Beautiful Days is the second book in the series Bright Young Things written by Anna Godbersen. It is a fictional book, but deals with real-life issues such as Prohibition, love, and death. This book takes place in New York City in 1929. This story follows three best friends, Astrid Donal, Cordelia Grey, and Letty Larkspur on all of their adventures. As this is a sequel, I do recommend reading Bright Young Things first. The theme of this book is friends relying on each other as a family would.
Cordelia Grey and her brother Charlie just lost their bootlegging father, Darius. Things started to get complicated. It is assumed that Cordelia's ex-boyfriend Thom Hale is the one who shot him. Tensions could not be higher between the two families. Cordelia and Charlie are opening up a night-club to take business from the Hales for revenge. Astrid Donal must decide if she should marry Charlie. Letty Larkspur is finally making it somewhere in her singing career as a show-girl.
This book was a very entertaining book! Seeing how the 1920's worked with the bootlegging was cool. I also loved how all three girls had their own different ways of seeing the situation. It was a very different way of writing a book. I like the way that Cordelia reacted to her father's death. She seemed really sad, but at the same time she seemed really strong. I thought that the author didn't like the Hales as much. I don't think that the whole Hale family deserved to be punished for what Thom may have done. I also don't think that the author explained enough about who actually killed Darius.
Is revenge really a good thing? In this book, Cordelia plans on getting revenge on the Hales for her father's death. Revenge always makes for juicy reading. Cordelia and her friends find themselves in situations that make things interesting. In this book, Charlie is a bootlegger, which means he sells illegal alcohol to people and businesses.
This book is filled with danger, love, and break-ups. I loved how this book incorporated serious issues with adventure and mystery. I think this book would be better for girls because there are a lot of relationship issues. Cordelia was my favorite character, I think that she had the best personality and attitude out of all of the characters. If you liked the first book, Bright Young Things, you will love this book too.
I give this book an A+.
2 comments:
I love books that are set in that time period!
It sounds like a good book, but the people sound kind of devious. Why would it be assumed that the boyfriend killed the father?
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