what to do about Neferet kidnapping Grandma Redbird. Zoey prays to Nyx, and essentially gets the answer that she needs to stop cowering in the darkness and actually do something. All very fine and well, and even a half-decent plot beat. The thing is that how the plot actually resolves is that Kramisha gives Zoey one of her prophetic poems, and it tells Zoey exactly what to do to save the day. And since Nyx gives Kramisha her visions, this is essentially just Nyx ssaving the day with Zoey as a conduit. And the problem with all of this is that it's the worst of the conservative Christian idea of God and humankind's relationship to God. God is infallible and doing what He wants will always solve your problem. Nyx is always right, and finding what Nyx wants you to do, even if it's hard, is always the right path. Zoey has free will, but pretty much any path other than specifically what Nyx wants her to do is usually wrong. I don't know much about what the Casts believe theologically, but I really wouldn't be surprised if it was a 'raised Christian, switched to 70s Neo-Paganism' kind of thing, because Nyx here just reads as if the Casts switched Christian God for a mother goddess without really changing anything about how they percieve this deity and their relationship to said deity. I've been getting the vibe as we go through the series that Nyx does some shitty things, but I'm not sure I was meant to? Her forgiveness of people like Kalona and Rephraim seems overly punitive at times, but at this late stage in the series there's no room for that to be an arc or anything, I think we're supposed to take as read that Nyx is perfect. And that just skeeves me out in general.

Next, I told you it was a speedrun! The penultimate installment of the House of Night series!

#Hidden #PC Cast #Kristin Cast #bookblr #book blog #1

[moirald]

Shaunee Cole & Zoey Redbird

Shaunee and Zoey are characters in the House of Night series by P.C. & Kristin Cast. A mother daughter duo who have had their books on The NY Times bestsellers list. They are talented when writing together, but also when writing their own books. Here, Shaunee is portrayed by Chakayla Johnson, and Zoey is portrayed by Moira Lan Davis.

You can read more about the series on Amazon and other book sites, and find out more on the official House of Night Facebook page and tiktok.

You can find more House of Night content on all socials of @ Charmedchay and @ MoiraLanDavis.

#actress #book series #hontv #house of night #houseofnight #pc cast #vampire #zoey redbird #zoeyredbird #kristin cast #ya books #books #cosplay #fantasy #ya fantasy #magick #fledgling #Shauneecole #Shaunee Cole