Very late reply to this, but it gets even worse in Chosen. Grandma Redbird somehow scores a super-rare edition of Dracula for Zoey, because it happens to be her favorite book ever, and the following conversation more or less takes place:
Zoey: Cool! Hey, Grandma, did you know that Bram Stoker wrote this because he imprinted on a High Priestess but got upset because she left him for her duties?
Grandma: I did not! That's very interesting, sweetie.
Zoey's Mom: I think that sounds horrible and like brainwashing.
Zoey: OMG MOM, WHY DO YOU HAVE TO BE SO DIFFICULT? IT'S PURE AND TRUE LOVE, OKAY?
Yeah. The morality of this series is all over the place. Near as I can tell, vampires are totally in the right to drink from various humans and magically brainwash them, but the humans are considered horrible for doing stuff in retaliation.
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Zoey: Cool! Hey, Grandma, did you know that Bram Stoker wrote this because he imprinted on a High Priestess but got upset because she left him for her duties?
Grandma: I did not! That's very interesting, sweetie.
Zoey's Mom: I think that sounds horrible and like brainwashing.
Zoey: OMG MOM, WHY DO YOU HAVE TO BE SO DIFFICULT? IT'S PURE AND TRUE LOVE, OKAY?
Yeah. The morality of this series is all over the place. Near as I can tell, vampires are totally in the right to drink from various humans and magically brainwash them, but the humans are considered horrible for doing stuff in retaliation.