Liar’s Moon Pdf Summary
Prisons, poisons, and passions combine in a gorgeously written fantasy noir by the author of the Morris Award-winning A CURSE DARK AS GOLD.
As a pickpocket, Digger expects to spend a night in jail every now and then. But she doesn’t expect to find Lord Durrel Decath there as well–or to hear he’s soon to be executed for killing his wife.
Durrel once saved Digger’s life, and when she goes free, she decides to use her skills as a thief, forger, and spy to investigate his case and return the favor. But each new clue only opens up more mysteries. While Durrel’s marriage was one of convenience, his behavior has been more impulsive than innocent. His late wife had an illegal business on the wrong side of the civil war raging just outside the city gates. Digger keeps finding forbidden magic in places it has no reason to be.
And it doesn’t help that she may be falling in love with a murderer .
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Liar’s Moon Review
3.0 out of 5 stars Love interest is a sloppy-seconds-beard-faced-charity case
Reviewed in the United States on April 1, 2013
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LIAR’S MOON had the same fundamental elements as STARCROSSED, but not the same magic.
Digger is back in her home city of Gerse after her adventures in Starcrossed where she was pretending to be a lady’s maid among a faction of magic users who are planning a rebellion against the King.
However, while Starcrossed left off with the Sarists preparing for war, this theme didn’t seem to make a reappearance in the story until the very end—and even then it’s reduced to background noise. I was disappointed Prince Wierwolf played such a small role.
In Liar’s Moon, Digger is finding it hard to go back to work being a thief since she’s lost her street credit from her time spent with the nobs in Starcrossed. Luckily, she is able to put her thief skills to work as a detective when she ends up tasked with a mystery only her perseverance and snooping skills can solve.
Digger’s task during Liar’s Moon is to prove the innocence of an old acquaintance, Lord Durrel Decath. Durrel has been accused of murdering his wife, Talth Ceid, and all the witnesses who might be involved are being killed off one by one. Digger spends the majority of the book snooping around until she gets key characters in the book to confess that they’ve known the solution to the mystery the whole time. (Guess it wouldn’t be a mystery if everyone told the truth about what they know when questioned the first time, would it?)
While the story follows the same pattern as Starcrossed-cliff hanger chapter endings, a multi-faced complex mystery, and no insta-love—I wasn’t invested in the stakes and therefore found it much less entertaining than Starcrossed. I didn’t care enough about Durrel’s character in regards to whether he lived or was executed for a crime he insists he didn’t commit, and so it was hard to get excited for Digger each time she involved herself further.
I read Starcrossed in one sitting, and yet with Liar’s Moon it took me several days to finish. The pacing of the plot dragged heavily in the first third of the book, and it wasn’t until two-thirds through the story that I was resolved to read it to the end.
As I progressed through the story I hoped to recognize more of the characters or to get a sense of familiarity from the story, but it didn’t happen. Liar’s Moon seems like it could easily have been pitched as an independent story there were so few things carried over from Starcrossed.
Another thing that was less magical was the setting. When I pick up a fantasy novel, I like being introduced to new scenery and exotic locations, but even in a city as big as Gerse I didn’t feel like I made it out of the market. To the author’s credit, the visual descriptions are nicely balanced between the dialogue and prose.
Lastly, I didn’t care at all for the male love-interest in this book. Just wasn’t feeling the attraction toward the sloppy-seconds-beard-faced-charity case. At times their chemistry seemed more suited for a 30-year-old woman than a young adult.
I don’t know if I’ll be reading the next one. The surprise twist alludes to a third attempt to introduce a romantic theme to this plot arc, but trouble in Digger’s love life isn’t my thing.
5.0 out of 5 stars 4.5/5 from Bookworm1858
Reviewed in the United States on December 29, 2011
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Looking at my order slip, it appears that I placed my order on May 22 and received it the day it came out. But silly me, I forgot to include it on my calendar so I had a bunch of review books to get through first before I could dive into this personally highly anticipated sequel to StarCrossed.
I began in a bit of a panic because while I remembered main character Digger alias Celyn, I didn’t automatically remember any other character. Now some of the characters were new so that explains why but the other characters were cleverly reintroduced and integrated into the story such that my memory was jogged. And the part I remember best from StarCrossed was Digger’s slow attachment to the people she met; although she had tried to keep herself separate, she couldn’t stop becoming involved. Similarly, she is attached to people in this book including a romantic interest and a wide network of people who aid her in traitorous activities. How lucky is she?! I kept fearing a sudden but inevitable betrayal but no one stabbed her in the back like that. They were good people.
As for the plot, this focused on the mystery of the death of influential businesswoman Talth Ceid, the wife of Digger’s acquaintance Durrel Decath who happens to be the obvious suspect. Someone believes in his innocence and Digger is dragged into a complicated web of business contracts, trade, greed, force, and magic. Although everything seems tangled, she knows that she can dig up an answer (okay-sorry for the bad joke!)
While I liked this book a lot and had trouble putting it down, I still didn’t find it to be a perfect book. I did think it dragged a little in some places and would have liked some things to happen more quickly.
Then there is the ending. While the central mystery is tied up (we know who killed Durrel’s wife) and progress seems to have been made on the political front (in favor of the side Digger supports), something totally out of the blue comes our way. I can see some people guessing but I was surprised…and now I’m even more anxious for the third book to hopefully tie everything up.
About Elizabeth C. Bunce Author Of Liar’s Moon pdf Book
Elizabeth C. Bunce Author Of Liar’s Moon pdf Book is the Edgar Award-winning author of the Myrtle Hardcastle Mystery series, beginning with Premeditated Myrtle, an Edgar Allan Poe “Edgar” Award Winner, a Society of Midland Authors Honoree, a Library of Congress 2021 Book Festival Selection, Amazon Top 20 Children’s Book of the Year, Indie Next Pick, and finalist for both the Agatha Award and Anthony Award. Her series continues in How to Get Away with Myrtle (a #1 Amazon New Release) and Cold-Blooded Myrtle, also an Edgar Award finalist, an Agatha Award finalist, and Anthony Award finalist, as well as a Kirkus Top 10 Best Book of the Year, Indie Next Pick, a Silver Falchion Award finalist, and Wall Street Journal holiday guide pick. Coming in 2022: In Myrtle Peril and in 2023 Myrtle, Means, & Opportunity. Her first novel, A Curse Dark as Gold, won the inaugural William C. Morris Award for a young adult debut novel and was named a Smithsonian Notable Book and an Amelia Bloomer Project selection. Her high fantasy Thief Errant series includes the novels Star Crossed, A Chicago Public Library Best of the Best book, and Liar’s Moon, one of Kirkus Blog’s Favorite YA Novels of 2011. StarCrossed and A Curse Dark as Gold have appeared on Oprah’s Kids Reading List. Premeditated Myrtle was named both a Best Children’s/YAA BookPage Best Book and to A Mighty Girl’s Books of the Year. Her novels have been named to the ALA’s Best Fiction for Young Adults list, and she is a four-time Kansas Notable Book winner. An accomplished needlewoman and historical costumer, Elizabeth lives in the Midwest with her husband, her cats, and a boggart who steals books.
Liar’s Moon pdf, Paperback, Hardcover Book Information
- ASIN : B005HE2PL6
- Publisher : Arthur A. Levine Books (November 1, 2011)
- Publication date : November 1, 2011
- Language : English
- File size : 5493 KB
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- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
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- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 373 pages
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