[WKM]≡ Read Free Claire de Lune Christine Johnson Books

Claire de Lune Christine Johnson Books

Download As PDF : Claire de Lune Christine Johnson Books

Claire de Lune Christine Johnson Books

Claire de Lune's plot summary intrigued me, because it sounded a bit similar to one of my favorite books, Annette Curtis Klause's Blood and Chocolate. Both tell the story of young, female werewolves navigating the human world while balancing pack life and their teenage years. Claire de Lune differed from Blood and Chocolate in that the female protagonist, Claire, was is only just finding out what she is when we join her; in Blood and Chocolate, Vivian already knows.

Sadly, I found Claire de Lune a weak imitation. It read like relatively decent fanfiction, with characters that were about as formulaic and uninteresting as they come. The plot was weak, and there was nothing and no one especially worth rooting for between the covers.

An easy read, but pretty boring.


Tags : Amazon.com: Claire de Lune (9781416991823): Christine Johnson: Books,Christine Johnson,Claire de Lune,Simon Pulse,1416991824,Family - Parents,Fantasy - General,Social Themes - General,Mothers and daughters,Mothers and daughters;Fiction.,Werewolves,Werewolves;Fiction.,Children: Young Adult (Gr. 10-12),Fantasy & Magic,Fiction,General fiction (Children's Teenage),JUVENILE FICTION Fantasy & Magic,JUVENILE FICTION Legends, Myths, Fables General,JUVENILE FICTION Love & Romance,Juvenile FictionLegends, Myths, Fables - General,Juvenile FictionLove & Romance,Legends, Myths, & Fables - General,Love & Romance,YOUNG ADULT FICTION,Young Adult Fiction Family Parents,Young Adult Fiction Fantasy General,Young Adult Fiction Social Themes General (see also headings under Family)

Claire de Lune Christine Johnson Books Reviews

This is one of those books that, for me, set the tone from the very beginning. In the prologue as a reader you already have questions swimming through your head and you are hooked because you have to know who is doing these things. We are seeing through the eyes of the rogue wolf in the prologue and it gets the story off to a running start. The story for the most part revolves around Clarie, but every now and then we get a peak into the mind of the rogue wolf and those brief glimpses for me are very intriguing. The prologue sets a dark tone to the book, which does carry throughout the story, there are rays of sunshine beating into Claire's life periodically, but when you discover you are a werewolf at sixteen, you light is snuffed out just a little and I think the book reflects that well.

Claire is a good character, she is easy to relate to, and you are rooting for her from the beginning. You are also analyzing her love interest Matthew, because while he may like Claire, his father would forbid him from seeing her if he discovered what she truly was. That is what made me apprehensive about Matthew in the beginning. If he has had to listen to his father scream words of hate at the top of his lungs most of his life would it be so hard for some of that hate to seep through? Well, you will just have to read to figure that out for yourself because I do not want to ruin it for you.

This story also reminds me of the Hunchback of Notre Dame, wondering where I am going with this aren't you? Ok, well there is a line from there "Who is the monster and who is the man?" Well in this case it would be woman I guess, but this quote felt very appropriate to me for this book. While the main focus of the book spins around Claire and her dealing with being a werewolf, there is always that sub-plot of Matthew's father hunting the werewolves and assuming that they are all vicious creatures before getting all the facts. He has no care to find out the truth or be humane about it, he only wishes to kill the unknown and destroy anything foreign in his world. People like that just anger me, which was most likely how Christine meant for him to be, so in that respect she did a fantastic job.

I also like that in this book the werewolves are women. In almost all the other books I have read that deal with "were" of any kind, females are scarce, if not non-existent. So it was interesting to get new lore in this genre and a new outlook on werewolves. While the book does tie up most of the loose ends nicely I am still left wondering if there is more to Claire's story. There are still quite a few questions that linger for me and I wonder if there will be another book or if this will be a stand alone novel. Either way, it is a great debut for Christine and you should check it out if you have not already done so.

Language Love

"Misery shimmered around her like an aura"

I like thinking that an emotion could radiate off someone so much that you can almost see it. That is why I like this line from the book.
Why I read this The cover was eye catching and it was about werewolves.. need I say more? )

Plot Claire starts to have some weird changes on her 16th birthday. She's getting rashes and having all sorts of weird cravings... and her mom drops the bomb - they're both werewolves. Unfortunately, her new crush has a father who is trying to find the cure for werewolves and will stop at nothing to try and capture the lone werewolf who has been murdering humans near where Claire lives.

I like the idea of only women being werewolves - as we often see the opposite. The plot moved forward and there's a bit of mystery as to which werewolf is the one who is going around murdering these people. There's glimpses into the werewolf as she goes to slaughter the next person and that really set the mood of the book into a darker tone - which I really liked.

Characters Claire doesn't really react well to being a werewolf. She hates the thought that people would think badly of her if they found out her secret. Claire starts to experiment behind her mother's back and also refuses to stop seeing Matthew. She consistently sneaks out when her mother is not around and tries to hone her changing to and from werewolf form. I really liked Claire - she seemed very much the modern teenager who wasn't used to her mother being around and from that she really showed some independent thought and action.

Matthew is not drool worthy, but he's a nice guy - cute and fun for Claire to be with. He can almost distract her from all of her problems when she's with him.

Claire's mother is very aloof, as are a lot of the werewolves - but they survive on instinct and are not reliant on human relationships. Thus the lack of a father figure in Claire's life.

Relatability I definitely cannot see much of me in Claire, but I do know a lot of teenagers like her. She's very realistic and I appreciated that.

Cover commentary Love it. It's so pretty. Definitely one I want on my shelf.
Claire de Lune's plot summary intrigued me, because it sounded a bit similar to one of my favorite books, Annette Curtis Klause's Blood and Chocolate. Both tell the story of young, female werewolves navigating the human world while balancing pack life and their teenage years. Claire de Lune differed from Blood and Chocolate in that the female protagonist, Claire, was is only just finding out what she is when we join her; in Blood and Chocolate, Vivian already knows.

Sadly, I found Claire de Lune a weak imitation. It read like relatively decent fanfiction, with characters that were about as formulaic and uninteresting as they come. The plot was weak, and there was nothing and no one especially worth rooting for between the covers.

An easy read, but pretty boring.