Terry, Terry, Terry. Why did you have to write a sequel to Nest. It was not needed. Nest was not good enough in my opinion. But, my opinion is not the end all and be all so here we are with The Girl In The Moon and it builds up on ideas from Nest and has characters in common with Nest but thankfully can be read on its own. So, hopefully we find that this is better than Nest.

In this book we get the opportunity to meet Angel Constantine. She has had a hard life. Her mom, a drug addict, just had a bunch of men passing through her life to teach her how men would treat her. Sadly her never got a real father to treat her the way a father should or teach her the things a father should. She is rope-d and obviously neglected. And it does mess her up. But, despite that she manages to put a life together and she finds a full time job and even finds a place of her own. 

Here's the thing though, Angela is kinda special. She has this ability to recognize dangerous killers by looking in their eyes. Now because of of this book and Nest, such men, they are not ready for Angela or ready for her abilities. By this point she has a favourable kill number at least by the time we meet her she does. 

I am not going to spoil the plot for you. This is actually kind of good for a change, but I will tell you that there is a group of terrorists who are bent on striking a horrific blow against the US. And not surprisingly, Angela is the only one who can stop them. 

Just like with Nest, this is another compelling thriller (better than Nest in my opinion). It is gory, some rope-y scenes are very graphic. (We really needed trigger warnings on some of Terry's books even back in these days.) I know it serves a purpose in the story but sometimes I wish it didn't have to be so graphic without the warnings. 

There are elements that are more conservative at times and drawn from the news of the day. There is much made of terrorists crossing the Us-Mexico border and taking advantage of sanctuary cities to lesson their chances of capture. 

They really don't have much in the way of personalities. They are just bad guys and that's it, nothing more, nothing less. And when Angela is rope-d and left for deal and actually manages to fight to free herself, it pissed me off when the cops are more mad at her for the illegal weapon then the crime that she is reporting. Honestly, it made me think that they were in on it all. 

Sometimes I wish that I had this kind of ability, I think it would come in kind of handy. You would know right away if you are a cop if someone was guilty or innocent, redeemable or irredeemable and if you are dating, if someone is a good person or not. Sadly I know that it is all conservative fantasy. It would be nice to have just so you only killed those that deserved it and no innocent person ever died needlessly in pursuit of justice. 

I actually liked this book and found it to be something of a page turner. I liked that it had a few false endings and for the time that it was published that wasn't something common. The only give away that it wasn't the actual ending was because of the number of pages that were left. This is a wall done book for being a Terry Goodkind and I will continue to recommend it and it is a great ride and one h$ll of a ride.