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Look for Me by Moonlight
by
Mary Downing Hahn (Goodreads Author)
When the mysterious Vincent Morthanos arrives to stay at her father's inn, 16-year-old Cynda is mesmerized. His charm and sensitivity are irresistible. His attentiveness is constant. Cynda's sure she's in love. Daring to hope that the stranger shares her feelings, Cynda is innocently blind to who he really is--or to the terrible danger of coming under his spell.
Paperback, 192 pages
Published
March 1st 1997
by HarperTrophy
(first published April 24th 1995)
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I gave this book the rating my goofy middle school self would've given it had that weird child had access to the internet as it is today.
This is a very dated book and everything is very predictable and the characters are flat and one-dimensional. But I remember having fond memories of loving this book, and don't want to penalize it for the fact that my standards have risen and Vincent is no longer a tall dark and dangerous dreamboat of horror.
Cynda was always whiny and annoying though. I wish I...more
This is a very dated book and everything is very predictable and the characters are flat and one-dimensional. But I remember having fond memories of loving this book, and don't want to penalize it for the fact that my standards have risen and Vincent is no longer a tall dark and dangerous dreamboat of horror.
Cynda was always whiny and annoying though. I wish I...more
I read this book when I was in high school I think in year 7, I picked it up and it was one of the first books I actually fell in love with. It was seriously amazing to me, I felt so connected to the story it was just so good. Of course people's opinions are different, but for me it was a very in depth story about a girl who feels confused with her life and is suddenly living with a father with a new family.
And comes along the mysterious man who turns everything upside down and eventually the se...more
And comes along the mysterious man who turns everything upside down and eventually the se...more
I remember being obsessed with this book in middle school. Ob. Sessed. I also remember it having enough romance and passion and awesome twist-at-the-end-edness for me to reread it a bunch of times. So when I found a cheap copy in a used book store, I bought and read it in a day.
See, I wanted to enjoy this. I mean, it brought back such fond memories, right? And I remember Mary Downing Hahn as being a great author, so I wanted to enjoy the hell out of this book. Unfortunately it was just...utterly...more
See, I wanted to enjoy this. I mean, it brought back such fond memories, right? And I remember Mary Downing Hahn as being a great author, so I wanted to enjoy the hell out of this book. Unfortunately it was just...utterly...more
Cynda is sixteen, and for her, the world is unfair. Like so many other teenage heroines of supernatural tales, she's frustrated by the boredom and isolation that comes when she moves in with her estranged father and his wife who run a remote inn, even an inn that's supposedly haunted. As such, her curiosity is piqued when a mysterious young man named Victor shows up at the inn one night and decides to stay awhile. Her five-year-old half-brother Todd hates him immediately, but Victor quickly wins...more
To all the whiners complaining that this book wasn't anything like Twilight - get over it! It was written ten years before Twilight, and long before vampires became teenage heartthrobs. Throughout history, vampires have been evil and dangerous - even Angel, who began to turn the tide for vampires from scary monster to romantic hero, could be dangerous. Romances between teenage girls and ancient vampires don't end well. Period.
I first read this book in middle school, shortly after it was first pu...more
I first read this book in middle school, shortly after it was first pu...more
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I usually dislike the 'aha!' ending, where everything is thrown on its ear and the author crows about about how clever they are and how the stupid little reader was just so easily taken in (hello, Sarah Waters!)
This isn't quite like that. This 'aha!' took a silly, mediocre story and turned it into ... something else entirely. (I hesitate to say "thrilling psychological horror" but that's kind of what it is.)
My biggest - my only - problem was the narrator. Supposedly sixteen years old, she talks...more
This isn't quite like that. This 'aha!' took a silly, mediocre story and turned it into ... something else entirely. (I hesitate to say "thrilling psychological horror" but that's kind of what it is.)
My biggest - my only - problem was the narrator. Supposedly sixteen years old, she talks...more
This book took me a ridiculous amount of time to finish. It was so short and really hard to get in to. The plot didn't capture me at all. The book was supposed to be spine thrilling and spine chilling and none of that happened to my spine. I was annoyed through out the whole book and just wanted to get it over with and found myself skimming the pages and had to force myself to pay attention to what was going on.
The reason why I gave this book 2 stars was becuase towards the end I will admit it k...more
The reason why I gave this book 2 stars was becuase towards the end I will admit it k...more
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READALIKES: "The Highwayman" (poem by Alfred Noyes); The Old Willis Place and many others by Mary Downing Hahn; anything by Lois Duncan (my personal favorite is Ransom)
RATING BREAKDOWN:
Overall: 4/5
Creativity: 4/5
Characters: 4/5
Engrossing: 4/5
Writing: 4/5
Appeal to teens: 5/5
Appropriate length to tell the story: 5/5
CONTENT:
Language: none
Sexuality: mild; large age gaps in the relationships; some kissing and staring at breasts through shirt
Vio...more
I found out about Look for Me By Moonlight when I was searching for old Mary Downing Hahn books I had read when I was younger. I came across this in the search and being that I love all things vampiric in nature (and have since WAAAYYY before Twilight), I decided to investigate further.
The story is about sixteen year old Cynda (short for Cynthia). Cynda is spending six months at an old inn in northern Maine with her father, stepmother, and half-brother. Cynda is hoping to renew her relationship...more
The story is about sixteen year old Cynda (short for Cynthia). Cynda is spending six months at an old inn in northern Maine with her father, stepmother, and half-brother. Cynda is hoping to renew her relationship...more
I liked this book. Even though the plot was a little bit predictable and the characters were not developed in depth, the story was refreshing and entertaining.
Cynda is your average teenage girl who has problems with her parents and has to deal with family issues and loneliness. She is desperate for someone to listen to what she has to say. Then comes Vincent. I have to say that Vincent was the character that I liked the most. After all those romance books that have come out in the last few year...more
Cynda is your average teenage girl who has problems with her parents and has to deal with family issues and loneliness. She is desperate for someone to listen to what she has to say. Then comes Vincent. I have to say that Vincent was the character that I liked the most. After all those romance books that have come out in the last few year...more
I read this book after finding it in a school library.
Originally I found it very interesting and exciting, until I got near the end and it just started feeling like the telling of a young girl caught up with an older man who is abusive in a sense... it seemed to me more like the fact he was a vampire was added in to take notice away from a more nonfiction storyline that the book could tell.
Originally I found it very interesting and exciting, until I got near the end and it just started feeling like the telling of a young girl caught up with an older man who is abusive in a sense... it seemed to me more like the fact he was a vampire was added in to take notice away from a more nonfiction storyline that the book could tell.
Sep 27, 2009
Susan
rated it
2 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Recommended to Susan by:
Becky of "Becky's Book Reviews"
Look For Me By Moonlight was not exactly what I expected. I thought I was getting into a YA paranormal romance type of novel, but there was really no romance to speak of. By the time Vincent began planting kisses on Cynda's naïve teenage lips and neck, it is perfectly obvious to the reader that he is bad news.
Vincent himself is an incredibly well-written "bad guy," complete with an atmosphere of danger and cruelty. Our heroine however, was weak, weak, WEAK! I kept waiting for Cynda to see Vince...more
Vincent himself is an incredibly well-written "bad guy," complete with an atmosphere of danger and cruelty. Our heroine however, was weak, weak, WEAK! I kept waiting for Cynda to see Vince...more
I love Mary Downing Hahn. She is an incredible author. Look for Me by Moonlight is inspired by a poem called The Highwayman. In the poem an inn-keepers daughter is in love with a highwayman. An employee at the inn is jealous so he alerts the authorities that the highwayman is frequently at the inn. They come and tie up the daughter, but she manages to shoot herself and warn the highwayman that the soldiers are there. He comes back the next day and is killed himself. This poem is frequently broug...more
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I read this in the seventh grade three times and again in the ninth. My opinion of it's character has not changed. Mary D. Hahn is a great(in my opinion) young adult writer. Her books have lovely plots. She writes stories, not life changing masterpieces. This is a love or hate book, and I love it. It's simple, yet there are moments where it leaves you in suspense, like where you find out in the middle of the book that Vincent has ill intentions, or in the beginning of the story where the naive,...more
A highly sensual story; after all, it is about teen crushes and vampires. The protagonist's broken home makes her perfect prey for a seemingly benevolent stranger. Ultimately, she must use her wits to save herself and her younger brother.
Sep 23, 2009
Heather
rated it
2 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Recommends it for:
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I've been on a YA fiction kick and especially paranormal with Halloween around the corner along with a few related challenges, so when I saw this at the library it looked really fun and interesting, so seductive. It really wasn't.
Cynda comes to live with her dad, stepmom, and half-brother up in cold Maine and the inn that her father and stepmother own and run. But it's haunted! Maybe I'm too used to vampires trying to be good like Angel from Buffy, Edward from Twilight, and now we have the Vampi...more
Cynda comes to live with her dad, stepmom, and half-brother up in cold Maine and the inn that her father and stepmother own and run. But it's haunted! Maybe I'm too used to vampires trying to be good like Angel from Buffy, Edward from Twilight, and now we have the Vampi...more
I started this book on the recommendation of a friend when I had no book to read in class and ended up really loving it! About halfway -or there about- there is a plot twist that you definitely, at least, I did not see coming. At first I felt some irratation towards the main character but the author pulled it off in a way that did not make me hate the main character just feel frustrated, which is a difficult feat. I loved the ending of this book because it hints at something a little darker that...more
The first time I read this book, I was absolutely in love with it. Unlike other vampire books I'd read, the vampire was a villain and, if you really thought about it, almost scary. The heroine, Cynda, was a clumsy, awkward teenage girl, which I felt a lot of readers could relate to. There was no love triangle or petty high school drama. To me, this was the perfect novel.
Now, a year later, I decided to pick this book up again. Like the first time I read it, Mary Downing Hahn's writing style read...more
Now, a year later, I decided to pick this book up again. Like the first time I read it, Mary Downing Hahn's writing style read...more
this story is a bout a girl named Cynda who goes to live with her father who doesnt live with her and her mother anymore. Her father is now married and has a son who is like Cyndas brother , the house their in people always say is hunted that a ghost still hunts there for her killer. A man comes to stay there and Cynda finds out hes a vampire after falling in love with him and he pretending like he likes her. Cynda keeps seeing the ghost who still haunts the home and worns her about him, he has...more
I remember reading this book when I was a young teen and it definitely did not feel like it should've been in the young adult section at Borders. It's well-crafted with developed characters. I definitely could relate to the protagonist, Cynda, a teenage girl coping with trials and tribulations of coming from a broken family. It was natural to be attracted to Vincent-- the tall, handsome and sinister vampire. The emotion the author was able to evoke is a tell-tale sign that she knows what she's d...more
Quick, good read! I read it in one sitting--no stops--and it was a fantastic way to pass an afternoon. This book was written in the 1990s and still holds up, and in light of the Twilight phenomenon I think this book is doubly interesting. Now here is a far more realistic version of what would happen if you fell in love with a vampire...although frankly, perhaps putting the words vampire and realistic in the same sentence is slightly ridiculous. All in all, thoroughly enjoyable and engaging quick...more
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For its intended audience, this is a great, spooky story.
Take one secluded and haunted oceanside inn, one misunderstood and angsty girl-nearly-woman, a suave stranger with a dark secret... and you have Hahn's pure Gothic romance.
I'd recommend it to a 7th-8th grader over Twilight. Cynda is far more believable of a character and Vincent's bargain far more sinister. Her path towards and escape from madness is far more interesting. The innate sexuality of the blood exchange is fairy tame.
A great a...more
Take one secluded and haunted oceanside inn, one misunderstood and angsty girl-nearly-woman, a suave stranger with a dark secret... and you have Hahn's pure Gothic romance.
I'd recommend it to a 7th-8th grader over Twilight. Cynda is far more believable of a character and Vincent's bargain far more sinister. Her path towards and escape from madness is far more interesting. The innate sexuality of the blood exchange is fairy tame.
A great a...more
I seem to be on a vampire kick lately since Twilight. Anyway, this book features Cynda, a teenager visiting her dad, his much younger wife, and her half brother at their creepy inn in a snowbound area of Canada. Excitement enters the scene in a Porsche with Victor, a handsome, sexy, and kind poet who rents a room in the inn for a month. He soon sweeps Cynda off her feet. Later, she realizes he was using her and really cares nothing for her. Can she escape his clutches in time? Can sweet neighbor...more
I had to pick a mystery/horror/suspense book for my honors english class this year. I was attracted to the title even more so than the author (whom I adore!) because of 'The Highwayman' reference, a poem I had read in english the previous year. I opened it up to realize they had a quote from the exact poem on the first page! I was hooked from then on! It was fun making the connections from the poem to the book, most of them were mentioned later on by the characters, but I figured it out before h...more
Another creepy tale by this master of young adult creepiness. When Cynda's mom and stepfather head for Italy, she goes to stay with her dad and step mother at their old inn in Maine. Once there she hears rumors that Underhill is haunted by the ghost of a girl who was murdered there years before. Then Vincent Morthanos shows up and Cynda is captivated. Cynda is blind to his evil, is there any hope for her? A classic tale of horror from Hahn. This story makes use of the poem The Highwayman by Alfr...more
I'm always interested in new vampire books, but this one was pretty standard, unsurprising stuff. Teenage girl feels isolated and unloved by her distracted father, pregnant stepmother, and half-brother. When a handsome and mysterious stranger comes to the inn, and seems to understand and sympathize with her, she immediately jumps into an infatuation with this older man. (Gross!) Of course, he turns out to be a vampire, the evil kind, but she's in too deep and needs to be rescued. My reaction? Me...more
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I loved this book as a teenager (14 or 15 probably? Can't remember my first reading of it) and checked it out several times from the local library.
It was an enjoyable vampire story. I love vampire tales and shows when they are done well...and sadly, it's a subject that in my opinion is seldom done well, especially in YA. However, this one is definitely worth the read. It sticks with traditional vampire myth, which I quite enjoyed. I haven't read it since my adulthood, but I remember loving it in...more
It was an enjoyable vampire story. I love vampire tales and shows when they are done well...and sadly, it's a subject that in my opinion is seldom done well, especially in YA. However, this one is definitely worth the read. It sticks with traditional vampire myth, which I quite enjoyed. I haven't read it since my adulthood, but I remember loving it in...more
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I grew up in a small shingled house down at the end of Guilford Road in College Park, Maryland. Our block was loaded with kids my age. We spent hours outdoors playing "Kick the Can" and "Mother, May I" as well as cowboy and outlaw games that usually ended in quarrels about who shot whom. In the summer, we went on day long expeditions into forbidden territory -- the woods on the other side of the t...more
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