Light of the Moon
by Luanne Rice
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Author: Luanne RiceEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-12-30
ISBN: 055358975X
Number of pages: 496
Publisher: Bantam
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Book Review: New to Ms. Rice, but will read again
Summary: 4 Stars
OK, so this is romance. But it's romance in its best form - not so much man and woman meet, fall in love, and live yadda yadda yadda
No, this is romance in that lives are transformed by the guidance of a saint and a miracle or two. This is romance of the Arthurian variety, only written with a pro-female bent and in language I understand.
The setting is modern, but somehow, is timeless. It takes place mostly in France, where our heroine, Susannah, has traveled to lick her spiritual wounds. It is where Grey lives with his traumatized daughter, Sari. And it is where they all learn to live again.
Sari's mother has left, you see, and it has shattered her world, literally. Susannah's mother has also left - she died - and that shattered her world. This book is about Susannah finding life after Mom and helping Sari do the same. The romance between Grey and Susannah seems almost secondary as a plot point.
Old chapters are closed, but the story doesn't close. While the characters grow, they then step back, as a recovering person truly would. There is no "wounds are instantly healed" part of this book, but more a working at the problem until it is solved.
In the end, this is a story of hope. All of the characters achieve a new level in peace, contentment, and love (well, except for Susannah's old beau, who sounds like a turd). There is a moral of forgiveness, a strong plot driver in the form of racism (but not as you might think!), and a background of spirituality that made this book hard for me to put down.
I truly enjoyed it and would recommend it.
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Summary of Light of the Moon
Against a backdrop of stunning natural beauty, and in the shadow of a mysterious family legend, one woman is about to discover that to find your way home, sometimes you must travel far away.?An accomplished anthropologist, Susannah Connolly suddenly finds herself adrift in the wake of a failed love affair and the loss of her mother. Boarding a transcontinental flight on the evening of her birthday, she?s decided to give herself a long-deferred gift. Encouraged by her late mother?s magical stories, she is traveling from the Connecticut shore to the fabled French Camargue, to see its famous white horses and find a mysterious ?saint? linked to her family?s history.
Amid the endless silvered marshes, she will find a lonely man, his wounded daughter?and a part of herself she hadn?t known she?d lost?until she realized how hard it would be to lose it again. In Light of the Moon, New York Times bestselling author Luanne Rice delivers a spellbinding story set within a breathtaking landscape where secrets and revelations have the power to change lives forever.
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