Booklist Online requires membership before you can read their reviews, so I won't put the entire review up here, just the nice complimentary part*:
Shade of the Moon.
Pfeffer, Susan Beth (author).
Aug. 2013. 304p. Harcourt, hardcover, $17.99 (9780547813370). Grades 7-10.
REVIEW. First published July 3, 2013 (Booklist Online)
The pampered and weak Jon is not a particularly likable character, but in some ways that intensifies the story, as the moral choices he makes become successively more complicated. Pfeffer’s well-written take on what life might be as it returns to “normal” is sometimes brutal and always depressingly real. — Ilene Cooper
Of course, I don't think of Jon as weak or even all that pampered, and I like him, but then again, he wouldn't exist without me and if I don't like him, who will (don't answer that).
Anyway, I'm pleased the book is "well-written," and since "brutal" and "depressingly real" are terms no one who knows me ever associates me with ("cuddly" and "absurdly optimistic" are more often bandied about), I am very pleased with this review, and hope is the second of many such.
*The rest of the review is pretty much plot synopsis. I didn't leave out a single negative word.
5 comments:
Fabulous! Can't wait to read it. I love the moon books!
Thanks, Rebecca!
Having just finished the book this past week, I totally agree with that review!
Hello Nora Durbin and thank you!
I just finished reading, The shade of the moon. I really enjoyed the book and hope that there will be a fifth book. I really loved reading about Alex and Miranda in the first three books. And I hope to read more about them in the fifth book (if you decide to make one). There would be night where I couldn't sleep just thinking about what was going to happen next, so there I go reading another chapter. I even went to work late from lack of sleep (lol). I would like to give you thanks for the wonderful (moon) books you have written.
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