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The Moonlit Earth (2010)

by Christopher Rice(Favorite Author)

3.83 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0743294076 (ISBN13: 9780743294072)

languge

English

genre

Mystery & Thriller

publisher

Scribner Book Company

review 1: I've read Christopher Rice's first five novels now (yes, I'm a few years behind and reading them in order), and for me this was the weakest of the lot. "Weak" is probably the wrong word, actually. It's technically proficient and does everything it should do as a thriller. It has macguffins and reveals and reversals and all of the tropes one expects. But it felt a bit tired, a bit predictable. Not completely predictable -- one reversal in particular was well placed for maximum surprise -- but mostly so. And as much as I wanted to feel connected to any or all of the main characters (and especially Megan and Cameron, who are at the center of every moment) ... I just didn't connect. I felt throughout like Megan and Cameron, despite their efforts, were really not all that remov... moreed from the self-absorbed childhood crowd they'd tried so hard to distance themselves from. A little less self-absorbed? Sure. But really just self-absorbed in a different way. After A Density of Souls and The Snow Garden, I'd come to expect a certain depth of character from Rice that I just didn't find in this book, despite his best efforts. Of course, this is just my opinion and I don't expect everyone to agree with it. But for this particular reader, The Moonlit Earth fell short of the mark.
review 2: I loved this book. It had everything; family problems, terrorist attacks, big business doing bad things. I really would like to see it made into a movie.P.S. I went and read some negative reviews and just didn't get them. Let's see, you have a divorced family with a gay son involved with a gay Saudi in a homophobic culture. Of course it's going to be intricate and have lots of threads. If it weren't for the family drama in this story there would be no reason to write the book. less

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