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Rose Lerner looks like a very young woman on her online photo and, unless that photo was taken 20 years ago, I am in awe of how much insight she has into the human condition at such a young age. And then there's her writing skill to be in awe of also. This may be the first Lerner HR I've reviewed but it's not the first I've read. I think I've read them all but, to ditto reviewer Danker, this one may very well be her best.

Usually I read romance to escape from my humdrum existence, but this story and its characters put me into the relatively humdrum world of the servant class. A kind of "downstairs" romance, so to speak, with poor maid heroine Sukey Grimes, very pretty but under-educated and unsophisticated, and hero John Toogood, handsome, polished man-of-the-world (within his own bit of the world), ex-valet of Nick Dymond, hero of Lerner's SWEET DISORDER.

John has just lost his position as Dymond's valet and is forced to find a new position. The one he aspires to is that of butler in the village vicar's home. But the vicar wants a married butler and that's where Sukey comes into the equation. He needs a wife and she has just been fired from her maid's position after being caught eating 2 brandy-laced raisins. (Yeah, I know. Hanging or transportation should have really been the punishment.) So she's desperate and agrees to wed John. They are, fortunately, physically attracted to each other but that's about all that's going for them in the relationship at the beginning.

So that should do it for the story, right? They marry, we have some very satisfying bedroom scenes, they discover they're compatible in and out of bed, and we move on to the HEA. Not so fast. It's not that easy. These two are very flawed characters. Sukey and her mother were deserted by her father, who went on to make a new family with another woman. So she has her issues. Not only lack of trust and fear of abandonment, but there's the fact that she's a bit on the immature and irresponsible side. But then, she's young.

And then there's John. Such issues he has. A perfectionist and control freak who always seems to see what's wrong and never what's right. He doesn't relate well to others, isn't sympathetic or charismatic and is pretty darned uptight. Well, we learn the reasons for all this and we keep hoping as the story progresses that he'll find a way to his own happiness. And that he will learn to find contentment with his very young wife. And speaking of "very young wife", the age difference between the two is pretty large. John is 40 and Sukey is 22. That is something I usually find hard to take in a romance but Lerner didn't gloss over this fact and it's a big part of the story that is dealt with very realistically and well.

This isn't a warm and fuzzy romance. As a matter of fact, I found it a difficult and uncomfortable read at times. Sukey and John's problems hit too close to home for me. There's a recent May/December romantic relationship within my own family that I haven't been too pleased about. Not only that but I see so much of myself in John's critical ways that it had me squirming uncomfortably at many things that happened in the story.

But I soldiered on. What a book. It's very well written. No fairy tale here. This is real life. If you want the fairy tale, there are lots of less-talented and even almost-as-talented authors to choose from for that. If you want something that is more down-to-earth and realistic and that cuts to the nitty-gritty of relationships, this is a very good choice.


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Listen To The Moon Rose Lerner 9781619233102 Books Reviews

First, the concept grabbed me. What? Romance below stairs? Yes, please (old fan of "Upstairs/Downstairs"). The characters were well drawn and the nuances masterfully shown. Neither character was any sort of a wimp, and their decided opinions about how life ought to go made for some really great negotiation between them. In their very different upbringings and expectations of life, John and Sukey (hate that name, BTW) have plenty of room for conflict, and conflict there is, more than enough. The factor that did not work for me is the language -- not the Sussex dialect but the constant use of the coarser terms of lovemaking. None of us was alive in 1815 but I'm skeptical that common usage between spouses included quite so much of the f-bomb and like terms. Of course the contemps used their own phraseology. I'm just not convinced we can assume they're identical to common words used in 2018. The writing was smooth, the editing good; I wanted desperately to like this more than I did and to buy more of Lerner's work. However, I'll have to give this one a C grade. I'm sure many readers loved it due to the skillful writing but I am not its target market.
I fall a little bit more in love with Rose Lerner's writing with every book. This one was simply superb.

Some of my favorite things here Letting the splendor of the lives of the privileged few be a backdrop, rather than the reward, in a story about servants who find fulfillment in work well-done and lives outside of the limelight of the ton. The older-man-younger-woman relationship is treated as a problem, not an impossible problem, it can be overcome, but it involves issues, both real and imagined. We see the other side of the luxurious life of the peerage, in terms of the emotional costs and stresses it causes in the lives of the servants. All of the wonderfully developed characters, not just of the hero and heroine, but of the people who matter in their lives; there are no easy stereotypes here, but real people with real problems and feelings and joys and triumphs. Others have described the hero and heroine, who I adored, but I also want to know more about the vicarage cook, a woman from India who cooks curries and has to pretend to be Christian, reminding us readers that the empire wasn't just a distant place a character might visit, but a growing part of British life. She should have a story of her own.

Most of all, though, the quality of Lerner's writing stands out on every level. It is emotionally engaging, well-paced, and utterly evocative of the time and place. I was caught up, not just in the story itself, but in the tastes and colors and sounds of 1812 Sussex. This isn't a book you just read, you bathe in it, in hot, scented water by candlelight.
Rose Lerner looks like a very young woman on her online photo and, unless that photo was taken 20 years ago, I am in awe of how much insight she has into the human condition at such a young age. And then there's her writing skill to be in awe of also. This may be the first Lerner HR I've reviewed but it's not the first I've read. I think I've read them all but, to ditto reviewer Danker, this one may very well be her best.

Usually I read romance to escape from my humdrum existence, but this story and its characters put me into the relatively humdrum world of the servant class. A kind of "downstairs" romance, so to speak, with poor maid heroine Sukey Grimes, very pretty but under-educated and unsophisticated, and hero John Toogood, handsome, polished man-of-the-world (within his own bit of the world), ex-valet of Nick Dymond, hero of Lerner's SWEET DISORDER.

John has just lost his position as Dymond's valet and is forced to find a new position. The one he aspires to is that of butler in the village vicar's home. But the vicar wants a married butler and that's where Sukey comes into the equation. He needs a wife and she has just been fired from her maid's position after being caught eating 2 brandy-laced raisins. (Yeah, I know. Hanging or transportation should have really been the punishment.) So she's desperate and agrees to wed John. They are, fortunately, physically attracted to each other but that's about all that's going for them in the relationship at the beginning.

So that should do it for the story, right? They marry, we have some very satisfying bedroom scenes, they discover they're compatible in and out of bed, and we move on to the HEA. Not so fast. It's not that easy. These two are very flawed characters. Sukey and her mother were deserted by her father, who went on to make a new family with another woman. So she has her issues. Not only lack of trust and fear of abandonment, but there's the fact that she's a bit on the immature and irresponsible side. But then, she's young.

And then there's John. Such issues he has. A perfectionist and control freak who always seems to see what's wrong and never what's right. He doesn't relate well to others, isn't sympathetic or charismatic and is pretty darned uptight. Well, we learn the reasons for all this and we keep hoping as the story progresses that he'll find a way to his own happiness. And that he will learn to find contentment with his very young wife. And speaking of "very young wife", the age difference between the two is pretty large. John is 40 and Sukey is 22. That is something I usually find hard to take in a romance but Lerner didn't gloss over this fact and it's a big part of the story that is dealt with very realistically and well.

This isn't a warm and fuzzy romance. As a matter of fact, I found it a difficult and uncomfortable read at times. Sukey and John's problems hit too close to home for me. There's a recent May/December romantic relationship within my own family that I haven't been too pleased about. Not only that but I see so much of myself in John's critical ways that it had me squirming uncomfortably at many things that happened in the story.

But I soldiered on. What a book. It's very well written. No fairy tale here. This is real life. If you want the fairy tale, there are lots of less-talented and even almost-as-talented authors to choose from for that. If you want something that is more down-to-earth and realistic and that cuts to the nitty-gritty of relationships, this is a very good choice.