Waking the Moon

Paperback, 512 pages

English language

Published April 1996 by Eos.

ISBN:
978-0-06-105443-3
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ISFDB ID:
53632

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2 stars (1 review)

Sweeney Cassidy is a freshman at the University of the Archangels and St. John the Divine, where she meets the mysterious Angelica and falls in love with the strange and beautiful Oliver. She gets tangled up in sinister, supernatural events involving a secret society and the awakening of an ancient, malevolent goddess.

According to the afterword for the short story "The Bacchae", found in the collection Last Summer At Mars Hill is another take on ancient Greek myth that prefigures this book. They both involve murderous cults of women. Author Elizabeth Hand has said that she wanted to show that ancient goddess cultures were not all as peaceful and idyllic as we tend to think

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2 stars

I liked the subtly off-kilter parallel world, and I could go along with the horror novel goddess resurrection stuff. The book is best when doing some magic and theology. If only that weren't embedded in some stultifying St Elmo's Fire knock-off starring the most boring and passive set of characters...

I nearly finished it, over several weeks, largely because of airplanes with broken wifi. Reminded me of grinding through crappy hardcovers because I'd bought the damned thing and was gonna get my money's worth.