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YA vampire series written by the mother and daughter team of P.C. and Kristin Cast.
Main character Zoey Redbird is just an ordinary girl, living in an extraordinary world where vampyres (spelling theirs) are a fact of life, when she is Chosen and begins to Change into a vampyre herself. Once she starts the Change (a biological process that happens in certain people as they go through puberty) she begins attending vampyre academy The House Of Night, where she finds new friends, romance, and some typical high school situations... and gradually uncovers a dangerous conspiracy that threatens everything she values in her newfound life.
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In other words, ''[[Harry Potter]]'' [[X Meets Y|meets]] ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]]''.
''The Fledgling Handbook 101'' (an in-universe textbook used and mentioned frequently within the series) was published on the 26th of October 2010.
== Books in the series so far:{{when}} ==
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* [[Absurdly Spacious Sewer]]
** [[Justified Trope|Justified,]] to a degree. They're tunnels left over from Prohibition. Still a little too roomy, though.
* [[Abusive Parents]]
* [[All Girls Want Bad Boys]]: James Stark, what with his name sake being the main character of ''[[Rebel Without a Cause]]''. He is idealized by his fans.
* [[The Archer]]: Stark, who's [[Blessed with Suck]] in that he can't miss any target he's thinking about, regardless of where he is aiming. This leads to [[Mentor Occupational Hazard]] when Stark competes against his mentor. Ouch.
* [[All Just a Dream]]: Kalona has the ability to enter people's dreams and usually does this to seduce people.
* [[All Witches Have Cats]]: If you think the vampires are more like witches.
* [[Alpha Bitch]]: Aphrodite, until Zoey arrives.
* [[Back-to-Back Badasses]]: Kalona and Rephaim in Awakened
* [[The Bait]]: Rephaim was this for Stevie Rae in Tempted, but it was more a case of [[Got Volunteered]].
* [[Beautiful All Along]]: {{spoiler|the Book Burned reveals that if Rephaim chose good and became human, he would look "hotter then an Oklahoma blacktop in the middle of the summer". Just how attractive he could be is the only thing Aphrodite and Stevie Rae can agree on}} Which leads to...
* [[The Beautiful Elite]]: The adult vampyres.
* [[Beauty Equals Goodness]]: It's strong theme through out the entire series. When Stevie Rae {{spoiler|died and then un-died}} she was replusive and smelt really bad. When the ritual {{spoiler|to give her and the other Red Fledglings back their humanity}} was complete, they were all pretty again.
** Also the {{spoiler|Bull of Light, which is black}} is descibed as "deep, mysterious and beautiful to behold". Compared to the {{spoiler|Bull of Darkness, which is white}} and is described as "a nightmare come alive."
* [[Beethoven Was an Alien Spy]]: Vampyre variant. A lot of historical figures and also current famous people are said to be vampyres, including Shakespeare and Cleopatra just to name a few.
* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: In Marked Stevie Rae {{spoiler|volunteers to be “the refrigerator” for Aphrodite’s ritual so that she can then pass on the location of the ritual to Damien and the Twins, so that when everything goes pear-shaped all four of them could step up and help Zoey save the day.}}
** At the end of Hunted, just as Zoey and half her Nakama have just escaped from the House of Night, with Raven Mockers, Kalona, and Neferet closing in fast, with barely enough time to get a ritual circle in place, the other half of Zoey's Nakama show up and by [[The Power of Love]], defeat the bad guys.
** When Neferet tries to mind control Stark, he decides to [[Take a Third Option]] and ends up almost killing himself rather then hurt Zoey.
* [[Big Damn Villains]]: Being a [[Fallen Hero]], Kalona has his moments, most notably in Awakened and Destined.
* [[Black Best Friend]]: Shaunee. Krashima.
* [[Blood From the Mouth]]: When you start rejecting the Change.
* [[Boarding School]] / [[Extranormal Institute]] / [[Super-Hero School]] / [[Wizarding School]]: House of Night is a combination of it all. Students study both some regular subjects, some more fun ones like horseback riding, some such as vampire sociology and magic goes on too.
* [[Breakfast Club]]
* [[Break the Cutie]]: Stevie Rae all the way.
* [[Brought Down to Normal]]: {{spoiler|Happens to Aphrodite, and as of book 9 she has NOT gotten her vampyrism back. Still kept her visions, though, which was the one thing she could have happily gotten rid of.}}
* [[Broken Bird]]: Rephaim is a male example. For starters he's a [[Child by Rape]] and never knew his mother due to [[Death by Childbirth]]. Destined to be [[Overlord, Jr.]] or possibly redeemed by Love?
* [[Broken Pedestal]]: For both Zoey and Aphrodite with regards to {{spoiler|Neferet}}
* [[The Bus Came Back]]: For [[Rescued from the Scrappy Heap|Erik Night]] and [[The Obi-Wan|Thanatos]]
* [[Casanova]]: Kalona's on the "Monster" end of the spectrum.
* [[Cartwright Curse]]: The book seems to be heading in this direction. Out of Zoey's 4 lovers, two have died and one seems to be turning on her.
* [[The Chosen One]]: Zoey, who is already on the fast track to high priestessdom. Possibly Stevie Rae as well, in a different way.
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* [[Cool Old Lady]]: Sylvia Redbird, Sister Mary Angela.
* [[Comes Great Responsibility]]: Stevie Rae doesn't use her powers to "rule the world or anything crazy like that." Because of this trope. Stevie Rae also reads comic books.
* [[Country Mouse]]: Stevie Rae.
* [[Cryptic Conversation]]: All Immortals (Nyx, Kalona and, to a degree, Rephaim) are prone to a mixture of this plus [[From a Certain Point of View]]
* [[The Dark Arts]]: Using the power of any element/force of nature or an ancient immortal, whether it's Darkness or Light, is [[Power At a Price]]. It's played straight with Neferet but subverted with Rephaim who has only been shown thus far to use his Dark powers in a good way.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Aphrodite and Rephaim
* [[Derailing Love Interests]]: Erik is pretty much the perfect boyfriend to Zoey for the first three books. Then he suddenly turns out to be a possessive jerk in later books, thus justifying Zoey's displays of interest in other boys. Though considering that Zoey wasn't exactly a faithful girlfriend to him, his new attitude toward her might be somewhat justified.
** Heath is this in reverse... he starts a drunk-jock-ex-boyfriend in the first book who looks in danger of being written off for good a number of times. He stays in the story almost completely by one virtue: the fact that he's taking advantage of Zoey's low self control over her new bloodlust to essentially roofie-rape her every time she sees him by cutting himself and triggering her compulsion to drink: an action that's both intensely arousing, energizing, and creates a mystical bond between them against her control. Then of course she realizes he's her soul-mate (one of them anyway) after he almost gets himself killed trying to win her back again, and all that is swept under the rug. Ugh.
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** [[The Hero]]: Stevie Rae, also [[The Heart]]
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** [[The Chick]]: Venus
* [[Gayngst]]: Damien, a bit.
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* [[A God Am I]]: Kalona and {{spoiler|Neferet}} have both declared themselves this.
* [[Gosh Dang It to Heck]]: Zoey doesn't swear. She says words like "bullpoopie."
* [[Handsome Devil]]: Kalona lives this trope and enjoys every minute.
* [[Hair of Gold]]: Erin, Aphrodite, Professor Dragon Lankford.
* [[Have You Tried Not Being a Monster?]]: The response Zoey's parents have.
* [[Hearing Voices]]: With Neferet, as of the audiobook chapters available of Awakened, it appears to be a combination of type 1 and 2
* [[Heroic BSOD]]: {{spoiler|Zoey at the end of "Tempted."}} She gets better.
* [[High School Sweethearts]]: Zoey and Heath
* [[Hormone-Addled Teenager]]: Zoey could be the poster girl for this. [[The Big Bad]] is even [[Genre Savvy]] enough to use this against Zoey.
* [[Horror Hunger]]: Red Fledglings occassionally suffer from this.
* [[How the Mighty Have Fallen]]: The Authors tend to favour the [[Break the Haughty]] method:
** Aphrodite went from being the most popular fledgling, High Priestess-in-training, dating the hottest guy at the House of Night to being friendless, completely powerless, and spending her meal times sitting out in the courtyard eating alone.
** Rephaim - "The favourite son of an ancient immortal reduced to hiding in refuse and talking to the ghost of a human child."
* [[Human Sacrifice]]: Two in Awakened: {{spoiler|Jack(!) and Zoey's mother Linda (very nearly Zoey's Grandma!), both sacrificed by Neferet.}}
* [[Hypocrite]]: Zoey all the way, she calls Aphrodite a slut while juggling multiple boyfriends.
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* [[I See Dead People]]: One of Thantos's and Rephaim's abilities.
* {{spoiler|[[I'm a Humanitarian]]}}
* [[Incurable Cough of Death]]: If a fledging starts coughing, it means their body is rejecting the Change.
* [[I Will Find You]]: {{spoiler|Heath's last words to Zoey before he leaves the Otherworld to be re-born}}. One of the biggest [[Tear Jerker|Tear Jerkers]] in the series.
** {{spoiler|At the end of Awakened, he does come back to find her... albeit as a Vessel. Heath no longer exists, but he pocesses the memories to protect her}}
* [[It Has Only Just Begun]]: Thus far, Nyx has said this (in some variation) to Zoey at the end of Every. Single. Book.
* [[I Was Born Ready]]: This seems to be the Twin's catch phrase
* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]: Aphrodite.
* [[Keeping Secrets Sucks]]: A big theme in the series. Zoey almost loses all of her friends and almost dies because she didn't tell her friends she {{spoiler|1)knew that Stevie Rae was really alive and 2)was secretely involved with a professor}}. Stevie Rae also has problems with this when she does not tell about {{spoiler|her relationship with Rephaim}}. Also see [[No Good Deed Goes Unpunished]]
* [[Kiss of the Vampire]]: Applies to both kinds of Vampyres, even if the Vampyre and the Human are of the same gender.
* [[A Load of Bull]]: In Burned, an ancient mythos of Darkness and Light being represented by telepathic bulls is introduced. See [[Beauty Equals Goodness]].
* [[Love Hurts]]: Does it ever. Oh, does it ever. The end of "Chosen," anyone? Or "Tempted?" Though, considering that {{spoiler|she was juggling three boyfriends at the time}}, the impact may have been lessened.
** At the End of Burned between Stevie Rae and her consort {{spoiler|Rephaim. Zoey and Kalona's souls return to their bodies, thus keeping the two apart}}
* [[Love Redeems]]: Stark and Zoey's relationship is entirely built on this.
* [[Man in a Kilt]]: In Burned, Seoras shows us how it's really done.
** Stark has also taken to wearing one all the time.
* [[Magical Native American]]: Sylvia and Zoey Redbird, who are Cherokee.
* [[Meaningful Name]]: Vamps can change their name upon entering the school, thus there are a lot of these.
* [[Murder Is the Best Solution]]: Completely and utterly subverted as {{spoiler|most of Kalona's problems wouldn't exist if say he had just wiped Heath's memory instead of killing him.}}
* [[Murder the Hypotenuse]]: {{spoiler|Twice, actually. The first time it's adult vampyre Loren Blake in ''Chosen'', and at the end of ''Tempted'', Zoey's human boyfriend Heath gets the axe as well.}}
** It's Dallas's motivation to {{spoiler|kill Rephaim. "I'm gonna fry him. And then whatever weird control he has over you is gonna be gone. You and me can be together, and I won't tell shit about what happened here, as long as you're my girl."}}
* [[New Powers as the Plot Demands]]: Zoey and in later books, {{spoiler|Stevie Rae. To a degree, Aphrodite}}.
* [[No Good Deed Goes Unpunished]]: {{spoiler|Stevie Rae saves Rephaim's life. In the end, this small act is the catalyst for Stevie Rae's boyfriend Dallas to go over to the dark-side when he finds out she's been hiding him this whole time.}} Stevie Rae is also [[Mistaken for Cheating]].
* [[Not Quite Dead]] {{spoiler|Heath technically comes back at the end of ''Awakened''}}
* [[Our Vampires Are Different]]: And how! Vampyres have [[Power Tattoo]] going on, and worship the goddess Nyx. Teenagers are "fledglings" until they either go full vamp or die...and {{spoiler|"dead" fledglings sometimes become a different, more feral version of vampyre. [[Our Zombies Are Different]], anyone?}}
* [[Or Was It a Dream?]]?: In Tempted, Zoey comes to this conclusion when it turns out the locations Kalona has been chosing as the back-drop of their dreams together reveal his actual location.
* [[Parental Abandonment]]: Happens rather frequently if your parents don't approve of your new vamphood. Zoey's mother has pretty much emotionally abandoned her in favor of her new husband/ChurchMilitant religion by the start of the series anyway, and doesn't need much more to abandon her child entirely.
* [[Parent with New Paramour]]: With Zoey and Rephaim it's type 3.
* [[Passive-Aggressive Kombat]]: Neferet possesses a black belt in passive aggressive dialogue. Overlaps into [[Politeness Judo]] whenever Thanatos and Neferet share a scene.
* [[Peer Pressure Makes You Evil]]: Played straight with Aphrodite but toyed with for Zoey.
* [[Pet Homosexual]]: Damien in the early books. After Jack arrives, he shares this role with this boyfriend. Jack is annoyingly stereotyped.
** Apparently, the Casts know nothing about homosexuality aside from [[Did Not Do Research|what they see in chick flicks.]]
** Jack brought it on himself. He chose the name [[Brokeback Mountain|Jack Twist]] when he was Chosen.
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* [[The Power of Love]]: "Because Darkness feeds on pain and Light feeds on love."
* [[Psychic Powers]]: Aphrodite has horrific future visions. Neferet can read minds.
* [[Promotion to Parent]]: Stevie Rae seems to be this for her Red Fledglings, mostly because of [[Parental Abandonment]] and/or because most people think they're still dead.
* [[Promoted to Love Interest]]: {{spoiler|Stark is properly upgraded to this in ''Awakened''}}
* [[Protagonist-Centered Morality]]: The entire series is seen and judged through Zoey's sense of Morality. Even in Tempted and Burned (when different POVS and [[Loads and Loads of Characters]] are introduced) and someone has different opinion than that of Zoey's having, they're considered to be having an [[Out-of-Character Moment|OOC moment]] at best or they're automatically considered to be a horrible bitch and/or in kahootz with the [[Big Bad]].
** Kalona, pretty much the cause for every single bad thing that's ever happened in the series, gets a [[Fallen Hero]] backstory and two chapters from his POV. Zoey thought it possible he could be redeemed. Why? {{spoiler|Because in a past life Zoey was in love with him}}.
** The [[Big Bad]], despite have a pretty legitimate [[Freudian Excuse]], has yet to ever have a chapter in their POV explaining why and how they have pretty much become the very thing they have always hated the most. The [[Big Bad]] has been written off as a [[Complete Monster]]. Why? {{spoiler|Because Loren's real lover was Neferet and she sent him to seduce Zoey and segregate her from her friends and allies. Neferet also flirted with Erik when Zoey was still in love with him despite the fact that he wasn't dating anyone and he was a Changed Vampyre}}.
** The majority of characters (and a large portion of the Fandom) consider Loren Blake to be idealized. Why? Because he was young good-looking substitute professor and {{spoiler|because Zoey was in love with him and [[Death Equals Redemption]]}}. Loren Blake was a sexual predator and a [[Manipulative Bastard]]. Ontop of that, he decided to toy with the feelings of the [[Big Bad]]... A serious case of {{spoiler|[[Too Dumb to Live]] and [[Hoist by His Own Petard]]}}. He knew what the [[Big Bad]] wanted and why she wanted him to do it and went along with her plans with no remorse.
** When Venus is introduced {{spoiler|she has just recently regained her humanity}} but she is deemed a horrible bitch and possibly evil in the first chapter of Hunted. She is also hated by the fandom considerably. Despite the fact that Venus's personality is very close to that of Aphrodite, PC Cast's favourite character and most popular character with the Fandom. Why? {{spoiler|Because she DARED to flirt with Erik infront of Zoey and hooked up with him when Zoey and Erik broke up. Zoey was telling herself that it was wrong to behave and think the way she did, didn't stop it anyway.}}
** Not to mention how Zoey and her friends all call Aphrodite a "ho" for dating two guys, even though she began going out with the second one only sometime after the first one and is genuinely serious about him. Zoey, meanwhile, has dated/flirted with no less than four guys, lost her virginity to her teacher Loren while she was dating Erik and letting Heath continually lure her into feasting on his blood, and she ''repeatedly'' calls herself out for being unable to settle on one guy. And yet when Erik calls her out on this in a later book, he's dismissed as just a jealous jerk by all her friends and we're clearly meant to disagree with her being a ho even when she keeps on saying that she ''is'' and is ''right''.
** Raven Mockers are mindless creatures of Darkness and they should all be wiped out. Everybody agrees with the [[Kill'Em All]] attitude and, as of Burned, around twenty Raven Mockers have been killed. Even the idea of giving them a burial is seen as strange. The only exception is Stevie Rae and when she raises valid points of [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?]] and [[If You Kill Him You Will Be Just Like Him]] not only does every character tell her she's wrong but she is suspected of secretly turning over to [[The Dark Side]].
** Speaking of Stevie Rae, how is it okay for the Red Fledglings that haven't "Chosen" yet to be running around killing people? Even after she gives them multiple chances to choose, and they try to kill her and her friends multiple times, she ends up just chasing them away/exiling them... as if wherever they end up, they'll be any less evil and bloodthirsty? Maybe it's just a weakness moment or something, but the fact that they're Red Fledglings and thus "her people" seems to be what keeps her from stopping them from murdering any more innocents... permanently.
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** [[No One Could Survive That]]: Which practically every Vampyre says about Zoey's [[Heroic BSOD]]. So we all know what's going to happen by the end of the book...
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