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Book Review: The Moon and More by Sarah Dessen






Hey Everyone,
I decided to review a book that is very popular among the YA community. It is called The Moon and More by Sarah Dessen. Now I am a huge fan of Sarah Dessen. I think she writes great teen romance books as well as books that relate to the every day teenager. Now Sarah Dessen is #1 New York Times Bestseller author and last year I was at a librarian conference with my mom and I got the honor of meeting her. We were not able to chat for a long time because there was a long line but she seems very nice from the few seconds I talked to her.

Summary: The book is about this girl named Emaline who lives in a small town called Colby. Colby is located next to the ocean and it is near New York. Emaline has the perfect boyfriend named Luke and they have been dating for three years. And both of them work for Emaline's family's business called Colby Realities where they rent houses on the beach to tourists.

In the beginning of the summer a cute mysterious boy named Theo and his boss Ivy move into the most expensive mansion that Colby reality has. Throughout the summer, Emaline has to deal with her relationship with Luke as well as her feelings for the mysterious boy from New York , think about moving to college at the end of the summer and deal with issues going on with her dead beat father and her half brother.

This story is not only a love story. It is a coming of age story like most of Sarah Dessen's books and it talks about the realization of finding true love, dealing with family issues as well as the realization of moving to college at the end of the summer.

My Opinion: I honestly was really disappointed in this book. Normally when I read a book, I know from the very beginning if I am going to like it or not. But in this case, I really liked the beginning. It was setting up the whole book and I really liked Emaline and Luke and the mysterious Theo. But then as the book progressed, there became multiple different story lines and I felt that Sarah Dessen just lost the flow of the book. And I hate to say it because I really like Sarah Dessen but adding a bunch of different smaller plot lines on top of the bigger plot just made everything confusing and made the reader (me) those interest throughout the whole book. Now my suggestion to Sarah Dessen is that if she had took out some of the smaller plot lines, the book would have been more enjoyable to read.

I hope you all enjoyed my first book review! It's hard to not give away details or else you ruin the book but I hoped you understood my thoughts on it. If there is any other books you want me to review, please let me know. I love reading and if this gives my parents an excuse to take me to Barnes and Nobles or the library, I am all for it. Hope you have a great day/night!

Carpe Diem,
Sophia

PS: The picture is from Google. It is not mine.

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