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Watch For Me By Moonlight (2010)

by Jacquelyn Mitchard(Favorite Author)

3.59 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1595142770 (ISBN13: 9781595142771)

languge

English

genre

Paranormal Fantasy

publisher

Razorbill

series

Midnight Twins

review 1: This series has a great concept but this book, #3 of the trilogy, was so agonizingly s-l-o-w. Also, there are multiple typos and also mistakes in the content of the story itself. I also could never remember which twin was which and had to keep flipping back to remember what we were talking about. The story concept: Meredith and Mallory, the identical "Midnight Twins", were born on either side of midnight in different years. Also, common in the Brynn family, is the fact that the girls in each generation are somewhat psychic. In the case of Merry and Mally, the one born before midnight can see flashes of things that happened in the past and the one born after midnight can see flashes of the future. In this book, Merry meets a new boy but no one else seems to ever see him. Sh... moree falls deeply in love with him, only to learn that he is a ghost. Also, their baby brother, who was sometimes described as a young infant still drinking formula and sometimes described as old enough to wave and do other things that a toddler would do, gets sick and the girls with their psychic abilities can see that someone is making him sick. Which of his many babysitters is it? Another thing that I didn't like was that the author got philosophical at the end and then told the reader what would happen to the family in the future. I would only read the first two books in this series if I found them very cheap at a used bookstore.
review 2: At least as bad as the second in the trilogy, but laughably so (again, what IS the literary equivalent term for a camp movie??). Mitchard cannot write dialog that flows - every few sentences, I'd stumble over something that totally threw me out of the reading just to figure out what the heck she meant. Characters are forever having mood swings mid-sentence, and the twins sound exactly alike when speaking (considering how much is made of their different personalities and mirror-twin-differences, this isn't a small thing). And a LOT of the novel is dialog.Even the adults, at the rare times they show up, talk in that "it's so nice to see you, have a seat, I HATE YOU HATE YOU YOU STINK would you like some tea?" mood swingy way. Even when not stumbling through the dialog, I really wondered at times if the middle of some sentences were accidentally erased and just no one noticed or cared enough to try to put them back together. Any decent book about the intersection of the supernatural with human characters will have at least a FEW moments where someone says "no way, that can't happen!" or at least have serious doubts. It helps the reader suspend their own disbelief. Yet, no one blinked a single eye over the lead character falling in love with someone no one else could see. I mean, they went to movies together and no one thought it was odd she paid for two tickets?? (Just one example.) Having discovered she's talking about a cute boy no one else can see, her friends... do absolutely nothing and never mention it again. I will give it this - the resolution at the end, telling much of each of the characters futures, flowed nicely. Or maybe I was just so relieved it was over, anything sounded good! less

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