A wild romp, complete with unlikely heroes, crazy siblings and duels. [Oct. 2008]----I always enjoy this one, because it’s a mad adventure and who doesn’t like those, but it also seems like a bubble. Brilliant but fragile. [June 2010]
My second favorite Heyer, another one I've reread a few times. It's very different in tone and atmosphere, and indeed, plot, from her other books. Prudence and and her brother Robin have spent most of their lives pretending to be other people. They are adventurers, and have participated in many wild...
Heyer's language here is detailed and elegant yet at the same time lively -- or maybe that is because her characters pop out of the page. I particularly love the Merriots. Robin is the firecracker to his sister's more laid-back observer, and they slip into their real and assumed roles like a glove. ...
This is my favorite Heyer book. The book opens with a brother and sister's arrival at an inn, where they cleverly prevent an attempted abduction. It rapidly becomes clear that they are something more than the simple gentlefolk they appear to be. Through attacks by rufians, duels, love affairs and...
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