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Under the Moon #1-3
Under the Moon Bundle: Books 1-3
Magical lineage. Demonic temptation. And the power to overcome the odds.
The Harper family has quite the reputation of being a powerful force in the magical world. Sister witches Samantha and Kathy have taken out their share of bad guys long before Samantha had Josh and Chris to take care of. Still, the power that they all wield is regularly put to the test with the many enemies who come their way.
Meanwhile, the Bowen family has been fighting to survive a curse put on them by the evil witch Toxanna. So far she has succeeded in her quest to kill every last member of the family. While the number of Bowens quickly shrinks, Danielle and her husband try their best to find a way to overcome their archenemy before the birth of their daughter.
Both families must overcome the odds to defeat their enemies or the power in each family line will end with them.
Under the Moon Books 1-3 is a collection of the first three books in the Under the Moon The Full Moon, The Harvest Moon, and The Blood Moon.
The Harper family has quite the reputation of being a powerful force in the magical world. Sister witches Samantha and Kathy have taken out their share of bad guys long before Samantha had Josh and Chris to take care of. Still, the power that they all wield is regularly put to the test with the many enemies who come their way.
Meanwhile, the Bowen family has been fighting to survive a curse put on them by the evil witch Toxanna. So far she has succeeded in her quest to kill every last member of the family. While the number of Bowens quickly shrinks, Danielle and her husband try their best to find a way to overcome their archenemy before the birth of their daughter.
Both families must overcome the odds to defeat their enemies or the power in each family line will end with them.
Under the Moon Books 1-3 is a collection of the first three books in the Under the Moon The Full Moon, The Harvest Moon, and The Blood Moon.
790 pages, Kindle Edition
Published February 6, 2017
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David Neth
66 books260 followersDavid Neth is the author of the Fuse series, the Under the Moon series, the Small Town Christmas series, and other stories. He lives in Batavia, NY, where he dreams of a successful publishing career and opening his own bookstore.
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April 1, 2017
Under the Moon Bundle: Books 1-3 by David Neth is great because it has all of these wonderful books together!
The Full Moon (Under the Moon #1) by David Neth is a great book on witches, family, demons, and loyalty. It has sisters, good witches, and one falls for a dark knight (yep, the other direction). Bad things happen that you will want to read, I am not going to spoil it for you! Exciting, intrigue, action, and loyalties tested on all sides. Enjoyed it tremendously!
The Harvest Moon (Under the Moon #2) by David Neth is another great story of witchcraft, and good vs evil. In this book, we find out why the evil Toxanna put the curse on the family. We follow Danielle as she tries to save her family against her. Lots of intense action, suspense, and magic! That's the best part. I love this series.
The Blood Moon (Under the Moon #3) by David Neth is my favorite book in the series so far! Running from Toxanna, our gal finds brother witches Josh and Chris to help her out and she helps them ...some. She feels bad she couldn't help more. But then....yeah, this isn't a book report! You have to read it yourself and you will be glad you did! This series has been awesome. If you haven't cursed the author too much for killing off people you like, you will be glad because it all works in the end. So far...
The Full Moon (Under the Moon #1) by David Neth is a great book on witches, family, demons, and loyalty. It has sisters, good witches, and one falls for a dark knight (yep, the other direction). Bad things happen that you will want to read, I am not going to spoil it for you! Exciting, intrigue, action, and loyalties tested on all sides. Enjoyed it tremendously!
The Harvest Moon (Under the Moon #2) by David Neth is another great story of witchcraft, and good vs evil. In this book, we find out why the evil Toxanna put the curse on the family. We follow Danielle as she tries to save her family against her. Lots of intense action, suspense, and magic! That's the best part. I love this series.
The Blood Moon (Under the Moon #3) by David Neth is my favorite book in the series so far! Running from Toxanna, our gal finds brother witches Josh and Chris to help her out and she helps them ...some. She feels bad she couldn't help more. But then....yeah, this isn't a book report! You have to read it yourself and you will be glad you did! This series has been awesome. If you haven't cursed the author too much for killing off people you like, you will be glad because it all works in the end. So far...
July 7, 2017
I received this audiobook from the author for an honest review. Needless to say, I wasn’t able to finish the entire series. I was gifted with the bundle pack (books 1-3). After a point, the story just didn’t seem to hold my attention as it had done prior. I felt like I was forcing myself to listen to it and I hate doing that. Not sure what the issue was because I usually love supernatural type stories...anyways, I'm giving this bundle pack a 3 star. 1. Because I did like the majority of book 1 or the first chunk I did listen to and 2. Because I didn't actually finish the series. After looking at other reviews, I just realized that I never even finished the first book...
I’ve said this multiple times throughout my experience of listening to audiobooks… I wish instead of just having a single narrator or a male narrator for a female lead character or vice versa, that it were possible to have two narrators—a male for the male characters and a female for the female characters. I take issue with the fact that the two main characters of this story are females, yet, it’s a male narrator.
There were many times throughout this story, at least listening to the narrator where I felt the dialogue was robotic. Obviously, when someone reads a story in their head they can tweak the writing to make it sound more natural. Sometimes the narrator naturally does this, sometimes he or she doesn’t. In this case, he did not.
Questions/Comments:
The whole cop scenario really annoyed me. He shows up at Kathy’s house wondering where she’d been the evening the water monster (forgot its name) was killed. The cop was looking for a specific couple from that evening based on eyewitness descriptions. Obviously, Kathy went to dinner with Nick and he was the one who paid the check with his credit card. So…why did he show up at Kathy’s house and not Nicks? How did the cop know Kathy had been with Nick that night? That part doesn’t make sense to me.
The whole situation of Kathy and Will attempting to kill her sister to suddenly everyone being hunky-dory and family again was too big of a 180 for my liking. I swear the last few times I listened to this story (or attempted to listen to it) it’s like I was skipping parts or something. All these bad guys kept appearing and I’m sitting here like, “Okay, did I miss something?” Yet, because the story was no longer really interesting me, I never bothered to go back to confirm I was at my previous point. That was probably my fault for the inconsistencies in that area though.
I never got to a point where it was declared that Nick did anything more to Kathy beside the infatuation spell at the beginning of the story with the earring. Therefore, I never understood how Kathy could have changed so much, prior to even marrying Nick and then afterward it was like she was a completely different person. Did she marry Nick and decide to become evil just to get back at her sister? To prove she was an adult? Or what about when she attempted to kill her sister even though that would have left her nephews orphaned? She really had no qualms moving forward in that area?
I’ve said this multiple times throughout my experience of listening to audiobooks… I wish instead of just having a single narrator or a male narrator for a female lead character or vice versa, that it were possible to have two narrators—a male for the male characters and a female for the female characters. I take issue with the fact that the two main characters of this story are females, yet, it’s a male narrator.
There were many times throughout this story, at least listening to the narrator where I felt the dialogue was robotic. Obviously, when someone reads a story in their head they can tweak the writing to make it sound more natural. Sometimes the narrator naturally does this, sometimes he or she doesn’t. In this case, he did not.
Questions/Comments:
The whole cop scenario really annoyed me. He shows up at Kathy’s house wondering where she’d been the evening the water monster (forgot its name) was killed. The cop was looking for a specific couple from that evening based on eyewitness descriptions. Obviously, Kathy went to dinner with Nick and he was the one who paid the check with his credit card. So…why did he show up at Kathy’s house and not Nicks? How did the cop know Kathy had been with Nick that night? That part doesn’t make sense to me.
The whole situation of Kathy and Will attempting to kill her sister to suddenly everyone being hunky-dory and family again was too big of a 180 for my liking. I swear the last few times I listened to this story (or attempted to listen to it) it’s like I was skipping parts or something. All these bad guys kept appearing and I’m sitting here like, “Okay, did I miss something?” Yet, because the story was no longer really interesting me, I never bothered to go back to confirm I was at my previous point. That was probably my fault for the inconsistencies in that area though.
I never got to a point where it was declared that Nick did anything more to Kathy beside the infatuation spell at the beginning of the story with the earring. Therefore, I never understood how Kathy could have changed so much, prior to even marrying Nick and then afterward it was like she was a completely different person. Did she marry Nick and decide to become evil just to get back at her sister? To prove she was an adult? Or what about when she attempted to kill her sister even though that would have left her nephews orphaned? She really had no qualms moving forward in that area?
July 30, 2017
Under the Moon is a collection of stories by David Neth that focus on good witches fighting evil and demons. What I enjoyed most about this collection is that the witches are basically real people holding down regular jobs and raising families like everyone else. However, they will also exhibit unique abilities when and if the need arises to fight evil.
The first book in the collection is Under the Full Moon, where the focus is on two sisters who are both powerful in the magical world. Samantha is a hard working single mother to two teenaged sons, Josh and Chris. Kathy is more of a free spirit who lives with Samantha and helps in taking care of the boys. The balance in the household changes dramatically when Kathy meets Will, immediately falls in love with him, and gets married to him under demonic law all in the span of a few weeks.
The second book in the collection, The Harvest Moon, appears at first to be unrelated to Under the Full Moon. At the beginning it centers around Danielle Bowen and her husband Simon as they attempt to evade the Bowen Family Curse that was placed on them by Toxanna, an evil witch who wants nothing more than to end the Bowen family line. While I never understood why Toxanna desired such ill will upon the Bowen family, she did leave Danielle and her husband Simon alone for long stretches of time. This time gave Danielle and Simon sufficient time to relax and let down their guard and conceive a daughter.
What Toxanna does to Danielle shocked me by how heinous it was (while at the same time it was pretty ingenious). The second half of the book primarily focuses on Simon raising his daughter Holly the best he knows how, including finding her an instructor in the art of witchcraft and in fighting off Toxanna.
The third book in the collection, Blood Moon, blends the first two books in the first few chapters, including a more detailed final scene from the first book where a major character is killed off. It turns out that Danielle communicated frequently with Samantha and they deduced that a greater evil was in play than just the few demons toying with each of their families. This book centers around Holly, Drew (her witch instructor and potential love interest), and Samantha's sons Josh and Chris (who also has a major crush on Holly). While at times the love triangle between Holly, Drew, and Chris was pretty comical with Chris trying to "one up" Drew in front of Holly, the teenagers fight some heavy evil forces and rise to the occasion. A few more characters are permanently dispatched and it is clear that the youngsters will proudly carry on the legacies that their parents and forebears laid before them.
In summary, I really enjoyed this audiobook narrated by Nathan Weiland. While the dialog did not always flow naturally, there were several tense and thrilling fight scenes. I also grew to care for these characters over nearly 21 hours of listening. I easily empathized with them and their struggles just to lead normal lives.
The first book in the collection is Under the Full Moon, where the focus is on two sisters who are both powerful in the magical world. Samantha is a hard working single mother to two teenaged sons, Josh and Chris. Kathy is more of a free spirit who lives with Samantha and helps in taking care of the boys. The balance in the household changes dramatically when Kathy meets Will, immediately falls in love with him, and gets married to him under demonic law all in the span of a few weeks.
The second book in the collection, The Harvest Moon, appears at first to be unrelated to Under the Full Moon. At the beginning it centers around Danielle Bowen and her husband Simon as they attempt to evade the Bowen Family Curse that was placed on them by Toxanna, an evil witch who wants nothing more than to end the Bowen family line. While I never understood why Toxanna desired such ill will upon the Bowen family, she did leave Danielle and her husband Simon alone for long stretches of time. This time gave Danielle and Simon sufficient time to relax and let down their guard and conceive a daughter.
What Toxanna does to Danielle shocked me by how heinous it was (while at the same time it was pretty ingenious). The second half of the book primarily focuses on Simon raising his daughter Holly the best he knows how, including finding her an instructor in the art of witchcraft and in fighting off Toxanna.
The third book in the collection, Blood Moon, blends the first two books in the first few chapters, including a more detailed final scene from the first book where a major character is killed off. It turns out that Danielle communicated frequently with Samantha and they deduced that a greater evil was in play than just the few demons toying with each of their families. This book centers around Holly, Drew (her witch instructor and potential love interest), and Samantha's sons Josh and Chris (who also has a major crush on Holly). While at times the love triangle between Holly, Drew, and Chris was pretty comical with Chris trying to "one up" Drew in front of Holly, the teenagers fight some heavy evil forces and rise to the occasion. A few more characters are permanently dispatched and it is clear that the youngsters will proudly carry on the legacies that their parents and forebears laid before them.
In summary, I really enjoyed this audiobook narrated by Nathan Weiland. While the dialog did not always flow naturally, there were several tense and thrilling fight scenes. I also grew to care for these characters over nearly 21 hours of listening. I easily empathized with them and their struggles just to lead normal lives.
June 30, 2017
This book is similar to the show Charmed. It is about sister witches, one with two boys and similar powers. But that is where the similarity ends. The struggle between good and evil is an everyday occurrence. The adolescent boys just coming into their powers are the catalyst that creates a whirlwind of events. These events show how a small mistake can change everything for good or bad. Luckily, witches have powers that can help where mere mortals do not.
I really enjoyed this series. I was shocked when it completed and I was left wanting more. I was so drawn into the story as it captured my imagination. The narration was perfect. Nathan Weiland was easy to listen to and he captured the emotions, attitudes and environment of each scene and character superbly.
I really enjoyed this series. I was shocked when it completed and I was left wanting more. I was so drawn into the story as it captured my imagination. The narration was perfect. Nathan Weiland was easy to listen to and he captured the emotions, attitudes and environment of each scene and character superbly.
March 28, 2017
Book 1 - The Full Moon
An attractive man, Will, who was accidentally encountered, ends up being a Dark knight, who although attracted to Kathy, and ends up courting her, or he has a ulterior motive, that of wanting to take over the control of the Underworld.
Various attacks occur against the two witches and their family. Samantha feels as though Will was the root cause of all these attacks, and she and Kathy are loggerheads over Will and Kathy's involvement.
Book 2 The Harvest Moon
We are introduced to the evil of Toxanna when she curses the family of a young girl, who dared to stand up to her while she was preying on those down on their luck . The first casualties being the young girls parents. We are taken on a journey .with
the Bowen family, as they are pursued by Toxanna over the generations.
Book 3 The Blood Moon
The Harper family and the Bowen families encounter each other, and through working together, combat the power hungry magical beings, who wish to do harm to those who dare stand for goodness and what is right.
This is a fantastic series, of a world where people live with magic and hide it, from the normal humans, who do not know that magic is real. It shows the complex lifestyle of someone caught trying to make a living in a normal world, whilst dealing with demonic threats.
I loved the audio rendition of this series of books.
An attractive man, Will, who was accidentally encountered, ends up being a Dark knight, who although attracted to Kathy, and ends up courting her, or he has a ulterior motive, that of wanting to take over the control of the Underworld.
Various attacks occur against the two witches and their family. Samantha feels as though Will was the root cause of all these attacks, and she and Kathy are loggerheads over Will and Kathy's involvement.
Book 2 The Harvest Moon
We are introduced to the evil of Toxanna when she curses the family of a young girl, who dared to stand up to her while she was preying on those down on their luck . The first casualties being the young girls parents. We are taken on a journey .with
the Bowen family, as they are pursued by Toxanna over the generations.
Book 3 The Blood Moon
The Harper family and the Bowen families encounter each other, and through working together, combat the power hungry magical beings, who wish to do harm to those who dare stand for goodness and what is right.
This is a fantastic series, of a world where people live with magic and hide it, from the normal humans, who do not know that magic is real. It shows the complex lifestyle of someone caught trying to make a living in a normal world, whilst dealing with demonic threats.
I loved the audio rendition of this series of books.
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