House Of Night Gets EVEN WORSE | 'Hunted' Breakdown

www.sense.org.uk/
NEW INSTA PLZ FOLLOW: / bigalizeeyeezy
Check out my merch store here: ayclothing.tee...
Merch artwork by Jenny Pond. Website: www.jpartwork..... IG: @jpartwork
Thumbnail artist: / maschinemind
2nd Editor: Rachel Oates: / @racheloates
Check out ExpressVPN today and get 3 extra months free when purchasing a 12-month plan through my link: www.expressvpn...
Subscribe to my podcast channel HERE: / @thealizeeyeezyshow
Spotify: open.spotify.c...
buy my ebook here! www.amazon.co....
/ therealalizeeyeezy
www.paypal.me/...
I'm back at it again with another book review, today we are looking at book 5 of the House of Night series: Hunted. Is House of Night the most controversial set of vampire stories in YA fiction? idk.
#Booktube #Booktok #Vampires #bookreview #HouseOfNight #alizee

[@tyler-df3wy]

I feel like 86% of the misogyny in this series could have been resolved if Zoey realised that her resentment for women is actually her being super horny

[@myrianrose3619]

Now we know why no amount of boyfriends at once could keep her from looking elsewhere

[@marocat4749]

true. and migt be even a decent character arc.

[@Nathi98]

Her reaction to Stevie Rae/Aphrodite/Aphrodite's boyfriend reminded me of my reaction of seeing Evan Buckley/Taylor Kelly's insane ST I am bi, she is in denial & a coward

[@mikeyjamieson4715]

Someone commented on the first HON vid that Zoey gave off major repressed lesbian vibes.

[@Nathi98]

@rach3092 Yes unfortunately that too...

[@andyareyouok]

Congratulations on 4+ years of sobriety! If this series didn’t break you, you’re well and truly unflappable

[@amelieshuman3324]

Aphrodite assaults Eric in first book: calls her a slut for the entire series Stark attempts to rape a girl: insists he's a good guy on the same page Zoey, the High Priestess of Misogyny

[@warlordofbritannia]

For someone who’s supposedly a Mean Girl and named after a Greek goddess, Aphrodite is a damn saint. Not only has she had a whole character arc while no one else has, but she’s carrying the plot like that one friend in DnD who clearly was a military genius in a past life.

[@fall_tea8857]

Idk if the author was a Greek nerd or what but Aphrodite-the goddess of love was actually characterized as very toxic. A very overprotective mother, shipper who had a literal war happen for a ship and is incredibly jealous.

[@TheRoyaoticDM]

@@fall_tea8857 personally I believe the author got beef with the goddess Aphrodite. I swear with how the character gets done, she gotta have issues with the goddess she’s named after. 😂

[@LifeOfTheAngels]

The whole treating Aphrodite like she’s a mean girl pariah is getting old, and it’s very annoying how the books just won’t allow her to have a character arc, ironically she has but the text doesn’t even acknowledge that she’s had this immense character growth and hasn’t behaved the same for like past 4 books atp, meanwhile the main four characters have stayed the same the whole time, and Aphrodite continues to suffer I hate it here

[@Jadeeee2323]

Bruh fr.

[@NearsightedNarhwal]

She doesn’t even seem that mean? Personality wise anyways 😭😭 (especially compared to the mc… who we’re suppose to root for) Like every bad thing she does feels forced so the mc has a random reason to hate her. It feels like Chloe from MLB

[@grandempressvicky6387]

@@NearsightedNarhwal Chloe is definitely the best comparison here. This kind of poor writing comes about when writers invest WAY too much of their real feelings/traumas from real life and aren't able to separate the person that hurt them from the character.

[@shaybribri]

I love how Shaunee is complete different shades of chocolates and caramels every book

[@TenderNoodle]

Like a mood ring,,,, but only with various shades of brown.

[@H8box]

Delicious.

[@C1ouDN1n3]

That paaart

[@bethanychatman9531]

Yeah, it's insane. It's almost like they don't actually have to comment on her skin color as much or at all. It's like they don't have anything for her character and they want points for having a black character in it.

[@PriyaPans]

I'm assuming the Cast Duo don't really understand coffee OR chocolatem

[@ИевлеваКатя]

Kinda funny of Aphrodite to be all like "is Erik pressuring you about sex?" to Zoe, after she'd borderline SA-d him in book one

[@gemstonerose4648]

Not excusing what Aphrodite did, but a way both of those statements could be true is Eric did pressuure her in the beginning and when wanted to break up with her she tried to use sex because in her eyes that's sth that's high on his list of things he values. Although don't think the authors would consider it.

[@neffrey]

i feel like the cast duo are the type of people who will never shut up about how much the gays love them but whenever they see a bisexual man dating a woman they get weirdly upset because they want them to be their gay best friend

[@bethanychatman9531]

I feel that too. I also had very racist views but, don't see them self as racist, because they're not cartoonishly evil.

[@TheCowgirlBookworm]

@@bethanychatman9531 they wrote a book where the main character basically does blackface

[@leahmanning2098]

​@@TheCowgirlBookwormwhen?

[@TheCowgirlBookworm]

@@leahmanning2098 Moon Chosen by PC features a main character who is mixed, although the terms black and white aren’t really used to refer to the two tribes that she is descended from. She lives with her mother and her people and routinely had to use a muddy paste to thicken her features and darken her complexion as well as dye her hair because according to her if the tribe found out she was mixed they would abandon her and her mother, despite the fact that her mother is essentially their absolutely necessary priestess. Their tribe has a sickness that means unless the people are “washed” in moonlight the women become essentially depressed and can literally do nothing but weep while the men turn into monsters who, ah, will assault any woman they can find. It’s very gross, and at one point after the mother dies the MC just sits in her cave and listens to all the men going around and assaulting women. This was published in 2016.

[@ghostinthecity]

​@@TheCowgirlBookworm this woman has a mixed race daughter but doesn't understand that someone can be fully black and lightskin 😭

[@sophiet.3426]

i always wondered why the Casts made Dracula Zoey’s favourite book when clearly neither them, nor, in extension, Zoey, have read it. Count Dracula is not in love with Mina. That’s just not something that canonically happens in the book. It just isn’t true no matter how you look at the source material. I believe they must have gotten that from some movie adaptation and just ran with it, or maybe I’m going insane

[@poxidog]

.... I think the one that came out when I was a kid he was in love with her, soul mates reincarnated or something. Don't really know, didn't watch it. Incidentally I haven't read the book either, but I do want to

[@bethanychatman9531]

I think Bram stroker's Dracula. The one with Winona Ryder and Gary Oldman.

[@sophiet.3426]

@@bethanychatman9531 it makes sense because I can imagine them going: “Hm it’s called BRAM STOKERS Dracula, so it must be exactly like the book”

[@marocat4749]

bramstoakers dracula that did romanize him really compared to the actual book. And its a great movie but not the books actual plot. Coppola isnt very loyal in things there, if good movie..

[@xLiLlyx98]

​@@sophiet.3426yeah for real, that's why I was really surprised when I read the book eventually, because I watched the movie first 😂 mina and Lucy don't kiss, she doesn't fall in love with dracula, no weird werewolf sex scene... Quite a different story in places 😅

[@kingpizzarat]

The way Zoey describes her outfit reminds me of the way Ebony Darkness Dementia Raven Way describes her “GOFFIK” outfits in My Immortal 😂😂

[@d.tsukuyomi1869]

There IS a very good reason why people say that this book series is what would happen if My Immortal became a full series with the serial numbers filed off.

[@ElfyPeony]

Lmao me too, when I was listening to this I was like “why is this my immortal but worse somehow”

[@thewafflebat3722]

Hi my name is Zoey Chos'n Of Nix Redbird and I have cherokee features from my grandma (that’s how I got my name) that's long and smooth that reaches my mid-back and hazel eyes that can't seem to decide between being green or being brown and a lot of people tell me I look like A-ya (AN: if u don’t know who she is get da hell out of here!). I’m not related to Kalona but I wish I was because he’s a major fucking hottie. I’m a fledgling vampire but I got all my markings expanded early. I have olive skin. I’m also the chosen of Nix, and I go to a vampire school the House of Night where I’m in the first year (I’m sixteen). I’m special (in case you couldn’t tell) and I wear mostly designer. I love boutiques and I buy all my clothes from there. For example today I was wearing a black dress with thin shoulder straps and expensive leather boots. I was wearing some makeup but not enough to look like that slut Aphrodite who paints it on. I was walking outside the House of Nights. It was nighttime so there was no sun, which I was very happy about. A lot of sluts stared at me. I put up my middle finger at them. (I don't actually know the things Zoey wears, forgive me. All the descriptions just blur together after a while.)

[@Picking.a.name.is.hard1]

Unstoppable force (Zoes Misoginy, slutshaming and general preppyness) meets immovable objects (Enobys insistance that EVERYTHING has to be "goffik" and all the PREPZ currently "flamming da storee" are idiots, and pretty sex positive if cringey mentality) Honestly Id root for Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Raven (Tara) Way.

[@NearsightedNarhwal]

“My name is Enoby Darkness Demetia Raven away, and I have long ebony black hair with purple streaks and red tips that reaches my lower back”

[@RainWelsh]

It says something that the girl who was literally introduced while in the process of sexually assaulting her boyfriend, who spent most of that book as a bully, is somehow - fucking somehow - the least objectionable character in this whole shitshow. The way the Casts write Kramisha is making me deeply, viscerally uncomfortable. Almost as uncomfortable as Damien and his child-husband, and the general air of “we love gay guys 🥰 ew, lesbos”. And it’s the least of their atrocities, but the whole “Dracula’s my favourite book! (Describes plot points that only apply to Coppola’s movie version” makes me want to break into their houses and shit in their fridge.

[@mikeyjamieson4715]

Regarding then end of your second paragraph, Zoey says in the first book that she can't stand homophobes; yet when Cunt 1 and Cunt 2 call Aphrodite "Aphrodikey", she doesn't bat an eye. So blatant homophobia towards lesbians is A-OK in the world according to the Cast duo?

[@RainWelsh]

@@mikeyjamieson4715 sadly it seems fairly common to find women who fetishise gay men, claim to fight homophobia because of that, but who’ll then also be openly disgusted with lesbianism. It just makes them homophobic twice over, imo, because they want gay guys to be allowed to kiss just so they can fap to it, you know? They don’t see them as people who have their own lives and deserve to be allowed to have normal (gay) relationships, they just see them as things to be gawked at. At least the type of men who watch lesbian porn but hate gay guys are, generally, more open about being homophobic across the board. These women try to act like they’re great allies or whatever, despite the fact they’re dehumanising and denigrating the gay men they so lust for as much as they are the lesbians they find gross

[@nickywal]

@@mikeyjamieson4715Zoe is also almost the only character in the series, except Elliot once, to call anyone the f word. Added bonus its while she's praising Eric for not abusing Jack and instead being ok with him as his roommate

[@NearsightedNarhwal]

Literally every bad thing she does feels like it was just shoved in so that the mc has an “actual reason” to hate her. Her actions don’t match HER.

[@xLiLlyx98]

I love that last line of your comment. I really, really do.

[@sincerelyparand]

Zoey's constant whining about her boy drama and wishing it could be easy when she 100% did all of this to herself is the literal definition of "oh no! if it isn't the consequences of my own actions!" like even when i was still genuinely a fan of this book series she pissed me off with the constant "oOoOoOo i can't tell my friends about this, they wouldn't gEt iT, oOoOoOoO i would just be a bUrDeN, oOoOoOoO i don't have the eNeRgY to deal with this right now" girl you are a SELFISH COWARD, BE QUIET

[@ghostinthecity]

Imagine writing a book with your teenage daughter (or she's editing it, whatever) and including multiple rapist characters who are actually just uwu sad, angsty boys who need to be healed.

[@FinnFongus]

Don’t forget grooming and inappropriate teacher/student antics

[@mikeyjamieson4715]

I believe Aphrodite suffers from what TV Tropes calls "Disproportionate Retribution".

[@alyssaeldredge7508]

So, Neferet summoned a world-ending demon… and immediately went back to teaching sociology? And Zoey and her friends, instead of trying to stop him… also just start going back to class?! This whole book feels like the Cast duo didn’t know where to go with the story they’d written, so it’s just spinning its wheels and wasting everyone’s time.

[@user-mh7db7ei1s]

To be fair, if a world-ending demon appeared in real life, we all probably would still have to go to work.

[@billuraral1870]

Not to mention the world ending demon now teaches drama class while going around dressed like a paranormal romance cover guy

[@kai_maceration]

it's structured like an AI generated story, just constant conflicting nonsense info dumps, unnecessary descriptions, stilted dialogue, constant eventuallys, sudden graphic violence and sex. like the craziest shit will happen but they act like it's no big deal

[@Ibeabutterfly]

I can’t believe it has taken me this long that Aphrodite is basically just Cordelia Chase from Buffy, they even gave her the excruciating visions!

[@katharineeavan9705]

Apart from the bit where Cordy actually gets a whole arc where she thinks the world is punishing her only to realise that actually, no, being a high school bully wasn't actually a sin so awful she deserved eternal misery, and that growing from it and learning to do better was actually what fate had in mind for her

[@Amanda-kd1zr]

I thought too and I came to the comment section hoping to see if anyone else made that connection

[@xLiLlyx98]

​@@katharineeavan9705 I was wondering whether they were going for a similar thing here and failed but probably they didn't even grasp that concept...

[@klane2004]

I would buy "why am I arguing with a book?" Merch lol. I feel like that when I read a bad book.

[@marisanicole5116]

2:55, not only that but Kalona shouldn't even exist (the authors made him up for the story but still). The Cherokee aren't originally from Oklahoma, thus "the Trail of Tears". If Kalona terrorized the Cherokee THOUSANDS of years ago, how did he end up under the HoN in OKLAHOMA?! The authors didn't care enough to research the history of their own state, let alone the ethnic group they're appropriating. DISHONOUR ON THEIR COWS!!

[@theodavis4565]

This book just reinforces my love for Aphrodite as a character. Zoey needs an intervention about liking every hot guy, and her friends are as awful as usual. Great review 10/10😂

[@CandyRose09]

When I read this book for the first time I actually laughed out loud when Darius whipped out a gun and began shooting down the Raven Mockers like he was in a Yakuza game 💀💀

[@LifeJustSlappedMeWithNunchucks]

He said "yeah, and then I started blasting". 😂😂😂😂

[@SilverPhantom08]

Have these characters/authors ever actually read Dracula, or did they just watch the Gary Oldman movie? He bites Mina, I think as a way of getting into her head and getting her to confess the protagonists' plans to him and/or out of spite. He then leaves her, ill and miserable and dying, whilst he high-tails it back to Transylvania. If anything, the Dracula in the book is cloer to the creature-esque Raven-mockers.

[@marocat4749]

The movie, it has to be the movie as even if its a very good movie, its not rally a loyal adaption.While i like tragic romantic dracula,coppola made that up.

[@sophialambert2616]

It's 100% the movies. In the book, LUCY is heavily indicated to be his love interest/bride who makes him turn his eyes from the concubines he previously kept, and he only goes on a rampage and revenge bites Mina after Lucy is murdered. Before Lucy is murdered, he was feeding to survive, but wasn't actively doing much else. He was being pretty chill for a monster character. But dead girls half way through the story don't make great narratives on screen, and there's purity culture that likes to push the more modest Mina who survives to Leading Lady status, plus they'd have to tackle the jealous former Lucy suitors who were also anti-eastern/non Catholic or protestant competition being her all too willing murderers- hence why we see the adaptations we do.

[@annieandelsieofarendelle3294]

@@sophialambert2616 In all fairness to her suitors, Lucy was no longer Lucy. She was essentially just a beast wearing her skin and feeding on innocent children.

[@guggelguggel7491]

​@@sophialambert2616also, there's literally the whole thing about Lucy being a pure brittish maiden who the scawy foreign monster kills. Lucy IS basically a perfect "pure girl" which is WHY its so sad™ when she dies(of course, it is sad if you're invested in the story and characters too, but you know what I mean, authorial intent and all that). Yes, she had several suitors, Because She's Just That Good, not because shes an Evil Seductress/femme fatale or whatever, and she felt really bad rejecting them NOT out of lust or whatever but because she has so much kindness and love in her heart. The fact that she becomes a vampire who feeds on others and is a predator in all those vampiric ways is very clearly her being twisted and corrupted as the commenter above me talked about.

[@sophialambert2616]

@@guggelguggel7491 I like Lucy as a character. But authorial intent does not agree with you about her being "pure", and people have written entire theses arguing that point. Lucy was far more flirtatious than Mina, wanted to make a harem of her suitors, Stoker mentions her "voluptuous" body and other sexually appealing characteristics, etc. I don't see those qualities for Lucy as a bad thing, and maybe you don't either, but repressed, misogynistic, Victorian-era Stoker was setting her up to be the perfect target for Dracula, not the perfectly pure lady. Her sweet traits were to help make it tragic, because his audience back then wouldn't feel bad for a complete harlot. But the "pure" one is supposed to be Mina, and that's part of why she survives.

[@EJ_2091]

Personally I am interested in the process 😂😂 I always wonder how people get through making these massively long videos. It has to be exhausting

[@AlizeeYeezy]

Honestly? Hyperfixation 😂

[@lindsayshanks7555]

​@@AlizeeYeezya gift and a curse

[@TheCowgirlBookworm]

Yay! I’m so glad to have another episode of this series to watch like fifty times! Also, the Casts have a weird Native American thing going on. For starters they constantly talk about how Kalona abused the Cherokee people in Oklahoma, but a thousand years the Cherokee didn’t live there. They were moved there on the trail of tears so if he had been abusing them he should have been trapped in, roughly, Georgia. Also I hate how they write Kramisha and their attempts at AAVE. Yet I still can’t look away from this train wreck of a series.

[@vampirequeenofficial]

I watch it on repeat too! Well I listen to it in the background on repeat 😂 it’s so comforting and funny ❤

[@TheCowgirlBookworm]

@@vampirequeenofficial I especially like to have it on while cleaning or sewing

[@kazza6078]

Every house of night video I think "Oh ya I think this is the last one I read before I gave up" and every time I am wrong. How did I make it that far even

[@rachelppython]

You know, it's actually impressive how they keep one-upping themselves with how offensive they can be in each new book.

[@spoopyhaunt9783]

Everytime I think "I hope Alizee uploads another house of night video soon" it happens within that week. Thank you so much, queen

[@EllesHut]

Think it more often then!

[@novembermedusa]

Zoey is in love/lust with whoever is right in front of her at the moment, she is worse than a goldfish 😭💀

[@xLiLlyx98]

She is like a baby duckling, but instead of a mother she wants a love interest

[@lesbyleth]

thank you for finally making this omg ive become weirdly obsessed with this series but only by consuming it through your videos 😭😭😭 i love these

[@leadingstrangeness]

I tried reading this and it killed brain cells. I had to dip out halfway through.

[@lesbyleth]

@@leadingstrangeness i can imagine lol id never read this but alizee's videos made me strangely invested in the plot

[@lindsayshanks7555]

I'm so glad I'm not the only person who only consumes this dumb series through Alizee's reviews Idk why but I felt stupid for not being able to finish a chapter, yet being enthralled by these videos

[@lesbyleth]

@@lindsayshanks7555 thats why it was so painful to wait for another part for me 😭😭 knowing i cant just go and read it lmaoo

[@Link-dx1lx]

PSA: Don‘t pierce yourself, seriously. Let a professional do that stuff. And while I‘m here, do NOT get pierced with a piercing gun, ESPECIALLY not cartilidge. Get it done properly with a needle and it will heal so much faster.

[@maddielee4217]

Coming from someone who got her second lobe piercings at 4am my last day at summer camp with a safety pin, ice, and an apple. PLEASE get it done properly by a piercer, every piercer I’ve met is super kind, they aren’t as scary as they may seem, and the lil extra cost is WORTH IT, it hurts less, it heals faster, and you have the peace of mind knowing that it was done right. Don’t go to Claire’s, don’t buy your own piercing kit, don’t get stabbed by anything less than a sterile hollow needle.

[@lindsayshanks7555]

​@@maddielee4217 never gotten a piercing, but I plan to get it done professionally soon I'm very very curious, however, what was the purpose of the apple? You don't have to tell if you're not comfortable, it's not my business. I'm just confused by its inclusion in your attempts at getting piercings

[@BooksandBuns]

​@@lindsayshanks7555my mom had her ears pierced with a potato. The thing about a hard, roundish object like that, is that you place it behind the ear so that when you pierce the ear, the needle doesn't go askew cause it gets embedded into the apple or potato

[@mostprofoundquiet]

my mum also had hers done with a potato @@BooksandBuns

[@cur1ouscatf1sh]

I got my first lobe piercings done at a kiosk in the mall with a gun, and my seconds for like 10€ apiece at a random piercing shop while studying abroad (in defense of my college decision making skills, it did come with recommendations from multiple locals, and everything seemed sterile and professional. On the other hand I did get on a bus to another country 30 minutes after getting new piercings, which is not something I recommend), and I can genuinely tell the difference in how the holes look/feel between the ones done with the piercing gun and the ones done with a needle, even at an admittedly suspiciously low price. You can totally tell that the second ones healed much better

[@kristallschimmer-autorin]

27:25 Thank god, you pointed that out. While I was reading this series years ago, I couldn't but imagine Jack as a like 7-year old child, because the way he is written. Was really creepy to imagine his relationship with Damien.

[@lllamalamoa5072]

Every time there's a sex scene or scene of ppl being horny, I remember that this was written by a MOTHER DAUGHTER DUO. Like imagine writing that shit with your MUM. Also the racism in these books is wild.

[@OcarinaSapphr-]

The thing with Heath's boast when Zoey feeds from him for the second time, it comes across as not a little like a dealer saying, 'I'll always be able to give the junkie what she needs' - I call a big ol' _Yikes_ on that...

[@tylerdoesstuff6834]

I love Alizee's accent and sarcastic jokes. I feel like she could read how to bake cookies and still throw a ton of sarcastic jabs in there lol.

[@rowanlavellan9755]

Alizee baking channel WHEN

[@tylerdoesstuff6834]

I'd totally watch that.@@rowanlavellan9755

[@melparchment1851]

One of the few channels I keep notifications on for and it pays off in dividends every damn time, so ready for an update on this nightmare series from the interwebs’ preeminent empress of disdain

[@agroxneko]

Not me getting inspired to write a fanfic where all the wrongs against Aphrodite being righted and Zoey being the villain she truly is every time Alizee uploads the next book Thank you Alizee for this glorious train wreck ❤

[@Pandachu123]

And for the love of everything that's good, please make a guy that doesn't end up in Zoey's harem. Seriously, every straight guy there is slowly being absorbed into the blob that is Zoey's love life. PICK A GUY AND STICK WITH HIM.

[@agroxneko]

​@Pandachu123 Yesss, she'll end up alone and the guy that DARES to not be obsessed with her (I can already hear the inner dialogue) will help the rest find their personality again And I'll fix the horrible caricatures of gay characters that are Damian and Jack

[@katharineeavan9705]

@@agroxneko and Zoe's magnetism is actually because she's a dual aspect of Kalona and she's been turning everyone into pod people all along. Meeting a guy who doesn't fall under Zoe's influence - just like how Aphrodite is immune to Kalona - is the catalyst for Aphrodite realising what's going on

[@amourtabb7859]

If u do u have to drop a link in the most recent video 😂

[@Pandachu123]

@@agroxneko Awesome, thank you! I'm excited to check this out now! Please do let us know when you write it out! 😆

[@alchemy3368]

I’m really glad you’ve been calling out the ableism and use of the r slur. Lot of people don’t think it’s all that bad which is a little mind blowing 😭

[@kirathecat]

Nice to see you still putting your sanity on the line due to this series. Honestly, why does this series even HAVE vampires if they can't drink blood and most of the solutions to problems are "Use Magic"? The longer this goes on the less I understand why every character has to be a vampire.

[@marisanicole5116]

They wanted Wiccan vampires but it ended up being more Wiccan but vampires were popular back then so idk if the vampires were an afterthought and the series was originally supposed to be about witches, a la Harry Potter.

[@kirathecat]

@@marisanicole5116 It definitely feels like the vampire thing was an afterthought mostly due to Twilight's rise in popularity. The vampirism thing, as far as I'm concerned, has like 5% of a bearing on the plot and that seems to only remind the reader that fledglings drinking blood causes imprinting and that red fledglings are a thing. Vampire Academy, while it has its issues as well, does this entire premise sans the Wiccan stuff way better.

[@marisanicole5116]

@kirathecat , most definitely! The series would almost make more sense if the vampire stuff removed and replaced w/ witches... almost.

[@TheCowgirlBookworm]

The thing that always pissed me off about the magic system is that it requires like absolutely no effort. They don’t really have to learn how to control their powers, there’s no downside to having the powers and they barely even have to make an effort to use them. They literally just say “fire, burn it!” and that’s it. We could have had them being benders like in Avatar, but no, that’s too much effort.

[@marisanicole5116]

@TheCowgirlBookworm , I laughed when Alizee said it's like ATLA. It's more like Captain Planet and the Planeteers (Heart is replaced w/ Spirit). Zoey's powers doesn't work w/o her friends so they might as well had given them rings as the Planeteers needed little effort to use them as well and at the end of each episode, the conflict is solved by "forming a circle" and empowering Captain Planet.

[@Memequeen89]

I always look forward to the house of night videos because everyone does fifty shades of grey. No one does house of night which imo hits closer to home for me since I read these books

[@ms.moronic9165]

Wealth, fame, power. Zoey Redbird, the queen of the vampires, attained this and everything else a B-list Greek god had to offer. And her ancient Cherokee words drove countless teenage souls to the bookstores. “You want my p@ssy? You can have it! I’m definitely not a sl@t by the way”. These words lured two bad writers to the Bottom Line in pursuit of unearned success greater than most authors dare to imagine! This is the time known as the Not-So-Great Vampire Era!

[@Melissa-sx9vh]

I don't know why but I've just read your comment in Gossip Girl's voice, I even expected a xoxo Gossip Girl at the end

[@cynister7384]

Ngl wasn't expecting a One Piece reference

[@Nathi98]

Long comment ahead, for those who cannot be arsed: LET'S GO ALIZEE 4+ YEARS SOBER! STILL PROUD OF YOU EVEN IF WE DO NOT KNOW ONE ANOTHER! I AM STILL ROOTING FOR YOU, YOU ARE STRONG! 🎉 Bad stuff first: Blatant rape apologism has made it into the book series. Give Becca some damn therapy paid by the HoN. Give Stark the death he deserves - a slow & painful one. Zoë having now 5 or 6 boyfriends is too much of a time management issue now it has become unrealistic Finally some good f---ing food: incidentally they keep making Aphrodite more & more interesting to me. I keep wondering now that she isn't a vampy anymore, what type of supernatural being she is now: is she a Seeer like Ethan from MBAV, more of a Sorcercer stripped off powers but still with visions or just someone with visions? Also her relationship with Stevie Rae reads as sapphic to me: You have 2 beings that are outsiders - Undead dead Undead being & Disgraced by God ex-Vampy - being eachother's Imprint. That outsider thing is what we WLW feel too at a lot of times

[@CatChaos369]

Aphrodite deserves better than stevie Rae she’s so awful especially after Aphrodite was willing to sacrifice her life to heal her? Like no one ever thanks her or gives her any credit! Why is the school ok with having sex offenders as students or teachers like what the actual fuck?!

[@Breadhmm3840]

@@CatChaos369facts

[@jojol.2630]

Regarding the Zoey not wanting to have sex with Erik(Eric I listen to these lol) can say like, even if you’ve had sex before, you can still want to wait to build a connection with someone new to do that again. Sometimes that gets overlooked when entering a new (I guess not in zozo’s case) relationship

[@EspiritoDeDafne]

And the guy she had sex with turned out to be a traitor and then died, all in less than a week if I remember correctly, I don't think this would make most people eager to do it again that soon

[@Alexis01295]

I made the mistake of reading through eight of the ten books in a single day because of just how unimpressive things were, that remembering things wasn't important. It hurt my soul immensely, seeing the ignorance, both intentional and not, as well as all the slut shaming and self-importance from Zoey. Even more than that though, Nyx's lack of any action while Neferet was pretending to be her was infuriating, since she's a God and should keep folks in line if they start threatening those she claims to love. Anyway, feel for you getting through the remainder of the series as well. :(

[@EdwardoLover]

I can't believe how much of a hold this series had on my highschool lmao. I'm so glad I only ever got to read the first one cause the rest were always checked out of the library

[@vainpiers]

Zoe doesn't know how to have male friends, you don't have to kiss every man you feel affection towards

[@bj71000]

Aphrodite has to be based on a person they hate irl.

[@leadingstrangeness]

The feral amount of joy/excitement that I felt when seeing this video drop! Tried reading this book myself (partially because of your series/part because this was my friend's favorite series as a teen and she got excited when I started talking about it). I gave up when I read the attempted SA at the halfway point and knowing that Stark is an endgame pairing for Zoey broke me in a way. Thank you for diving back into this dumpster fire. I love these videos.

[@angelamorpheus1904]

I tried reading this series once. I'm watching these videos and trying to remember which book I threw across the room and that made me dnf the rest. I've never had that visceral a reaction to any book before. I should send P.C. Cast a thank you note for helping me feel feelings again.

[@anaiswinter9893]

Thank you so much. I am all here for Aphrodite. Undisputed Queen of the House of Night series. Oh, and it would be so much cooler if "she told him to do one " had been an actual bookline. That´s why your narration is so much better.

[@TheRogueCommand]

Aphrodite is the punching bag of this universe because she's the only one in the cast who isn't one dimensional as a doormat. It's like when you ingest nothing but garbage for years so your body doesn't know what to do with healthy food.

[@kaitlynejones]

I binged all of your house of night videos like 3 days ago & this upload has me so excited right now 😂😂

[@Jadeeee2323]

Omg finally!! I am over the moon lol. I was just rewatching your first 4 hon recaps bc i was having cravings for u ripping the cast duo😂😂😂😂 i looved these books in middle school and looove your reviews of them even more lmao.

[@tyler-df3wy]

I’ve never felt so glad about the lack of trans rep than I feel when I watch these videos. Just thinking about the Cast duo trying to write anyone who isn’t cis makes me actually feel sick

[@RainWelsh]

You just know any trans character they came up with would 100% be a trans woman (trans men who?), she’d be written as a stereotypical drag queen, probably down to having a drag queen-esque punny name, and there’d absolutely be a full page expo dump from her wherein she describes herself as ‘being born in the wrong body’ while also repeatedly mentioning her deadname.

[@overgrownkudzu]

hiiiiiiieee my name is Caitlin (like Caitlin Jenner, get it? hehe) why yes i'm a woman, i'm trans but that doesn't change anything right? slayyyy queen. you don't have a problem with that right? i'm one of the girls i always knew when i played with dolls as a child we kan kiki and paint our nails together right? yaaasss

[@rowanlavellan9755]

This thread killed me and then tortured my ghost. Thanks y'all 😂

[@nightmarefanatic1819]

I feel like they would simultaneously bang on about how "Trans people are totes valid and anyone who doesn't agree are disgusting bigots" but also keeps mentioning how the trans girl (because trans men don't exist) is TRANS and HAS A PENIS and would keep using tr*nny to mock people with no self awareness.

[@mysticc6232]

Get over yourself

[@bebeliveshere5950]

I think going "just because i had sex once doesnt mean im ready for sex again or that im comfortabke with certain acts/roughness in public" is good!! But implying someone who *is* ready after having sex for the first time or interested in being more proactive after is a slut or a hoe undermines the entire message and really just feels like the 'be pure' bullshit women are fed constantly by religion etc

[@Jadeeee2323]

Lol right 1 step forward, 3 steps back😂😂

[@emeraldfox76]

This and Divergent are my absolute fave series from you at the moment! I'd add in Colleen Hoover, too, but her "twists" always leave my brain feeling scarred. 🤣 I so appreciate your sacrifices, Queen!

[@mosh11919]

The Vampire Diaries series is just as unhinged and is nothing like the equally unhinged US CW T.V show. If you're looking to melt your brain with more sexism, weird vampire tropes and even witches/werewolves -might be worth a read.

[@amelieshuman3324]

and naked tree people

[@Toa_general]

All I can say is, if you think you can’t write a book that will be published as you feel it isn’t good enough…here’s proof you can publish anything you want!

[@sunnyjim1223]

Migraines are the debilitating; I’m super impressed you were able to finish the video and wade through that book with one looming. I get them too; if one breaks through my daily medication, I’m out for the whole day. This video was a massive, massive endeavor. You’re awesome! ❤

[@xLiLlyx98]

I mean, theres a valid point in that you dont owe sex to anyone after youve had sex once, also you don't owe someone you've had sex with before to do it again. Only kinda wish zoe would get a taste of her own medicine regarding being sexually active, no matter how bad her first time in itself turned out, just to learn some compassion for the girls she keeps shaming in her head 🤷

[@TheRoyaoticDM]

1:59:04 , the true character development I’ve been waiting for is you pronouncing Persephone correctly. 😂😂 🎉🎉🎉

[@Attabasca]

"Why am I arguing with a book? My entire channel." 😂 And girl, yes, Audible! They need to hire you. I would buy any book they had read by you!

[@Picking.a.name.is.hard1]

Characters "solving" problems in these books: Stark: shoot arrow Damien: thesaurus capability mobilize!! Stevie Ray: *tries to murder the problem* Zoe: cast a circle! (And get a new tattoo) Shaunee and Erin: *be annoying* "Twin" *call Aphrodite a slut* Darius: fight or flight Aphrodite: actually solves the problem

[@Kidzwolf101]

I don’t have a spare 2 hours yet BUT BOY WHEN I DO I WILL BE HERE I’ve been so hype for this lmao thank you for all the work you put into these long videos !

[@nicoledoubleyou]

You are pumping these out so fast these days!! I love it. And just cuz i feel like you're similar to me and thrive with encouragement i wanna say you're genuinely and honestly doing a great job and i can't wait to watch every single video of your's, i don't even read these books!! Like i literally haven't read any of the books you've made videos about. I just love how you summarize them and you have the most entertaining commentary.

[@shareetz3154]

1:52:14 “a demigod has taken over drama class” sounds like the premise for a comedy sketch 😆😆😆

[@spanglelime]

I saw this thumbnail and just said, "finally!" I am addicted to these book series reviews. 😃 I appreciate how hard you work to make these. Thanks Alizee!

[@Niyonestly]

The way Aphrodite keeps catching strays every book is so funny to me

[@honeybeereads]

Plans for my Saturday? GONE because Alizee posted book 5 recap and I am reliving my cringe teenage self through these videos 😂

[@woweeitsali]

Just sitting down to eat! Thank you for your service Alizee I missed this series!

[@AngbangCorp]

Having a horrible day right now, this is just what I need. Now I have something to look forward to once I get out of this mess. Thank you❣

[@kittyS2490]

I have an odd obsession with listening to you talk and comment on this series before bed and man it cracks me up each time I listen 😂

[@samlerf]

Thank you for this. Take as much time as you need. Your mental health comes first. Fresh air, friends and family, hobbies and so on. All the best.

[@lawschoolproceeds4402]

Erik Changed in Book 2, are you telling me that three books have taken place OVER A WHOLE ASS WEEK???

[@shaybribri]

I think I stopped on Awakened which I think is like the 8th book?? Very excited for all their memories you’re bout to spark from my teen days

[@syncronymph2119]

The prize for ✨worst exposition✨ in this book goes toooo: “Duchess, the yellow Lab who had become completely attached to Jack since her original owner, a fledgling kid named James Stark, had died and then un-died and shot an arrow through Stevie Rae as part of an evil plot to let loose Kalona, a nasty fallen angel (yes, looking back on it I see that it’s complex and kinda even confusing, but that seems to be typical for evil plots), whined and leaned against his leg.” THAT WAS ONE SENTENCE! Why did the authors exposition dump a paragraph in the middle of a sentence?!

[@nicohartley]

What disturbs me the most about PC Cast being basically the sole author is that shes a teacher using the r-slur and poking fun at special needs kids throughout the series thus far (and I assume the rest of the series as well but thankfully i managed to somehow miss this entire series in middle school). i really hope she wasnt involved with any special needs kids in any capacity wherever she worked because holy fuck

[@janat6501]

"Why am I out of breath just standing up, thats pathetic" me everytime I stand up or even just sit differently because im 9 months pregnant and everything is exhausting😂

[@cornnflaek6234]

44:40 I love that Zoe has this whole monologue about Dracula but gets the plot of Dracula wrong. Dracula doesn’t love Mina in the book, that’s just in film adaptations. In the book he has no redeeming qualities and goes around attacking people in their sleep, including Mina. She very much does not consent when he bites her. Mina does have a love interest, her husband Jonathan Harker, with whom she goes on a journey to kill Dracula.

[@C1ouDN1n3]

I swear I gave up on these books because I had the same retort. This is the book club I always wanted but never knew existed

[@fleuriannn]

YES. I recently finished watching all 4 of your videos on this book and was waiting for your next review and I'm so happy it's hereeeee

[@hiropon2985]

do worry about your grey matter after all this "literature" babes but god if it isn't the best content I've seen on this hellsite in years. thank you so much for the effort, god bless xx

[@mikhailavandermerwe5636]

Aphrodite is the real MVP of this series. Change my mind. Loving this deep dive you have committed us all to, Alizee. Great work! Looking forward to the next one! P.S. Tetanus shot update in the next video?

[@axel.hearts]

as someone who read a lot of books in this genre during the time period they came out, I surprisingly never read The House of Night, nor had I heard of it prior to coming across your review videos. I absolutely love each video so much, your commentary and trashing of zoey and the Cast duo make it so much more bearable. A series I read back then that you might want to do reviews for is The Immortals (or Evermore) series by Alyson Noël. Thanks for another great HoN video, and congrats on 4 years of sobriety! 💛

[@PrettyLittleChanell]

thank you for these videos!! i was so obsessed with the books as a child and I feel like they had a good world building, but alas the characters were insufferable except for Aphrodite ofc:))

[@sapphirerubystargate7192]

Having read these books at 14ish, I don't blame my teenage self for not realising all the toxic shit - I didn't really know better back then. Not realising the messed up timeline, I blame on reading these with up to a year between books as I waited for them to come out. But I swear to god the translators of the German edition (which were the ones I read) must have put in herculean effort because I swear it at least felt decently written in German... Anyways… As far as teenage favourites to realise as terrible as an adult go, House of Night really sets a high bar on the terrible side… I do wonder though… I distinctly remember the books getting progressively worse plot wise starting from book… 8, I think? Like, if you think this is bullshit plot, it just gets completely unhinged after 9 or so... How much worse is it going to be through the clarity of hindsight & an adult brain? XD I'm definitely looking forward to it!

[@Anita-nw5ts]

I also read the German translation from my school's library. I do think that they changed some of the language as I can't remember that many slurs being in there. The slut shaming and the Aphrodite slander on the other hand I can remember vividly, even after more than a decade. Now I'm just trying to find out how far I've actually gotten. So far it seems that I at least read five of them.

[@lunaticproductions0]

44:37 this shit pisses me off because its not even accurate to the actual book, I dont even think Mina and Dracula interact at all and if anything, he and Jonathan at the castle have more romantic tension and he even tells him "I too can love" at some point and Dracula is arguably the most human when Jonathan is describing him while he comes across more like a monster or a disease in the rest of the book once hes actually in england, so if they wanted to make this point they shouldve used Jonathan but that would require these jokers to stop being homophobic and heternormative for one second

[@LolaLink]

I got an industrial piercing when I was 19. It's been 11 years. I've literally never changed it, I don't even know how to take it off. I also had a belly button piercing until it fell out one day about 6 years after I got it. I couldn't be fussed to buy another and it just eventually closed. ADHD brains.

[@MELLMAO]

"Zoey has new tattoos on her hands since the last book, because she is slowly turning into Kad Von D" I can't wait for Zoey's anti-vacc arc, it's gonna be wild

[@gooseleap]

Yes Alizee!! Excited about your acting lessons! I hope you end up really enjoying it!

[@HaileyAndTheArt]

I really need you to do a series on the Southern Vampire Mysteries books. They are what the show True Blood is based on, and I think you would find them just absolutely delightful. . .

[@karmakillers]

I’m so excited about your fifty shades review just finished it and omg I hated it 😂. She basically was forced into a life she taught the whole series.

[@3vaniamaria]

Absolutely not surprised that zoey thinks mina should have left her HUSBAND and run away with dracula

[@moritz1254]

I love you, thank you for this video, can’t wait to listen to this over and over again while trying to fall asleep

[@user-mh7db7ei1s]

This serious could’ve been so much better if it was written from Aphrodite’s perspective. She has more depth than all of Zoe’s shitty, one dimensional friends put together and her story is genuinely interesting: high school mean girl vampire with premonitions is punished unjustly by her goddess and turned into a human. During her punishment, she has to help the worst people ever save the world in order to redeem herself in the eyes of the goddess that disowned her. Idk about anyone else, but that sounds way more compelling than an unlikeable NLOG character that gets everything handed to her just because she was ✨born special✨

[@emilykarrh421]

“Shaunee, a seriously gorgeous and sassy queen the color of a miscellaneous confectionary”

[@milo-ru3hc]

re: killing someone with a stray punch, my brother knows a guy who punched someone in the chest and stopped his heart. crazy stuff.

[@amandamapes6763]

Somehow i knew this would be a good weekend and here we are

[@TOstayALWAYShere]

Every time you upload a new video from a series I have to go back and rewatch all your precious videos on it lol

[@womankisserjermaluvr]

me, my grandma, and my sister all read this books like 10-12 years ago and loved them so much. then a couple years back i picked them up again and it sullied my memories of that time beyond repair. these videos are like therapy to me lmao

[@mothbot7555]

here's an exchange from the HoN tv tropes page i found accurate "Is there any flesh left on Zoey that hasn't gotten magically tatted yet? Her ass? Give it time." anyways place your bets on whether zoey have a ass tat by the end of the series

[@MrsSoapAndClay]

Oop I am so excited for this! Alizee’s ever increasing annoyance with bad writers is my favorite thing on the internet.