Moonlight on Sphinx

by Barbara Cartland

För att undkomma fordringsägare efter faderns död blir Octavia tvungen att tillsammans med sin bror fly till Alexandria. Strax efter ankomsten blir hon övergiven av brodern och lämnad ensam kvar. Morgonen därpå kommer plötsligt en okänd man in i hennes hotellrum. Och han har ett underligt förslag att göra henne ... Cartlands böcker äger rum i de finare engelska kretsarna och i exotiska miljöer. Kärleken är häftig mellan de passionerade hjältarna och vackra hjältinnorna, men gång på gång går de igenom prövningar. Men äkta kärlek är alltid starkast och det finns ingenting den inte kan besegra.

Genres: Romance, Fiction

192 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Published August 1, 1984

About the author

Born in 1901, Barbara Cartland started her writing career in journalism and completed her first book, Jigsaw, when she was just 24. An immediate success, it was the start of her journey to becoming the world’s most famous and most read romantic novelist of all time. Inspiring a whole generation of readers around the globe with her exciting tales of adventure, love and intrigue, she became synonymous with the Romance genre. And she still is to this day, having written over 644 romantic fiction books.
As well as romantic novels, she wrote historical biographies, 6 autobiographies, plays, music, poetry and several advice books on life, love, health and cookery – totalling an incredible 723 books in all, with over 1 billion in sales.
Awarded the DBE by Queen Elizabeth II in 1991 in honour of her literary, political and social contributions, she was President of the Hertfordshire branch of the Royal College of Midwives as well as a Dame of Grace of the Order of St John of Jerusalem and Deputy President of the St John Ambulance Brigade.
Always a passionate advocate of woman’s health and beauty, she was dubbed ‘the true Queen of Romance’ by Vogue magazine in her lifetime. Her legend continues today through her wonderfully vivid romantic tales, stories that help you escape from the day to day into the dramatic adventures of strong, beautiful women who battle, often against the odds, eventually to find that love conquers all.
Find out more about the incredible life and works of Dame Barbara Cartland at www.barbaracartland.com

Reviews

[Martti · Rating 1 out of 5]

Alright, now it's done. I've read a Barbara Cartland novel. Well, just to see what's that about. I mean how on earth could she possibly write the same stuff for 700+ times. But after reading this very-very easy reading I'm almost not surprised how could she publish 16 novels in addition to this one on the year 1984. Almost. But still, 17 novels in a year. That's like a typewritermachinegun. Quantity above quality, obviously.

So what does it take? You need to have a man and a woman. The woman needs to be probably with no personality, innocent, beautiful, ready and willing, yada-yada. And the man needs to be a manly man, perhaps with a secret, perhaps a bit dangerous. And rich. And then you need to have a lot of socially awkward moments. Ok, got it.

And then you need a mild conflict that would look like an actual plot of a good book, but let's not delve too deep into that, because we don't have too much time for that. We've got to finish another 16 books in the year. It's not like she was trying to write good books, but she just tried to saturate the market with cheap diluted product. Maybe people don't see some good books behind my hundreds of low quality quick-reads.

Oh well. At least that's crossed off from my list now. At least I didn't pay anything for this book. That might have given some publisher a wrong idea, like to waste some more good paper.

For trying to have at least some plot I guess I can even give an additional point five stars, but oh... I cannot do that here in Goodreads. What a shame, what. a. shame.

[Unwordy · Rating 1 out of 5]

Parem kui teine ila, mis ma eile öösel läbi lugesin, aga see pole just eriline saavutus. See raamat vähemalt üritab mingit šüžeed arendada ja oh-mis-kaunis-õilis-tark-süütu-habras neidis vist isegi nagu teeks midagi, kui pea viltu ajada ja kissis silmi vahtida. Aga Ürgmees-Pooletoobibairon teab ikka kõike kõige paremini, ja naine hoidku oma pudrumulk kinni, nähku kena välja ja olgu mehele kõige eest tänulik.

Annaksin heldest tujust isegi poolteist punni, sest no ikkagi parem kui "Koidik", aga ei saa, nii et ei anna.

[Sandra · Rating 2 out of 5]

Reseña #58
Esta novela debería estar fuera de mi reto literario.
Con esta autora me transporté a mis 15 años cuando leía estas novelas y como las disfrutaba soñando por mi príncipe azul !!! ... que llegó muchos años después, pero no es azul, ni conde, ni millonario, ni alto...
Solo por mi nostalgia le doy un 2, porque la verdad es que el plot demasiado simple, no encontré química en los protagonistas, y en el desenlance la autora salpica algunas frases de doble sentido pero remata con un final muy, pero mucho muy rosa... bueno es Barbara Cartland y no se puede pedir mas.

2/5

[Razvan Banciu · Rating 2 out of 5]

You can't never ask for too much quality from an author who produces more than ten books a year, decade after decade. Can you?
So the only thing you can hope is find a decent plot and spend some quiet hours, without exhausting your brains too much.
And, of course, there is a question. What would you do in those hours? Watch TV? Go for a walk? Lose time with grace? It's only for you to answer...