The Half Moon book review

Every single day, you make a decision that could be either for you or for your relationship. You choose to stay in your marriage. Keep reading to find out what book I'm talking about today. 

Hello, it's Kyla Denanyoh, and today we're discussing choices. All right. Specifically, choices around being married. Today, we're talking about the book, The Half Moon. The author of the book is Mary Beth Keane. The book's genre is fiction. The theme of the book is literature.

So the Half Moon is so many things. So the book follows Malcolm and Jess. And so they are married, but they face several complications. For one, Malcolm runs this bar. He ends up buying the bar. He lies about how he got the bar from Jess. And Jess and Malcolm decided they want to have a child. Jess lies to Malcolm about how much she wants to keep trying for a baby. 

They end up having their whole complication, and Jess just wants to be around other kids. Whether that is hanging out with friends who have more kids. And so Malcolm sees how much that is hurting Jess when they keep trying, and then they're not getting pregnant. And so Malcolm says, 'Let's stop trying; let's stop paying for the IVF.' And Jess says, okay, and she's lying to herself. It's really heartbreaking to see because she lies about being okay with moving on with not having a baby, and then she finds herself attracted to men who have children. 

And then for Malcolm, his choice to buy the bar without having a lawyer look at the paperwork, without telling his wife the truth, without doing all of the things. His choices often get them into trouble because he doesn't think he's choosing the bar over his marriage, but he is. And Jess doesn't think she's choosing a baby over their relationship, but she is. Then, at the end of the book, they both decide to pick each other. 

Every single day, you make a decision that could be either for you or for your relationship, but we often stop to see them as choices because we become so accustomed to making them all the time. However, they're all choices. 

And to wrap it all up, Malcolm and Jess have to get together and be honest with each other, saying, 'Do we choose to be together?' Do we choose to stay in this marriage? Do we choose to see what will happen in the next 10, 15, and 25 years of our marriage by making a decision today to stay together, making a decision tomorrow to stay together, and sometimes making a decision at this hour to stay together? They have some really big, complicated things: foreclosure, bankruptcy, parenting. Those are all really big decisions.

So, would I reread the book, The Half Moon? I would definitely reread it. 

Until the next book review, Kyla