Kindle Edition
Expected publication: May 16th 2017 by Thomas & Mercer
“If you ever say anything
to anyone, they all die.”
When eight-year-old Greer Donner falls off his horse in the Washington wilderness, he braces himself to face the long hike home alone. But screams pierce the darkness, and he stumbles upon a dead-end road where a man is beating a woman—nearly to death. In a moment of courage, he stops the assault, but he’s left to face the man, who turns his wrath into an ominous threat: if the boy ever reveals what he has seen, his family will pay the ultimate price. The secret Greer now carries begins his emotional unraveling.
In Seattle, Gillian Trett is a photographer with a troubled marriage and a childhood she’s trying to forget. Domestic tension mounts when her husband’s stepsister arrives. Desperate for a distraction, and a way to advance her career, Gillian throws herself into uncovering the history behind an old man’s Holocaust photo of boys in a forest. The mysterious children and the truth behind the scene haunt her—she can’t let go of the image, or of her own shadowed past.
Then a horrifying revelation entangles Gillian’s path with young Greer’s. The boy and the woman, separated by a generation and a hundred miles, each confront the terrible power of harbored secrets—not only to eclipse the truth but also to illuminate the dark, unknown dimensions of their loved ones and themselves.
When eight-year-old Greer Donner falls off his horse in the Washington wilderness, he braces himself to face the long hike home alone. But screams pierce the darkness, and he stumbles upon a dead-end road where a man is beating a woman—nearly to death. In a moment of courage, he stops the assault, but he’s left to face the man, who turns his wrath into an ominous threat: if the boy ever reveals what he has seen, his family will pay the ultimate price. The secret Greer now carries begins his emotional unraveling.
In Seattle, Gillian Trett is a photographer with a troubled marriage and a childhood she’s trying to forget. Domestic tension mounts when her husband’s stepsister arrives. Desperate for a distraction, and a way to advance her career, Gillian throws herself into uncovering the history behind an old man’s Holocaust photo of boys in a forest. The mysterious children and the truth behind the scene haunt her—she can’t let go of the image, or of her own shadowed past.
Then a horrifying revelation entangles Gillian’s path with young Greer’s. The boy and the woman, separated by a generation and a hundred miles, each confront the terrible power of harbored secrets—not only to eclipse the truth but also to illuminate the dark, unknown dimensions of their loved ones and themselves.
My Thoughts…
This is a
mystery book… a mystery to the characters in the book that is.
The Donner
family is trying to figure out what has caused Greer to change his attitude,
his actions, and his life. The reader
is privy to the knowledge of what happen to Greer. I loved that the Donner family didn’t just
think Greer was acting out. They knew their child/sibling well enough to
know that something had happen to make him act the way he is. They also went about trying to get him
help without pushing him to say or do something that would cause him more
trouble. The support, the love, and the
acceptance within the Donner family is true to how every family should be.
What happen to
Greer was horrible. The fact that a
young boy would witness what he did and then kept it all a secret just to keep
his family safe made him stronger than most boys would be and proved the love
he had for his entire family. It
also proved that a man’s words to a young boy can cause a lot of angst and
heartbreak.
I struggled
trying to figure out how Gillian Trett’s part of the story would tie into
Greer’s part of the story. Gillian was
not a likeable character from the beginning. From the beginning of her story she was
standoffish, rude, and just not warm and welcoming. She partially redeemed herself as the story
went on.
The Measure of
the Moon is interesting with its dual storylines.
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Meet the
Author…
Born in Phoenix, Lisa lived in numerous
Arizona towns as a child and later spent several years in California. By young
adulthood, she was in Alaska and started mountain climbing. She climbed in
South America on different expeditions, seeking summits in Ecuador, Chile and
Argentina. She also travelled solo through Europe and Asia.
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