Siobhan Curham's book about four unconventional, artistic girls who start an underground society in order to achieve their goals.
This series contains examples of...
- Ambiguously Gay: Amber doesn't know what her sexuality is - she says the only person she could feasibly imagine herself with is a Victorian writer. When she's confronted by the OMGs about her sexuality, she doesn't try to affirm her straightness.
- The Beard: Rose uses her boyfriend as this, somewhat unknowingly, but it's justified considering he's an attempted rapist and a pretty terrible person.
- Berserk Button: Rose appears to have one - when men ogle her figure or demean her with sexual compliments.
- Boyish Short Hair: Rose cuts her hair like this on impulse, but she ends up loving how it looks.
- Chocolate of Romance: When Maali gathers up the nerve to talk to Ash, they drink hot chocolate together and talk about their favourite books.
- Closet Key: A crush on Francesca clued in Rose about her sexuality.
- Cool Kid-and-Loser Friendship: Rose and Sky (arguably with the other girls as well).
- Deadpan Snarker: Amber is prone to this, particularly when talking about the girls in her school. Rose does this a fair amount as well.
- Dude Magnet: Rose, though she's gay and not at all interested in male attention.
- Ethical Slut: Rose is the most outwardly sexual character out of the main girls, but she's a good person and a loyal friend.
- Girl Next Door: Maali is innocent and shown to have a shy, fragile sort of beauty.
- Happily Married: Amber and Maali seem to have happy sets of parents, in contrast to Rose and Sky.
- Holier Than Thou: Subverted with Maali, who is deeply religious but respects that the rest of the Moonlight Dreamers aren't. When Rose has her topless selfie leaked and comes out as gay, she's shown to be an overwhelmingly supportive friend.
- The Ingenue: Maali, though it's not glorified or fetishised unlike many versions of this Trope.
- Lovable Alpha Bitch: Rose was this before meeting the Moonlight Dreamers, where she Took a Level in Kindness and learns that the popular girls she hangs out with aren't her real friends.
- May–December Romance: Gerald is at least two decades older than Daniel, which leads Amber to suspect that the latter is her biological dad.
- Mirror Character: Sky and Rose. They're both coping with traumatic experiences (Sky with her mother's death, Rose with her topless photos being leaked to high-profile magazines online), they both have unconventional aspirations (Sky to be a poet and Rose to be a patissier), and they're both Moonlight Dreamers.
- Nice Girl: Maali is awkward, sweet and loveable.
- Odd Friendship: Sky is artistic and offbeat and Rose is a snarky popular girl. They end up becoming very close.
- Shrinking Violet: Maali laments that she sometimes comes off as this, and is working on becoming more secure and assertive.
- Slut-Shaming: Rose endures a bunch of this, particularly when her boyfriend leaked a topless photo she'd sent to him. She learns not to let it get to her.
