NEFERET\'S CURSE by P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast is a journal written by Neferet when she was still the human Emily Wheiler. From the first page till the last page NEFERET\'S CURSE is fast paced, interesting and intriguing. Emily makes her first journal entry on January 15th, 1893, exactly two and a half months,(on November 1st, 1892), after her mother died in childbirth giving birth to a lifeless baby boy. This is the event that changes Emily\'s life forever.

Over the next six months we follow her life as written by her, in her words and emotions. The journal is very personal and gives the readers an up close and personal look into who Neferet was in last six months of her human life and what helped to shape the person she is today. I am not sure if reading this journal will change your mind one way or the other about how you feel about her, but it will most certainly help you see what went on in her life leading up to her change.

As she continues with where her mother left as lady of Wheiler house, she is expected to give the dinner parties and act the gracious host. Especially with the coming of The Columbian Exposition that will put Chicago on the map.

Barrett H. Wheiler ( Emily\'s father), president of the First National Bank of Chicago, the bank that is financing the expo and a very important man in Chicago. He is very demanding and cannot separate the fact that Emily is not her mother Alice. Barrett demands that Emily takes her mother\'s place on his right at the dinner table, take her place twice a week as a volunteer at the General Federation of Women\'s Club and wear her mother\'s dresses for various events. When she starts to notice that her father is staring at her more and more and making her uncomfortable she starts to plan how she is going to escape his house.

There is only one place she is able to escape too that she can have some peace and think, that is the garden. She loves the quiet and the fountain that her father gave her mother as a wedding gift. But she is never able to sneak out there until it is night and she is sure she will not run into her father.

NEFERET\'S CURSE is a must read for anyone that is a House of Night fan.

Book Summary

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 â€“ 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...