Zoey gets to the oh so important ritual and trades some very un-funny banter with Aphrodite.  It’s very standard: Aphrodite does  a poor job because she’s socially maladjusted and Zoey easily outshines her with her middle-school level of skills.  I still refuse to be impressed by the fact that everyone else in the world is…

Yup, all the kids now have affinities for whatever element they represented in Zoey’s uber special circle.  Why would Nyx touch me with such unusual power just so that I could kick a spoiled bully out of the leadership of a club? Okay, the Dark Daughters were more than a student council or whatever, but…

Zoey skips class (with permission) to call her grandmother.  I mean, Mom had quit loving me, hadn’t she? Or, at the very least, Mom had traded me in for a new husband, which in some ways was worse than quitting loving me. HOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWW????????  I mean it, her mother was shown to be quite concerned for…

So, rather out of the blue, Zoey admits to Erik that she saw the Blow Job Incident, all so Erik can assure her that he’s not dating Aphrodite.  But we already knew that so…who cares? Apparently when Zoey went all ga-ga over Heath’s blood, that was unusual.  That was a ‘bloodlust’ that’s not supposed to…

On the way to temple, SR tells Zoey that a random bit character died during class.  She explains that the dead girl didn’t survive the change, and that whenever that happens, it’s always a sudden thing that pops up out of nowhere, so there’s nothing anyone can do.  She then further explains that the teachers…