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Everything and the Moon |
Author: Julia Quinn
Published: 1997-03-01 |
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 Failed Elopement
Robert Kemble & Victoria Lyndon met, fell in love and decided to elope.
On the night of the elopement Victoria failed to appear and Robert assumed she'd changed her mind, while Victoria believed Robert did not show up at the elopement either. Seven years later they meet again and although each thought the other had shunned the elopement, they were still attracted to each other. In the rest of the story, they fall in love all over again.
 Finished this in one sitting!
I just finished the Bridgerton series 2 days ago, and then picked up "Everything and the Moon" yesterday and ended up finishing it before I could blink! I even skipped meals (without noticing) so I guess I was really into it!
I loved the Hero/Heroine.... loved their witty banter.... rooted for their love whole heartedly- and I am sad that I finished the book. It had me laughing outloud a couple times too- which is always a good thing.
I am getting hooked on Julia Quinn, but am afraid of what I will do once I inhale all of ther books. Well, I am now on my way to read "To Catch an Heiress," which I am sure to enjoy. Great work JQ!
More passionate when you want something you can't/shouldn't have
Circumstance, misunderstanding and outside deceit keep Victoria and Robert apart but neither can deny the need they share for one another when fate brings them together again seven years later.
A great angsty read! Well-written with incredible dialogue; a Julia Quinn staple.
I have read this book many times and plan to read it many more!
Very Entertaining
I'm not as down on this book as a lot of others seem to be. I don't think it was Quinn's best, but I quite enjoyed it. If you're on the bubble about purchasing it, it's worth it - go ahead. Julia Quinn's books are just entertaining reads. I got a little exasperated with the characters in the middle but I always liked them and found many parts of their story quite touching. I could feel their pain during their conflicts and separation, and when an author can do that, it's worth a read.
Yes, I found myself questioning the fast declarations of love. And then even the immediate love itself, but I started thinking back when I was a teenager and how quickly it can happen. Yes at first sight the feeling can be there and they are loves one always remembers.
 "The Big Misunderstanding" after love at first sight
Do you believe in love at first sight? Julia Quinn states in her introduction that she doesn't think that she does but she decided to write a book about it. Obviously this would be a very short book if hero and heroine fell in love at first sight and then lived happily ever after so in order to produce some more pages it couldn't go that smoothly; thus the "Big Misunderstanding".
Regency novels these days seem to fall into two groups - the "Big Misunderstanding" group or the "Pride & Prejudice" group (where the hero and heroine dislike each other at the start and have to slowly change their opinions). Generally I prefer the latter sort of book as there tends to be more character growth and variety whereas the former type can often get annoying in the lengths the author has to go to in order to keep the protagonists apart with the misunderstanding when one quick clear conversation would sort it out.
And that's my problem with "Brighter than the moon". Hero and heroine were about to elope but it was prevented and both then went through the next seven years assuming the other had been at fault and didn't really care about them. When they meet again, with Victoria working as a governess and Robert, the Earl of Macclesfield, living the life of a rake, they talk (or argue) at length about what separated them but neither explains their side of what happened. If they had done then the Big Misunderstanding would be over, as would the story. Eventually Robert finds out some of it from Victoria's sister but even when that is sorted he has rubbed her up the wrong way enough for her not to fall into his arms. Most of this book they spend bickering - Victoria in a decidedly unladylike way - and Robert also seems to spend a lot of his time stalking her and generally hassling her.
For me this book didn't really work. Aside from the historicity (Regency English people speaking modern-day American, Victoria's behaviour being completely inappropriate for her station, role, era, you name it) I found that I couldn't get into the story enough to really like the characters. By the end I was a bit bored with them both and it got monstrously soppy by the end - too cheesy for this English reader. There's a token baddie in the story who features in about four pages, various other minor characters who come and go, but most of it is about Victoria and Robert and for me there wasn't enough to their story.
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