This book was really good! I liked the story, the author, and the narrator!
I liked the characters!
I hope to read more by this author soon!
A great book!

The whole package together was an enjoyable novel. That being said, it takes a long time to get to the meat of the magic in the story, and I felt a lot of the mysticism was more window dressing than truly being featured.

Still, I think there are many young individuals who can relate strongly to Eva, our protagonist, and I feel she's incredibly well written.

While the world built lacks depth and the plot is a little unstable, the characters, especially the protagonist and those who support her, are quite well-written and see some very positive growth. I have a feeling this book would function perfectly as a library gem, the kind where a young person finds the book in a library, reads it, and falls in love with the library and reading in general.

This was a super cute story with a very important underlying story about abuse of power, patriarchial BS, sexism, and religious freedom. I loved the happy ending for Eva and would love to learn more about the author E.S. Danon's life since this book is based on parts of it. Definitely will be looking for more books by this author!

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I really wanted to like this book because I loved the idea of it. I did really like it for the first few chapters, but it lost me when going into the other realm. It was so cheesy, the dog, the challenges, everything was too far fetched. I don't think you can call this YA. It's for sure middle grade book, but I don't think I'd even recommend it to kids. I gave it 2 stars.

This book was rife with symbolism. Eva is the main character and she is being raised by a crazy woman in a circus in Israel. The Christian boys in the circus are treated much better. She has a Jewish friend named Jack with many obsessive behaviors.

Set to give up her life, Eva runs into a cat; but the cat isn’t all he seems.

I loved the allusions and allegories in this book as well as the symbolism and social commentary between genders and religions.

Thank you to #NetGalley and #DreamscapeMedia for the opportunity to listen to this audiobook in exchange for my honest opinion. .

This was a hard book to get into at first. However, it was a decent story when you actually got further into the book. I liked the outcome of the book, and I really enjoyed some of the characters. Over all a decent book.

The description was far better than the book itself. I found the plot plodding, and non-existent until far too far into the book. I found the characters juvenile in the most negative connotations of that word. Ultimately, I was unable to complete the book.

I tried to listen to Moon In Bastet several times and I unfortunately found that it wasn't for me. Its not that it isn't a good book, it was just more that it didn't keep my attention. I do feel that this would be better for a younger audience but for me it just didn't keep me wanting more.

This was so sweet. The narrator was perfect. I learned a lot about the Jewish faith.
Be kind to cats.

This was one of those books that sounded incredibly intriguing, but didn't quite come through for me in the execution.

I do enjoy a period of getting to know the characters before jumping into the plot, but this book took a long time to acclimate us to the characters. It came across as repetitive and slow-moving for a long time, and it didn't help that Eva's character isn't exactly easy to like. She's difficult and prickly, dismissive and hurtful towards the one friend that she does have, Jack. Understandably, it can be tough deal with a friend who struggles with what appears to be OCD at the best of times, and Eva isn't at the best of times, although I found it reductive at best, ableist at worst at how his diagnosis is constantly referred to as "being crazy" or a neurosis. Eva is constantly expressing suicidal thoughts, although she doesn't actually take any action towards it, and she appears to struggle with faith. However, she does have some supports in her life, which she seems to take for granted, constantly focusing on the negative things in her life instead. I had a hard time empathizing with Eva, and instead found myself empathizing with Jack more, which I wasn't sure was exactly the intended aim of the author.

After this especially long getting to know you period, we are suddenly thrust into a period of change, followed by intense, non-stop action. It was a bit overwhelming, and didn't really allow me enough time to quite process everything that was going on, and at times, it read as very young YA, although others it felt more geared towards adults.

Since I read this as an audiobook, I have to also note that the choice of narrator perhaps wasn't the best for this book. She seemed unfamiliar with even the most simple of any of the Jewish terms, and mispronounced just about every single one of them, such as saying the word "shiksa" as "shiska" and being unable to pronounce the hard, guttural "ch" that's required for so many of the Hebrew words. I found it frustrating to hear all of these words pronounced wrong throughout the story, and while it should have made me feel more connected to the story, instead it took me out of the story every time one of these words was pronounced.

Ultimately, I just don't think that this book was a good fit for me, and what I was hoping to gain from reading this wasn't what it was offering.