Carmen Ferreiro Esteban

I liked this book, and its first part, "Two Moon Princess", quite a lot. You will understand better and enjoy more this book if you have read the first, but it is not necessary.
Being, like the author, from Northern Spain, Asturias, just beside her homeland Galicia, I saw it was being offered as part of the early reviewers program of LibraryThing, was curious as to how this author from the same place but writing in English would tell the tale of our history and legends, and was lucky enough to win a copy.
My name is Covadonga, really, quite typical here (Cave of the Lady - Our Lady of Covadonga, patron saint of Asturias)!
In my city, Gijón, there is a Street/Calle Munuza (not Mununza, but close enough), and a Calle de los Moros (Moors/muslims from North Africa, though it is not very politically correct nowadays), and we have a popular statue of King Pelayo with a fountain. I was married in monte Naranco in the capital Oviedo, with churches and monuments of just a slightly later date (one or two kings later, Alfonso II)...

All in all I liked the characters and how the author mixed time travel and love story into all of this, while at the same time giving information and keeping the spirit of the time and of the legends of my land, so close and similar to hers, and telling them quite well.
I would gladly read more books about Andrea and Julián and their two moon world, Andrea's sisters, specially the so pretty and wayward but with not so much brains Rosa (last thing we know about her, she had gone to a convent), Uncle Ramón/Raymond, Andrea's so different cousins Kelsey and Covadonga, etc.
By the way, after reading these books I finally decided to do something I had wanted to do for quite a while, and invested some money in a nice moon-phase watch: if you read them too, you will know why :)

I'm sure it all seems a fairy tale or myths to the Americans, etc: It's legend, but it's also history, and a good story and approach.

Highly recommended… (meer)