Author: P.C. & Kristin Cast
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 146
Publisher: St. Martin’s Press
Publication date: February 19, 2013
ISBN-13: 9781250000255
About the Book
The White City, 1893: In turn-of-the-century
Chicago, with the World’s Fair bringing bustle and excitement to her home city,
sixteen-year-old Emily Wheiler should be reveling in her youthful
beauty and the excitement around her. But her whole life changed when
her mother died, leaving her to be the Lady of Wheiler House. Her
father, a powerful bank president, is at the center of an important social
hub for the booming young city, and he needs Emily to do everything her mother
would have – to be a good hostess and make sure the mansion
runs smoothly.
As Emily uneasily tries to replace her mother, she also
longs for more… for love and a life of her own. When a handsome young man
notices her at one of her father’s parties, it seems that her hopes may finally
be coming true. Until her father forbids her to see him – or any other man – and
starts revealing a darkly violent side that even he can’t understand.
At last, afraid for her life and with nowhere to turn,
Emily is Marked by a vampyre and brought to the Chicago House of Night, where
she begins a magickal new life that should allow the wounds from her
past to heal. But as she gains strength, and a powerful new name, she
carries a dark need to wreak vengeance on the man she trusted most.
From victim to High Priestess, beautiful young woman
to powerful seductress, Neferet's journey begins in NEFERET'S CURSE...
My Review
I really enjoyed reading this novella and getting to know
more about Neferet’s life before she was marked for the House of Night. I never
thought about what her life was like before her being marked as a fledgling. It
gives more to the story and the series now that you have the insight as to why
she is the way she is in the series.
Things that I
liked: I really enjoyed the cover the of book. I like that she was on the
cover as well as the spirals that go with the House of Night markings and the
meaning of change in one’s life throughout the series. I really enjoyed reading
about Emily’s life before she became Neferet after entering the house of Night.
Things that I
didn’t like: This is just something minor, and possibly just me. But I
really didn’t like the pictures at the beginning of the “chapters”. I mean they
were to serve a purpose and they did, for me it’s just that I felt that you had
to really look at the pictures before reading the chapters. Because I would look
at them and then read the chapter and then reach the part where the picture was
describing and had to go back to the picture to confirm what I was seeing was
in fact in the chapter. (Does that make sense?)
Overall: I
really enjoyed getting the background story to Emily/Neferet’s story and how
she came to be what she is in the series. I gave this book 5 out of 5 stars. I
highly recommend this book to anyone who is reading the House of Night series.
Until next time, Happy Reading!
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