Marked: A House of Night Novel by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast

I'm a big fan of the Twilight series. When I read the summary of this book, I thought, "Great! A Twilight knock-off! This is going to be cheesy!!" I was so wrong! Now, I'm going to have to read the rest of the series!

Zoey is a typical high school student with typical family problems in a not so typical world where vampyres are a way of life and have their own training school in town. Contrary to popular belief, you are not bitten by a vampyre in order to become one. You are marked and forced to make the change to vampyre, or die. Sometimes, the change doesn't work and you die as well. Since things aren't good at home, Zoey goes off to school at the House of Night and encounters a new world full of the same high school cliques and problems she is used to. She makes friends with Stevie Rae, Damien, Erin, Shaunee and her new love interest, Erik. There's also the the "bully, Aphrodite, and her group of Dark Daughters that cause havoc around the school. Along Harry Potter lines, Zoey has to learn to deal with the great powers she has been gifted while keeping the real dark powers at bay including the "ghosts" of fledgling vampyres who didn't make the change.