The Slow Moon

I enjoyed this book as a welcome distraction from my life at the moment. It's very beautifully written, with a sort of sense that as you read about each character it seems that the character is the most important one, the one the book is really about.

The story centres around a girl that gets attacked, and her boyfriend gets accused and arrested when she can't remember what happened. It's set in a small town, where everyone knows each other, but they actually don't, if you know what I mean. It reminded me of Twin Peaks, where everybody's got a secret, and the story looks like your classis 'whodunnit'. Where this story differs though, is that it offers real depth into the hearts of the characters, what they want with their lives, and how show more the attack of the girl gets them all inspired, so to speak, to tell the truth about who they are and what they want from life. show less

When a young couple go into the woods during a party to experience their first time, something happens, and the girl ends up assaulted and raped. With no memory of the event and no one to point the finger to, there is a lot of blame to go around, and it tears their small town apart. Interesting story about relationships, forgiveness, and justice. I will add that there is a scene of graphic animal cruelty in this book.

Perhaps the intended audience for this book is young teenagers and if that's the case, it is probably a good story. However, I found the 'mystery' of who actually committed the crime to be not much of a mystery at all. And, there were so many different themes covered that did not relate to one another (rape, adultery, gay adolescence, parental abandonment, and Yes, even wild monkeys!), I found the story to be unfocused. I guess it could be argued that life is full of different experiences. But for me, "The Slow Moon" was a real sleeper.

I enjoyed this book although there were quite a bit of unbelievable scenes and scenarios ( the affair with Ava- what wife would put up with that nonsense? and the last scene in the book with the monkeys, also when Sopihe calmly confronts her rapist- alone in her house- after six weeks healing?) aside from those inconsistencites I actually enjoyed the story and the prose.

First of all, this book should be shelved in teen. This reads like a YA book and even covers many YA issues. Also, this book has too many issues in it: rape, marital affair, homosexuality, family issues and guns. The meat of the story is the rape and the other issues were just added for some unknown reason. They certainly did not add to the story. I was intrigued when I started reading the book but it went downhill quite quickly. If you are a reader of Teen Fiction, you may want to pick this one up, if you like good adult fiction, you may want to miss this one.

The subject was painful to read (a teenager is gang-raped) and parts of the story seemed implausible (rapists turn themselves in).

The book I read was The Slow Moon by Elizabeth Cox. There were two main characters Crow and Sophie. This book is about Sophie getting raped by someone and it's a mystery to the whole town. The town blames Crow for the incident that happened to Sophie. Crow in reality wasn't the one that committed the crime. Crow finds out that the whole town has something to hide. I think the type of people who should read this book is teenagers. I really liked this book because it shows that anything can happen to anyone. The book is 320 pages. It is a easy read and not difficult to understand it.