Chosen (House of Night, Book 3)

An excellent book that illustrates faith in oneself and courage. While everything is going wrong for our heroin, she doesn't let it destroy her. This character doesn't feel self-pity, she rolls with it, and keeps moving forward. It's a great read for teens and adults.

Alright, it was a mistake to read this book when the 4th one isn't out yet. It has the biggest 'cliff hanger' of all the books, and leaves you feeling more than a little pissed off. At one point when Zoey doesn't defend herself (which is what I think her character would do) you just want to throw the book down and quit reading it. I'm one of those people that needs closure, and if you don't have the 4th book handy, you definatley will be tapping your fingers til September (especially if you've made it this far).

I mean... at first the books were marginally awesome. I would have gave the others 4 stars but this one... It was horrid in so many ways. Why has Zoey done this to everyone ESPECIALLY Erik? What happened to her judgement? Now she is acting like a little love struck 11 year-old! I hope more than anythin things will be okay. Even though, she... tore up here life in one AWFUL decision. She needs to seriously sort out her problems.
I can not believe she cheated on Erik. I will keep continuing the series ONLY because of mere curiousity! I hope no offense to the writers the next one is better, and does not make Zoey look l...like a total Child.
I never ever bielived a 17 year-old judgment could be so... so... twisted. And what we younger children are suppose to look up to her. She is strange, but strong. I hope she improves EVERYTHING.
I hope now that she is almost an adult she will have MUCH better judgement toward.... . Any way Goodluck Zoey. I will always beileve in you just improve on you judgment.

This book shows how Zoey Redbird is growing into the lovly High Priestess we will soon see her become.

Chosen was even more action packed than the first two books in the series. Things started off slowly, and by then end, I was left sort of shell-shocked, wondering how everything had spiraled out of control so easily.

Still reeling from the events of Betrayed, Zoey is trying to continue in her position of leadership of the Dark Daughters, while attempting to figure out how to untangle her romantic life, save her best friend, and deal with the fact that the High Priestess of the school has become twisted and evil. Zoey makes some hard choices, including keeping secrets from her friends and lying to her boyfriend Erik, in order to do what she thinks is right; only in the end does she realize that her lies and deceptions have played right into Neferet's hands.

The third book was really hard to read, because all along, I knew that Zoey's secrets would eventually catch up to her. In lying to her friends, who would have helped her with Stevie Rae and tried to keep the secret, she demonstrates that she doesn't trust them, and that she is in turn not worthy of their trust. Even though she makes decisions, she doesn't stick to them, like with her decision to stop seeing Heath and not allow herself to be swayed by Loren Blake. All of her strength of will seems to have disappeared.

The hardest part to read was her betrayal of Erik, during his Change, with Loren. All along she has been telling Erik that she was better than Aphrodite, and her actions made her look, to him, exactly the same. Zoey had a long, hard fall off of that pedestal.

The one-dimensionality of supporting characters continues to bother me. All the realness of Zoey's friends seems to have vanished in this book--how could only one of them have known that she didn't like Christmassy birthday presents? And, even if they were hurt by her lying to them about Stevie Rae, the fact that they were supposed to be her closest friends and they couldn't even give her the chance to explain why she did it rankled. Even Neferet is extremely one sided, and as the villainess, she should have something interesting to bring to the table. We've only seen glimpses of her hatred of humans, and her darkness--give us a real reason to root for Zoey, other than the fact that the story is in her head.

I'll be reading the 4th book, but I'm definitely hoping for a stronger storyline, less romantic moping, and more strength and determination from Zoey.