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This is the first Georgette Heyer I've read, and I really enjoyed it - so much fun. Kitty is told by her adopted uncle that he intends to leave her his fortune, on the condition that she marries one of his nephews, almost all of whom appear to be rather awful. And then she toddles off to London and gets embroiled with various schemes involving her family and new acquaintances and her dashing French cousin. Super fun romance and I am so delighted I have so much Heyer now to read.
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Okay, but nothing all that special. Probably my least favorite of the Heyers I've read so far, but still fun and definitely enjoyable.
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I really enjoyed this, first, as a clear progenitor to the Regency romance novels I read so many of in college; and second, as something sort of like a mashup between Gilbert and Sullivan silliness and Regency genre tropes. It's very fun.
The one thing I didn't like was that both Freddy and Dolph seemed to speak a bizarre null-subject version of English; they were constantly starting their sentences at the verb or the predicate (e.g. "Can't go. Running over to mother's. Dashed spotty business." ...more
The one thing I didn't like was that both Freddy and Dolph seemed to speak a bizarre null-subject version of English; they were constantly starting their sentences at the verb or the predicate (e.g. "Can't go. Running over to mother's. Dashed spotty business." ...more
This was my first Georgette Heyer novel, and I think it was a good choice. I immediately loved the hero (although I found the heroine a little silly at times). It starts off at a good clip but got a little slow for my tastes about halfway through. What I found, though, is that all that detail in the middle is incredibly necessary for the end to shoot off like a rocket the way it does. In the end, really enjoyed it. (And learned a lot about the ton of Regency England while I was at it, considerin
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Freddy <3
One of my favorite Heyer novels.
Jan 19, 2010
Flora
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Jan 01, 2015
Jessie B
marked it as to-read
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Jenny
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Erin
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