A fun, cute book. It is fast paced and has a unique writing style. I found the names of the Moon characters to be a little silly, but in a good way. I have to wonder if the author knew about the Harvest Moon game franchise when they named a character that. Also the three dogs named Manny, Moe and Jack made me laugh out loud. Did the author see a Pep Boys commercial and get inspired or was the names a 100% coincidence? Funny, none the less.

 

I like how Honey is inspired to start a dog walking service after recusing Stormy. Honey seems to be a likeable character and I did enjoy how she got along with her family. I liked the hints that her Turtle backpack might be magical, or is it her imagination? I love the friendship between the three main girls and also how it ended with a possible 4th friend.

One thing that I wish would be different is more description. There seemed to be a lot of telling instead of showing, which could make some of the story a little lackluster. However, I will admit there were several times where I find myself smiling. There is something going for it, and I hope the author continues to write stories for children and adults alike.

Overall, I enjoyed reading this book.

Disclaimer: I received this from Netgally in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for the chance to read this!

Carmen was a young white girl before she was a young black girl. She was having (lots of) sex with her boyfriend Griffin in both states.

 

She likes that he knew her when she was white, because as she moves out of school and into the working world, as she collects new experiences like trading cards, the people who know her have always known her to be black.

 

And of course that comes with many suppositions and prejudices, which Carmen can cite rigorously because she used to possess and promote many of them as a privileged white girl with perfect blonde hair and all the best shades of lipstick.

 

So those who meet Carmen later in her life only see one side of her.

 

And sometimes all they see is the colour of her skin.

 

Moon Honey is an ideal vehicle to explore the sticky and convoluted territory of racism, and Suzette Mayr’s penchant for transformative tales was solidly afoot even in this first novel.

 

Carmen’s transformation unfolds in standard text, but the novel is punctuated with italicized passages detailing other dramatic changes which characters experience.

 

But just as remarkable are the glimpses into characters’ pasts, so that even the seemingly unsympathetic characters are shown a degree of understanding that readers might not have afforded them based on first impressions. S

 

o that readers, too, can allow their ideas about the story to transform.

This was such an emotionally draining book!
I have read quite a few books by SEP but this one I can say is quite different from her others am not talking about the writing part it’s the story which was rather strange and bold. 

This was like a roller costar ride both story wise as well as rating wise because when I initially started it was almost a 5 star. Our poor Honey Moon (yes that’s the name of the heroine of this book) after struggling throughout her childhood finally sees some success and money in her life when she becomes a popular child artist in a famous TV Show. Dash is the guy who plays her dad in that daily soap. Till this everything was fine it was a nice read i enjoyed it but when suddenly Honey gets involved with Dash expresses her love for him and when Dash being almost more than 20 years elder to her accepts her feelings and marries her that’s when the story takes a U-Turn and their daily soap is doomed and that is when i felt like wringing both their necks for spoiling the story for me and thats when i wanted to give it a 1 star. But still I continued with the book with all the patience I had and just when i was about to make peace with Honey and Dash, Dash dies (duh?) and Honey is back to square one with no money, no one to support her almost nothing to keep going except for an age old deserted amusement park which she is trying to fix which she had once bought it from her Aunt. 

That’s when Enters Eric, Honey's childhood favorite hero with whom she had worked once. Now even his life had become a living hell like hers’ as he was wrongly accused of child abuse by his ex-wife who is not letting him see his daughters. So when these two lost souls Honey and Eric finally come together and slowly come to know about each others lives and try to solve the problems, that’s when they find where actually their happiness lies. Huh! If this book is not emotionally draining then i don't know what is! 

Though I wanted to give it lesser star than what I have given but still i couldn't. Of course the reason is SEP and her writing, as she is an expert in giving a neat believable ‘happy ending’ and am a sucker of it.

This was such an emotionally draining book!
I have read quite a few books by SEP but this one I can say is quite different from her others am not talking about the writing part it’s the story which was rather strange and bold.

This was like a roller costar ride both story wise as well as rating wise because when I initially started it was almost a 5 star. Our poor Honey Moon (yes that’s the name of the heroine of this book) after struggling throughout her childhood finally sees some success and money in her life when she becomes a popular child artist in a famous TV Show. Dash is the guy who plays her dad in that daily soap. Till this everything was fine it was a nice read i enjoyed it but when suddenly Honey gets involved with Dash expresses her love for him and when Dash being almost more than 20 years elder to her accepts her feelings and marries her that’s when the story takes a U-Turn and their daily soap is doomed and that is when i felt like wringing both their necks for spoiling the story for me and thats when i wanted to give it a 1 star. But still I continued with the book with all the patience I had and just when i was about to make peace with Honey and Dash, Dash dies (duh?) and Honey is back to square one with no money, no one to support her almost nothing to keep going except for an age old deserted amusement park which she is trying to fix which she had once bought it from her Aunt.

That’s when Enters Eric, Honey's childhood favorite hero with whom she had worked once. Now even his life had become a living hell like hers’ as he was wrongly accused of child abuse by his ex-wife who is not letting him see his daughters. So when these two lost souls Honey and Eric finally come together and slowly come to know about each others lives and try to solve the problems, that’s when they find where actually their happiness lies. Huh! If this book is not emotionally draining then i don't know what is!

Though I wanted to give it lesser star than what I have given but still i couldn't. Of course the reason is SEP and her writing, as she is an expert in giving a neat believable ‘happy ending’ and am a sucker of it.