Everything and the Moon
by Julia Quinn

Rated 4.0
ISBN# 0-380-78933-7
Copyright 3/97
Reviewed 9/1/97 by Pam

Enjoyable yet frustrating is how I would describe the story of Robert Kemble and Victoria Lyndon. With Robert being an Earl and Victoria a Vicar's daughter, their fathers would not allow a relationship to grow. Each did what they felt was necessary to pull the two apart, leaving the two in love to think the worst of the other.

Victoria left her father and has found positions as a governess during the years she's been away from home. Keeping in touch only with her sister, she is unable to forgive her father what he did to keep her away from Robert. Likewise, Robert has left his father's home and not gone back since their disagreement so long ago.

It's seven years later that the two are thrown together again. Their love for each other is still strong yet Robert and Victoria have to get through the bad thoughts they've held for each other all these years.

This was an enjoyable story. My only complaint is that Victoria was entirely too stubborn. For nearly half the book she thwarted Robert's claims of love and did everything possible to get a way from him. It got to a point that I felt she was being ridiculous. Through everything else the author wrote a romantic story of two star-crossed lovers getting together at last.