Marked
- 320
- Pages
- about 6 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“Marked” is a vampire boarding-school opener that delivers exactly the comforts of its genre, no more and no less. Sixteen-year-old Zoey is uprooted from her old life, sent to the House of Night and soon turns out to be anything but an ordinary fledgling, while something is clearly wrong at the school. Teenage readers are its natural audience; some who loved it at that age say the long series lost them a few volumes in.
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About the book
Marked is the first novel of the House of Night fantasy series written by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast. The book was released on May 1, 2007 by St. Martin's Press, an extension of Macmillan Publishers.
Reading order · House of Night
Full order & progress →- MarkedThis book
7.17.1 / 10 - Betrayed
7.47.4 / 10 - Chosen
7.47.4 / 10 - Untamed
7.47.4 / 10 - Hunted
7.47.4 / 10 - Tempted
7.47.4 / 10 - Burned
7.57.5 / 10 - Awakened
7.67.6 / 10 - Destined
7.77.7 / 10 - HiddenHidden–Not ranked yet
- RevealedRevealed–Not ranked yet
- RedeemedRedeemed–Not ranked yet
Where the score comes from
The sources average 6.9 across 459 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 76% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Horror average of 7.5. That is how 7.1 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.6 | 47 | 10% |
| Hardcover | 6.7 | 412 | 90% |
Frequently asked
What age is Marked for?
Marked sits on the Young adult shelf in the sources we use, which by convention means roughly ages 13 and up. This is a guide from the book’s category, not a publisher’s age rating. It has 320 pages — shorter than 92% of the ranked books in Horror.
In this book
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Same shelf — Horror — with scores between 7.4 and 7.8, closest to this book.
