“Good” characters who go evil start having sex. Sexual and independent women are shamed and villainized.
Reading through the synopsis of the remaining ten books (who even writes series that long any more my god), I can confirm that the hypocrisy never ever ends. Maybe she’ll realize those “sluts” she keeps shaming are just young women who are actively pursuing romantic interests while empowering themselves to act independent of their previous patriarchal identities, just like what she was doingĪbout halfway through the sequel, when Zoey climbed on top of her not-boyfriend to make out with him a literal page after she went on a rant about how terrible non-monogamous women were, I realized the slut-shaming hypocrisy was never going to end. Every time Zoey rolled her eyes at a “slut” before proceeding to exhibit those exact behaviors to her own romantic interest, I just shrugged my shoulders and attributed it to potential character development. Nostalgia had blinded me to the constant slut-shaming and blatant misogyny.
I found the main character, Zoey, endearing and was mildly impressed with the LGBT, feminist, and racial representation in the novel. The first book, Marked, was honestly a delight for me to read. I decided to give the series a try because I’m a good friend like that and also technically it's a "vampyre" series, not "vampire" because the authors were going for originality?
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A full decade after the first book’s release, my friend Tori and I were discussing trashy YA novels we read when we were in middle school and she mentioned the series.
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