DNF: Goodnight From London by Jennifer Robson

Goodnight from London
written by Jennifer Robson
published by William Morrow Paperbacks, 2017

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Disclosure: I received a complimentary copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Where I stopped reading: page 127 of 361

Why I stopped reading: I just couldn’t get into this book. It sounded like it was right up my alley–I love reading historical romance fiction books set during World War II–but this book just moved too slow for me. The premise is interesting, but it just didn’t take off. After thinking about it, however, I may give it another read at a later time.

 

Have you read Goodnight From London? If so, should I give it another shot?

 

What others have rated this book: According to Goodreads, the average rating for Goodnight From London is 4.02. It looks like a majority of readers gave this book 4 stars. There were a majority of 5-star reviews on Amazon. At Barnes & Noble, the majority of the reviews were 5 stars. Just because I didn’t finish this book doesn’t mean you won’t.

About the book – from Goodreads: From USA Today bestselling author Jennifer Robson—author of Moonlight Over Paris and Somewhere in France—comes a lush historical novel that tells the fascinating story of Ruby Sutton, an ambitious American journalist who moves to London in 1940 to report on the Second World War, and to start a new life an ocean away from her past.

In the summer of 1940, ambitious young American journalist Ruby Sutton gets her big break: the chance to report on the European war as a staff writer for Picture Weekly newsmagazine in London. She jumps at the chance, for it’s an opportunity not only to prove herself, but also to start fresh in a city and country that know nothing of her humble origins. But life in besieged Britain tests Ruby in ways she never imagined.

Although most of Ruby’s new colleagues welcome her, a few resent her presence, not only as an American but also as a woman. She is just beginning to find her feet, to feel at home in a country that is so familiar yet so foreign, when the bombs begin to fall.

As the nightly horror of the Blitz stretches unbroken into weeks and months, Ruby must set aside her determination to remain an objective observer. When she loses everything but her life, and must depend upon the kindness of strangers, she learns for the first time the depth and measure of true friendship—and what it is to love a man who is burdened by secrets that aren’t his to share.

Goodnight from London, inspired in part by the wartime experiences of the author’s own grandmother, is a captivating, heartfelt, and historically immersive story that readers are sure to embrace.