Perigee Moon [Kindle Edition]

Lynn Schneider (Author)

Book Description

Dismayed at events occurring in his family and with the world in general, Luke desires a different kind of existence. Issues he has been unwilling to confront become important enough that he realizes he must make life-altering decisions, reconsider a variety of things he thought he'd understood all along, and revise the view of his own nature and place in the world.

Controlled by Kate, who has been his constant companion since childhood, he has been coerced into choices he never expected to make, and a lifestyle he never expected to live. Until the night of the Perigee Moon when everything has gone wrong and Luke makes choices of his own.

Abby, an old friend from high school comes back into his life and Luke finds the friend, the lover, the soul mate he has craved only to be subjected to Kate's unwillingness to let go. Luke must convince Kate that what they had is over and convince Abby that what they have is right.


Reviewed by Ellen H. for Readers Favorite

....The author weaves a story that is hard to put down and has the reader rooting for Luke to be the man he is supposed to be. This book is an excellent read and I would highly recommend it. It is one I will reread from time to time.

Product Details

• File Size: 488 KB
• Print Length: 344 pages
• Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1475098073
• Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
• Language: English
• ASIN: B0083LLUQQ
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• X-Ray: Not Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #716,842 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars The choices we make... March 25, 2013

By Sharon Tillotson

Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase

In Perigee Moon, our hero, Luke, is just the sort of decent, likeable guy who should end up married to a nice girl and they have a nice family and live happily ever after. He should do that, but he doesn't. Instead a girl who is not very nice gets her hooks into him and won't let go. She uses her feminine wiles to catch him up in her dream, tricking him into marriage. Her dream becomes his nightmare and he finds himself at middle age wondering how it is he has allowed himself to come so far away from who he is.

Having not led a conventional life with just one job or one career for thirty or so years, I have often admired those who can do that. This book makes me glad of my choices, well chronicling a nice guy plodding along and doing the jobs expected of him, producing three kids and a dog, a job in IT he no longer cares for, and a dead marriage.

Luke begins escaping by taking up astronomy. He buys a telescope, walking late at night, gazing at the moon and stars and somehow finding meaning in them. One night he decides to stay up and watch a Perigee moon. A Perigee full moon appears much bigger than a normal full moon and this is a Supermoon, an irregular phenomenon with occasionally over a decade between occurrences. He asks his wife to join him, knowing she would not but hoping for it anyway.

That night something changes in Luke and he resolves it is time to end the marriage. But as much as the reader is cheering him on and would like to see him take immediate action, indeed sometimes shouts at him to grow a pair already, he determines he will wait until his youngest daughter leaves home. He begins studying the deep philosophical questions and that gets him through the remaining years.

When the break does finally come, Luke goes on for a while in his dead-end job until one day he finally snaps and just packs up and leaves. He falls into a new job which keeps him outside and working with his hands and slowly he begins to pick up the pieces of his life.

Throughout the book, Luke has been thinking back to a girl from school named Abby he once had a crush on; star-crossed lovers who seem always destined to be apart. He finally meets up with her at a school reunion and discovers the spark is still there. But his ex has broken up with her latest fling, and his precious youngest daughter has always harbored thoughts of her parents reuniting. She encourages the ex to reunite with Luke. Luke is conflicted.

You will have to read the book (and I highly recommend you do), to discover if Luke finally `grows a pair', or will he drift back into old habits because he wants to please his daughter and it would be the easy thing to do...

The author has a unique writing style all her own which I rather enjoyed. The first half of the book plods along, paralleling the pace of the first half of Luke's life, and is written in third person, past tense. The last half flows smoothly into third person, present tense. This artifice worked very well for the story.

This is the second book in a row I read which was written by a woman with a male lead, not an easy feat but well done in both cases. Kudos to the author.

All in all a satisfying coming-of-middle-age book which would be enjoyed by all ages.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars My trust was rewarded January 25, 2013

By J. L. Jones

Format:Kindle Edition

Almost from the day Kate Willoughby's family moved into Luke Koslov's neighborhood, she claimed him. As far as she was concerned, she "owned" Luke, and he allowed it. They went through high school and college together, and the one time he was interested in another female, Kate cruelly ended any chance for the relationship to develop. He was tricked into marrying her, tricked into having more children, and manipulated into moving into a house in which he was never comfortable. Luke just went along. He was so passive that I wanted to shake him. But I trusted Ms. Schneider's voice. She wouldn't let a man who was essentially so decent remain almost an observer of his life forever.

My trust was rewarded. Without giving too much away, Luke finally stands up to Kate and takes control of his destiny. It was a satisfying ending.

Disclosure of Material Connection: I received a digital copy of this book free from the author. I was not required to write a positive review. The opinions I have expressed are my own. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission's 16 CFR, Part 255 : "Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising."

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Wow January 16, 2013

By M. McCann

Format:Kindle Edition

Wow. Very well written and well told, the author delves into the stories, the histories, the lives of her characters, maintaining the reader's interest as she gradually raises the tension. Will Luke free himself from possessive, predatory Kate and finally make a choice for himself? And for Abby, the girl he should have loved?

More About the Author

Lynn Schneider is the author of three women's fiction novels. She is a baby boomer, who writes stories about her generation. She spent thirty years in IT and is now retired to pursue her career in writing.

Born in western New York, she attempts to recapture the feelings, memorabilia and turbulence of the sixties and beyond. Whatever Happened to Lily? was published in February, 2010, Second Stories in January 2011, and Perigee Moon in May, 2012.

Lynn blogs at www.lynnschneiderbooks.com.