Search - Waking the Moon

Part Buffy-the-vampire-slayer, part the UK's "Hex" series, and other recognizable fan/cult themes dealing with a secret world under the skin of the one we knowingly inhabit. Ancient religion of moon worship, female power, and goddesses. For millenia, men have had the upper hand but now women are taking back the world. Secret societies, prophecies, destinies, inherited powers, suspicious or auspicious births and deaths, and the lives of a few ordinary people get caught up in the web of plots and counterplots, deceipt and treachery starting from their time together at a bizarre university. But it is really an accident that these particular people meet one another? Originally written in 1995 some of the shock value seems weak given many other more explicit films, tv, and books on similar themes since then but it is well written and fast paced with some good twists. I will look out for more by this author and wish I'd heard of her back in '95!

I realize that I'm in the minority...but I felt this was overwritten and wordy...and not in a good way. Ugh. Unreadable...author WAY too enchanted with the sound of her own voice. Trying to be super-descriptive and poetic...like classic Anne Rice, and somehow, failing miserably...at least for me.

Hand's "college novel" and a good one. I was pretty young in the 1970s, but Hand seems to capture the feel of the era pretty well. But the campus portions of the novel are actually the weakest, much better is the late-80s-ish later portions, where her magical young people have grown up into much more plausible middle-agers. Not that there is no magic, a revived goddess cult (a la The White Goddess) is planning on wresting control of our civilization from the boys club of sky-god worshipers, with much attendant blood sacrifice. One of the better novels I've read along these world-historical-conspiracy lines.

FAntasy thriller. Captivating, hard to put this one down.

A gothic fantasy? An espionage thriller? A techno thriller? A romance? A religious intolerance polemic? There's no way to categorize this book, but I highly recommend it!
Like all new students, Katherine Sweeny moves with caution at Washington D.C.'s University of St. John the Divine. It is a strange place of brooding shrines and gleaming towers, guarded by androgynous stone angels. For Kate, college is a time to experiment with sex, to explore new friendships; a time of freedom and discovery--until she makes the wrong discovery.
She learns that the university is controlled by a clandestine order which secretly manipulates governments, countries, and churches all over the world and has done so for centuries.
But there's an even darker secret behind that secret society and it's coming to light . . .