Helpful Score: 4
It is nice to be pleasantly surprised with a book. I was not expecting to like Good Night June, as I am not a fan of the book Good Night Moon. The book is suppose to be about the friendship between June's Aunt Ruby and Good Night Moon's Author Margaret Wise Brown. It was an enchanting tale. Kept you interested and reading to the end. One of Ms Jio's better books.
This is a wonderful story about the love of family. Hard work and doing the right thing. The love of a book store and what we are will to do to keep the legacy we are given.
Based on a friendship between Ruby and Margaret Wise Brown, author of Goodnight Moon, the letters between the two dominate this would be romance. For me, the romance between Gavin and June took second place in this novel. Easy to read, I zipped through this feel good book in one day - a matter of a few hours.
June is employed by a bank in New York where she becomes a financier who swoops down on late paying debtors, closing their businesses and auctioning off their possessions. Lately she has found herself breaking out in sweats, becoming nauseous, and feeling generally unwell. She works long hours and is rewarded for the foreclosures she completes. When she learns of her Aunt Ruby's death, she leaves New York, heading for Seattle, her birthplace, to settle the estate. The trip hearlds a change in her life. She rediscovers values she had put aside, reconnects with the love she felt for Aunt Ruby and meets a handsome young man who runs an Italian restaurant next to her aunt's children's bookstore. Of course, romance blossoms as June uncovers her aunt's past through the letters. Nice, gentle read that is perfect for hectic lives.
June is employed by a bank in New York where she becomes a financier who swoops down on late paying debtors, closing their businesses and auctioning off their possessions. Lately she has found herself breaking out in sweats, becoming nauseous, and feeling generally unwell. She works long hours and is rewarded for the foreclosures she completes. When she learns of her Aunt Ruby's death, she leaves New York, heading for Seattle, her birthplace, to settle the estate. The trip hearlds a change in her life. She rediscovers values she had put aside, reconnects with the love she felt for Aunt Ruby and meets a handsome young man who runs an Italian restaurant next to her aunt's children's bookstore. Of course, romance blossoms as June uncovers her aunt's past through the letters. Nice, gentle read that is perfect for hectic lives.
This book was a pleasurable tale, a little slow, not too exciting, but I enjoyed it.
