She goes along with her every day routine, her same rhythmic pace she's known her whole life, nothing changes in Colby. She knows everyone there, everyone knows her, she has a steady boyfriend, one she has been dating since 9th grade and during the busy summer months, she works for her family's Realtor company.
After reading The Moon and More, I'm still not a Dessen fan but maybe I'll try another book of hers and it'll be third time lucky.Įmaline lives in Colby, a local beach town, a popular tourist destination, with hundreds flocking there every summer, but for Emaline it's home. Now, I did enjoy it, but I also found a lot of faults within the book. I love any book today with sweet summer romances, beaches and warm weather, and since it is stormy and windy over here, the scenery for The Moon and More was the perfect holiday destination.ĭespite the fact that I was completely ecstatic to be taking a free trip to Colby, a beach town in America, I was hesitant to read it as I've read a Sarah Dessen novel before and I completely detested the main character and the storyline, and wasn't a fan, so it's understandable that I didn't immediately start The Moon and More with much enthusiasm. I've been wanting to read The Moon and More since I first heard of it a month or so before it's publication date. *Spoiler sentences are written in white, to read them just select them with your mouse* Sarah Dessen's devoted fans will welcome this story of romance, yearning, and, finally, empowerment. Can she ignore the pull of the happily familiar world of Colby?Įmaline wants the moon and more, but how can she balance where she comes from with where she's going?
But she also clings to the deep roots of her loving mother, stepfather, and sisters. Emaline is attracted to the bright future that Theo and her father promise. Theo's sophisticated, exciting, and, best of all, he thinks Emaline is much too smart for Colby.Įmaline's mostly-absentee father, too, thinks Emaline should have a bigger life, and he's convinced that an Ivy League education is the only route to realizing her potential. But now, in the summer before college, Emaline wonders if perfect is good enough.Įnter Theo, a super-ambitious outsider, a New Yorker assisting on a documentary film about a reclusive local artist. He and Emaline have been together all through high school in Colby, the beach town where they both grew up. Luke is the perfect boyfriend: handsome, kind, fun. Source: Thank you to Penguin Books South Africa for sending me The Moon and More in exchange for a honest review! Publication: June 4th 2013, Viking Juvenile
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