When Diana finds the perfect apartment, she starts to
believe that her run of bad luck has finally come to an
end. Unfortunately when things seem too good to be true,
they usually are. It turns out the fully furnished
apartment also comes with strange dreams, a disappearing
front door, and her very own monster. She has no desire to
play babysitter for the ancient entity she's been tricked
into guarding, even if she manages to keep it from eating
her. When she escapes from the cursed place things don't
get any better. She finds herself stuck between two
realities and her new world is filled with strange beings
and a monstrous moon god. Diana is not ready to give up on
sanity though, despite the fact that her world will never
be the same again. She decides to fight to make sure her
new reality is one worth living in. And if that means
taking on Fenris, the huge green monster intent on catching
the moon and destroying civilization so that he can return
to his universe, then so be it.
A. Lee Marinez's CHASING THE MOON is ultimately a story
about a woman struggling to find her place in a chaotic
world. Ripped out of her comfort zone and tossed into a
universe with no rules, she is forced to figure out who she
is and what she wants out of this new life. She tries to
resists the change, at first simply wanting to go back to
how things were, and later trying to fit her old life into
the new world. But she quickly comes to realize that if
she accepts her new reality she can impact things for the
better. Although Diana is the focus, all of Marinez's
characters really come to life in this story. Diana's
monster companions bring a lot of levity to the story and
had me laughing out loud quite a bit. Her kooky neighbors
remind me of some of my own personal acquaintances, and
even the beings trying to destroy civilization are like-
able.
Martinez has created a fascinating and delightful world
that will leave you simultaneously confused and amused.
It's a place where traditional physics don't apply,
monsters sit around debating philosophy, and you can have
almost anything you wish for. The book offers a humorous
look into the chaos of the universe and intriguing insights
into the human condition. Martinez does an outstanding job
of making you feel connected to the characters despite the
strange setting because they have the same type of thoughts
and feeling that the rest of us experience in our own
confusing (if not so bizarre) world. Overall CHASING THE
MOON is witty, fun, and satisfying. Anyone who likes to
consider the big questions about life and the universe is
sure to enjoy this comedic satire about the impending end
of the world.
Diana's life was in a rut - she hated her job, she was
perpetually single, and she needed a place to live. But
then the perfect apartment came along. It seemed too good
to be true - because it was.
As it turns out, the apartment was already inhabited - by
monsters. Vom the Hungering was the first to greet Diana
and to warn her that his sole purpose in life was to eat
everything in his path. This poses a problem for Diana
since she\'s in his path...and is forbidden from ever leaving
the apartment.
It turns out though that there are older and more ancient
monstrous entities afoot - ones who want to devour the moon
and destroy the world as we know it. Can Diana, Vom, and
the other horrors stop this from happening? Maybe if they
can get Vom to stop eating everything...and everyone.
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