The Ruby Moon

In this delightful sequel to The Glass Castle, The Ruby Moon continues the story of Avery and the hidden thirteen year olds as she searches for her brother.  Geared for the young reader genre, both my daughter and myself found this book (along with the first in the Thirteen series) delightful.  

Ruby Moon picks up where The Glass Castle lets off, with Avery and the other orphaned thirteen year olds trying to discover the long lost heir as well as avoid detection by the King and Queen.  When situations arise that require the colony to relocate into the tunnels below the castle, Avery soon discovers that there is more to who she is and who her friends are than meets they eye.  Avery puts her life in danger in order to gain audience with the King by disguising herself as a boy in order to run in his race. 

Priebe and Jenkins are great at including both Biblical as well as life lessons in this story as we see growth with the main character.  Teenagers and preteens will both be able to relate to Avery's story and learn these lessons with her.  Overall, this is a great book that lacks and questionable material and would be suitable for readers around age 11 upward.

This is a delightful series for tweens,  young teens and adults. I enjoyed this book too even though the recommended ages are 10 to 15.  Since it is Christian fiction, it  doesn't contain the kind of material you really don't want to expose your children to. It's amazing what they put in books for this age group.

I did not think it worked well as a stand alone. I would recommend that you read  the first book, The Glass Castle, before this one. Since I read the previous book months ago, I was a bit lost when I started reading this. Bits and pieces came back to me as I continued, and I was grateful for that; however, there isn't enough information if you begin with this one.

I appreciate how the authors incorporated prayer and faith into the story. The plot is one I enjoyed; however, the book ended in a mild cliffhanger, and I am  looking forward to the next in this series. 

I highly recommend this book.

The Ruby Moon is the next book in the series that began with The Glass Castle. This is a book written for tweens and teens. It picks up right where they left off and has a few added twists; such as many of the teens that were kidnapped are disappearing with no signs whatsoever. As the remaining group tries to figure out where they are going a variety of storylines take shape.

Avery is now set to run in the race for the kingdom, there is a general understanding that they are no longer safe where they are and may need to move. Avery is also beginning to explore on her own and has quite an adventure and further learning of the truth on one such exploration. Kendrick has now trusted Avery with his secret and Avery learns some unforeseen truths about her mother.

The book moves the story along and has another twist at the end that you will not see coming. Overall I like the message of the book, I would have liked to see more overt messaging about God but the undertones are there.  I am looking forward to the final installment, The Paper Boat, due out in the spring 2017 to see exactly how the whole story comes to an end.

This book was given to me by NetGalley in EBook format for my honest opinion.

A captivating book with intriguing plot twists,well developed characters, interesting and engaging plot and entrancing plot. I loved the book and would recommend it to everyone, either adult or young. The book hooked me from the beginning and was a one sit read for me. I absolutely loved it