A review by foreverbeautifulbooks
Once in a Full Moon by Ellen Schreiber
3.0
If you like Teen Wolf (the one on MTV), and you liked Mean Girls. Then you are going to like this light, fun, and slightly campy werewolf YA romance book. I really hate making comparisons, but couldn’t help but seeing the guy from Teen Wolf every time Brandon changed in the book. I find very few YA fiction that is actually honest to how teenagers are. This was one of the most honest ones I have read, and there was more parent action in it than most.
First off we have Celeste, pretty much popular by default. She happens to live on the ‘right side of the tracks’ and befriended the most popular girl in school on their first day of school on the bus. Thus began the elements that shape who Celeste is. Honestly I wasn’t totally impressed with her till I got about 90% through the book. Her whole back and forth train of thought of “I love him, but I won’t be popular anymore and I will let myself centered friends down if I love him,” got a bit out of hand. However, it was how teenagers think. In reality, a teenager would not lose their status over the hot guy, if he doesn’t live in the right place.
I really hated her friends. They were so dominantly mean, and they used her like a puppet. They said that she was a puppet to everyone else but honestly they were like “You don’t want to go there do you Celeste.” When she finally stood up to them I was like “About time!” So, if I am being honest, the book was great because the friend dynamic was brilliant. Brandon I totally enjoyed, because he had a great reaction to becoming a werewolf. “Lock me in my room and unlock it at dawn.” Smart teenager! I sort of knew from the beginning however that the ‘psychic’ was trying to just get video of Brandon to sell. You could smell it all over her. She was totally suspicious.
In the end it was a book that I thought was a quick, light read. It won’t give teenagers any worse ideas about how to be, other than how teenagers already are. It isn’t intense and dramatic. It is just fun. I would let my daughter as young as 12 read it. There is no sexual content, and if you daughter wants the chance to dive into some YA Paranormal I highly suggest this book. I think it is a bit too soft for most adult readers to enjoy, however.
First off we have Celeste, pretty much popular by default. She happens to live on the ‘right side of the tracks’ and befriended the most popular girl in school on their first day of school on the bus. Thus began the elements that shape who Celeste is. Honestly I wasn’t totally impressed with her till I got about 90% through the book. Her whole back and forth train of thought of “I love him, but I won’t be popular anymore and I will let myself centered friends down if I love him,” got a bit out of hand. However, it was how teenagers think. In reality, a teenager would not lose their status over the hot guy, if he doesn’t live in the right place.
I really hated her friends. They were so dominantly mean, and they used her like a puppet. They said that she was a puppet to everyone else but honestly they were like “You don’t want to go there do you Celeste.” When she finally stood up to them I was like “About time!” So, if I am being honest, the book was great because the friend dynamic was brilliant. Brandon I totally enjoyed, because he had a great reaction to becoming a werewolf. “Lock me in my room and unlock it at dawn.” Smart teenager! I sort of knew from the beginning however that the ‘psychic’ was trying to just get video of Brandon to sell. You could smell it all over her. She was totally suspicious.
In the end it was a book that I thought was a quick, light read. It won’t give teenagers any worse ideas about how to be, other than how teenagers already are. It isn’t intense and dramatic. It is just fun. I would let my daughter as young as 12 read it. There is no sexual content, and if you daughter wants the chance to dive into some YA Paranormal I highly suggest this book. I think it is a bit too soft for most adult readers to enjoy, however.