Neferet's Curse (House of Night Novellas #3)
P.C. Cast
With more than 12 million books in print, rights sold in almost 40 countries, and over two years on the New York Times bestseller list, the House of Night series is an international publishing sensation. Now, the excitement continues as the Cast mother-daughter duo shares the back stories of a few of the House of Night's most important – and mysterious – characters. In the third House of Night novella, the secret history we've all been waiting for is finally revealed... Neferet, the Tulsa House of Night's darkly seductive High Priestess, wasn't always a powerful vampyre, but she has always been beautiful. Raised in turn-of-the-century Chicago in a motherless home, her beauty makes her the prey of unwanted attention and abuse, leaving her with scars that will never heal – and a Darkness that will eventually need to find its way out. But when she is Marked and gains strength, both physical and magickal, she turns her anger into power and looks for a way to regain what was stolen from her. From victim to High Priestess, beautiful young woman to powerful seductress, Neferet's journey begins...
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This was my least favorite of the HON Novella's... and probably my least favorite of the series as a whole. Usually I love the back story and the introduction to these powerful vampyres that we get from these Novella's but for some reason Neferet (or Emily as she was previously known) is just so impossible for me to connect with.
Perhaps it was the difference in the time period but I really just don't grasp the concept of how a couple of months of what she had to endure was enough to make her a completely different person. Perhaps it's because I've never been put into that situation myself but I just don't see how this light-hearted child could turn in to this monster that we know now.
I mean YES, I get how she is who she is by the explanation that the authors give. I understand why she is the way she is now. Her curse makes sense to me... I get it. But I just couldn't connect with it. Which in all honesty I guess is a good thing because that means I'm not a monster.
On the other hand the book was good... and probably necessary to understand Neferet as she is now. I just prefer the beautiful love stories of Dragon and Anastasia, and Lenobia and Martin to this horrible, horrible story. Not horrible as a story but, horrible as in what made Neferet turn into the monster she is.
The thing that makes me want to build a time machine and go back in to make believe fantasy land time and smack the crap out of her is that she's told that what she chooses to do at the end of the story will turn her into a monster and curse her... and she does it anyway. I guess that means she was never a truly great person to begin with.
0I am normally not a big fan of Novella's. Why? Not really sure, they just don't seem to interest me.
I have however read every single one attached to the House of night series and after reading the last book of House of Night: Hidden, I wanted to know more about Neferet and why she became the way she did. Alas, the Novella Neferet's Curse. So, I gave it a shot and I really really enjoyed it. Like I said, I am normally leery of Novella's because they can tend to be a bunch of nonsense information. Well they did an excellent job of writing Neferet's story. I started reading it and literally couldn't put it down. You literally get pulled into the era in which Neferet was born into. The way the society was back then is mesmerizing and scary.
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