The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill 

This book is about a girl called Luna, who is left in the Forest as a baby to die. The citizens of The Protectorate, who left her out in the Forest, didn’t know that there was a witch waiting to carry the baby to safety. 

This book is about an extraordinary magical adventure that changed her life forever… 

I like this book because the characters are interesting in the way that they interact with each other. The book is set on a world where half of the world is The Bog, a quarter is the Protectorate and the Free Cities, and the rest is a dangerous Forest and a volcano that had been stopped up hundreds of years ago to stop it erupting. I also like the way that the book switches between different genre’s and tenses; most chapters are written in the present tense in a story format. However, some are written as a poem or in the past tense. I like this because it makes it more interesting to read. 

My favourite character in this book is Luna because she is a mystery and has no idea that she has been ‘enmagicked’ by drinking moonlight. Luna is a girl who senses that someone is not telling her something that she should know, and she can’t think what it could be. Every time she sees, hears or reads anything to do with magic, her eyes, mind and memory go blank and the things she’s seen, heard or read go whizzing out of her brain and she never remembers them. 

In conclusion, I like this book and would rate it 4/5 stars. I would recommend this book to readers my age. 

I reviewed this book as part of the 7 for 7 challenge. Here is a link to that blog post.