A review by chrysalis
The Shade of the Moon by Susan Beth Pfeffer

1.0

I cannot even tell you how many things were ethically wrong with this book. First of all you think Johnny boy is all good and such. Just a nice 15 year old who’s struggling with his family and likes baseball. SIKE! Turns out he’s a prejudice jerk who’s also a misogynistic prick who raped a girl he claimed he “loved”. Oh yea and then he leads her to die and then he takes her pass to live in a safe town. He then claims her “ghost” is haunting him. WELL NO DUH SHERLOCK!!!! The author then makes it seem he “didn’t mean to” rape her. Basically she said “boys will be boys”. Also Jonny said that if Julie did tell what he did that his mom would take “her side”. THERE ARE NO SIDES. YOU DID SOMETHING WRONG JOHNNY YOU CANNOT SAY THAT IN SOME UNIVERSE ITS OKAY. And it sucks Julie didn’t tell Alex, (because she died before she could tell him) because I would love to see wimpy Alex beat the everlovin crap out of Johnny. And then the rest of the family takes turn beating him up. Oh yea and then this new girl Sara shows up and Johnny tells her he raped a girl and Sara still likes him. Oh yea and also he has a complete pity party for himself through out the whole book. So yea I hate this book.