Comparing Emaline's The Moon And More

The novel The Moon and More takes place over a three month period, in other words, throughout the Summer of 2013. Emaline, a local young adult, who lives in a small beach town, named Colby, is in her summer of transferring from highschool to college, where she works at a her family’s real estate agency; Colby Realty. Marie, a single teenage mother, raised Emaline beginning in her senior high school year. When Emaline was two years old, a widower with two small girls of his own, Margo, her sister, who at that time was six, and Amber, her other sister, who was four, was set up with Marie on a blind date by mutual friends, where he eventually became known as Emaline’s dad. At first, Marie and Emaline’s dad didn’t get along, but six months later,

Emaline’s father had paid for her child support, but after Marie graduated, she started working full time at Colby Realty, where Marie, no longer needed the money. Emaline’s two best friends, Daisy, a fashion-forward and perfectionist, and Morris, a lazy and stubborn friend, have been there with Emaline in her arduous times. Luke is an overall perfect boyfriend: handsome, thoughtful, kind, and funny. He and Emaline have been together since high school in Colby, but one day, when Emaline and Luke have a fight over Theo, a super ambitious outsider, and a New Yorker assisting Ivy, the director, on a documentary film about a reclusive local artist, Clyde. They decide to take a break, and yet, weeks later, Emaline decides the time has come to talk, where she finds out Luke has cheated on her throughout those weeks. Emaline is devastated and they end their relationship, where on the same day, Emaline is kissed by Theo. Theo had a massive crush on Emaline ever since she helped him out with the documentary (which is why Luke became jealous) and decided to take advantage of the