Moonrise
Author: Sarah Crossan
Publisher: Bloomsbury Australia
Release date: September 2017
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R.R.P: $16.99
Joe hasn't seen his brother for ten years, and it's for the most brutal of reasons. Ed is on death row.
But now Ed's execution date has been set, and Joe is determined to spend those last weeks with him, no matter what other people think...
My review
Thoughts on the book: Joe was seven when his older brother Ed got arrested, the police claim that he killed a cop. Now ten years later Ed has written to tell Joe and his sister Angela that he has a execution date so Joe heads down to Texas to be with his brother for his final few days. But little does Joe know just how much he will discover about himself and those around him when it all comes to an end.
I had the pleasure of reading Sarah Crossan's We Come Apart earlier this year and adored it and highly recommend it to everyone. Of course I will defiantly be doing the same with Moonrise. Moonrise is a verse novel (a novel told in poem like writing) and you don't even realise that your reading it like a verse because it reads just like a normal book. The storyline is clear and not confusing at all (which some verse books can be) and is one that readers will fall in love with. Joe is a very easy going character who likes to please those around him. He heads to Texas because he believes that is what needs to be done and even though he has no money he finds a way to make ends meet and stay to be near his brother. The transformation in Joe by the end of the book is amazing (as many other characters in the book also did) and for the author to do it in so few words is unbelievable. I also loved the mystery of who Nel was and what she was hiding. I know I for one was completely wrong.
I can't wait to read more from Sarah Crossan especially if they are in verse form.
Rating: 4/5
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