Review: Elegant and chilling
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 31, 2011
Carrie Ryan's short story "Hare Moon" has the same creepy, forbidden vibe as her first book, The Forest of Hands and Teeth, and shares the same setting. The protagonist is a young Tabitha, a minor character in her debut, who, like Ryan's character Mary, dreams about moving beyond the fences and seeing the world. Unlike Mary, Tabitha is bold, and tension builds throughout the story as she carefully dares to test her boundaries and meets a mysterious boy from another village. Their secret romance is electric, and danger and risk keep the reader entranced. Like Ryan's full length novels, "Hare Moon" comes with moral dilemmas, brutal circumstances, and when those circumstances force Tabitha to make a series of impossible decisions, her actions will leave readers shell-shocked. This short story compliments Ryan's trilogy nicely, giving it a little background information that will make the novels appear richer, in an elegant and chilling package. The bottom line--this short story is worth the money.