Call Down the Moon

This is the first book I've ever read from Katherine Kingsley and I really love it that I start hunting for all of her books once I finished reading it.

This is the 3rd book in the series. I loved the other two but I really found this one to be the best. This is Hugo's story. He is the younger brother to Rafe who was the hero in "Once Upon a Dream". Hugo has finally decided tho settle down. He has quit gambling and buys an estate. Nearby this estate is a sanitarium which his mother has asked him to visit in order to find out how one of the patients is doing and to deliver a check. He goes very reluctlantly. While there he sees a vision. An angel walks by the window and their eyes meet and he is left very shaken. He can't get out of there fast enough. He flees to London where he falls back into his old life of gambling and now has lost his fortune and his new home in one hand. He must now marry for money. He soon finds out that the angel he saw at the sanitarium is a missing heiress and is very wealthy. He convinces her to marry and the adventure begins. He never really knows what hits him.The angel is Meggie. She is not a patient but an orphan that was sent to work at the sanitarium. She can read minds but when she sees Hugo she can't read him at all. She is very strangly effected by him and when he comes back to get her she thinks he's mad. She has no idea of her new found wealth and thinks he wants to marry her because he has fallen in love with her at first sight. She soon realizes that she loves him but is afraid to tell him for fear of his discovering her gift.There are two wonderful aunties in this story and we get to find out a bit of what has happened to Rafe and Lucy. This story has a lot of humor in it and the love scenes are hot and steamy. I liked the way Katherine Kingsley made both the hero and the heroine human with emotions that can go awry at any time. I will definately reread this book many times. I can't wait to read other books from her.

Call Down the Moon is a wonderful, witty, funny, and devastatingly emotional book. The characters are very sympathetic. I really felt for Meggie in her fear of letting Hugo know she is a lucid and intelligent woman, and for Hugo in his fear of letting Meggie know about his need for her fortune. This book also provides a lesson in perception, similar to Mary Jo Putney in her book The Wild Child; Hugo's reactions to realizing that Meggie is normal and in learning the truth about his childhood are very touching. The emotions building between the two main characters are utterly believable and extremely palpable. It was from reading Call Down the Moon that I purchased all of Katherine Kingsley's books, but this one will still be her best in my eyes.

This was a very good story. It had a charming heroine, some eccentric aunties, and even a pet wolf. If the hero hadn't been such a stubborn , it would have been great.Hugo spends most of the story laboring under the misconception that Meggie is insane and/or simpleminded. But it's obvious that she's nothing of the sort! His stubborness kept me from truly enjoying this story. Well, OK -- his immaturity and his deceptions didn't help, either.I gave this book a B- at All About Romance.

This is the first Katherine Kingsley book I have read and I will make sure and read the rest. The characters were very well developed. I felt like I understood each one of them. Meggie is like a Cinderella who has endured much pain in her life. Raised in an orphanage,sent to work in an Sanitarium for the insane, She finally meets her Prince Charming who is not so perfect. Hugo Montagu-Notorious Rake,out to swindle Meggie of all the money she will inherit by seducing her into marrying him. Meggie's wonderful outlook on life, her pureness of character causes him to question his values and to fall in Love with her. Thru a series of misunderstandings(including him thinking she is insane) they find that true Love will forgive almost anything. I did think Hugo needed to suffer a little more for his misdeeds. Ms. Kingsley let him off light.