| Moonlight |  | Author: Keith Knapp
Publisher: Outskirts Press
Category: eBooks
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Rating:  35 reviews
Sales Rank: 1,424
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
Publication Date: October 30, 2007
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Product Description
It began with a power outage. A power outage that went beyond lights and televisions. Clocks stopped telling time. Cell phones no longer received signals. Cars became dead relics that wouldn't start.
As the world around them becomes darker, so do the inhabitants of the small town of Westmont, Illinois. A mysterious and evil presence has taken a hold over the village, making the once peaceful town a place of violence and despair.
A small group of individuals, untouched by this presence, must uncover the mystery of why they remain normal and discover what (or who) is taking control of their town, one soul at a time.
Because the Man in the Dark Coat is out there. Hunting them.
And not everyone can remain untouched forever.
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 Running with the Darkness September 3, 2010
TastyBabySyndrome ("Daddy Dagon's Daycare" - Proud Sponsor of the Little Tendril Baseball Team, USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The things that we utilize to keep the dark at bay start to leave us one by one. That was the way the back of the book read and it sounded utterly nightmarish. The devices we trust with our voices go quiet and sleep. Then the cars sign off with no warning, leaving us nowhere to run. And then comes that terrible feeling that something is coming. and something is coming, something horrible, and it seems to know us. and it likes us - it really likes us.
While I am not a description writer, Knapp really is. In fact, Keith Knapp needs to write a lot more. I say that because he has a vivid imagination and, when you read his work, you can taste the world he's painting. I loved the way Moonlight captures this, allowing me to feel the things that are going on around the characters. I accordingly read it more than once, noting all the small things that curved and made things good. The way things beging. The way reactions form. The way things are turned up a notch. The way curves are navigated in stories. Over and over again I watched Knapp's creations until I felt my eyes tire, but I didn't want to sleep. No, I wanted to keep on keeping on until I completed the book.
That's the sign of a great thing.
Personally I think that earned 5 stars and then some changes - I really liked it and then some. I don't want to spoil ANYTHING so forgive any vague places - I just want readers to have the same experience I had. If you need more, there are pieces of the Moonlight puzzle out there to read. Be careful, however, because prereading is a dangerous game.
It can sometimes ruin a beautiful 5-star outing.
Time well spent August 22, 2010
Francis J. Cone Jr.
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I try and keep the Kindle full of books that are both decently reviewed and cheap. I had honestly forgotten exactly what this book was supposed to be about. It started as a slow burn, introducing quite a few characters in several locations. By the time the event unfolded I was interested in the characters and their reactions. Early on there were on the edge of your seat moments wondering exactly who was going to have a really bad time and who would end up as one of the protagonists. As the story continued this suspense continued as well leaving us to determine who would be the next to be compromised.
The best thing I can say about the book is that every last character is believable. There are no paranormally gifted characters who save the day, no alpha character who can step outside of the situation and take care if things that no mere mortal could, instead we have characters who react as you would expect in a crisis, this crisis just happens to be supernatural in nature.
As reviewers have mentioned there are few answers to many of the questions brought up, but reflecting on the book once I finished it I prefer that. Again these are not demon hunters or ay other sort of protagonist who would wrap things up neatly, here we have regular people from a small town. They are in the dark (literally and figuratively) here and are stumbling along on several different levels. I believe it really works here, the unanswered questions are not so much holes in the plot as they are part of the story.
This book is certainly the most ambitious first work by an author I have read, I would recommend it to anyone.
Moonlight August 20, 2010
Sandra Labella (Newington, CT USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I loved this book. It was in the same class of Dean Koontz one of my favorite authors. It kept me reading and reading I didn't want to put it down. If you like Koontz and King you will love this book. I only wish that this author would write some more books like this one.
 Who edited this thing? August 6, 2010
RRH Bethesda, MD
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
I'm about half way through this book and am seriously considering cutting my losses and getting out now. I'll probably continue, just to give the guy a chance to change my mind, but whether the story turns out to be worthwhile or not, this is without a doubt the worst job of editing I've ever encountered. I've never seen so many spelling and grammatical errors in one book. It's very distracting and makes me feel like I'm reading a junior high composition by a C student.
 Grammar geeks beware June 19, 2010
Jeremy G. Pippin (Austin, TX USA)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
An interesting bit of fiction, to be sure, but this volume is 100% self-published as far as I can tell. It's apparent within a few pages that an editor has never touched this. I'm not talking about "improper use of the word irony" syntax quibbles, either; basic grammar errors like its vs. it's and plurals spelled with apostrophes abound.
The plot is archetypal - a group of small-town people in the midst of epic weirdness that are for slowly-revealed reasons unaffected because they are special. From POV sub-plot shifts to the starting protagonist/plot survivor ratio, this story reads as the work of a moderate Stephen King fan who thought he'd try his hand at a story of his own. The characters are reasonably likable, and the action moves along at a healthy pace, but the plot is full of gaping holes and the book ends with the sort of abruptness one expects from an impatient debut author who has simply played the story out as far as it can go and needs to wrap things up.
If you read these, Mr. Knapp, I'd urge you to find a literary friend or two and have them help you out with a revision - not because the book is bad, but because it has unrealized potential and deserves a more complete treatment.
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