![]() Any time a villain can say, "It's nothing personal!" they're probably not very exciting because you WANT it to be personal in a pulpy book like this. You get introduced to the villains with only 50 pages left in the story and they're pretty boring overall. The biggest problem is the ending, which feels anticlimactic. She's inquisitive and not-dumb enough to fulfill the Girl Detective role adequately and exhibits the vulnerability that gets the reader feeling protective of her. ![]() Probably the only thing I could tell you about her is that she likes horses. Teenage Rachel is, as protagonist, generally appealing, if a tad bland. No gore, no naughty language, no real sexuality to speak of. October Moon is meant, ostensibly, for the same audience that would have been reading Fear Street in 1993, but-sexy cover werewolf notwithstanding-it's pretty tame even by those standards. It's almost like some Scooby Doo villain is trying to scare them away. Barns burn down, libraries get ransacked, waterbeds get sliced. ![]() ![]() The important thing is that there's an American family in Ireland and they're being menaced by a werewolf or fifteen. Rachel Stone and her family go to Ireland cuz her dad buys horse ranches (or whatever the Irish term would be) and flips them. ![]()
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