Birdie panicked and bolted afterwards and has had regretted doing so ever since. He invited her out on a date right afterwards, but instead they shared a single rain-soaked sexual encounter in his car. The closest she’s come to love is a flirtation with a nineteen-year-old magician who interviewed Birdie for a part-time library job. Subsequently, Birdie moved in with her much more conservative grandparents, but with her grandmother now gone too, her grandfather urges timid Birdie to spread her wings and commute from their island home in Eagle Harbor to Seattle for the summer.Īfter being homeschooled and living in her small island home with her grandparents during her youth, Birdie is very introverted. Patty, the Moonlight’s owner, until Birdie’s mother passed away when Birdie was ten. The two women dropped out of high school together to raise Birdie with the help of Ms. Mostly because ‘charming’ perfectly describes how the book combines a cute first love story, a coming of age tale, a mystery and a character study into a single, tight package.Įighteen-year-old narcoleptic bookworm and mystery lover Birdie Lindberg loves the Moonlight Diner in Seattle, Washington for good reason she lived part of her childhood in the two rooms above the restaurant with her late mother and her feisty, gossipy, loving Aunt-in-spirit if not by blood Mona Rivera. I’m going to use the word ‘charming’ a lot to describe Serious Moonlight.
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