Review: Biting the Moon
from Library Journal, April 15, 1999
Teenaged Andi Olivier lives in a cabin in the mountains near Santa
Fe, rescuing animals caught in traps. She doesn't remember who she
is--her name is made up, based on the "A.O." she finds stitched on
her backpack--but she does remember waking up in a motel where,
she is told, "Daddy" has deposited her and then gone on to do some
business. Andi is convinced that "Daddy" is not her real father, and
after hooking up with 14-year-old Mary, whose family have all
perished, she sets out to find the man she thinks abducted her and
to recover her past. Along the way, the two girls run into evidence
of animal abuse--dogs starved for dog fights, tame beasts from zoos
set up for fake hunts--that will make the stomach of any decent
reader chum. The story is not exactly probable-amazingly, months
later people recall vivid details of the man just passing through town
who fits the description of "Daddy"--but the prose is suspenseful,
the ending satisfying, and Grimes's passionate concern for animal
welfare deeply moving. Buy wherever Grimes is popular.
-- Barbara
Hoffert, Library Journal
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