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New Moon
by Ian McDonald
While I was reading I thought this would be a good TV show. Specifically I want Starz to call Jonathan Steinberg and Robert Levine and let them make this show. Get the gang back together.
Luna: New Moon is a political drama about dynastic families competing mining operations on the moon. There is a huge cast of characters, which the author thankfully lists at the beginning of the novel (after a few pages I had to make myself a family tree from that list, but probably not everyone needs the same level of visual learning techniques that I do). The author rotates point of views frequently, off the top of my head there are at least 10 point of views. This was a tad frustrating at first, but I quickly got into the flow of things, and I think that this helped keep things moving and develop the characters distinctly. These are written in third person but every once in a while are broken up by first person narration from Adriana Corta, the matriarch of the Corta family, detailing how she started the family mining company from nothing.
I loved reading all the ways that the characters navigate all the conflicting things in their lives: their families, their family expectations, love, death, their desires that conflicted with the family business, and the ways that the other Dragons were waiting to sabotage them. The focus of this novel in mostly on the Corta family, and consequently all of my favorite characters are Cortas and I hate the Mackenzies, but in that way where I want to see what they will do next.
Luna: New Moon kept me interested and took me through a wide variety of emotions, and I am excited to get to the sequel.
Luna: New Moon is a political drama about dynastic families competing mining operations on the moon. There is a huge cast of characters, which the author thankfully lists at the beginning of the novel (after a few pages I had to make myself a family tree from that list, but probably not everyone needs the same level of visual learning techniques that I do). The author rotates point of views frequently, off the top of my head there are at least 10 point of views. This was a tad frustrating at first, but I quickly got into the flow of things, and I think that this helped keep things moving and develop the characters distinctly. These are written in third person but every once in a while are broken up by first person narration from Adriana Corta, the matriarch of the Corta family, detailing how she started the family mining company from nothing.
I loved reading all the ways that the characters navigate all the conflicting things in their lives: their families, their family expectations, love, death, their desires that conflicted with the family business, and the ways that the other Dragons were waiting to sabotage them. The focus of this novel in mostly on the Corta family, and consequently all of my favorite characters are Cortas and I hate the Mackenzies, but in that way where I want to see what they will do next.
Luna: New Moon kept me interested and took me through a wide variety of emotions, and I am excited to get to the sequel.