Great for a 9-year-old voracious reader! | Goddess of the Night (Daughters of the Moon 1)

This book is AMAZING! | Goddess of the Night (Daughters of the Moon 1) | Lynne Ewing

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	• Goddess of the Night (Daughters of the Moon 1) Lynne Ewing Hyperion Book CH, 2000 - 294 pages average customer review:based on 143 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Good Read

Like I said on my review of book 2 in this series of Daughters of the Moon..Great
Read..will continue with the series.

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Great for a 9-year-old voracious reader!

My 9-year old daughter cannot get enough of this series! She secretly reads at night after she's been tucked into bed and claims she can't stop turning the pages - they're obviously very suspenseful. I know that some other reviewers have scoffed at Ms. Ewing's writings, but to the "tween" crowd, these books are very much a 5-star. My daughter will be moving on to the Sons of the Dark and Sisters of Isis series next. :)

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This book is AMAZING!

Los Angeles may seem like a simple, quiet city. But behind the scenes, the picture is more complicated than appeared. Vanessa Cleveland wants to be normal; she wants to have a normal life with normal friends, maybe even a boyfriend. But she can't ignore the fact that she can turn invisible and her best friend can travel back in time. When Serena and Jimena show up telling Vanessa that she's "tu es dea, filia lunae," a goddess, a Daughter of the Moon. Not believing this ridiculous tale, she continues life as normal as possible. Then she notices that wherever she goes, its as if someone is following her. That's when she starts to believe. Is Vanessa truly a goddess? If so, does she have enough strength to defeat the all-powerful Atrox? - Goddess of the night is exciting and is an amazing book. Fantasy and romance readers would enjoy the creative twists that Ewing intertwines in the plot. This book is an excellent catch and I would give it a 4.8 out of 5. -Christen

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interesting series

Although the "Daughters of the moon" series has been out for a number of years now, I only recently began reading them. I do remember seeing the books at the bookstores, and thinking that the covers looked interesting, which led me to start checking them out from the library a few months ago (unfortunately they don't really sell them at bookstores in my area anymore. But I was lucky enough to find the last one in the series)

The series is based on a greek myth involving Selene the moon goddess, and tells the story of four girls: Vanessa (who has the power to turn invisible), Catty (who can time travel), Serena (who can read minds), and Jimena (who has premonitions), and they are all known as "the daughters of the moon" and are destined to protect the world from an ancient evil called the Atrox.

In this first book, you first meet Vanessa and her best friend Catty, who are already well aware of their abilities, but are not sure why until they meet two other girls, Jimena and Serena, who take them to meet a lady named Maggie (their mentor) who reveals to them that they are moon goddesses.

The good thing about this series is that each character is likeable, and unique.

The bad thing (which I admit made me skip over some of the books) is that some of the storylines in-between the first and last book are completely ridiculous, because the daughters will get themselves into these impossibly hopeless situations which will then be solved quite easily by the end of the book. But I do plan on going back and reading the books that I had skipped over, and I highly recommend that you don't do what I did, because when I was reading the final book (which is really good by the way) I realized that I had missed a lot of interesting things.

And although I'm 19, I think this series is aimed more towards younger girls, because the contents of the books are well suited for younger readers.

But I highly recommend that anyone, no matter what age you are, read these books, because the books are very interesting (and yes ridiculous) and the characters are so likeable that you'll love reading about them and their fight against the atrox.

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Dissapointed

I read these books when I was in 8th or 9th grade. Even though its been a few years since, I still enjoy teen fiction. I never finished the series and decided to finish it now-starting from the beginning. Not what I remembered. The context is very easily read, which i thought at the time as well. Its choppy and lacking emotion- some parts are interesting and the story line is good but the choppiness and low level of vocabulary limit these books.
The problem is, while the writing is very simple- the context isn't completely appropriate for say- an advanced 5th grader. It seems the emotions that are described vividly in this book are lust and attraction. Empathy, fear, and other easily related emotions for the level of writing are not as focused.

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Vanessa, who has always had the special power to become invisible, discovers that she and her best friend Catty, a time-traveler, are goddesses of the moon who must fight together to overcome the evil Atrox.