First published:
2016
ISBN: 978-608-4705-23-9
Pages: 450
Format:
Cover: Paperback
Language: Macedonian
Translations:
Genre: Psychological thriller
Synopsis
"If you're scared of getting caught, why don't you hire someone? This town is teeming with desperate people who’d do anything for a couple of grand, including killing someone such as your husband.'' How much is a human life worth? What are people willing to do to get rid of someone? How much does it cost to hire a hitman? What happens when an assassin is hired by several blood relatives wanting to get rid of each other? Written in non-chronological order, Blood Moon exposes domestic violence and discrimination against homosexuals, and the cruelty of privileged, rich, white people who firmly believe that everyone has a price.
Reviews
The novel Blood Moon combines the not-so-popular genres on our literary scene, the crime novel and the psychological thriller, in a way that does not make them the main feature of the novel, but rather a complementary issue or the context in the story of Luna and her revenge. However, in the many other stories that unfold in Blood Moon, in the intertwined and often exquisitely Romantic relationships of the characters, we step into the political vicissitudes, the captivating family drama, the seductive games of the romantic drama, the high school drama, and the complexities of domestic violence.
Apart from Luna's life on the one hand, Blood Moon focuses on a group of characters connected to her through her absent father. The character of the father, on the other hand, who is absent at first, but makes a grand appearance in the second half of the novel, ends up dominating the narrative completely and on multiple levels, thus acquiring a role in the story that is equal to Luna’s. In this very vivid character, we recognize many everyday tyrants that drain the life out of us.
Frosina Stojkovska Mijatovic
