0 Book Review - Look for Me by Moonlight - 12 Feb 2011

Look for Me by Moonlight by Mary Downing Hahn

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Look for Me by Moonlight follows Cynda, as she moves in with her father and his new wife when her mother leaves for Italy with her new husband. Living in an old inn, the family is settling in for a quiet winter, when a tall, dark stranger comes to stay.

Yes, this is another teenage-girl-of-divorced-and/or-dead-parents-seeks-solace-in-the-arms-of-a-strange-lover kind of story (think Twilight and The Vampire Diaries), but the difference here is that the lover turns out to be truly evil and abusive. There’s none of the wussy jealousy and petty talk you see in other YA vamp novels, oh no no no, we’re talking real and intended cruelty and psychological abuse here.

Unfortunately, the cruelty and psychological abuse are the best parts of the book.

The rest is your typical YA fare - the heroine thinks she’s ugly and gangly and that no one understands her, she has few friends and is at war with her family - you know how it goes.

Given its dark beginnings and themes throughout, Look for Me by Moonlight really could have been something great.

It’s not.

You might as well jump on the bandwagon and read Twilight instead - at least then you’ll have something to discuss with other people.

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I chose Look for Me by Moonlight as my book for Read It 2011's February theme of Heart Reads.