Red Moon Rising by Peter Moore

Being only half-vamp in a high school like Carpathia Night makes you a whole loser. But Danny Gray manages to escape the worst of the specists at his school. Thanks to genetic treatments he had as an infant, most people assume Danny's other half is human. Which is a good thing.

Ever since the development of synthetic blood – SynHeme – vamps have become society’s elite, while wulves like his father work menial jobs and live in bad neighborhoods. Wulves are less than second class citizens; once a month they become inmates, forced to undergo their Change in dangerous government compounds.

For Danny, living with his vamp mother and going to a school with a nearly all-vamp student body, it’s best to pretend his wulf half doesn’t even exist. But lately Danny's been having some weird symptoms — fantastic night vision; a keener-than-usual sense of smell; and headaches, right around the full moon.

Even though it's easy to be in denial, it's hard to ignore evidence. There's only a month until the next full moon, and Danny's time is running out.

Peter Moore speaks to adolescents in a voice that will have them laughing, set in a world that will get them thinking.

This is my sculpture of a Red Moon. In Wulf form, Wulves see a Red Moon. Because Danny doesn't have much time he goes to see his dad, a Wulf, to see what is going on. As time goes on he catches the attention of a girl and must hide his secret from her even though he really want to. Not to mention the whole vamp part of his school is going to mock him for the rest of his life he still has to worry about whether or not he should tell his crush if he is part wulf.

My Ratings-


Characters: 4/5
Plot: 4/5
Voice: 5/5
Intensity: 4/5
Humor: 3/5

Average: 4/5 -or-  20/25