Review: Charity Moon is an absolutely adorable story of true love!!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 25, 2012
Let me start by saying that I was lucky enough to receive Charity Moon from the author in exchange for an honest review. I can't begin to thank DeAnna enough, because this book was absolutely amazing and will stay with me for a very long time.Charity Moon is an amazingly adorable book about the depths of true love. I won't describe what the book is about because that is what the blurb is for, and if you've read the majority of the reviews, they pretty much sum it up for you. What I will do is tell you how I felt about Charity Moon.Charity Moon took me back to high school when I was falling in love. The beginning of the book and the relationship between Charity and Levi is so adorable and real that it makes you grin as if you were in high school too. Their adorable and witty banter had me literally laughing out loud at points and smiling to myself in a room full of people, which probably made me look crazy at times. But I don't care. There is a certain part where he takes her gum from her to stop her from being so annoying and pops it in his mouth that I just thought was adorable. Gross, but adorable none the less. This story made me happy, and giddy, and worried, and sad, and then full circle again. This story had everything I could have asked for in a book. Levi had me from the beginning because I'm a huge sucker for the protective type and the way he kept showing up at just the right time to save her made me love him instantly. I love that in a guy and Levi didn't disappoint. He saved her when she needed him and made other guys back off when they clearly need to, especially Frank!! I loved Charity too because she spoke her mind and never backed down from what she believed in. Ugh, and don't get me started on how adorable the whole heart connection thing is. I won't go into detail on it because I don't want to give anything away, but I whole-heartily loved this concept. It was one of my favorite things about the whole book. No matter what happened throughout the book to separate Charity and Levi, and believe me A LOT happened (Wesley, death, Selena, Raven, etc), they always found their way back to each other which made the story that much more wonderful. The secondary characters are adorable as well in their own rights and I cannot wait to see all the trouble Charity and Ashley will get into next!! The only thing I didn't like was some of the phrases that Charity would say mainly when she was talking to her friends, they sounded kind of childish, but they were usually only that way because she doesn't curse and therefore replaces cursing with saying weird phrases. It was refreshing that she was a sweet and good girl who doesn't go out doing stupid things or drink or do drugs.Overall, I loved this book so much that I couldn't put it down!! I literally got angry when I needed to eat or sleep or do anything else productive in my life because I just wanted to keep reading to see what happened next. I would say, "Just one more page" and end up reading ten. The end of the book doesn't disappoint either, and it made me want so much more. In a good way!! I hate books that make me feel like I have to read the next one in order to feel that the story is complete. This book gave me a complete feeling in the end, but definitely left room for more, and more I want!! I can't thank DeAnna enough for giving me a copy of Charity Moon because I adored it and I cannot wait until the sequel comes out!!I'll end with one of my favorite quotes from Charity Moon:"What! Since when do you listen to Charity? Are you a werewolfor a panda?" -Ashley