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Moon Chosen: Tales of a New World
by P.C. Cast
Rating: 3.0 stars
To start off, I enjoyed this book, even through it's slowness and clichés (more on that later). Some things I liked about the book
-The Father and son relationship between Sol and Nik: Throughout this book I loved their banter. There are too many novels where the main character is an orphan or after the death of the significant other, they're distant and leave the protagonist to defend themselves or even both of the parents die during the book. Ex: Katniss's mother, Tris and Caleb's parents and Harry Potter etc. That's why I was reluctant to get attached, knowing that Sol was probably going to die, but 3/4 through the book no death in sight. But like I suspected, BAM, crossbow arrow to the heart and then a lion king Mufasa moment. I was more annoyed then sad, cause why couldn't an author just let the parents live?
- the choosing of the Companion: I loved the way the dogs choose the person! It kinda reminded me of Harry potters " the wand chooses the Wizards" kind of way.
-the dogs in general were just awesome
Now the bad things about the book
- The Skin Stealers: I personally didn't see the point of adding these characters to the story. They didn't really scare me or interest me, so I skipped through most of their scenes, (luckily there's not a lot, thank god!) Dead eye wasn't really frightening, just weird. I wish it was more Until dawn Wendigo style instead of strange, religious, sex appealing weirdos.
- THADDEUS: Cast tried making him out to be a big villain but honestly his character was just annoying. He had no purpose or reason on why he hated Nik. He's just like that one character who's making threats, and just rambling on and on, however everyone ignores them. By the end of the story, he was annoying enough that I wanted him dead or gone from the story but not enough for me to actually care. If Cast would've given him some backstory and a purpose, I would've minded him.
-Randomly introduces new tribes: It was like Cast suddenly remembered during the middle of the book that it needs to be a series, so she's like "oh now there's a cat tribe and a horse tribe that we won't explain at all, because why not?!" As if we need more people to learn about.
- Mari and Leda: Mari in the beginning of the book was almost unbearable. She was so whiny and spoiled! Then she gets mad when Sora gets picked to be apprentice! What do you expect? When she gets chosen she completely disregards her clan, saying that they'd never accept her. Stop blaming your clan, blame your mother for once! She treats her mother like she can do no wrong and snaps at Sora when she brings up the truth. I'm so glad she changes her mind.
- Too many villains: In this book, there were too many villains. Unless you can somehow incorporate them together efficiently, choose one major villain and maybe add a secondary to create action. A good example of a series that does this well is the Throne of glass series. You have the king as the major antagonist and then Maeve as a secondary ( until EOS) at least. But in this novel, there was too many antagonists. First you have the Companions, who enslave them, then the skin stealer who have sex and kill people, then you have the Clansmen who are infected with night fever. Thaddeus, then dead eye, Dove, Cyril, rebel Companions, Sora, Nik, Miguel. I couldn't keep track.
Overall It's a good book, if you don't mind slow beginning, some gore and clichés. I'm still probably going to read the rest of the series and look forward to how it's going to progress.
To start off, I enjoyed this book, even through it's slowness and clichés (more on that later). Some things I liked about the book
-The Father and son relationship between Sol and Nik: Throughout this book I loved their banter. There are too many novels where the main character is an orphan or after the death of the significant other, they're distant and leave the protagonist to defend themselves or even both of the parents die during the book. Ex: Katniss's mother, Tris and Caleb's parents and Harry Potter etc. That's why I was reluctant to get attached, knowing that Sol was probably going to die, but 3/4 through the book no death in sight. But like I suspected, BAM, crossbow arrow to the heart and then a lion king Mufasa moment. I was more annoyed then sad, cause why couldn't an author just let the parents live?
- the choosing of the Companion: I loved the way the dogs choose the person! It kinda reminded me of Harry potters " the wand chooses the Wizards" kind of way.
-the dogs in general were just awesome
Now the bad things about the book
- The Skin Stealers: I personally didn't see the point of adding these characters to the story. They didn't really scare me or interest me, so I skipped through most of their scenes, (luckily there's not a lot, thank god!) Dead eye wasn't really frightening, just weird. I wish it was more Until dawn Wendigo style instead of strange, religious, sex appealing weirdos.
- THADDEUS: Cast tried making him out to be a big villain but honestly his character was just annoying. He had no purpose or reason on why he hated Nik. He's just like that one character who's making threats, and just rambling on and on, however everyone ignores them. By the end of the story, he was annoying enough that I wanted him dead or gone from the story but not enough for me to actually care. If Cast would've given him some backstory and a purpose, I would've minded him.
-Randomly introduces new tribes: It was like Cast suddenly remembered during the middle of the book that it needs to be a series, so she's like "oh now there's a cat tribe and a horse tribe that we won't explain at all, because why not?!" As if we need more people to learn about.
- Mari and Leda: Mari in the beginning of the book was almost unbearable. She was so whiny and spoiled! Then she gets mad when Sora gets picked to be apprentice! What do you expect? When she gets chosen she completely disregards her clan, saying that they'd never accept her. Stop blaming your clan, blame your mother for once! She treats her mother like she can do no wrong and snaps at Sora when she brings up the truth. I'm so glad she changes her mind.
- Too many villains: In this book, there were too many villains. Unless you can somehow incorporate them together efficiently, choose one major villain and maybe add a secondary to create action. A good example of a series that does this well is the Throne of glass series. You have the king as the major antagonist and then Maeve as a secondary ( until EOS) at least. But in this novel, there was too many antagonists. First you have the Companions, who enslave them, then the skin stealer who have sex and kill people, then you have the Clansmen who are infected with night fever. Thaddeus, then dead eye, Dove, Cyril, rebel Companions, Sora, Nik, Miguel. I couldn't keep track.
Overall It's a good book, if you don't mind slow beginning, some gore and clichés. I'm still probably going to read the rest of the series and look forward to how it's going to progress.