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Moongazer (2000)

by Mari Mancusi(Favorite Author)

3.7 of 5 Votes: 5

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review 1: Moongazer is flat and dull and a painfully blatant rip-off of The Matrix. That isn't all I could say about this novel, but it's really all I want to say. It's not even that I feel angry or particularly disappointed about it -- I simply feel so indifferent to it that I can barely muster the energy to review it properly. Still, I'll give it a shot.I was really excited about the possibilities of this novel -- the post-apocalyptic world! The dark angst-ridden love interest! The manga-esque cover! I was really hoping it would turn out to be like a grown-up version of L.J. Smith's The Chosen and/or Huntress with some cyberpunk thrown in.However, the post-apocalyptic world turned out to be embarrassingly stereotypical and flat -- the mutated working class living sadly underground... more, their extra arms waving helplessly, as the evvvvvvil upper class takes advantage of them from their glitzy upper (but still underground) world. Earth as it once was is laid as virtual reality over the destroyed world, people tricked into the program by the upper class, eventually unaware of the real conditions of existence (sound familiar, Matrix viewers?). The revolutionary ideas would have been very interesting if only they had truly been examined, instead of used as a shallow plot device. The characters are cardboard cut-outs ("selfless revolutionary", "lower-class victim", "evil upper-class person"); even Skye, who has the benefit of essentially playing the role of two different people for most of the novel, and who is supposedly struggling to confront her two different sides, is a clear character type (the "real" person). Dawn, the hero, is sensitive, shy, and apparently stupid, rehashing the same issues over and over again (namely, "you're just a shell of the woman I once loved!"), and he doesn't even bother to use new dialogue when he does it. As for the eroticism in Moongazer, I will only say that this is the first book that I have EVER laid down in the middle of a sex scene (I went to sleep).I think I could go on, but I don't feel like it. To quote Dawn, this book is an "empty shell" of what it could have been.
review 2: Matrix + Alice in wonderland = Alternity To be short and quick this book is about a girl named Skye who's a college student in New York and is seemingly transported between two reality, one reality on earth and the other on Terra (which is just like earth, if there had been a third world war that destroyed the surface of the planet). On Terra Skye is believed to be a girl named Mariah Quinn, who's the leader of a group called the Eclipsers who work against the evil government to get equality for the working class citizens. Skye spends a lot of her trying to find her way back home( a lot like Alice in wonderland ). Skye Also struggles with knowing who is Friend or foe on Terra, as well as deciding weather to stay and fight a battle that is seemingly not here own or returning home. The book starts off with a fast pace that stays continuous throughout the whole book, which I could see some readers having a hard time keeping up with. As a college student with tons of papers and finals, it's hard for me personally to read books that are slow to the point and don't grab my attention right away, so the pace of this book worked for me. The only thing I was if-y about was face pace of the relationship between Dawn(love interest on Terra) and Skye, it made it hard to get the same feeling of intense love between Dawn and Skye.All in all I like this book and was able to read it without getting bored and putting it down. less

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