Title: The Moon Shines Red
Author: Pamela Sparkman
Page count: 266
Published: May 2017
Publisher: N/A
Genre: YA / Fantasy
Received: From the author in exchange for an honest review
Rating: 3/5
Summary:
Lord Lochlan was cursed in the womb, condemned by the perceived crimes of his parents.
On the thirteenth year of his birth, the red glow of the moon washed over land and sea like a faded bloody stain. A constant reminder of the curse that marked him before he was born. Every night he gazed at it like he was lured and haunted by it. It followed him, it beseeched him. It called out to him. Just once he wanted to see the moon glow as everyone else saw it. Bright and illuminating. But he knew that would never be possible.
The all too familiar feeling of despair suffocated him, like long gangling fingers squeezing his neck, cutting off his air. He fell to his knees and begged for the sky to fall on him. He had suffered long and tirelessly and he was desperate for it to end. And yet, he fought to breathe. He fought to stand back on his feet. Because fighting back was as instinctual to him as breathing. He had come too far to let his loneliness and despair get the best of him now. He was battle worn and weary, but he still had a reason to live.
Or so he hoped.
He stood back on his feet and he fought against the doom that hovered over him since the day he was born and he stared up into the darkened sky.
At the moon that shines red only for him.
I should have stayed away from him. But I couldn’t.
HE was my love…my life. And he just might kill me.
I suppose that means…he may also be my end.
My Thoughts:
Reading this book being that it is a fantasy book, its not my normal go to genre. After reading this book I have to say that it is making want to read more fantasy books. This is so engrossing, I read this book on one sitting because I needed to know what had happened.
That being said let’s get into my review.
This was truly a captivating story that had all the elements that I would expect in a fantasy book. There’s magic, demons, fae and of course human. There is also multiple POV’s which I know some people don’t like. I like to add that in just as a heads up. It did take me a few chapters to get into but once I did I was hooked.
I loved the map at the beginning of the book. I think it adds a segway into the story, so that you know were the characters are from. The book is also told in two parts. ( some people might not be a fan of) I loved the curse at the beginning of the book
When what is blue turns red, your child will bring man to is knees and sorrow
For they will not see the light of tomorrow
Let it be so until the mountains move and the rivers shiver
As soon as what’s been shrouded is revealed, all wicked souls will quiver
A refusal shall mark an age of tranquility
And the restoration of balance shall bring forth a remedy.
I’m not sure what it is about that, but I loved it.
The main character Elin who happens to have powers and living with her parents, I loved when she meets Lord Lochlan, that’s when the story for me got interesting. The story did take me in for a loop an I liked that because I never knew what was coming.
Lord Lochlan is conceived out of love and because of that he is condemned. and because of that he has to live in isolation. He feels like he is going to be alone for ever, that is fate is set. That is until he meets Elin.
The romance that these two had was real. To be able to find love from the impossible situations that they were both in was nice to read
This is the first book that I have read by this author an all I have to say is wow. I cant wait to read what is going to happen next.
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