Moonstone Review

Title: Moonstone
Author: Marilee Brothers

Summary:

A sickly mom. A tiny house trailer. High school bullies and snarky drama queens. Bad-guy dudes with charming smiles. Allie has problems. And then there's that whole thing about fulfilling a magical prophecy and saving the world from evil. Geez. Welcome to the sad, funny, sometimes-scary world of fifteen-year-old Allie Emerson, who's struggling to keep her and her mom's act together in the small-town world of Peacock Flats, Washington. An electrical zap from a TV antenna sets off Allie's weird psychic powers. The next thing she knows she's being visited by a hippy-dippy guardian angel, and then her mysterious neighbor, the town "witch," gives her an incredible moonstone pendant that has powers only a good-hearted "Star Seeker" is meant to command. "Who, me?" is Allie's first reaction. But as sinister events begin to unfold, Allie realizes she's got a destiny to live up to. If she can just survive everyday life, in the meantime.

Review:

I found the beginning of this book to be incredibly…unreal; I didn’t understand how Allie could be so calm about finding a hippie smoking weed in her house and only being worried about her mother finding the woman. I really didn’t think that was how someone would respond to finding a stranger in their house.

Plus, whenever Allie confessed about her gift to anyone they never reacted the way I expected; they were never freaked out like you thought, but so cool and calm about it. That came across as incredibly fake to me.

Considering that I finished Moonstone in less than one day it’s suffice to say that I didn’t think it was bad. Excluding those small things in the book I was incredibly surprised by how much I liked it. The supernatural aspect was so original that I found myself being pulled into this story and I couldn’t put it down until I finished the last page.

I am incredibly excited to read the sequel and see where Allie’s story goes and what adventures she has next.