Cry for the Moon

by Anne Stuart

Cry For The Moon by Anne Stuart released on Jun 24, 1988 is available now for purchase.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 037316260X
• ISBN13: 9780373162604
• Release Date: July 1988
• Publisher: Harlequin Books
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.31 lbs.

Customer Reviews

With charm and humor to spare

This is an older book, written before Anne Stuart became popular for gamma heroes. Simon is not at all gamma; he's a sweet alpha guy, trying to hide behind a mask of coolness, but no one is fooled. He's caring and competent, and those qualities are really needed in the crumbling apartment house he lives in, where ghosts meander at will, the occupants kill goats for dinner, and two battling psychics try to outdo each other in seances on the ground floor. The heroine, who inherited this eccentric menage, is merely trying to cope, but soon finds her life enmeshed with the lives of her peculiar tenants, and even the ghost!

A Delightful witty send up of The Old Dark House

Cry for the Moon, has widowed Marielle Brandt moving into an apartment house with her small child. Her husband was into big debt for his death and this is the only piece of property left to her. She arrived to find the place like something out of the Adam's Family, nearly falling down and the only thing that is keeping it running is Simon Zebriskie, who has taken on protecting the oddball inhabitants of the ancient building. It is haunted, has the weird crew of misfits, yet Marielle finds Simon and the Adam's Family mansion, her new home and is strangely charmed by it all. As great tribute to the Old Dark House!!

Delightful and fun...

I just love Anne Stuart!! I thought this was a fun read with great characters and wonderful secondary characters. One of my favorite things about Ms. Stuart is that she always focuses a lot on the extra people in her stories, the neighbors, the sister or brother, the friends. It is such a neat thing and most authors I have read do not do that. In this book, Marielle is a widow gone to live in a "haunted" apartment building. That is where she meets Simon, the somewhat "acting" landlord. And while they continue to fight their feelings for one another, they become best friends. And Marielle finds that the eccentric people living in the building are just as friendly and special and she begins to form strong bonds with them as well. And meanwhile, strange things are happening around the house and one of the psychics in the house performs a seance and Marielle has a minor meeting with a spirit. Or does she?? I highly recommend this book. It is fun and different and I think you'll love it!

comfort book - warm and romantic

How can I resist a novel where the surly hero is a DJ who (despite himself) plays "Annie's Song" by John Denver? It's one of my weaknesses and so is this book. Marielle and Simon are soulmates - they just don't know it when they first meet. I find this book very comforting for some reason - probably because it's all about people caring for one another and looking after each other.