La nuit de la lune pourpre — Nicolas Gambardella (Translator)

L’épidémie frappe à la puberté

Abby Leigh a hâte de voir la lune devenir pourpre. Depuis des mois, les astronomes prédisent que la Terre traversera la queue d’une comète. On dit que les gens profiteront de couchers de soleil colorés et, mieux encore, d’une lune pourpre.

Mais personne n’avait prédit l’épidémie fulgurante qui balaie la planète durant la nuit de la lune pourpre. La comète apporte avec elle de la poussière contenant des germes qui attaquent les hormones humaines. Les adultes comme les adolescents les plus âgés décèdent dans les quelques heures qui suivent l’exposition.

Sur une petite île au large des côtes du Maine, Abby doit aider son frère et sa petite sœur à survivre dans ce nouveau monde. Pendant ce temps, l’aube de son adolescence cache une bombe à retardement.

Goodreads 5-star review

Night of the Purple Moon is a captivating book written by Scott Cramer. The author found a different dooms day type of book that targeted anyone who was older than a teen leaving kids behind to fend for themselves, which obviously is quite the dilemma especially when there are some babies involved. The author beautifully captivates the struggles these kids deal with, trying to deal with having food, warmth and also dealing with kids that have the don’t care attitude and destroy and take whatever they want with the no regards for consequences. It also shows that there are also always some that step up to the challenge and do what is right.

Abby and her brother are great characters who with the help of other younger teens step up and help develop a small community on this isolated island. There are without a doubt some challenges that they face, with the biggest one aging and getting closer to certain death, or is it?

This is a very well written book and after finishing I was left wondering if I will continue on with the next books. Based on the excerpts I am not sure at this point if I will. I really liked how this one was set up but I am not sure how I feel what the directions of the next books are going into, but I will decide that at a different point in time.

Amazon 5-star review

Couldn’t put it down. Kept going was filled with action love betrayal and domination, survival through love and the will to live. Fun read

Goodreads review

This story is powerful and most enjoyable. A true page-turner.

The title caught my interest right away. I couldn’t put it down, a quick moving storyline, with many twists and turns. Every step builds the level of suspense, time is running out to save man kind. Lots of interesting science and weapons. A little romance and a maniacal villein. I only give a very few five star reviews, this is one of them.

Amazon review

This book looked like it was going to be a slow start. Buy happily it turned out to be an interesting read. Where I thought it was going to be predictable, it was anything but! It was a bit sad the way things turned out, but it is after all only a story. I don’t know if it is coincidence or if Scott Cramer is trying to draw some kind of parallel to the Mideast situation however. It seems that the city of origin of one of the main characters could have been any large city. Throughout the story, he manages not to mention the country in which the city is located once, either because it wasn’t germane or because of a feigned political stance. Perhaps it isn’t important to know.

Goodreads review

This story certainly is a techno thriller. The idea behind it I find scary, as I could see it happening in the future. A really well written story, I’m so glad I had the chance to read it. Took me two days as I just didn’t want to put it down.