The Moonlight Child

Author: Karen McQuestion

Genre: Nonfiction, Science, Psychology

Pages: 328

Star Rating = 2.0 - Ok

A little girl named Mia lives in the Flemming’s home and from the outside it looks like a normal everyday family with a mother, father and son but nobody ever saw Mia. Actually, Mia has never been outside, she doesn’t even know why she can’t go out but it is forbidden. Mia knows that her situation is different from her family because she doesn’t know how old she is, where she really came from or who her real mom and dad are. Mia doesn’t question or disobey because if she does, she will be punished. Mia is a people pleasing little girl and overall happy go lucky. She is thankful for her family and wants is her mom to be happy. She cooks, cleans and makes sure the house is neat. Her only joy is going to her locked basement hidden room.

Sharon is the next door neighbor to the Flemming’s house and one night, she see’s a sad little girl in the window. The conversation between the little girl and Mrs. Flemming looks aggressive. The small child’s body language is showing signs of sadness. Living there for quite sometime, she has never seen a little girl enter or exit. The situation looked heated and Sharon feels an urge to tell someone. She tells her new roommate Nikki that is an eighteen year old trying to get her life together. As they consult each other on what to do, they start getting clues that maybe the family next door isn’t just a normal family. Is there something very dark that could be going on inside the home?

This book was a fast read that can be finished in one night. It was entertaining enough to complete the book but didn’t feel authentic. Events in the story, I felt, were played out unrealistically. For example, the son became attached to Mia in the end but for the entire time she had been living there, nothing was spoken of their relationship, it should have been gradual. I would have liked a better thought out scene around events that happened throughout. Otherwise, Ok read. I wouldn’t recommend.