"Everyone has secrets. I had no idea mine would lead me into shadow. Dez has found the place where she belongs. With the otherkin. With Caleb. Or so she thought. As the barriers between our world and Othersphere fall, a wall rises between Dez and Caleb, leaving her fiercest enemy her only friend.
And maybe something more.
Now Dez must make a devastating choice: keep the love of her life, or save the otherkin from annihilation."
Can I kill Caleb yet? Please, please, please, I'm just really angry at him. I don't like him at all. There's something secretive or dangerous hidden underneath his skin. At least that is what I suspect. I'm not sure if that is true or not. Perhaps, it is only my perspective.
Anyway, Othermoon is a good enough book that I went looking for Othersphere (a big disappointment, I must add, but that is not the point of this review). I really liked all those twists and turns Nina Berry created. I'm even more surprised by Caleb and Dez's breakup, which Lazar (whatever his name is) played a major role in. And was there a best of all best moments in this book? Of course, there is. The death of a certain friend is certainly one of the best and worst moments of Othermoon. It shows that the author isn't afraid to get dirty and murderous. I'm not going to say which character is dead, though.
I'm too nice for that. Unless there is a crowd hungry for the truth.
Dez makes me want to bang this book somewhere and burn it. She has way too many secrets and not enough answers. This topic is one of those topics where the reader has to shut up and read. Needless to say, it is annoying when the author gives you the hand. And please! Just choose who you want to be with! I hate when books just push it to the end. Or those books with no choice at all! I could name a few, but of course, I will be mildly annoyed.
The writing of Nina Berry makes the book interesting. She keeps the readers entertained for the entire book, with a few skills and tricks up her sleeves.
I wish the book ended here. It would be awesome. I'll admit that I prefer Lazar to Caleb, because Caleb is kind of odd and strange. Othermoon isn't crying like a middle child. Instead, it is mature and frankly, pretty mean.
Overall, I think this is great.
Rating: Four out of Five
"Dez is a good girl who does as she's told and tries not to be noticed. Then she rescues a boy from a cage, and he tells her secrets about herself. Now inside her burns a darkness that will transform her.
Everything is about to change--and neither Caleb, nor the Otherkin, nor those who hunt them, are prepared for what Dez will unleash."
Shapeshifter. That is what this book is about.
Dez is a girl with scoliosis. She wears a brace to prevent her spine from moving to a worse curvature. But that isn't the point of this lovely tale. The shape-shifting concept in the leading plot of Otherkin. The shapeshifters, the Otherkin (I don't mean the book title; I mean the people), are able to shift into a certain creature. Dez's special form is a tiger, along with a house cat (which is really cute). Other Otherkins are able to shift into eagles, rat, bear, and yes, wolves. (Just don't call the wolves werewolves. They will hate you for that).
Otherkin is a book with unusual concepts and a familiar plot. Another world, like a shadow world, exists side by side with this world (our world). That is somewhat unusual. But shapeshifters? Now that is a very familiar story. Shall I name a few? Kelly (with two 'e's? I can't remember) Armstrong and her books are certainly a good example. Sophie Jordan, Cassandra Clare (although her book displays shapeshifters as secondary characters), and a few other ones. Anyway, Otherkin is a good book, but it isn't unique (a book that really stands out among others, I mean).
I'm going to continue on, deeper into this story.
The plot goes by fairly quickly. We jump right into the first shift and land into a cage with Dez. Unsurprisingly, Dez has no idea of what is truly at works. Then we somehow go from one place to another. Thankfully, it is really easy to follow along.
Are there any ugly parts? Of course, there are some.
Caleb, for one example, is pretty ugly. Yes, he's handsome, but that isn't what I mean. He is sort of ugh...in a way that you can't help but despise him. I don't know what he did, but there is something about him that turns everything off instead of on. Maybe it is his personality and his refusal to tell the truth. That can really turn things off, right?
Last words: None.
Rating: Three out of Five (Caleb)
