Moonstone: Review

From Goodreads:
A sickly mom. A tiny house trailer. High school bullies and snarky drama queens. Bad-guy dudes with charming smiles. Allie has problems. And then there's that whole thing about fulfilling a magical prophecy and saving the world from evil. Geez. Welcome to the sad, funny, sometimes-scary world of fifteen-year-old Allie Emerson, who's struggling to keep her and her mom's act together in the small-town world of Peacock Flats, Washington. An electrical zap from a TV antenna sets off Allie's weird psychic powers. The next thing she knows she's being visited by a hippy-dippy guardian angel, and then her mysterious neighbor, the town "witch," gives her an incredible moonstone pendant that has powers only a good-hearted "Star Seeker" is meant to command. "Who, me?" is Allie's first reaction. But as sinister events begin to unfold, Allie realizes she's got a destiny to live up to. If she can just survive everyday life, in the meantime.

My Review:
This was a really fantastic book! And it's the beginning of the series, which means that there's so much more still to come! Which is really fantastic, because I enjoyed this book a lot! It was a lot of fun, with all the wacky stuff happening to her!

I really enjoyed going into this world of whatever magic that Allie has, and that the people around her have. Because it was really interested, and I wanted to know how everything worked, those little details that brings to life, you know?

But the stone, and the powers, complicate her life, because there are bad guys, and they want it, and oh, then there's the prophecy that is about her. Yeah. So there's going to be some more fun times in the future with the next books!

I really enjoyed the fact that this was a pretty light book, like, light tone, not that it doesn't have a lot of pages. Because it had a decent enough amount of pages for the story that was told. Because this is the start of the series, it was good to start off light, because it could grow darker as the series goes on!

I really enjoyed this book, it was really great to read, and I can't wait to read the rest of the series!

Author: Marilee Brothers
Series: Unbidden Magic #1
Read: February 10th, 2013
Source: Innovative Online Book Tours Review Copy
Reason Why: Sounded like a great book!
Publisher: Bell Bridge Books
Published: August 1st 2008

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Bio:
With her fondness for blue sky, sunshine and mountains, Marilee never wandered far from her home in central Washington state. She grew up in a family of readers, a gift for which she is eternally grateful. At age eleven, she wrote her first play and produced it in the back yard after recruiting several neighborhood children to play supporting roles. Marilee, of course, was the star.

As a freshman in college, Marilee met the love of her life. Married at nineteen (not recommended) and the mother of two baby boys by twenty-one (bingo... bango...) Marilee returned to college to earn her bachelor's degree in education before giving birth to a third son (bongo!) Outnumbered four to one, Marilee finally put a stop to the male baby boom. The seasons were defined by the type of ball she tripped over in the living room. Fall: Football. Winter: Basketball. Spring: Baseball. At the Brothers' dinner table, Marilee learned not to say, "Throw me a roll."

After teaching and coaching at the high school level, Marilee earned her master's degree in psychology and counseling. Much of her writing reflects her experience as a counselor for behavior disordered teens. Always in love with the written word, Marilee tried her hand at writing poetry and short stories during the busy child-rearing years. When she became an empty nester, it was time for a new challenge . . . time to write a book. As she began to learn her craft, she entered writing contests where she was lucky enough to be spotted by a publisher who signed her to a multi-book contract. Marilee is currently working on her tenth book.

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