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    Blood Moon
    Blood Moon
    Blood Moon
    Audiobook9 hours

    Blood Moon

    Written by Alexandra Sokoloff

    Narrated by R.C. Bray

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    About this audiobook

    Book Two in the Thriller Award–nominated Huntress/FBI series

    Twenty-five years have passed since a savage killer terrorized California, massacring three ordinary families before disappearing without a trace. The only surviving victim of his rampage was a child…who is now wanted by the FBI for brutal crimes of her own.

    Special Agent Matthew Roarke is on an interstate manhunt to track her down, despite feeling torn between his dedication to duty and his sympathy for her horrific history and motives. But when Roarke’s search unearths evidence of new family slayings, the dangerous woman he seeks—and secretly wants—may be his only hope of preventing another bloodbath. He just has to find her first.

    The pulse-pounding sequel to Huntress Moon is sure to leave readers on the edges of their seats.

    Revised edition: This edition of Blood Moon includes editorial revisions.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateFeb 24, 2015
    ISBN9781501228421
    Blood Moon

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    • 4/5
      This novel in verse tells the story of Frankie, a high school student whose period starts while she is being intimate with her new boyfriend. This experience becomes known and literally goes viral, exposing Frankie to on-line bullying, threats and puts her cherished summer intern position at risk. It also alters her relationship with her best friend, Harriet. A novel in verse makes character development less prominent in a story than I usually like. In this case, though, the immediacy of the writing style helped me to experience what Frankie was feeling and to empathize with her. As an adult who great up before the digital age, I am horrified at how little privacy so many people have and how it seems to be devalued, even by those who are not victims. The novel shows the devastating impact of public shaming, and how old-fashioned person-to-person friendship and dialogue can help.
    • 4/5
      With all the cyber bullying that is going on in the world today this is a timely novel that addresses this type of abuse and ultimately delivers a powerful and healing message. Frankie is a high school student who has a very lovely first time sexual experience and horrifyingly enough discovers that she has started her period in the midst of it. But hey, it's only blood and no one but she and her beau know... until shameful and cruel memes start showing up all over the internet. Who would do such a thing? Her best friend Harriet who she is on the outs with, Benjamin, the boy she likes? Frankie must come to grips with this cyber abuse and finds a way to stand tall and true against the nastiness. A good message for young adults in these crazy times. Recommended.
    • 4/5
      This book has the perfect YA balance of romance with some steam and teenage problems of today along with overcoming hateful situations and normalizing bodily functions. Frankie is an astronomy loving teenager with a close group of friends, but when best friends seem to turn on one another, where does the group's loyalty lie? Embarrassment is a normal teenage rite of passage and this story encompasses the feeling of mortification and the reader follows along with the devastation and the subsequent empowerment of taking the brave stand and making a change.
    • 4/5
      An important book for teens and I really think even though I'm past a lot of this drama ((sooo old)) that a book with this cheesy ending is so encouraging and important. Also the pages filled with the word ME over and over really hit an the emotions brought up are very on point wth those lost days of highschool
    • 4/5
      I am not this book’s target demographic. I usually don’t go for YA but social media and public shaming are topics I find interesting, so I thought I’d give this a shot. I missed entirely that this was written in verse. I am a poetry heathen - Shel Silverstein is the extent of my enjoyment. Typically, I find it overwrought and contrived. It worked for this book, though. Yes, sometimes I found it a bit emo, but that worked well with the YA first-person narrative so it didn’t really detract. At first it felt a bit like a Tumblr post in text message format but again, that kind of fits with the book so it worked for me.The story was very engaging, mostly because of the emotional intensity particularly in the middle section. Some bits brought me back to the awkwardness of my teenage years and other parts raised good questions about unequal treatment of female vs male students. Even with the slightly awkward (to me) style, this was very engaging and I read it in one sitting.Of course, part of the reason I read it so quickly is that, for all the pages, there is not a lot of text. It’s really closer in length to a novella. It took me just over an hour to read and I felt like I was constantly turning pages. Perhaps I read verse wrong. Also, while the end was a bit of a feel-good wrap up that would work well in a movie, I felt it was a bit too pat. Particularly the fallout of the shaming. We went from Frankie having a panic attack because she thinks the delivery man is going to attack her to everyone all laughing and empowered with no residual problems. A few other moments struck me as not quite realistic as well. Would her volunteer job really tell her to leave because her picture was used in a meme? Don’t most adults assume bullying like that to not necessarily be based on truth? And even if it is true, wouldn't most easily see her as the victim? I suppose an argument can be made that since it is sexual, they are judging her for that, as women are judged regularly, but it doesn’t sit quite right with me. And the ending still left me with some questions that I felt were little plot holes. Where did Jackson get the picture from? Did he just randomly get blood on his hands and snap a pic? And where did he get the picture of Frankie from? Hacked from Harriet’s account because her password was easy to guess? Seems a lot of effort when I’m sure he could have found a different picture of her somewhere else much easier. Lastly, the description of Frankie’s dad was just plain uncomfortable to me. At the beginning, he is described as having “squealed” something which completely threw me off. There are few men, or adults of either sex, that I have seen or can imagine squealing so right away I felt some cognitive dissonance in regards to the father. Perhaps his description is trying to make a comment about masculinity, etc, but as his characterization would have been awkward even as an adult female, it was weird. But regardless of those imperfections, I still enjoyed the book a surprising amount.
    • 2/5
      I am way older than the characters (too old to even be their mom, but younger than grandma) so there was a disconnect. But I do enjoy other YA literature, and of course the topic intrigued me as a female. However, I found the verse form distracting and out of place. Was it meant to imply drama or a detachment from reality or a harkening back to timeless Shakespearean situations? No idea. I think this is the first novel I've had in my hands that brings in the everyday reality of the ever-present phone, chat, selfies, and hashtags. I've decided I don't like those things in my novels. Finally, while I feel the author perfectly captures the bipolar condition of middle teens (i.e., one moment acting childish, the next acting like 15-going-on-30), I found myself cringing and/or rolling my eyes, and, in the parlance of my own teen years, grossed out by phrases such as "he ended up banging them both as a birthday present," "gesticulating grotesquely with his overmobile groin," "fans her crotch," "blood rushes to ...your lady lips too. She nods at my crotch and grins," "I'm talking major cooch quivers," "O queen of the parched vag," along with the milkshake licking scene and the dad who wanted to gossip about who made out with who ... and that was just in the first 60 pages. I couldn't bring myself to go further. DNF.
    • 5/5
      I am constantly thankful that social media did not exist when I was an adolescent. Teenagers can be impulsively cruel and this novel in verse does an amazing job of demonstrating exactly that in today's heavily documented reality. What's crazy is that, no matter how far we've come in other areas, we are STILL stigmatizing periods.This book should be given to all our daughters and then all our sons. And probably parents too.
    • 4/5
      I had no idea what to expect when I opened this book. Instead of the murder mystery I was expecting I got a YA book written in verse. It tells the story of how public shaming has reached a new level with social media. It is also the story of friendship. Frankie, who is in high school, has her first period and her first sexual experience at the same time. At the same time, she is working through a breakup with her best friend. Then add in what is being said about her on social media. Cuthew places emphasis on the importance of friendship and how it helps us get through tough times. Well-written stories in verse can convey a lot of emotion in few words and Cuthew has accomplished that. I thought the ending was a little sunshiny, but then is not that the way we want our lives to be in our teenage years, even with all the cyberbullying.
    • 4/5
      When I started Blood Moon, I was unsure if I'd like the book. I actually like novels in verse, so that wasn't a problem. I think what was bothering me was the way the the characters talk. They're high schoolers, and (as a 30-year-old with three teenage siblings) I didn't find the dialogue or inner monologue to be written the way teenagers speak.Ultimately, I really enjoyed the final third of Blood Moon. The author did a great job of conveying emotions I definitely remember feeling as a teenager, and I thought the ending was pretty perfect. I also appreciate the overall message of the book.
    • 4/5
      Once I got passed that this book is written in prose style and not the typical way a story is written, I liked it. It is the story of one girl, Frankie whose first sexual experience happens when she is menstruating and the horror of what happens when she becomes the butt of jokes at her high school. Who shared her story? Her boyfriend? Her best friend? How can she stop it? Can she talk to her parents about it? Although it is a quick and easy read, I felt it there a slow start to the story but I really enjoyed the ending. How Frankie and her friends turned it all around. It is a story about cyber bullying, female empowerment, and the real meaning of friendships and reliance.
    • 3/5
      This story of online and in-person bullying and the nature of teenage friendship is told through open verse poems. Frankie is a teenage girl with her first serious crush on a boy from her school who actually likes her back. His name is Benjamin and they meet at a party and sparks fly. Frankie is a very studious girl who is not normally so into boys so she doesn't mention her crush to her best friend Harriet because she's afraid of being teased.Things escalate quickly with Benjamin and as bad luck would have it, Frankie's first sexual experience coincides with the start of her period. She's so embarrassed, but Benjamin is really sweet about it and it seems to bring them even closer. But the next day at school everyone knows and Frankie feels betrayed. Her secret is spread all around the school and soon is on the internet as well as she becomes a part of a viral meme. Now she is the target of violent threats and insults from not just her peers but the world at large. Even Frankie's job is put in jeopardy as her supervisors suspend her from work because patrons at the planetarium might recognize her. Frankie finds herself even more isolated when Benjamin stops talking to her and she finds out that it was actually Harriet who started the cruel meme that has taken over her life. This is an interesting story if a bit fanciful. I know it's hard to predict what will go viral on the internet, but I refuse to believe that the world would be so transfixed and united in its hatred for one specific teenage girl who got her period on her boyfriend. The scene where her waitress at a restaurant recognizes her... uh, sorry, I can't believe that would ever happen. The internet is too big. The tidy conclusion is also pretty hard to believe. It's incredibly hard to swallow that an entire school's hatred could be dispersed by a group of people making t-shirts that say #NoShame. But okay. It becomes quite saccharine at the end, but it's not a bad book. It is, however, hard for me to imagine actual teenagers who are going through cyber bullying to find this type of story helpful or uplifting.
    • 4/5
      I thought that this book was very well done. This is the second book in the Huntress/FBI Thrillers series which is a series that really does need to be read in order. This book picks up shortly after the events in the first installment in the series with Special Agent Roarke still trying to capture Cara. I was quickly pulled back into this ongoing story and had a really good time with it.Cara Lindstrom was the only survivor of a murderer known as The Reaper when she was just a young child. She is now also a murderer and wanted by the FBI. Her crimes have been committed against those that have harmed or are in the process of harming others. It is next to impossible to feel regret over the lives she has taken but Roarke is determined to bring her in.Roarke intends to set a trap for Cara and stumbles upon a crime much larger than he thought possible. I was completely pulled in by this story and had a great time trying to figure out how everything would work out and what the FBI's next move would be. There was a lot of action and the story moved at a pretty fast pace. I liked the profiling aspect of the story and thought it added a really interesting aspect to the story.R.C. Bray did a fantastic job with the narration. For some reason, his voice just seems perfect for this kind of story. He was able to really bring the story to life and did a great job with all of the character voices. I really like the quality of his voice and found that I wanted to listen to this book for hours at a time.I would recommend this series to others. I think that this is a very well done mystery that kept me guessing paired with great characters and enough action to keep things interesting. I am looking forward to listening to the next book in the series very soon.I received a digital review copy of this book from Thomas & Mercer via NetGalley and purchased a copy of the audiobook.
    • 3/5
      Twenty-five years ago a savage murderer terrorized California Dina by brutally murde ring three families. Now, Special Agent Matthew Roake is hot on the trail of the only survivor of these murders who is now wanted by the FBI as a suspect in brutal crimes of her own.
    • 5/5
      This is the second book in the Huntress Series. In this series we know that Agent Roark is searching for two killers. One of them is the character we met in the first book, Cara. She is the only survivor of a killer who brutally killed every member of her family except her. They are also responsible for killing two other families. Both Agent Roark and Cara are searching for this killer who has disappeared, or have they? As Roarke tries to catch Cara he makes a terrible discovery. The person responsible for killing her family and setting her on her own personal path, also known as ‘the reaper’ has been at it again. Roarke has no clue how to find this killer of whole families. But it seems like Cara does and she keeps trying to help without getting caught. The “Dexter”. It was one of my favorite shows. However, this book formed such mental images in my mind it was like watching a movie as I read. It topped “Dexter” hands down. I would actually love to see this made into a movie or even a series. I find it amazing that the more Roarke tries to locate Cara the more clues she leaves him, helping him out. But I kept wondering if he was getting too close to Cara to the point of not being able to be objective. Definitely a must read, then move on to the third book.
    • 5/5
      The second in the series of the Moon books by Sokoloff, this is my favorite of the three. This book continues where the first one left off. Agent Roarke is still trying to track down Cara, the only living victim of The Reaper who murdered families years ago without ever being apprehended. But while on the trail to finding Cara, Roarke and his crew run across evidence of The Reaper and begin to think they might be able to figure out who had slaughtered all those families those many years ago. This book had a lot of suspense and a lot of gruesome scenes. I love the way the author fleshes out the characters, adding layers onto their personalities as this trilogy goes on. It makes the reader feel more connected and more invested into the storyline. In this book particularly, the tension builds as the final scene plays out to the last page, as fast paced as a book can be. Another great read by Alexandra Sokoloff.