Moonrise

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To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Due to it being written from his perspective I developed a deeper attachment to Joe than a lot of the other characters and found myself wanting to understand him and his feelings around the situation even more.

Moonrise encapsulates the decline of the Moon family after the eldest brother, Ed, is incarcerated for allegedly killing a police officer. Joe%E2%80%94and even Ed%E2%80%94are sympathetic characters, and readers may shudder at memories of their mother%E2%80%99s neglect and the guilt-by-association Joe experiences as a relative of a convicted felon and death-row inmate. The work was also a success in Canada, reaching number seven on the Leader-Post children's bestseller list, [21] and remaining in the top 15 for seven weeks.Greg is a fundamentally broken person, with some mix of mental health issues and his mother is probably doing him no favors. Most of the science in the book is fun and interesting but the corporate backstabbing with a murder-plot sewn in made me feel like I was reading a James Patterson book rather than a Sci-fi novel. nano-teknologian käyttö kuulosti hyvinkin tulevaisuudessa mahdolliselta ja se oli hyvin kuvattu) Toisaalta ihmissuhdekiemurat olivat osittain niin moraalittomia ja kuin jostain freudilaisesta painajaisesta, että ne tekivät kirjasta sangen epämiellyttävän luettavan ja tästä syystä vain heikot kolme tähteä. She graduated with a degree in Philosophy and Literature before training as an English and drama teacher at the University of Cambridge.

It follows him finding out and the reactions of the rest of the family, the impact it had on them and their relationships. This is the story of the early development of the new frontier on the moon, bound up by the lives of a far knit family. Don’t miss Sarah Crossan’s other irresistibly page-turning books Toffee, One, Apple and Rain, and The Weight of Water. Joe is determined to spend those last weeks with his brother, no matter what other people think … and no matter whether Ed committed the crime. Between the visits, Joe reflects on his children especially after Joe’s arrest and how his aunt tried to make him disappear from the family but Joe wasn’t willing to let his brother go that easily.It’s a breezy style that belies the serious topics tackled as much as it does the care and craft that goes into writing the verse in the first place, because Moonrise is definitely not afraid to address those big issues. Not only that but author Sarah Crossan deftly dissects the sibling relationship, getting to the very core of what makes Ed and Joe brothers and all the things they've missed out on in their relationship by being forced apart during their formative years. Moonrise held the number two spot on The New York Times Best Seller list for children's chapter books for two weeks.

We are making the subscriber-only change to support our valued readers, who tell us they don't want the site cluttered up with irrelevant comments, untruths and abuse.As Ed is trying to explain to 7 year old Joe, their mother arrives home so Joe hands over the phone to his mom shouting "The police got Ed". I would have like a little more depth and description of the physical elements in the story, to give me a better mind’s eye image, but the story world was nicely thought out.

The author seems to like having characters com to an abrupt end, which threw me off because I had some emotional investment in them.

I just began the sequel, Moonwar, and the narrator (performer) is not as good (the extra engineering -- voice effects, see below -- is also absent). Though its style and fascinating plot made Moonrise overall extremely readable, there were some parts where the sheer raw emotion of it really got to me so despite my desperation to read on I had to take short breaks for lighter reading.