Lu du 2 au 7 avril.
As there's no french version, I'm gonna do all in english. Thinking that if you can't get my writing, you can't read the book anyway.

Lunaside
by J. L. Douglas
Published in 2015. 
226 pages.
Genre : YA, romance
Themes : art, LGBT+ related

Synopsis :

Moira dates Andrea and doesn't search for an university to study in next year. Two things which quite bothered her mum. She's gonna spend the summer in Lunaside to show her mum she's responsible. There, she'll be trying to be a great art camp counselor for her few campers while helping with filming a webserie about the camp and figuring out what is going on with her feelings for another girl.

Review :

I did enjoy this book. Even if I only give it an "it was ok", I did. I mean, eh, I wanted to keep my reading slow and here I am, already finished it. To be honest, I could even have finished it way more sooner but I had work to do (plus, I was really trying to keep it slow).

This is a first thing: Lunaside took my hand as I peacefully entered in its world, on this sweet island where people drink tea each chapter (don't get me wrong, I loved that.) But I still was able to get out of it, to work on my projects without having the story playing with my mind until I can't hold it anymore, open the book and end it. Not really addictive, but still enough for me to talk about it to my sis. Even if, well, it was mainly because there was this gay love-triangle and this is really cool to read about gays.   

Love-triangle, though, isn't what I crave. I knew what was coming when I read the plot but somehow I wish it would have been more about the camp and the art (all fields), than about how this girl was confused with her feelings. She kind of pissed me off for a while. I enjoyed reading the few times where it only is about Moira being an art camp counselor to cute campers, I wish there were more of that. Sill, the "dilemma" of Moira somehow reminds me of an old confusion of mine, in a way. So I guess, good point in the relatable, but still a bit too annoying for some parts.

I loved how many arts were present in the story : drawing, film, fashion, theatre, books. I related a lot to this shy English Lit student asking people about books because that's one of the only subject she's comfortable with, one of the only that makes her forget she's having a social interaction -I suppose. But I also related to this tiny really passionate nerd loving her girlfriend and wanted to tell everyone about her. It was good, but not enough to make me really care about the characters. Because honestly, I thought characters were what they were and didn't evolved (except Moira.) I like when background characters, while helping the main one learned stuff, go through changes too. Except, like, two others, they stayed flat.

It was pretty easy to read. I'm sure in my mother tongue the use of present would have play with my nerves, so hopefully I'm not that fluent in english.

I'm sure this book is mainly for people quite younger than me, and I'm sure I would have enjoy it more last year. Thing is, it spoke more to my old self than to what I am now, and I'm not that self anymore. I love some quotes though. Let's end on one : "There're no trashy books, only trashy readers." (kind of true, even if... like... have you read 50 shades?)