Once in a Full Moon
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4.2 • 100 Ratings
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
Beware of a kiss under the full moon. It will change your life forever.
Celeste Parker is used to hearing scary stories about werewolves—Legend's Run is famous for them. She's used to everything in the small town until Brandon Maddox moves to Legend's Run and Celeste finds herself immediately drawn to the handsome new student. But when, after an unnerving visit with a psychic, she encounters a pack of wolves and gorgeous, enigmatic Brandon, she must discover whether his transformation is more than legend or just a trick of the shadows in the moonlight.
Her best friends may never forgive her if she gives up her perfect boyfriend, Nash, for Brandon, who's from the wrong side of town. But she can't deny her attraction or the strong pull he has on her. Brandon may be Celeste's hero, or he may be the most dangerous creature she could encounter in the woods of Legend's Run.
Psychic predictions, generations-old secrets, a town divided, and the possibility of falling in love with a hot and heroic werewolf are the perfect formula for what happens . . . once in a full moon.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
It's tough to overcome an opening line as portentous as "It began underneath the haunting glow of a full moon." Schreiber apparently wants to play both sides of the Twilight divide, following up her popular Vampire Kisses series with a werewolf tale. Overwrought, redundant prose pads an unimaginative narrative of high school angst plus fur. Celeste Parker, 17, has a sports-obsessed boyfriend and two shop-aholic best friends. When new student Brandon shows up, they joke about him being a werewolf. Then Brandon saves Celeste from an actual wolf attack, and it's no spoiler to say that Brandon is indeed a werewolf. He's also totally hot, of course, and so, defying the warnings of a New Age fortune-teller she happened to consult, Celeste kisses him under the full moon. Although the story, which unfolds through Celeste's belabored narrative ("The silence only magnified my intense pangs of isolation"), may read to many like fan-fic, it pushes all the right paranormal, romantic buttons to give it 15 minutes of fame with its target audience. Ages 12 up.
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I have to agree with kanale27. This book was lacking quite a bit. Rather than guiding the reader toward what the characters are feeling she tells you how they are feeling. She doesn't give us much for our imaginations to use and she doesn't develop her characters through their actions but rather tells you about them. Thoroughly disappointing. Honestly one of the worst books I have had the misfortune of reading. I was willing to forgive the lack of plot and child-like writing style if the author was a young adult or this was her first novel but she supposedly has a whole other series that, for some unknown reason, is quite popular. Why wouldn't her editors or publisher realize what a detriment her writing style is to YA Fiction? I, sadly, feel less intelligent for having read through this "novel."
Domiiniique
This book was amazing