*sigh* Yes. Zoey is a bitch, so much so that slugging through the first 50-or-so pages just killed me. I can't stand her voice AT ALL. The only thing that stopped me from doing anything to the book was because it was a library book. I thought the book had an interesting concept, like the Cherokee thing and the Wiccan-inspired Elemental ritual or whatever, but the Casts didn't fuse the myth inspiration right and made everything seem out of place.

Ugh, I hope I don't make the same mistakes in my story... Myth-fusing IS hard...