Vanessa's sixteenth birthday is coming up. While most girls would be thrilled at the prospect, Vanessa dreads being one year closer to making the most important decision of her life. Now she is beginning to doubt everything she holds true:—her friends, her relationship with Michael, and even her identity. Then she meets Hector, who is more exciting and dangerous than anyone else she knows. Through him , she learns about a side of herself that she never knew existed. . .
Lynne Ewing is an American author and a screen writer.
She always had to move around a lot when she was growing up because her father was in the Marine Corps. She has two sisters. Lynne graduated from high school in Lima, Peru after attending seven other schools. While she was in Peru, she learned to speak Spanish. She attended the University of California at Santa Barbara. When she was 30 years old, she began writing for newspapers, documentaries, magazines, and did screen writing. She also counsels troubled teens. Her first books were Drive-By and Party Girl. Drive-By took six years to write, and Party Girl has been made into a movie called Living the Life. She has written the completed Daughters of the Moon and Sons of the Dark series. She lives in Los Angeles and Washington D.C.. Ms. Ewing has two children, Jonathan, a molecular biologist, and Amber, an international lawyer. She has also traveled to Japan, China, Russia, Europe, Malaysia, Singapore, Laos, Myanmar, and Thailand. She has begun a new series called Sisters of Isis.
I always like the books with Vanessa as the narrator. This book was mainly about how she was starting to feel like nothing in her life was hers anymore. She believes that this is all because her sixteenth birthday is getting closer and that means she only has a year left to decide what she is going to do about her transition. We are used to Vanessa being all bright sunshine and rainbows but this book reveals the side of her that she tends to hide so that everyone will like her. I really felt bad for Maggie in this book. It must have been terrible to have the guy she loved and lost come back and he doesn't even care about her anymore. I also like that Vanessa is finally learning how to just be herself. Through all the books thus far she compromises herself so that everyone she meets will like her and as nice as it is not to have enemies it is even better when you know who you are. I thought it was pretty humorous that throughout the entire book she keeps saying how she wants Michael to do something with her for her birthday and I am pretty sure everyone who has read this book thought she wanted them to have sex. Then it turns out all she wants is for him to let her sing with his band. It was so adorable and it is really awesome that singing is how she lets out her soul the same Serena does with her cello and Catty with her art. It was nice that Vanessa finally had something that was only hers.
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This is the second book narrated from Vanessa's point of view. It also marks the return of my favorite character, Stanton. Inspite of the forced relationship between him and Serena, he and Vanessa still have a very strong bond it seems. He protects her--for Serena's sake, of course. But when he interacts with Vanessa, the chemistry is stronger than when she is with Michael, or he is with Serena.
The Daughters of the Moon have to fight a new kind of bad guy in this book, a demon. And one who used to be Maggie's lover, we learn alot of little secrets about Maggie in this book. One of which seems like it should have greater reprecussions than it is having (Spoiler: Her deal with the Atrox.) I am still frustrated by Maggie, she always seems to be with holding information, and it never works for the girls benefit.
Vanessa also has a secret talent, that gets revealed, making her even more of a paragon of perfection.
Also who exactly are these daughters of Pandora? And why do they have to be horrible--after all Pandora is an Eve like figure, so wouldn't her daughters just be all those regular girls walking around? Pandora wasn't a goddess....
This book was ok, but definitely not the best in the series. I felt like there were some new and somewhat unique sub-plots introduced in this book which was nice, but to be honest I'm getting a little tired of the superficial and extremely self-absorbed habits of all the main characters. I know...I know, it is middle grade geared towards pre-teens and teens as the audience which makes more sense, but I just really want more in-depth character growth for our goddesses.
Now that we're back to rereading some of the characters we started out with, you start to appreciate/understand them a lot better. Especially after reading them from another character's point of view. For example, you don't necessary feel the goody-goodyness or homework obsessed vibe from Vanessa's perspective until you see her from Serena's point of view or Catty's. She seemed somewhat pessimistic and romantically lost in the eyes of others, but still friendly and powerful.
In this novel, Vanessa throws us for another loop as she tries to fight a real demon of the Atrox and her own personal demons, which she insists on hiding. At the beginning of the book, I figured she was being paranoid about her powers, her friends, and Micheal, but as the story continues you start to feel more sorry and understanding for her as you realize she may be right about them. But like every story with a good ending, it all works out for the best.
I love hearing from Stanton again because I missed him in the last book and it is exciting to learn more about his new royalty status and how he still cares for all of the Daughters. I also love how Vanessa's powers and her control over those powers has expanded and she seems still shaky, but more comfortable with them.
Ew. I didn't like this one as much. Mainly because Vanessa was just pissing me off with her random attitude thing.
Also, it took 7 books for us to know that Vanessa liked to sing? That seemed off to me.
I mean, it led to the story and the main arc, so I got the need for the book, but it almost seems to me that each of the girls has dark and light in them. I'm thinking this is the main theme of the series honestly.
Back to Vanessa in this one, who hasn’t been center stage since #1. The dancing for dollars scene was super sketchy. With each book of the series, I think more and more how unreal they are as compared with actual teenage girls. This one has Vanessa fooled by Hector, Maggie’s one-time love in ancient times who was turned demon by the Atrox after he thought he defeated them. Vanessa battles with her own inner demons and jealousy of Tianna.
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I really didn’t like this one. The only reason I’m not giving this 1 star is because it wasn’t offensively bad or make me angry in any way—it was just a massive flop. Yet another book where Vanessa is dumb and oblivious and falls for yet another guy who turns out to be evil. Ugh, why is she becoming the Daphne of the group? I also just wasn’t interested in any part of the plot.
But this book’s major flaw is that it is completely centered around miscommunication, which is a trope that drives me crazy. In this book, all the other girls in the friend group have been acting pretty flakey toward Vanessa and showing no interest in wanting to hang out with her, which makes Vanessa—UNDERSTANDABLY—feel like none of them like her anymore and like she’s now being cast aside. And I already knew where this was going because I’ve seen this trope so many times at this point...! It isn’t until the end of the book when it’s revealed (gasp!) that they were planning a surprise birthday party for her! And then all of them are like, “Whew, we felt so bad making you think we hated you, haha!” And this is why I hate this trope. I get it, yes, you need to keep the surprise party a secret. BUT if your friend is seriously feeling left out and distressed over thinking everyone is abandoning her…DON’T LET HER KEEP THINKING THAT’S TRUE. Reassure her. Find time to also hang out with her and let her know everything is good. Come up with better lies. Because for the love of god, I hate this trope were the main character thinks all of her friends hate her because they’re blowing her off and they all can see how much it’s upsetting her and then proceed to not do anything about it. That’s just…being shitty friends! And FYI, throwing her a surprise party doesn’t magically make it okay!
*siiiigh* And now onto the other thing that literally made me want to throw this book across the room by the end. So, throughout the book Vanessa has been teasing this thing that she’s desperately been wanting to tell Michael. It’s making her really nervous to open up to him and be this vulnerable. She thinks she’s ready to take her relationship with him to the next step. To a more… intimate level. Do you know what I’m talking about? *nudge* Do you?
I promise you don’t, because tell me how this entire time, I thought Vanessa was going to tell Michael she was ready to have sex with him. But apparently SHE JUST WANTED TO BE THE LEAD SINGER OF HIS BAND. That’s it. That’s the thing she’s been teasing throughout this entire book.
Are…you… kidding me. I feel so misled. This ENTIRE BOOK was just one big “gotcha!” moment. I hate it.
This is my first book from the Daughter of the Moon series and it's highly addictive.💚 Everything from the storyline to the characters makes me want to buy the rest of the books. I really want to read about Serena & Stanton's story next.😍
Oh Vanessa.😩 I understand her jealousy and anger. It is definitely a blow to your self esteem when you notice your friends acting differently around you and start excluding you from things or more so when you don't even know where you lie with your own boyfriend.💔
But count on the mysterious and spellbinding Hector to make our hearts swoon.😈 Their chemistry had me flustered and clutching the book to my chest in happiness. I was shipping it from the moment they lock eyes at the club. But with something sinister lurking around and things not appearing as they seem, it's up to the daughters of the moon to figure out what exactly is happening. But Vanessa has her own problems to worry about from future warnings to a mysterious marking appearing on her skin.🙀
This series is the equivalent of a mythological music video. It has beautiful imagery and some substance (but definitely not too much), but, even though it's just fluff, the nostalgia is so real and my 30s-year-old self loves it just as much as the 12 year old me that wanted desperately to be a badass goddess of the moon. It's absolutely terrible and I freaking love it so much.
Moon Demon does mark Ewing's transition to a more complex writing style than she exhibited in the earlier DotM books. It's a notable shift in sentence style and linguistic complexity from the super simplistic writing style used in DotM 1 - 6. You can even see the moments where she reverses into this simple style because you get single sentences like, "It made her emotional" in the midst of a well-thought out complex sentence. It makes for a bit of a jarring read, but having compound sentences that include not just the one-sided actions of the main character but some detailed exposition incorporated as character thoughts is a pretty nice change.
This is my least favorite of the series so far. The story was slow and kind of boring and the writing felt lazier then the earlier books. I was set on a 3 star rating but then I decided to look at the book from the perspective of the age I read these years ago as a kid. As an adult I found the story weak and anticlimactic but the 12 year old me who read these 15 years ago would have loved it. Since these books are written for teens/pre-teens I figured that earned it one more star.
This is the second book focusing on Vanessa. It was pretty good and the plot was a bit more involved than some of the other books. It was pretty obvious to me that Hector was going to be bad, and that Michael was not really himself from the get go. This is a pretty good series for teens, but can be overly simple at times.
I actually liked this book I've been kind of stuck reading this series as some sort of distraction This book actually stuck out to me I really didn't like Vanessa she had to be my least favorite character but this book really redeemed her although I hate the ending and I hate Michael with a Passion but honestly this was good
This is a good book! It was entertaining and not so obvious, and kept turning things around. Whenever you thought all hope was lost, this book twists things around again and trys to find a way to give you hope again.
A demon is sent to destroy Vanessa before her 16th birthday, the Atrox wants her. If I can remember properly she gets away from him...the demon. She walks away unscathed and with her four best friends by her side in the conclusion to the seventh installment of The Daughters of the Moon book series.
Honestly, I was dreading another book from Vanessa's point of view because she irritates the fuck out of me. She's so self-centred and oblivious, but the plot of this installment was enough to save it for me and made it worth rounding up to 4 stars.
Hard to rate these books because they’re not like “good” but they are fun, entertaining, endearing, and from a time and place that doesn’t feel real anymore. Anyway love the exploration of Vanessa. She was always my least favorite but this one put her higher on my list!
I read this whole series in elementary school (around 25 years ago 🤣). I loved everything about this series and it's the series that got me into reading fantasy.
When Vanessa’s sixteenth birthday is almost here, she starts feeling upset and uneasy because there is only one more year until she has to make a decision that will change her life forever. With these depressing thoughts, she begins to doubt anything and everything in her life and herself. Though, when she meets Hector, she discovers a side of herself she never knew existed.
I decided to do a better review of the Daughters of the Moon series by Lynne Ewing since my first ones weren’t done very well. This book is really a fast read, but since I really didn’t like this one, it took longer than the other books.
In this book of the 13 book series, it kind of starts with a mythology story, but not really. Even though it really isn’t a mythology story, it was still pretty interesting to read about it. I miss the mythology stories in the beginning, but the information about the characters’ past in the prologue are also very good to know.
Anyways, in this book, we continue to learn more about the Daughters of the Moon, Atrox, and what’s more, we get to learn more about Vanessa’s dark/hidden side. We even get to learn a little bit more about Maggie’s past and her ex-lover. :X The plot of this book is very interesting, especially with more information about Maggie in it. Also, you get to know a side of Vanessa that isn’t shown that much in the other books of the series, which shows the characters do have growth throughout the series. I like how the author shows Vanessa’s inner self, and how she tries to show that everyone has a little bit of darkness in them — even the people who seem to be goody-goods. ;) I also like how she reveals a little bit more information about Maggie and her past.
The tone and dialogue still reminds me a lot of my teenage years and my high school, so the author did a really good job at writing the book in teenage words and their world. The descriptions were also very well done, and both of these things made the book go a little bit faster than most other young adult books. So, I really like this book from these points. Another thing I liked about this book is the mythology that is incorporated in it. Also, the character growth and their personalities are believable (for a supernatural book).As the books/series goes on, you get more information about the Daughters of the Moon and the Atrox, which is good because it won’t overload you with information with just one book.
Anyways, this book is one my favorites in the Daughters of the Moon series, and is a very good read. So go ahead and go read this book and series.
This has to be the best so far of the series. I can definitely tell Lynne Ewing is getting better as she goes. There are still some awkward bits, but they happen a lot less often than they were.
I dislike how easily Vanessa gets swayed by evil guys. It makes it seem like that's all she cares about and that she's weak. Hopefully, this will be done for the rest of the series.
I did find it entertaining what her secret birthday wish turned out to be. The whole time, I was thinking it be sex, and that made me sad because the girls are all so young.
Oh, another frustration that I have had actually since the first book. When the girls all lock arms together, and used their combined power, what the heck is happening? I doesn't describe what's going on very well. Just some sort of force pushed at their enemy. How is that not a violent thing? I thought they couldn't use violence.
Anyways, back to the story, it was interesting to learn a little more about Maggie's past, and I liked that the whole book wasn't centered around Planet Bang. Vanessa grows as a character and begins to acknowledge parts of herself that she's kept hidden.
Book Seven Demon Moon: This was intersting it really made you feel at first like you felt bad about what they had to do to the bad guy...they made him seem somehow not so bad. It makes you realize that you want to believe some of the promises that not so good people promise. Also they make it seem that because one of the godess is being left out she suddenly wants to lose her virginty to her boyfriend to feel accepted but as always there is a twist they lead you to believe that without, out rightly saying it. Turns out thats not what she wanted to use to connect rather she wanted to trust him with a secret not even the other daughters know. All in all the series seems to be improving as it goes. very creative writing.
(Will be rereading this series soon i will rewrite the review when i do)
Vanessa's sixteenth birthday is approaching, but she's dreading it. She is one year away from having to decide if she will "make the transition." The transition involves the decision of committing to being a goddess forever, or resigning oneself to being human. Vanessa's birthday is not the only thing bothering her. She wants to break free from her good-girl image. The opportunity comes up with the appearance of Hector-a dark and mysterious stranger. Hector is drawn to Vanessa, and she doesn't seem to dislike him. Around him she can be whomever she chooses. Venessa has to decide whether she wants to remain a goddess or normal, and whether she wants to go with Hector (who happens to be a member of the Atrox)