Red Moon Rising- Review by Aspen Gates

Red Moon Rising

By Peter Moore

****star

Fifteen year old Danny is not only half vamp, but he is also unfortunately half wolf. I say unfortunately because being a wolf means you are nothing but a beast. So to prevent this from happening, Danny's parents give him and his older sister Jess treatments that will stop the wolf have of them from growing and they will just be and look like vampires. However, Danny is not able to finish his treatments because he gets sick, but he and his parents think everything will be okay since he still has all the traits of a vampire; no sunlight, has bloodlust, and needs SynHeme which is synthetic blood. Since everybody believes he will be okay, his parents split up and overtime Danny stops seeing his dad because he is ashamed of the fact the fact that he his still part wolf and tries to live a normal life, but all of that begins to change. At school Danny is starting to reject SynHeme, and his senses are becoming sharpen to the point where he can hear, smell, and see from miles away. Not to mention he has been having to shave more than three times a week. After considering these symptoms, Danny goes to pay his dad a visit and explains everything to him not knowing just how much his life is about to change.

I thought Red Moon Rising would have been something completely original and boring, but it completely threw me off. Here we have a society that considers humans and vampires the top dogs in society, while werewolves are considered barely even citizens. The whole story jsut blew my mind away, but at the same time the ending seems like the author is going to write a sequel and for that I gave it four stars. You should definitely check this amazing book out at the O'Hara library and then you'll see why I give Peter Moore such high praise for writing this crazy and wonderful story.