Every day has her work intertwined, because no one’s life is a new development in boy drama everyday. The Moon and More is written realistically. It’s as if no one wants to get attached, due to fear of being broken up when fall arrives. The summer feels like a countdown, like everything that’s great is fleeting, and that naturally, friends and family drift apart when they sense the end coming. In the summer before all of her friends go off in different directions to college, I can very much relate to Emaline’s situation.

Her boyfriend Luke has been with her for four years, but then a new guy (Theo – a worldly, older NYU undergrad) comes into town and mixes everything up. As long as Emaline can remember, her mom’s been cautious about not letting her father hurt Emaline the way he hurt her mom. Her mom met her “father” when she was a teenager like her during summer one year she got pregnant and had to drastically veer off the intended course of her life to raise her child, and since then has married another man, known as her “dad”. Her novel The Moon and More is about a girl named Emaline who lives in a small beach town, Colby, working for a rental realty company that her family owns. But ever since English teachers started pushing me to dissect literature and find deeper meanings, I’ve started to do that, the practice leaking into my leisure reading. In my early days of high school I saw them as just that, teenage romance novels. I’ve always been a fan of Sarah Dessen she puts out a bunch of thick novels dubbed as teenage romance. This is part of my Summer Reading 2.0 series

The moon and more by sarah dessen