One of my favorite relationships in Serious Moonlight is theirs, the way they interact, fight, and apologize. But back to Mona, she’s genuine, sarcastic, clever, and unabashed. And while I’m on the subject of pie, get yourself a slice when you read this because all the descriptions of pies will make your mouth water. The relationship between Mona and Birdie was the best kind of pie.

Whether you’re a mystery buff and you adore the way that Birdie and Daniel don their investigator hats, or you love books with strong female role models like Birdie’s Aunt Mona, there’s an abundance of things to love about Serious Moonlight. A spontaneous hookup ends up haunting her throughout summer and it forces Birdie to re-evaluate her opinions on love and herself.īut even more so, Serious Moonlight charms us. Maybe it’s because I grew up on Encyclopedia Brown as the first series I ever binged in elementary school, but I couldn’t help but love her awkwardness, but also her vulnerabilities. This has not impacted my review which is unbiased and honest.) (Disclaimer: I received this book from Edelweiss. To uncover the writer’s puzzling identity, Birdie must come out of her shell…discovering that most confounding mystery of all may be her growing feelings for the elusive riddle that is Daniel. Daniel also shares her appetite for intrigue, and he’s stumbled upon a real-life mystery: a famous reclusive writer-never before seen in public-might be secretly meeting someone at the hotel. The hotel’s charismatic young van driver shares the same nocturnal shift and patronizes the waterfront Moonlight Diner where she waits for the early morning ferry after work.

In her new job, Birdie hopes to blossom from introverted dreamer to brave pioneer, and gregarious Daniel Aoki volunteers to be her guide. But her solitary world expands when she takes a job the summer before college, working the graveyard shift at a historic Seattle hotel. Raised in isolation and homeschooled by strict grandparents, she’s cultivated a whimsical fantasy life in which she plays the heroic detective and every stranger is a suspect. Mystery-book aficionado Birdie Lindberg has an overactive imagination. SummaryĪfter an awkward first encounter, Birdie and Daniel are forced to work together in a Seattle hotel where a famous author leads a mysterious and secluded life in this romantic contemporary novel from the author of Alex, Approximately.

Serious Moonlight is my first Jenn Bennett novel, but it won’t be my last! There is a huge laundry list of things I adored about Serious Moonlight like Birdie’s aunt Mona, her narcolepsy, all of her interactions with Daniel, and her insatiable love for books and mysteries.

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