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Love in the Moonlight
His holding her again was her dream...
Katya Collett tried to convince herself that she'd come to her sister's guest house in Cornwall only for a holiday. But deep down she knew it was Farrant Dominick's presence drawing her there.
It had been seven years since the night Katya had given herself to the blond Adonis, foolishly enticed by his talk of "weddings" and "lifelong bonds." And now he was pursuing Josie, her sister!
Katya knew she should warn Josie about Farrant. But how could she when, more than anything in the world, she wanted to take her sister's place?
Katya Collett tried to convince herself that she'd come to her sister's guest house in Cornwall only for a holiday. But deep down she knew it was Farrant Dominick's presence drawing her there.
It had been seven years since the night Katya had given herself to the blond Adonis, foolishly enticed by his talk of "weddings" and "lifelong bonds." And now he was pursuing Josie, her sister!
Katya knew she should warn Josie about Farrant. But how could she when, more than anything in the world, she wanted to take her sister's place?
190 pages, Paperback
Published October 10, 1986
About the author
Lilian Peake
132 books69 followersLilian Margaret Peake was born on 25 May 1924 in London, England, UK. During the World War II, she moved to the countryside.
Her early ambition was to be a journalist, and she ended up working at various newspapers and magazines around England. She also married and started a family, and eventually she decided start to writing romance novels. She wrote over 65 romance novels for Mills & Boon from 1971 to 1996 as Lilian Peake.
Lilian passed away in 27 May 1997.
Her early ambition was to be a journalist, and she ended up working at various newspapers and magazines around England. She also married and started a family, and eventually she decided start to writing romance novels. She wrote over 65 romance novels for Mills & Boon from 1971 to 1996 as Lilian Peake.
Lilian passed away in 27 May 1997.
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June 2, 2016
Re Love in the Moonlight - LP is not one of my favorite HP authors, I find her h's impossibly TSTL and her H's should all be skilleted before they can breed, or continue to breathe for that matter. LP is just too, too tacky for my tastes.
She goes the really, really old skool route with H's that are promiscuous parasitic sewage sludge nematodes and I can count on two fingers the HEA's of LP that I actually believe. I not only need large shots of Captain Morgan to even contemplate reading her, I have to schedule in multiple showers too, just to rid my self of the mucky feeling I get when I read her books.
However, we have a thread going here and innocent voyagers to HPlandia need to have some warning that a tackiness typhoon is about to descend if they pick up this book. So with a fifth salute to the Captain, I bring you Love in the Moonlight and let us all pray for brain bleach for my traumatized, blackened brain cells.
For those of us who frequently wander in the HP'verse a certain amount of story extrapolation becomes second nature and indeed is necessary to get the full effect of many of these tales. The space in an HP is limited, so after reading one or a hundred, most of us learn to fill in the blanks that the author did not have the time or space to elucidate during the course of the story.
LP takes this one to a new level of fill in the blanks and the big problem is that the blank filling usually can be interpreted as no sane woman should touch her H's without a whip, skillet, hazmat suit and 600 gallon drum of bleach.
LITM starts with the 23 yr old h getting a letter from her sex-kitten, almost divorced sister extolling the lurvw clubbing skills of the H. The H was one of the h's father's students seven years ago (her father is a maths and sciences professor who developed computer tech,) and while he was associated with the h's family he regularly clubbed up the h's sister, her friends and any other female he fancied.
He and the h parted on very bad terms because she saw him stealing computer information to sell to another company in her father's lab and told her mum about it and the H resigned his assistant post, supposedly in protest of the h's accusations - but not without lurve clubbing the 16 yr old up in retaliation.
Since the H was only 20 or 21, and described as fairly young, I wasn't totally squicked out - well not until the 16 yr old h declared herself in lurve and continued that love sick angst fest for the next 7 years.
This incident is the first missile through the suspension of disbelief tho, and since it is never fully explained exactly what the H was doing, the resulting conclusion turns out to be pretty negative for the H. ( In short, the H's dad was complaining that someone was stealing and selling his research to competitors. The H had been kicked out the family home by his mercenary father who had also run through his wealthy mum's money too. The H had a taste for rich things and his dad was having some finance problems and wasn't acknowledging or supporting the H.)
One evening the h was wandering around her father's department, looking for her dad and saw the H copying computer disks and putting them in his pockets - with the lab lights out and in a very furtive fashion.
When he sees the h, he tried to drag her into the darkened lab and he looked pretty violent, then a group of students came around and she got away. (She has had a huge crush on the H, ever since he started sleeping with her older sister and since they are always at the h's house, the H is always kissing the sister while staring lustfully at the h. He also follows her into her room and makes out with her after sending the sister off with some passionate smooching.) The h knows that the H's behavior isn't right, but she is convinced she is in love, so how can she say anything?
Then the h's mother notices the h is having drama and the h confides what she saw. The H's father overhears this, both parents dismiss the h's story, but the H hears about it and immediately quits - after he shags the h and mocks her avowals of love. He is pretty mean about it too.
Interestingly, the thefts and info selling stop after the H leaves. Seven years on, the h's sister invites the h to stay with her and the H in the sister's little boarding house in Cornwall. The sister is full of rekindled affair with the H details and the letter she writes to the h steams up the page.
The h is a reporter now and does feature stories on interesting locations and sometimes on noteworthy people. She still loves the H and so decides to take some holiday time and go visit her sister.
Incidentally this will get her away from one of the newspaper editors she works with, who is convinced that the h should shack up with him - even tho the h isn't into him and has only casually hung out with him. She arrives at her sister's and the H is broodingly lusting after the h, accusing her of using body language to seduce him into bed - all the while he is shacking up with the sister too.
There is the usual LP drama of sisters trying to compete for the same man and the h spends pages burning with jealously and unrequited love. Then the amorous editor comes to stay and the sister and the editor convince the H that she and the editor are lovers.
It isn't true, but the sister is jealous of the h and the editor is jealous of the H so they maneuver the situation to disrupt the chemistry between the H and h - even though he still hates her for almost ruining his career. His accusations and threats get a bit wearisome and the h just absorbs all the drama and turmoil like a sponge. Until she and the H wind up taking a tower of power ride on the beach.
The h worries that she might get preggers and the H promises to marry her. Then the editor, knowing the h doesn't want him or his love shack, writes a bogus article about the H stealing his father's art collection and hiding it in a house that the h has been continually fascinated with but doesn't know who the owner is and he puts the h's name on it as the by-line.
The H is furious, cause the house is his and he does have the art collection and accuses the h of betraying him yet again, in retaliation he starts lurve clubbing the h's jealous co-worker who also hates the h.
At this point the h is suicidal with despair, and then she finds herself preggers. She goes to tell the H and he says he will marry her, after he tricks her into admitting that the editor wrote the story about him. He claims to have loved the h for the last seven years, he was the one who got her invited to the sister's house (probably to wreak more havoc, tho of it isn't explicitly stated) and adeptly gets out of answering just how much he has lurve clubbed with the sister - ( who has conveniently decided to reconcile with her husband.) The h is in bliss, cause she still thinks she loves him and he carries her off for a lurve clubbing HEA.
Overall this book is just plain tacky, the sister rivalry, the sloppy seconds and the very dubious innocence of the H's shady dealings is never resolved completely. Supposedly the H bought the his father's art collection in secret and saved his father from financial ruin for which the father reinstated him in the family, but the whole source of his money is questionable - as afar as I know research scientists don't make a ton of cash, even with speaking engagement honorariums and the H is totally loaded.
The story also jumps back and forth in time in really discombobulated ways. There is no flashback set up and I swear LP had more shots writing this than I did reading it. The timeline is that skewed and the jumps are that jarring - maybe LP was trying to emulate those math algorithm theories she researched so poorly, or else that HP butterfly of chaos was adding secret wormholes throughout the book.
With all the time jumping, man-eating sisters, friends and backstabbing co-workers, plus the truly pathetic angsty yearning of the h for a man who couldn't keep it in his pants if the fate of universe depended on it, this book should only be read if you are a true LP fan or trainwreck afficiando and even then you might want to invest in a keg or three to get through it.
I think I have to go find a neuralizer now, so I can just forget that I ever even heard of this one or that LP and I have more than a glancing acquaintance in HPlandia.
She goes the really, really old skool route with H's that are promiscuous parasitic sewage sludge nematodes and I can count on two fingers the HEA's of LP that I actually believe. I not only need large shots of Captain Morgan to even contemplate reading her, I have to schedule in multiple showers too, just to rid my self of the mucky feeling I get when I read her books.
However, we have a thread going here and innocent voyagers to HPlandia need to have some warning that a tackiness typhoon is about to descend if they pick up this book. So with a fifth salute to the Captain, I bring you Love in the Moonlight and let us all pray for brain bleach for my traumatized, blackened brain cells.
For those of us who frequently wander in the HP'verse a certain amount of story extrapolation becomes second nature and indeed is necessary to get the full effect of many of these tales. The space in an HP is limited, so after reading one or a hundred, most of us learn to fill in the blanks that the author did not have the time or space to elucidate during the course of the story.
LP takes this one to a new level of fill in the blanks and the big problem is that the blank filling usually can be interpreted as no sane woman should touch her H's without a whip, skillet, hazmat suit and 600 gallon drum of bleach.
LITM starts with the 23 yr old h getting a letter from her sex-kitten, almost divorced sister extolling the lurvw clubbing skills of the H. The H was one of the h's father's students seven years ago (her father is a maths and sciences professor who developed computer tech,) and while he was associated with the h's family he regularly clubbed up the h's sister, her friends and any other female he fancied.
He and the h parted on very bad terms because she saw him stealing computer information to sell to another company in her father's lab and told her mum about it and the H resigned his assistant post, supposedly in protest of the h's accusations - but not without lurve clubbing the 16 yr old up in retaliation.
Since the H was only 20 or 21, and described as fairly young, I wasn't totally squicked out - well not until the 16 yr old h declared herself in lurve and continued that love sick angst fest for the next 7 years.
This incident is the first missile through the suspension of disbelief tho, and since it is never fully explained exactly what the H was doing, the resulting conclusion turns out to be pretty negative for the H. ( In short, the H's dad was complaining that someone was stealing and selling his research to competitors. The H had been kicked out the family home by his mercenary father who had also run through his wealthy mum's money too. The H had a taste for rich things and his dad was having some finance problems and wasn't acknowledging or supporting the H.)
One evening the h was wandering around her father's department, looking for her dad and saw the H copying computer disks and putting them in his pockets - with the lab lights out and in a very furtive fashion.
When he sees the h, he tried to drag her into the darkened lab and he looked pretty violent, then a group of students came around and she got away. (She has had a huge crush on the H, ever since he started sleeping with her older sister and since they are always at the h's house, the H is always kissing the sister while staring lustfully at the h. He also follows her into her room and makes out with her after sending the sister off with some passionate smooching.) The h knows that the H's behavior isn't right, but she is convinced she is in love, so how can she say anything?
Then the h's mother notices the h is having drama and the h confides what she saw. The H's father overhears this, both parents dismiss the h's story, but the H hears about it and immediately quits - after he shags the h and mocks her avowals of love. He is pretty mean about it too.
Interestingly, the thefts and info selling stop after the H leaves. Seven years on, the h's sister invites the h to stay with her and the H in the sister's little boarding house in Cornwall. The sister is full of rekindled affair with the H details and the letter she writes to the h steams up the page.
The h is a reporter now and does feature stories on interesting locations and sometimes on noteworthy people. She still loves the H and so decides to take some holiday time and go visit her sister.
Incidentally this will get her away from one of the newspaper editors she works with, who is convinced that the h should shack up with him - even tho the h isn't into him and has only casually hung out with him. She arrives at her sister's and the H is broodingly lusting after the h, accusing her of using body language to seduce him into bed - all the while he is shacking up with the sister too.
There is the usual LP drama of sisters trying to compete for the same man and the h spends pages burning with jealously and unrequited love. Then the amorous editor comes to stay and the sister and the editor convince the H that she and the editor are lovers.
It isn't true, but the sister is jealous of the h and the editor is jealous of the H so they maneuver the situation to disrupt the chemistry between the H and h - even though he still hates her for almost ruining his career. His accusations and threats get a bit wearisome and the h just absorbs all the drama and turmoil like a sponge. Until she and the H wind up taking a tower of power ride on the beach.
The h worries that she might get preggers and the H promises to marry her. Then the editor, knowing the h doesn't want him or his love shack, writes a bogus article about the H stealing his father's art collection and hiding it in a house that the h has been continually fascinated with but doesn't know who the owner is and he puts the h's name on it as the by-line.
The H is furious, cause the house is his and he does have the art collection and accuses the h of betraying him yet again, in retaliation he starts lurve clubbing the h's jealous co-worker who also hates the h.
At this point the h is suicidal with despair, and then she finds herself preggers. She goes to tell the H and he says he will marry her, after he tricks her into admitting that the editor wrote the story about him. He claims to have loved the h for the last seven years, he was the one who got her invited to the sister's house (probably to wreak more havoc, tho of it isn't explicitly stated) and adeptly gets out of answering just how much he has lurve clubbed with the sister - ( who has conveniently decided to reconcile with her husband.) The h is in bliss, cause she still thinks she loves him and he carries her off for a lurve clubbing HEA.
Overall this book is just plain tacky, the sister rivalry, the sloppy seconds and the very dubious innocence of the H's shady dealings is never resolved completely. Supposedly the H bought the his father's art collection in secret and saved his father from financial ruin for which the father reinstated him in the family, but the whole source of his money is questionable - as afar as I know research scientists don't make a ton of cash, even with speaking engagement honorariums and the H is totally loaded.
The story also jumps back and forth in time in really discombobulated ways. There is no flashback set up and I swear LP had more shots writing this than I did reading it. The timeline is that skewed and the jumps are that jarring - maybe LP was trying to emulate those math algorithm theories she researched so poorly, or else that HP butterfly of chaos was adding secret wormholes throughout the book.
With all the time jumping, man-eating sisters, friends and backstabbing co-workers, plus the truly pathetic angsty yearning of the h for a man who couldn't keep it in his pants if the fate of universe depended on it, this book should only be read if you are a true LP fan or trainwreck afficiando and even then you might want to invest in a keg or three to get through it.
I think I have to go find a neuralizer now, so I can just forget that I ever even heard of this one or that LP and I have more than a glancing acquaintance in HPlandia.
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July 13, 20163 reviews of this book. All negative. All raving about the horrid H and TSTL h.
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July 29, 2016
Do you think I need a shelf for stupid and/or unclear plot? this book would fit right there. Who would do the stuff this hero does to a 16 or so year old girl? Is the time line wonky or did he really follow a teenager he had only met one time into her bedroom after necking with her sister in the hall and then proceed to smirkily inform her that he knew she wanted him. He's a visiting professor at some college. Eww.
Besides that sort of thing, there were too many flashbacks and those flashbacks only dropped hints of the whole situation. I'm spending too much time going WTF is happening.
And the hero was an arrogant ass and a weak wimp who played games. Just no.
Does anyone want this book? 'Cuz it's free to a good home or even an abusive one, I just don't care. ;-)
Besides that sort of thing, there were too many flashbacks and those flashbacks only dropped hints of the whole situation. I'm spending too much time going WTF is happening.
And the hero was an arrogant ass and a weak wimp who played games. Just no.
Does anyone want this book? 'Cuz it's free to a good home or even an abusive one, I just don't care. ;-)
May 14, 2016
yuk not a fan of this one at all. Parts of it made no sense. the hero is with her sister the whole book. the plot was not clear.
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