I really didn't like this one. Lenobia is my least favourite character in the HON series so I was intrigued when I picked up this book, I thought it would maybe make her a bit more interesting for me. Nope!First of all, the setting of the book is rather boring. Lenobia lives in a French lord's house, but has to leave in the beginning of the story. Most of what you are going to read takes place in a ship while she's travelling to the New World. It could have been better if the authors took some time to develop the setting of the ship, but Lenobia pretty much stays in her cabin as much as she possibly can. The only time she does get out it's to go to the stables. Wow. How... Uninteresting. Instead of wasting time with the setting, the authors chose to focus on the characters instead. Which would be fine, if they didn't all look so superficial.Lenobia falls in love with a guy in about 5 seconds. Don't get me wrong, I'll eat the whole love-at-first-sight story if you sell it to me correctly. In this case though, there was hardly any interaction between them before they were madly in love and -get this- ready to sacrifice their whole lives for the other. Given that there was more interaction with the horses that they spent so much time grooming than between the two of them, I would more easily believe it if Lenobia had fallen in love with a horse instead.And lastly we have the ending. I'm not going to spoil this for anyone, but the ending didn't make any sense to me either. It looked like things were going towards a certain direction all through the book, but then towards the end the authors decided that they wanted to go for a dramatic finale. To do that, they had to place the characters in absurd situations and make the right people have their backs turned at the right moment for the events to turn out like that. It just looked way too arbitrary and forced.Would it be THAT bad if they actually gave one of their characters a happy ending? Or does everyone have to go into "vampyrehood" scarred by life? No moral here, which I'd be okay with if the journey was interesting, but unfortunately it wasn't. Also, a lot of little details in the whole story didn't match, which made me feel like it was a sloppy work. I'm very disappointed and I didn't have high expectations of this book to begin with. From reading the other House of night books, I knew that Lenobia very much loved Martin who had died and she was never able to get over the death. What this book told me was how innocent and deep their love was and how fast it occurred. It also told the reader just enough above Lenobia's childhood to understand where she came from. I really enjoyed this short story about the future House of Night teacher who loves horses more than anything and never forgets the love of her life whom she only got to spend a few short weeks with when she was a teenager.
Do You like book Lenobia's Vow (2012)?
This novella is from the House of Night series. It follows Lenobia's life as she leaves France and her mother and embarks on an eight week ship ride to the new world under a false identity and a man who could ruin it all for her.I picked this up for 50p at a car boot sale, and I started reading it straight away. I love writing and the flow of the House of Night books and I loved this novella to get me back into them. I can't wait until Summer to read the rest of them!
—Jabez
This novella is from the House of Night series. It follows Lenobia's life as she leaves France and her mother and embarks on an eight week ship ride to the new world under a false identity and a man who could ruin it all for her.I picked this up for 50p at a car boot sale, and I started reading it straight away. I love writing and the flow of the House of Night books and I loved this novella to get me back into them. I can't wait until Summer to read the rest of them!
—syahreni
The novellas are actually better than the main series and take under two hours to read.
—Terri
