Red Moon Rising: A Vampire Novel [Paperback]

Billie Sue Mosiman (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: DAW (February 6, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0886779553
• ISBN-13: 978-0886779559
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.2 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.1 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,085,120 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

I am a thriller, suspense, and horror novelist. My books were first published in 1984 and two of them received an Edgar Award Nomination for best novel and a Bram Stoker Award Nomination for most superior novel. I was represented by the William Morris Agency, belonged to many professional writing organizations, and even wrote columns and reviews in magazines. When anthologies were big, I was a regular contributor and have more than 150 short stories published. For a spell I taught writing for Writer's Digest and for AOL online. I was born in Alabama and live now in Texas on a small ranch.

My work has been predominately suspense thrillers, but I also wrote a western historical, a trilogy of vampire novels, a travel memoir, and, of course, many short stories. My latest novel is BANISHED, a dark fantasy horror novel involving fallen angels. Most of my work has been made available at kindle.com for the e-book reader, including my Stoker-nominated novel, WIDOW, and my Edgar-nominated novel, NIGHT CRUISING.

I love to read (especially on my Kindle), paint, take photographs, and travel. I can name two inspiring persons in my life. One was my grandmother, Naomi. And, every day and forever, my husband, who has lived this adventure with me.

Because of a lifelong love of storytelling, I've been able to make a lifelong investment in writing those stories and novels.

News of my e-book publications can be found at: http://peculiarwriter.blogspot.com/

Customer Reviews

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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A variation of the vampire legend-quite fascinating, February 7, 2001

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Harriet Klausner - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Red Moon Rising: A Vampire Novel (Paperback)

There exists a rare blood disease that is fatal to most humans. The illness turns a person into a monster with distorted facial features and leaves the victims in excruciating pain. Thankfully their life span is short. In a statistically insignificant part of the population, a gene turns some individuals into vampires upon their death. That particular gene is dominant leading to whole families of vampires, but each clan differs on their approach to human contact. One clan, the Predators sees mankind as a food source while another The Craven prefers to hide in the depressing darkness away from people. The Naturals live among humans drinking their blood sold to them by Predators who own a blood bank.

High school senior Dell Cambien falls for Ryan just before she undergoes the change. Ryan struggles to control her new abilities as she chooses the path her life will take, which might include Dell shaking the foundation of vampirism to its core.

This novel provides a new fascinating twist to the vampire legend. Billie Sue Mosiman is excellent at creating characters that appear genuine even those who are supernatural because she makes her supporting evidence sound believable and scientific. Although the obvious inclination is to categorize RED MOON RISING as horror or perhaps urban fantasy, the novel contains a coming of age plot that deals with choices, morality, and honor. Genre fans and some mainstream readers will toast Ms. Mosiman for her creative novel.

Harriet Klausner

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Threads, February 22, 2001

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Daniel C. Sobral (Brasilia, DF, Brazil) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Red Moon Rising: A Vampire Novel (Paperback)

A teenager succumbs to a disease that turns people into vampires, a disease most of her relatives have fallen prey to.

An ancient vampire spends his days helping other vampires withstand the curse of their own lives, instruct the newly changed into the ways of their kind, protects some humans from themselves, and generally tries to keep peace among all.

A magnate in the terminal stage of a fatal and cruel disease becomes convinced vampires do exist, and hires someone to find them, in his last attempt to escape death.

A pair of doctors, long-time lovers, get in the wrong place, at the wrong time.

We watch as these various stories combine to make Red Moon Rising. The general idea is interesting, but the pace is completely off. There is no build-up, no sense of things falling into place. Which is all the more curious because everything falls *exactly* into place, with such a precision that "coincidence" just doesn't cover it.

Looks to me like a good author with a good story to tell, but still lacking in experience. It's not a bad book, though.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Which type of Vampire would you be?, July 6, 2003

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Jon Weber (IL, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Red Moon Rising: A Vampire Novel (Paperback)

If you're looking for a great Vampire story with a twist, then Red Moon Rising is just the book for you. Instead of coming up with another variation of what the Vampires will be, Billie Sue Mosiman takes the predominant qualities and separates them into three distinct type of Vampires; the Predators, the Cravens, and the Naturals. Making this type of distinction no longer limits which qualities, powers, weakness', personalities, etc. the particular Vampires have to 'fit' in.

Della Cambian, a high school senior two weeks away from graduation, has finally caught the 'disease', the one which transforms one into a Vampire. Her mother, father, younger brother, and most of her blood relatives have already gone through the transformation. To help with the transition and to make sure Della make the right choice of which of the three types of Vampire she will be, the family's summons Mentor, the areas helper and guide.

Mentor has a variety of roles, which include keeping the peace in the Vampire community, making sure their secret is safe from mortals, and getting involved in disputes. One of the main crisis he has to deal with is when a doctor finds one of the local blood banks is shipping out untested blood, a situation that may have been going on for over a century. Unknown to her, the Blood Bank is run by a Predator Vampire who supplies the blood to the rest of the Vampires, for a fee. It is up to Mentor and Ross, the head of the Blood Bank, to ensure their secret isn't found out.

This book is very fast paced and has an engrossing storyline. It's well written, entertaining, and hard to put down once you get started.