Low Red Moon by: Ivy Devlin
Release Date: September 14, 2010
Published by Bloomsbury Children's Book
Pages: 256
Ages: Young Adult
Summary:
A tale of heart-stopping love, death, amnesia . . . and dangerous creatures
The only thing Avery Hood can remember about the night her parents died is that she saw silver—deadly silver, moving inhumanly fast. As much as she wants to remember who killed them, she can’t, and there’s nothing left to do but tries to piece her life back together. Then Avery meets the new boy in school—Ben, mysterious and beautiful, with whom she feels a connection like nothing she’s ever experienced. When Ben reveals he’s a werewolf, Avery still trusts him—at first. Then she sees that sometimes his eyes flash inhuman silver. And she learns that she’s not the only one who can’t remember the night her parents died. Part murder mystery, part grief narrative, and part heart-stopping, headlong romance, Low Red Moon is a must-read for teen paranormal fans. As breathless as Twilight and as spooky as Shiver, this is a book to be devoured in one sitting—by an acclaimed YA author making her paranormal debut under the pseudonym Ivy Devlin.
My Review:
Well let me start of by saying that “Low Red Moon” which would be usually a quick read for me since its only 256 pages took me quite awhile to read the reason being no matter how hard I tried getting into the book and I really wanted to love it since I heard lot’s of great reviews even comparisons to Twilight & Shiver and it didn’t hurt that I fell in love with the cover art and illustrations on the pages were a nice touch but even with those extra’s I still couldn’t get into the book I found the story line flat and I felt like the story was also a bit choppy at times, as if it could have been expanded in some areas and cut back in others . Unfortunately this doesn’t bode well for me, but it was one of those things that I either move past or just accept so I accepted it and continued reading. It could be that Avery continually went back over the event of her parents dying, her obsession with Ben or that she never explored why she felt uncomfortable around certain people in the community. I found myself getting into 2 or 3 chapters towards the end but then it fell flat again. Another thing I found I didn’t actually connect this story to the classic, Little Red Riding Hood until nearly the very end of the book. Avery’s last name, Hood, didn’t even give it away. It’s like a whole new take on the “Big Bad Wolf” but now as a werewolf, Low Red Moon came across as an updated version of the fairytale one of the biggest things I really wanted was to find out more about why Avery had the connection with the forest not only emotionally but physically and how it all started before her I thought that really would have bump up the storyline a notch I know it has a sequel and I hope it will have a little more improvement than Low Red Moon.
Final Thoughts:
I found that Low Red Moon still need to be edited some more I think with some great tweaking it could have the possibility of being a good book I don’t want to knock it off completely until I read the whole series only time and reading on will tell.
Lisa
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