Waiting for the Moon

This book was hard from me to put down from the first page. Without giving anything away, it starts out with a young woman who ends up losing her memories from a head injury. She is taken to an asylum, where Dr. Ian Carrick -a reclusive doctor- takes care of her.
The group, as the author refers to them, of inmates not knowing her name, dub her Selena. Selena has to relearn everything about life, her mind set is like that of a child. Like, for instance, fire bad.
While Selena is relearning everything she is bringing out the best of her fellow 'inmates', as well as their leader and caretaker, Ian. And instead of just living together, thanks to Selena's amazing kind pure soul, they learn to live as a family.
The book is heartbreaking and show more fantastic all wrapped in a nice package. You end up wanting to root for all the characters! A must read! Two thumbs up. show less

After a near death experience the hero is cursed to read minds with a touch. As a result he lost his career as a doctor and became a recluse in a asylum. The heroine is brought to him with a sever head wound and when he can't read her mind he does everything in his power to save her. And he does. However, the hero is selfish, cold and calculating throughout the story. The girl looks to him as God-as her savior but he doesn't care for her as a human, but just as a test subject to get his career back. From the heroine's prospective, it's a dark, painful story for the first half of the book as she struggles to speak and understand why the hero treats her so poorly. But the second half is spent with the hero battling his own fears that show more turns into an unhealthy possessiveness of the heroine. It was a good book but so dark at times that I found it hard to read-disliking the hero as much as I did. show less

I have read just about every book that Kristin Hannah has out in print. She is one of my favorite authors. I love her writing style and her books always seem to grab me in the first page or two, making it hard to put the book down. This book was different for me. The story did not grab me in the first pages, nor did it in the first several chapters. I know most readers would not continue reading if this happened, but being that I love this author, I kept at it. I felt that she could not have changed her style of writing so much, since this book was written, as to lose a fan with one book. I saw promise about one quarter of the way through the book and before I hit halfway I was hooked.

Waiting For The Moon weaves a story of heartbreak in show more all kinds of relationships from family to lover. It shows how one act of forgiveness can change a person and that starting over can change many lives. You will run through a gamut of emotion from mourning a death to the rebirth of a once thought dead soul.

I realize that some will not stick with this book long enough to get the reward and I do fully understand. If you do stick with it I do believe you will find the raw emotion and magic that Kristin Hannah does so well. show less

At 1st I wasn't too sure about this book. It had been awhile since I'd added it to my "to read" list so when I started it I thought maybe I'd made a mistake in selecting it. But I kept at it -- I always like to give a book a good chance -- and I am glad that I did. It was interesting, at times thought-provoking, and had enough little twists that I didn't always know what was going to happen.

from abxc 08/09 meeting; interesting book, set in 1882 on the coast of Maine. Selena tries to kill herself, but is rescued before she drowns. She's taken to a doctor's house, who houses "lunatics", including his own mother. Ian gradually heals her body, but can't do anything about the amnesia - although, with the help of the "inmates", she relearns about her world - from their perspective, which was often hilarious. The "queen" taught her how to take tea and perform a curtsy. And another answered all her questions, and retaught her the world of books and knowledge. Then her husband shows up and claims her, taking her back to the world of the Shakers, a very confining religious community for her. When her husband is shot, she takes him show more back to Ian's house. And there they choose to remain, with her husband, a disfigured older man, falling in love with Ian's mother. And allowing Ian and Selena to continue their love. show less

A woman throws herself off the cliffs, hoping to commit suicide. She wakes up in an insane asylum, unable to remember anything about her past. I quickly grew bored with this book. I didn't particularly like Ian, and I grew really bored with Selena. I have loved Kristin Hannah's other books, but this one was a bust.

A wonderful book. Wasn't sure I would like it at first but it drew me in and got better and better. Towards the end I couldn't put it down.