On the Night of the Seventh Moon: The Classic Novel of Romantic Suspense Kindle Edition

I return in my time at 78 years of age to Victoria Holt, the author who replaced Nancy Drew and Cherry Ames in my personal reading library.As expected, Holt never fails to offer the pleasure of enjoyable settings and descriptions of culture. However, in this return to the Victorian era, I was also awarded a cultura shock to learn of mock weddings supposedly historic during the period. I also found the characters in the story well developed aside from some dichotomy of extremes portrayed by leading men.To revisit Victoria Holt forced a comparison assessment with Daphne du Maurier, my personal favorite author, mature adult into senior senility, although I have pretty well exhausted her body of work.Bottom line … my reading enjoyment quotient increasingly equals a good plot with a happy ending, and Victoria Holt delivered a moon landing here on both counts. As I ascend through the years, I look also for the excitement and sheer pleasure of a read accompanied by a reason to feel hopeful during the hours I spend with my author.Thank you, Amazon and Goodreads, for sending your list of available books by Victoria Holt!

It is both. Another novel by the original suspenseful romance is a triumphal development. Set in the 19th century, before there were cars, trains with humongous engines, but the times are leading up to WWI. Mary Stewart once again captures both your mind and heart with her romances. By today's standards, Mary Stewart's romance are mild and her suspenseful tales and who done its are simple but grab your need to continue turning each page.

I have had several copies of this book and lent it out and had to buy it again. It is by far my most favorite book of all time. Maybe because it's like a fairytale where it is set in the Black Forest of Germany with a innocent young girl and a real Prince. The story will captivate you and just when you think all is lost, the ending is most happy. If you're a hopeless romantic like me you will enjoy this book immensely.

I've been a reader of Victoria Holt's books for years....having read many of them more than once. She is a first-rate, classic, gothic romance author, and her books never cease to entertain and intrigue me. This one is no exception. It has its rather spooky elements, the obligatory romance woven throughout, and enough mysterious happenings to keep the reader guessing. I thoroughly enjoyed it, once again!

Set in Germany and England from 1859 to 1870 (with an end note in 1901), this tells the story of Helena Trant whose parents were so much in love they had little time for her. Still, hers was a happy childhood among books in Oxford where her father had a bookstore. When she was old enough, her parents sent her to Germany near the Black Forest to a convent school where her mother had been educated.Helena loves the forest and the fairy tales surrounding it. She hears of the legend of the night of the seventh moon "when mischief is abroad and is routed with the coming of dawn." On one night, she gets lost in the mist of the forest and is rescued by a man who takes her to his hunting lodge. She so taken with him she might have allowed him to have his way with her but for the intervention of a housekeeper who took measures to preserve Helena's virtue. But Helena never forgot the man even though she did not know his name.Years later, she returns to Germany and on another night of the seventh moon Helena meets and marries her German at his hunting lodge, but then she wakes from her idyllic honeymoon to discover she has been drugged by a physician who tells her she has escaped a horror that befell her in the forest. Helena lives in a fog of dreams and wonders where truth is.I have to say that I love Holt's writing, and this story sucked me in immediately. It is labeled as a romantic suspense, but I didn't see it containing any more suspense than many historical romances. But it does have a Gothic feel and there is a mystery. Holt had me wondering what had really happened. She did an excellent job of that. The book is a bit slow in the middle, and the hero and heroine are separated for years. In that interim, I found passages that seemed repetitive, but the ending is a great one. As always, Holt is a master storyteller and creates wonderfully vivid characters. I recommend it.

Victoria Holt at her best. A young English girl is embroiled in a situation in a small state in Germany in 1800’s. It affects her whole life and we are taken along with her in a marvelous story.

Like other reviewers here, I read this book many year ago...over and over again. I remembered it recently and hunted for it in the Used Paperback Bookstore I use. But, alas, there were NO Victoria Holt books to be found. So I purchased a kindle copy.This is a book that will appeal to any lover of historic romantic mysteries. It has no sex scenes so can be shared with a daughter, granddaughter or teenage acquaintance.The book description and the sample available to be read for free on Amazon or sent to your kindle tell you the premise of the story. This is a true fairy tale romance with lots of angst. Helena's naivete allows the reader to make fairly good guesses as to how this young lady's world is going to be set on its ear one day. But it is so romantic. A school girl being educated in a Duchy away from her English roots is rescued by a "handsome stranger on a white horse" after being lost in the fog! Does it get any better than that? Separations, trips back to England, unknown "relatives" or travelers needing help/showing up and offering to take our Helena back to the Duchy for a vacation, and then the Night of the Seventh Moon celebration leads her on one heck of a trip...but is it into fantasy land or...did it really happen? Was this all a dream, a matter of her romantic notions? But why would Ilse lie to her? Heart break and then redemption. Sigh!Victoria Holt tells a great story. But this one has always been my favorite. I highly recommend it to those with a taste for a good romance/mystery.

If only life mirrored this story. A handsome prince, a cinderella and a mystery that you would only imagine if you could. Lovely big sigh and an 'If only' comes to mind.

Love it. I have read this book year’s ago. Someone borrowed the book and never returned it so I am happy to find one I can purchase to read it again as it is one of my favorite books.

I got the book for my sister and she enjoyed it that it only took her too days to read it

One of my favourites book by Victoria Holt. Intriguing, captivating, with every page makes you want to read more and more and find out what really happened. Quick delivery. No issues.

Last read this forty years ago and was so happy to find it on Amazon. It was just as dramatic and romantic as I remembered - great fun!