First post here

And for my first post it's a recap of the first few chapters of Marked by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast. There's really not much to snark about in the first couple of chapters, it's mostly introductory. Also? I hate the 'vampyre' spelling. It tries too hard, in a way, to be speshul. Like Zoey!
So, into the recap:

Chapter One

Here we get introduced to Zoey Montgomery, aka Zoey Redbird. She's sick, there are numerous references to her wet coughs as she listens to her friend Kayla. They talk about Zoey's boyfriend Heath, who's on the football team and likes to drink. He's a winner. Zoey gets Marked and we get the first mention of the Change-either her body accepts it and she becomes a vampyre or the Change fails and she dies.

The Tracker is gone and Kayla runs off; Zoey runs to the bathroom and hides for awhile. While there she muses over her Cherokee heritage. 

Chapter Two

When she flees the bathroom for her car, Zoey runs across Heath and two of his friends. They find out about Zoey's Mark and freak, but Heath less than the other two. She gets attracted to Heath's blood, Heath's friends drag him away and she goes home. Once there she tries to get her mom to sympathize with her and not tell her fundamentalist Christian father Zoey'd been marked. Ixnay on that. So her mom calls her stepdad and stepdad comes home, wanting to talk to Zoey.
Somewhere in all that Zoey packs her backpack.

Chapter Three

The inevitable happens: a confrontation between stepdad John and Zoey. John calls her Satan and says it's all her fault she got Marked, instead of it being some sort of biological reaction. (Or magic-stuff, as the meeting with the Tracker implied.) Her mother, of course, doesn't defend Zoey and allows her husband to control her. 

Since John's an Elder in his branch of Christianity and church, he has Linda (Zoey's mom) call and activate the prayer tree, as well as call Dr. Asher-the family shrink. And Zoey actually curses! Page 22-she thinks: Well, hell! Later on the strongest she tends to use are words like 'bull poopie'. In which she sounds all of 2. (Not that one has to curse like a sailor, but she's not going to die if she says a stronger word once in a great while.)

Chapter Four

This chapter's a short one; more mentions of her wet coughs and snotting. Then a light bulb goes on over her head and she think, "Grandma Redbird! I'll go visit. It'll be better than here." She escapes from her house and drives to her grandmother's lavender farm.

That's all for the moment. Next few chapters: evidence of Zoey's potential speshul-snowflakeness, the intro to the actual House of Night, pretty much everyone famous being 'vampyres' and new characters who have one-at most two-personality trait apiece. At least from what I remember-I'm rereading this book and most of it I've blocked out from my mind. What did stick was Zoey being all SPESHUL and Damien's sexuality (he's gay, FWIW) not... being handled well. 

But ANYWAY. It's just the introductory bits, things should start picking up soon and there should be more snarky material.