I'm on a bit of a Georgette Heyer re-read kick at the moment. I started with The Foundling and went on to April Lady. As with The Foundling, one star deducted for the main female lead. This time the star off is because of Nell's wild mood swings. As in, sometimes she's shy and awkward and lovable ...
Feel a bit ambivalent about this one. A continual stream of misunderstandings and bad luck that eventually sort out with the main couple realising they were deeply in love all along. Not enough time is spent on them though and the main story concentrates on his sister and her unsuitable choice of be...
Cute little book, my first by Georgette Heyer, which I've heard praised on a blog I follow, The Captive Reader. I enjoyed it, although dunno if I'd say I loved it. It had many misunderstandings and scheming and bad ideas, and ended with the MC and her husband realizing that they did love each other....
3.5 stars.Akin to [b:The Convenient Marriage|32106|The Convenient Marriage|Georgette Heyer|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1320400640s/32106.jpg|3183163], though it has it's own charm. Nell and Cadross are very cute, always a plus. The story petered out towards the end but I've found that that's pretty...
Originally reviewed at Here There Be Books.My first Georgette Heyer book, a mystery, did not go so well. April Lady, on the other hand, is a regency romance and it was SO. MUCH. BETTER! Huzzah! Thanks so much to the nice lady at the Sourcebooks booth who recommended April Lady to me at ALA Annual la...
Cute little book, my first by Georgette Heyer, which I've heard praised on a blog I follow, The Captive Reader. I enjoyed it, although dunno if I'd say I loved it. It had many misunderstandings and scheming and bad ideas, and ended with the MC and her husband realizing that they did love each other....
I started to read this and realized that it seemed to be The Convenient Marriage all over again, which was not my favorite Heyer, so I decided to just skip it. I imagine it would have been just one misunderstanding after another between the hero and heroine and thats just not my cup of tea.
This one is a fairly lighthearted romp through Regency England, but what makes Heyer worth reading is her characterizations and the immense amount of period detail that she brings to her novels. Lady Nell Cardross is a bit of a twit, but she's a well-meaning, good, twit. She just can't keep from tel...
This drama could have been a great play on stage during the regency time period, but wasn't very good fiction. The background, emotions and dialogues between characters weren't really described but just existed. The story's progress came out of dialogues between characters and even some self-talking...
As a number of other reviewers have pointed out, this amusing but unsatisfactory confection is a less well-done reworking of the theme of Heyer's earlier The Convenient Marriage; that is, the love-match in which neither spouse realizes that the other loves him or her. This time we unfortunately have...
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