Win On The Night Of The Seventh Moon Picturized By Victoria Holt Disseminated As Paper Copy

ended up liking this a surprising amount, Not even really as a romancethe hero is gone from it so long, and isn't all that vivid, More as a development of the heroine, who suffers a lot, insists on believing her truth, and finally ends up happy, And the setting is beautiful, It all felt way more meaty than The Time of the Hunter's Moon, which I read a few weeks ago, as if Holt had started phoning it in by the time she wrote the latter.
I had never read a Victoria Holt book, and since there are so many, I chose the one that seemed to receive the best reviews.
It was a quick summer read, but certainly not the page turner others described, I found several editing errors too which also served to distract, The characters were weak and ill defined, Those who were key were subject to the same foreshadowing inferences several times over, Her chosen settings were ripe for rich description, but again, Holt failed to hit the mark, only adequately describing both the prim British home and bookshop and the lush enchanted German forest.
The plot was the best component, but so much more could have been made of it, I would give this novel a C, but I don't think I'll choose to read another book by this author, I listened to this book and enjoyed every minute, I love the German folklore and the twists and turns of this story, I love the true love connection, as well as the meddling old governess, Such a fun story!

/I haven't read this book for years and I honestly couldn't remember what happenedjust that I had loved it.
I think this is probably my favorite of Victoria Holt's novels,

Helena has an English father and a German mother and goes to school in Germany, A celebration takes place on the night of the seventh moon of the year and a strange thing happens to her, Full of romance, mystery, and entertainment, Interesting book. If you want to feel like you are losing your mind as bad as the poor heroine thinks she is, I highly recommend this book! It will transport you to another world, filled with superstition and

magic, lies and half truths, suspense and intrigue.
Black forest has always fascinated me, The story seemed to be evolving somewhere there and there was no way I wasn't buying this book! Reminded me of my school days when reading historical romance was the only thi g to do! Glib story, with romance and drama but happy ending : This was a reread for me for bookclub.
I originally read this as a teenager back in thes, It was just as readable this second time through, I didn't remember much of the plot even though I remembered vaguely that the book ended happily, I did feel the angst at the horrible things that were happening to Helena, I probably figured out what was going on earlier this time since I've read so many books since I first read this but it was all new the first time through and as a teenager I wasn't quite so savvy.
Still the writing was such that you kept wanting to read to find out for sure what was going on and to get Helena through the bad stuff.


It is of course a gothic novel so even though there is a romance the main thrust of the story is the surreal things that are happening to the poor heroine.
A fun read altogether. Love and Mystery in the Black Forest!

Set in Germany and England fromtowith an end note in, 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 taken with him that she might have allowed him to have his way with her but for the intervention of a housekeeper who took measures to preserve Helenas 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 Holts writing, and this story sucked me in immediately, It is labeled as a romantic suspense, but I didnt 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,
According to ancient Black Forest legend, on the Night of the Seventh Moon, Loke, the God of Mischief, is at large in the world.
It is a night for festivity and joyful celebration, It is a night for singing and dancing, And it is a night for love,

Helena Trant was enchanted by everything she found in the Black Forest especially its legends, But then, on the Night of the Seventh Moon, she started to live one of them, and the enchantment turned suddenly into a terrifying nightmare.
. . "Sometimes, looking back, I ask myself: Why did you accept this and that Why did you not inquire more closely into these strange things that happened to you"

I was wondering that myself.


Long story short, Helena Trant is attending school in Bavaria and the local villagers have this old festival every year on the night of the seventh moon.
Lots of drinking and partying and creepy mists in the forest, and our poor heroine gets herself lost and then found by an eversohandsomemystery man.
IIRC, she's sent home to England and then comes back and that's when she meets her mystery man again and they are married in secret.
Or are they married Just who is this mystery man and why does he disappear from her life after three days of wedded bliss Or were they married

Don't you worry guys, you can guess every bit of plot point coming a mile away.
I kept hoping Ms. Holt would pull the rug out from under me and surprise me at the end, but no, . .

Kindle copy obtained via library loan, .