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Moon Chosen
by P.C. Cast
I received a free digital copy from the author/publisher via Netgalley in exchange for an honest feedback.
Moon Chosen is PC Cast’s new book and much like her other books, this one focuses on goddesses of power and a lot of mystery and intrigue wrapped up in magic. Mari is an earth walker and a moon woman-in-training but she has a secret. She’s not 100% earth walker and only she and her mother know. Nik is from the Tribe of the Trees were dogs are the biggest asset, and a canine chooses his companion - Nik hasn’t been chosen yet. Mari and Nik’s world eventually collides and they have to help each other survive the fallout.
So PC Cast’s book are always a hit and miss for me. I never know if I’ll love them or absolutely hate them - this fell a little bit in between. Cast is an expert at coming up with fabulous goddesses and rituals and traditions, as well as tribes and families and great villainous creatures. This book is full of that - a lot of time obviously went into it and it definitely seems to be a good bit longer than the other books of hers that I’ve read.
However, this book ended up falling flat for me. Despite its richness in background and culture, there was so much building up of the world and the tribes and what type of people they were, I felt like the character’s story, which is the one I wanted to follow, got completely lost. Nik and Mari didn’t even properly meet each other until about 70% into the story. Which meant the big event that normally happens at about 80%, happened at like 95% and in my opinion wasn’t resolved properly. I felt like the book ended in the middle of a scene. Wham, it was over. The book could have been paced better and it could have ended in a cliff-hanger without it needing to be so severe. The dialogue in this book was also really juvenile at most times which I hated. I also didn’t appreciate the scene of animal cruelty when a stag was skinned alive and then let walk away in the kind of pain that makes me want to vomit just to imagine. While I know why this scene was in the book, I still hated it.
I might read on in this series just to see what happens but it’s not one I’ll be waiting anxiously for. I’ll go back to Partholon now.
Moon Chosen is PC Cast’s new book and much like her other books, this one focuses on goddesses of power and a lot of mystery and intrigue wrapped up in magic. Mari is an earth walker and a moon woman-in-training but she has a secret. She’s not 100% earth walker and only she and her mother know. Nik is from the Tribe of the Trees were dogs are the biggest asset, and a canine chooses his companion - Nik hasn’t been chosen yet. Mari and Nik’s world eventually collides and they have to help each other survive the fallout.
So PC Cast’s book are always a hit and miss for me. I never know if I’ll love them or absolutely hate them - this fell a little bit in between. Cast is an expert at coming up with fabulous goddesses and rituals and traditions, as well as tribes and families and great villainous creatures. This book is full of that - a lot of time obviously went into it and it definitely seems to be a good bit longer than the other books of hers that I’ve read.
However, this book ended up falling flat for me. Despite its richness in background and culture, there was so much building up of the world and the tribes and what type of people they were, I felt like the character’s story, which is the one I wanted to follow, got completely lost. Nik and Mari didn’t even properly meet each other until about 70% into the story. Which meant the big event that normally happens at about 80%, happened at like 95% and in my opinion wasn’t resolved properly. I felt like the book ended in the middle of a scene. Wham, it was over. The book could have been paced better and it could have ended in a cliff-hanger without it needing to be so severe. The dialogue in this book was also really juvenile at most times which I hated. I also didn’t appreciate the scene of animal cruelty when a stag was skinned alive and then let walk away in the kind of pain that makes me want to vomit just to imagine. While I know why this scene was in the book, I still hated it.
I might read on in this series just to see what happens but it’s not one I’ll be waiting anxiously for. I’ll go back to Partholon now.