Everything and the Moon
by Julia Quinn
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Author: Julia QuinnEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1997-03-01
ISBN: 0380789337
Number of pages: 384
Publisher: Avon
Book Reviews of Everything and the Moon
Book Review: First half yes, second half no
Summary: 3 Stars
Okay so this is the story of love at first sight, two people who want to elope and are mislead by both their fathers so that they think they are being deceived by one another.
Seven years later they meet again, they still love each other and all dishonesty is brought to the fore front, everything straightened out and all should be well......
Well this is where the book took a nose dive for me, since I was thoroughly engrossed in the first half of the book.
So after they meet again seven years later and find out that they both deceived by their fathers, why didn't they just get back together like normal people, instead Miss Quinn decided to let them bicker with each other page after page after page.
The Heroine now decides (after she was almost raped twice, has no money, living in the slumps where a man got stabbed) that she wants her independence, mind you this is after seven years of being independent.
She also now realizes that although she still fiercely loves our Hero, she would be better off being by herself.....okay can I stop here and say give me a break....I know this is fiction but c'mon, even with writing fiction sure Julia must have a little bit of knowledge about adding a bit of reality to the book.
What woman (a vicar's daughter at that time) would turn down marriage to an earl (Who she loves and he loves just has passionately) to be poor and live the life she is so dissatisfied with after living it for seven years.....
Not only did I want to burn this book, the sudden appearance of characters, oh the hero just happened to be part of a house party with people he didn't like to begin with, the Governess being very rude to an earl in front of the ton, he just happened to stop by a dress makers store.....I could go on and on.
I know most people would say this is Julia Quinn's earlier work and does not compare to her work now, but I disagree, I have read the last two of the Bridgerton series, (The first four were great! The duke and I, The Viscount who loved me, An offer from a Gentleman, Romancing Mr Bridgerton. I will give credit were credit is due) and this formula she has adopted of letting the Hero and Heroine go on and on for pages at a time bickering is evident in the last two Bridgerton series (When he was Wicked and It's in his Kiss) My head reels from reading it, seems like two 7 year olds going at it.
One word Immature!
So if this review is not helpful, (I always say this) please don't be discouraged, just don't spend more than a penny on a used copy.
Summary of Everything and the Moon
STARCROSSEDIt was indisputably love at first sight. But Victoria Lyndon was merely the teenaged daughter of a vicar. . .while Robert Kemble was the dashing young earl of Macclesfield. Surely what their meddlesome fathers insisted must have been true-that he was a reckless seducer determined to destroy her innocence. . . and she was a shameless fortune hunter. So it most certainly was for the best when their plans to elope went hopelessly awry.
MOONSTRUCK
Even after a seven-year separation, Victoria-now a governess-still leaves Robert breathless. But how could he ever again trust the raven-haired deceiver who had shattered his soul? And Victoria could never give her heart a second time to the cad who so callously trampled on it the first. But a passion fated will not be denied, and vows of love yearn to be kept. . . even when one promises the moon.
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