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A review by befsk
Serious Moonlight by Jenn Bennett
3.0
The love interest, Daniel, was a bit cliche manic pixie dream boy with a secret. I did, however, like the introverted but trying to live a little protagonist Birdie. I don't think I've ever read a book with a character with possible narcolepsy so that was educational.
Good writing. I own other books by this author and have definitely mentally bumped them up my to-read pile because the writing style was so good.
An interesting mystery with the thriller writer that we unfortunately kept getting massively distracted from in order to have feelings and miscommunication with Daniel. The author does write feelings very well and detailed though.
There was a lot of description of Seattle, which was nice. It was almost a character in the book, even though I'm sure I missed a lot of the references by not knowing the first thing about Seattle.
Aunt Mona was definitely the best character in this. I was always fully on board with everything Mona did.
The ending was a little too neat and tidy especially with how the mystery was handled. The mystery hunt was kinda basic and childish and so incredibly easy to solve.
Another small niggle for me was that there was very little mention of Birdie's grandmother other than her being overwhelmingly controlling and yet towards the end of the book Birdie says she's been grieving and has gained some closure - there is no evidence of this on the pages that I remember. I was surprised that there was disappearing (grand)parent syndrome in this case, especially after her grandmother used to be so protective that she homeschooled Birdie to have more control over who she did and didn't come into contact with.
I received this ARC through Netgalley.
Good writing. I own other books by this author and have definitely mentally bumped them up my to-read pile because the writing style was so good.
An interesting mystery with the thriller writer that we unfortunately kept getting massively distracted from in order to have feelings and miscommunication with Daniel. The author does write feelings very well and detailed though.
There was a lot of description of Seattle, which was nice. It was almost a character in the book, even though I'm sure I missed a lot of the references by not knowing the first thing about Seattle.
Aunt Mona was definitely the best character in this. I was always fully on board with everything Mona did.
The ending was a little too neat and tidy especially with how the mystery was handled. The mystery hunt was kinda basic and childish and so incredibly easy to solve.
Another small niggle for me was that there was very little mention of Birdie's grandmother other than her being overwhelmingly controlling and yet towards the end of the book Birdie says she's been grieving and has gained some closure - there is no evidence of this on the pages that I remember. I was surprised that there was disappearing (grand)parent syndrome in this case, especially after her grandmother used to be so protective that she homeschooled Birdie to have more control over who she did and didn't come into contact with.
I received this ARC through Netgalley.