SuitabookJaded
Monica McKayhan
- Reading
- Consider reading together if family changes feel close to home; pause to talk about Jade’s feelings and let the reader choose whether to discuss their own experiences.
- Themes
- Family change and remarriage: Jade hopes her parents will reconcile; instead, her father plans to marry his girlfriend, who asks Jade to be a bridesmaid. The premise centres Jade’s hopes and the challenge of a changing family, but does not establish how the story judges anyone’s choices.
- Trust in a new relationship: Jade’s new boyfriend, Terrence, encourages her to give her future stepmother a chance, while he himself is described as hiding something. The book’s stance on this remains unclear.
- Worth knowing
- Jade’s parents are not getting back together as she hopes, and her father’s engagement and his girlfriend’s bridesmaid request may touch on difficult feelings about family separation and change.