Allie lives with her mom, Faye, in a tiny trailer on her Uncle Sid's property. Allie's mom is sick , so Allie takes care of her. One day climbing the ladder on the side of the trailer to turn the TV antennae, Allie slips and falls right into the bull pen. The electrical fence jolts her and unbeknownst to Allie, sets off her psychic powers. Shocked and hurt, seeing the bull begin to charge toward her, she chants for it to go away. It does, moving backwards.
Still shocked about the afternoons events, Allie is even more stunned when she is visited by a hippie spirit later that evening. Telling Allie about how she must pass three tests before her powers are unleashed sends Allie to one of her closest friends, an old witch named Kizzy.
Kizzy talks to Allie about a prophecy and gives her a moonstone pendant that has been passed through several centuries. Kizzy takes Allie's hand and shows her the star mark underneath her little finger. She is very confident that Allie , not her own daughter Carmel, is whom the pendant was to be passed to.
Allie is soon learning and practicing her new powers when Kizzy is attacked and left for dead. With the help of her new friend, Junior, she begins to unravel the mystery of who would want to hurt her elderly friend.
Full of magic, twists, and pure fun, Moonstone is the first in a new young adult paranormal series. The characters come to life in this shining debut. I look forward to reading more about Allie and the Star Seekers. What a wonderful book!
Still shocked about the afternoons events, Allie is even more stunned when she is visited by a hippie spirit later that evening. Telling Allie about how she must pass three tests before her powers are unleashed sends Allie to one of her closest friends, an old witch named Kizzy.
Kizzy talks to Allie about a prophecy and gives her a moonstone pendant that has been passed through several centuries. Kizzy takes Allie's hand and shows her the star mark underneath her little finger. She is very confident that Allie , not her own daughter Carmel, is whom the pendant was to be passed to.
Allie is soon learning and practicing her new powers when Kizzy is attacked and left for dead. With the help of her new friend, Junior, she begins to unravel the mystery of who would want to hurt her elderly friend.
Full of magic, twists, and pure fun, Moonstone is the first in a new young adult paranormal series. The characters come to life in this shining debut. I look forward to reading more about Allie and the Star Seekers. What a wonderful book!
Cute, Fun, interesting little read. I enjoyed the main character very much and loved some of the secondary characters. However her mother sucks badly. She could probably win the award for worst mother of the year. I however could over look her mother because she has made Allie (Main Character) the strong great person she is in spite of how she acts. The premise of the story is that Allie finds out she is a witch. Her best friend gives her a moonstone necklace that has a prophecy attached to it and Allie is the prophesied one. Will she follow the path of good or evil is the major question?
Pick it up and give it a chance!
Pick it up and give it a chance!
I got a copy of this book through NetGalley(dot)com. This was a book I had had on my "to read" list for a while. It was an okay book, a quick read and the characters were likable but not incredibly original. There are two more books in this series so far Moon Rise and Moon Spun
Allie lives with her chronically sick mother in a trailer on her uncle's property. Her life isn't great, but it could be worse. Then she gets zapped by a power-line and starts being able to move things with her mind. When an old friend of hers gives her a Moonstone that she says is prophesied to be Allie's, things start getting even stranger. Allie finds out that she may be part of a prophecy involving two ancient races that have been fighting each other for centuries.
This book was okay. Allie is a likable enough character and even Allie's mom (who is definitely not mother-of-the-year) is somewhat likable at times. The boy who ends up helping Allie out is also easy to relate to. That being said none of the characters are very deep and they are all pretty 2D.
The story is pretty simple, it basically involves Allie discovering her powers and trying to keep the Moonstone away from bad people. Nothing that happened in the story was very surprising or original. It was all just okay.
Brothers writing style is readable and the dialogue natural sounding; the story was a quick read. Things were wrapped up nicely but a storyline was definitely left open for future books. The purpose of this book seemed to be mainly to set things up for future books, so I am hoping the future books in this series have more complex and deeper stories to them.
Overall this was an okay book. It wasn't an exciting read, but it wasn't horrible either. When I finished it I mainly thought, "Huh, well okay guess I am done with that." I wasn't eager to read more about these characters or learn more about the world. If you are interested in a young adult book featuring a girl with telekinesis this may be the book for you. Personally though I would skip it or get it from the library. I don't plan on reading future books in this series.
Allie lives with her chronically sick mother in a trailer on her uncle's property. Her life isn't great, but it could be worse. Then she gets zapped by a power-line and starts being able to move things with her mind. When an old friend of hers gives her a Moonstone that she says is prophesied to be Allie's, things start getting even stranger. Allie finds out that she may be part of a prophecy involving two ancient races that have been fighting each other for centuries.
This book was okay. Allie is a likable enough character and even Allie's mom (who is definitely not mother-of-the-year) is somewhat likable at times. The boy who ends up helping Allie out is also easy to relate to. That being said none of the characters are very deep and they are all pretty 2D.
The story is pretty simple, it basically involves Allie discovering her powers and trying to keep the Moonstone away from bad people. Nothing that happened in the story was very surprising or original. It was all just okay.
Brothers writing style is readable and the dialogue natural sounding; the story was a quick read. Things were wrapped up nicely but a storyline was definitely left open for future books. The purpose of this book seemed to be mainly to set things up for future books, so I am hoping the future books in this series have more complex and deeper stories to them.
Overall this was an okay book. It wasn't an exciting read, but it wasn't horrible either. When I finished it I mainly thought, "Huh, well okay guess I am done with that." I wasn't eager to read more about these characters or learn more about the world. If you are interested in a young adult book featuring a girl with telekinesis this may be the book for you. Personally though I would skip it or get it from the library. I don't plan on reading future books in this series.
There are 14 tales in total- some are really quite good, some are more about relationships than anything. Definitely some steamy moments.
