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LOVED // return to the House Of Night

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Plot:

From The House of Night series comes a new trilogy following the kick-ass heroine that is Zoey Redbird.The world won't stay safe for long... 
It's Zoey's eighteenth birthmas and the Nerd Herd has been scattered across the country busily adulting for almost a year when Stark calls them back to Tulsa to surprise Z. But all is not well in T-Town. Strange, dark signs are appearing--could it be possible Neferet is stirring? Not willing to chance disaster striking again, Zoey calls on her newly reunited friends to circle with her and add a layer of protection over Neferet's grotto jail. Easy-peasy, right?
Wrong. Nothing at the House of Night is ever as it seems. 
With rabid red vampyres closing in, Zoey and the Nerd Herd must come together again and battle evil. But a year is a long time. Have these old friends grown too far apart? 
When the world fractures and allies become enemies, will darkness devour friendships or will light save those she's loved?


Review:

This was a wild read, I'll tell you that. I have to confess that I somehow went into this without having realised that it was connected to the original House Of Night series, of which I very vaguely remember only reading the first book many years ago. Needless to say, my memories of it were right about gone. Because of this, I pretty much went into this book blind. Thankfully, the authors make it very easy for you to catch up with what you've missed and they offer a handy list of who's who's and who's done what at the beginning of the book. This makes it easy enough to pick the book up even if you, like me, haven't read the entire House Of Night series beforehand. 
That being said, I do think that you're most likely to enjoy this book if you have read the series in the past and would like to see where the characters I going. The book very much feels like a revival of the very early 2000s YA paranormal - it's campy and it's dramatic and it's a little bit addictive. That being said, I think that may make it a little bit outdated, so there's a certain level of suspension of disbelief and a nostalgia factor that would come into it to fully appreciate this, I think. 
While it was a bit difficult to keep track of all the characters even with the list -as this is a rather large ensemble cast- I did think that the authors did a great job giving you a sense of a lot of the characters and their motivations. Truth be told, I do think I would have enjoyed the story more had the majority of it been centered around Aphrodite, but hey ho. 
If you're  a fan of the original House Of Night series and have been left waiting for more, you now know that there's much more waiting for you, starting with Loved.

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