Review: House of Night #3

I’m beginning to wonder if I’m the only person that’senjoying this book? I’ve yet to see another site covering it much and the reviews ofhave been few and far between. It makes me wonder if people are that scared ofthe vampire genre, that they’re just not willing to take a chance on it. Have Twilight and The Vampire Diaries really tainted the genre so much that peopleignore quality books such as House ofNight? I hope not, I for one enjoy the vampire genre and if you haven’tbeen paying attention I’ve enjoyed this series quite a lot.

The series has established a strict formula with the thirdissue that goes as such: Zoey wonders what her next lesson will be, but is soonpresented with a conflict. She inevitably solves the conflict in the worst waypossible using magic, and then learns about the “founder” of that magic ability.After that she applies what she’s learned to resolve the situation in a betterway than before. What continues to make the story interesting is Zoey’s growthas a character and these “founder” stories.

This issue introduces Zoey’s family and more importantly herlittle brother. Her stepdad rounds up the church goers and they head to theschool to protest. Stupidly they choose to do this at night when the Vamypre’sare their strongest. After one of the teachers tries to peacefully resolve thesituation, Zoey loses her temper and makes it flood scaring them off. Alright, she messed up and now we get a history lesson! Seriously the stories set inpast are my favorite part of the comic. This issues tale is about a vampyre bythe name of Circe that helped Odysseus home from his journey… after they got iton a lot!

I’m not going to make you read another long paragraph abouthow well the story and art is, you should know that by now if you’ve beenreading the reviews. I will continue to say that this is a great series and eventhough it’s following an obvious formula, it’s more about the journey than itis the execution. I get the strong feeling that a lot of people aren’t readingthis series and they need to pull their head out of their asses and check itout already. I promise you there’s no glitter inside.

Score: 4/5

Story: P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast

Script: Kent Dalian

Art: Joelle Jones and Daniel Krall

Publisher: Dark Horse

Price: $2.99

Release Date: 1/11/2012

Review of the first issue.

Review of the second issue.