My 2017 Book Blog

Moon Chosen by P. C. Cast

Book summary:

Chosen to embrace her true identity. Chosen to follow her destiny. Chosen to change her world.

Mari is an Earth Walker, heir to the unique healing powers of her Clan, but she has been forced to turn from her duties, until she is chosen by a special animal ally, altering her destiny forever. When a deadly attack tears her world apart, Mari reveals the strength of her powers and the forbidden secret of her dual nature as she embarks on a mission to save herself and her people. It is not until Nik, the son of the leader from a rival, dominating Tribe, strays across her path that Mari experiences something she has never felt before…

Now evil is coming, and with it, a force more terrible and destructive than the world has ever seen, leaving Mari to cast the shadows from the earth. By breaking Clan Law and forming an alliance with Nik, she must make herself ready. Ready to save her people. Ready to save herself and Nik. Ready to embrace her true destiny…and battle the forces that threaten to destroy them all.

Book format:

Audio and hard back book

My thoughts:
I liked this book more than I thought I would. I generally love P. C. Cast's work, but the plot to this one didn't really catch my eye. I did try to start it a few times, but it was so slow at the beginning. It was only after being guilted into reading it by someone that I finally did read it.
P. C. Cast loves writing from multiple points of view, and it works really well in this book. I actually briefly got to speak with P. C. at a recent book signing about this book and she said the next would be diving into the cannibal tribe a lot more, which has me super excited. Also, I got to watch the amazing P. C. Cast fangirl hardcore when I asked her about the book. So. Excite.
Anyways, in this book you get to see three tribes in a post apocalyptic world filled with magic. The main character is, of course, the illegitimate child of a Moon Woman and a man from a tribe that worships the sun. Her sun heritage allows her to bond with a pup, which is a huge deal in this world. Her Moon Woman heritage allows her to call down the power of the moon to heal those around her. After being hidden for years in plain site by her mother she is finally coming into her powers and a true understanding of who she really is.

A lot more happens in the book, but do you really want me to spoil everything? ;-P

Would I recommend this book? Yeah. I definitely suggest everyone at least try to read it. Though, warning, the book is slow to get into and has many slow parts that I found hard to get through. Not as hard as Paranormalcy, but enough to be mentioned.