As I currently finish off reading Total Recall:The Autobiography of Arnold Schwarzenegger, Annette has started what I think is the eleventh book of 2013 (I am on my third)
So which book has Annette opted for? Well its this one
Because Annette is only seven or eight chapters into the story. It is too early for a full opinion. But this much she will say. It will make a wonderful film as Author Benjamin Percy has a wonderful cinematic way of writing his worlds. So until I await and I await Annettes ‘review’ about Red Moon, lets see and hear what the official wording is regarding what is a wonderful book.
Synopsis
They live amongst us. They are your neighbour, your mother, your lover. You think they are safe. They change.
Every teenage girl thinks she’s different. When government agents kick down Claire Forrester’s front door and murder her parents, Claire realises just how different she is.
Patrick Gamble was nothing special until the day he got on a plane and, hours later, stepped off it, the only passenger left alive. A hero.
President Chase Williams has sworn to eradicate the menace. Unknown to the electorate, however, he is becoming the very thing he has vowed to destroy.
Each of them is caught up in a war that so far has been controlled with laws and violence and drugs. But an uprising is about to leave them damaged, lost, and tied to one another forever.
Red Moon is a literary/horror crossover novel, reminiscent of Stephen King and Justin Cronin. It is an apocalyptic vision of a future where lycans (werewolves) revolt against the drug treatment and isolation enforced by an increasingly conservative USA government to fight for the rights and freedom of the lycan population. Its magic is in its absolute authenticity in imagining a USA in this kind of social and political turmoil. It is so terrifying in its realism, it almost reads like a state-of-the-nation novel.
Author John Ivring
described it as ‘…a serious, politically symbolic novel—a literary novel about lycanthropes. If George Orwell had imagined a future where the werewolf population had grown to the degree that they were colonized and drugged, this terrifying novel might be it’.
Author Peter Straub
, ‘this is a novel with the power to thrill and transport, also to lead the reader well out of her comfort zone and into emotional territory few people have ever seen.‘
The film rights to Red Moon have been recently purchased by The Gotham Group (The Spiderwick Chronicles), and production is already underway for the cinematic journey of Red Moon
Red Moon (Published by Hodder & Stoughton) hit the book shops in Hardback as well as E-Book format on May 9th 2013 and is mostly definitely worth checking out
About The Author
Benjamin Percy is the award-winning author of the novel, The Wildingand two books of short stories, Refresh, Refresh and The Language of Elk. Percy’s honours include a Whiting Writers Award, the Plimpton Prize, the Pushcart Prize, and inclusion in Best American Short Stories.
To learn more about Red Moon as well as Benjamin Percy. You can check out the following websites.
The Official Red Moon Site
What an impressive site it is, taking a similar style to that of The Blair Witch Project, the site gives you a ‘real’ insight into the events of the Lycans and the world of Red Moon. I love that angle.
Benjamin Percy’s Facebook Page
www.facebook.com/benjaminpercywriter
Benjamin Percy’s Twitter Page
One last thing. . .
Added Note.
Annette is really enjoying this book and gave it the praise of ‘this might be up there with Justin Cronin’s The Passage’ (which is basically the best book she has read in years. So Benjamin. You have done a knockout job with Red Moon. Whilst Annette is on Part 2, Chatper 32, she is loving the way you have written the book and the story in which you are unfolding in front of her eyes.
This is an update. Last time I wrote anything in this article Annette was on Chapter 12. ‘Really Really Good’ she says. I havent asked her for plot development as I intend to read the book when shes done with it. However she did just say to me that “its the best book Ive read for a while” and coming from someone who has read at least a dozen books this year, and hundreds in her life. That is high praise indeed.
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