Joanne K. (Jerseygirl-exit30) reviewed The Almost Moon (Audio CD) (Unabridged) on + 79 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
I wish there had been at least one really character I could've liked in this book, but there really wasn't! The story was tense and interesting but the people, ugh!
Tristen J. (celticknotgirl) reviewed The Almost Moon (Audio CD) (Unabridged) on + 5 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
This book was so dark and depressing, that I'm not even sure how I listened to the whole thing. I think the only reason I finished it is because I didn't have another book to listen to. Nothing positive happens to any of the characters at all. I actually like true crime books and other dark books, but this book was just not likable. This is not a book I would recommend to anyone.
Not a happy book but so well narrated with such a familial tie, I had to listen to the end. The author has a dark side that is beautifully written. I would love to hear her next novel although I am wary of her subject. I found myself anxious to hear all about Helen's melancholy past and how it lead to her shocking acts.
This novel is about a woman who grows up an only child with a mentally ill mother and, as we later find out, an enabling and slightly mentally ill father. We are taken through her childhood and some adulthood to where she is finally the sole caretaker of her elderly mother. Her final time with her mother and then her subsequent acts proves to the reader that she has not escaped her own mental illness. My biggest problem with this book is the ending. The reader is left hanging, with no ending.
Margaret M. (margaretlee) -
This book depressed me. The ongoing description of a woman who killed her mother in the first chapter and then goes on to describe the process and ensuing activities just made me turn it off. Maybe you'll like it. Sorry, Alice.
