Review: Hunter's Moon - Nice Short Read -3.5 Stars
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 17, 2011
This was a 0.99 book so I felt I had nothing to lose.Alli (Alliana Cambridge) lives alone in the woods in Pennsylvania, recovering from an abusive marriage, she trusts no one and likes living by herself but she is lonely. She likes to run on her property at night when its cool, and she likes how the woods look in moonlight. The only problem is some of the town's hunters like to take a six pack into the woods and then hunt in the dark. Hearing shots she also hears the sound of a scream and realizes someone has been hit, and decides to look and see if she can help. She is shocked to find an actual alien, she is frightened, but she can't leave anyone who's hurt alone and decides to take him back to her house to recover.K'vishtin is a hunter from Sha-Shiri, he knows if he can't get back to his ship he will be left on earth and assumed dead. He is badly injured and angry with himself for not being more cautious. He is also afraid the he is too hurt to return to his friends and he knows that the earth government is too paranoid to realize that he means no harm.He can understand Alli but she can't understand him.This novella is well written but short (1311 Lines on my Kindle)so Ms.Gardner had a very limited number of words to get her point across. Since K'vishtin is on earth, not much information on his planet is provided other than descriptions of people and some culture. She wisely uses it to describe his situation on earth and what he his options are.This was a good light read, well written, racy, funny and a good story line. I liked it and will buy the sequel.