A Creature of Moonlight

Reviewed by: Ann Marie Townsend - South Berwick Public Library, South Berwick, Southern Maine Library District

Review Date: January 10, 2015

Review

This is a debut novel by Hahn, about a girl who lives with her Grandfather in a shack surrounded by woods. She raises and sells flowers to support them, but hears voices calling her to come into the woods. We find out her Grandfather was the King, her mother a runaway princess, her unknown father a dragon who is feared by the kingdom and her mother was murdered by her uncle who became King when her Grandfather gave up everything to spare her life. Quite a plot, wonderful descriptions of another mythical world and it's creatures. An imaginative plot about a young girl struggling to find her place in the world and about her choices. On the surface it is interesting, but lacks real depth and leaves some questions of why characters made the choices they did. A very good first novel, imaginative with detailed setting of place.

Overall Book Score: fair