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3.72 AVERAGE
3.72 AVERAGE
A very silly confection about a headstrong runaway beauty, the dashing Corinthian who seeks to save her from herself, and the gentle older woman (almost reaching the advanced age of 30) who is his real love. Fun because all of GH's books are fun, but not her best.
I gave this book 2 stars only because it's not really my type of book. In the beginning I found it quite tedious but towards the middle the pace picked up and it became more enjoyable. The ending is satisfactory, and you like the characters you are supposed to like, and dislike the ones you are supposed to dislike. It's very lightweight, but the descriptions of the Regency countryside were good. I might try one more just to give Ms. Heyer a fair chance.
Reader was very poor- many mispronunciations: mumma and puppa instaed of mama and papa - and the reader began to gabble.
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
Possibly one of my favorite Heyer stories, especially for those I've finished recently. It's hilarious. I really did LOL a few times. The lies and circumstances just get more and more fantastic. I'd watch a show about Sir Gareth, Lady Hester, Amanda, and Hildebrand in a heartbeat. It's over the top in the very best way.
(I would have liked a few more scenes / lines between the "older" couple in the story. I like how everything is resolved but I feel cheated out of a bit more details in their romance.)
(I would have liked a few more scenes / lines between the "older" couple in the story. I like how everything is resolved but I feel cheated out of a bit more details in their romance.)
Fun, light, entertaining. Draws you in. Good characters. Good ending. One of her best.
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Loved Gary, the rest were meh
This year I reached a momentous milestone: I found a Georgette Heyer book I managed to finish AND that I actually enjoyed. That was Black Sheep, (5 stars, complete smash) and I loved it SO much, I feared it must be a fluke, and I had found the one GH novel I could possibly like right out of the gate, and would never find another. Then I read Lady of Quality, and again, mirabile dictu, 5 stars; quite entertaining (altho I preferred Black Sheep's hero Miles Calverleigh; so delicious.) Both Black Sheep and Lady of Quality feature "older" heroines -- decrepit spinsters of 29 years of age! Eeww! -- whose adventures, I confess, I have come to enjoy much more than those of all the dewy young misses right out of the schoolroom who are so brave! So fierce! So unconventional! So...boring. I mean, nothing against being dewy, young, brave, fierce, unconventional, but it can get a bit monotonous.
Now I've read Sprig Muslin. Hester Theale is another "older" heroine, whom it took me time to warm up to, until I started to notice and appreciate her quiet, rather wicked sense of humour. Gareth Ludlow is that most elusive of men: the handsome, intelligent, athletic, impeccably dressed and well mannered, totally splendid sort of chap who actually IS all of those things, plus perceptive and soulful. He's a close second to Miles Calverleigh as my favorite Heyer hero, thus far. Sprig Muslin is another 5 star treat; this one so full of laugh out loud moments beginning to end, I just must finally admit the truth: I get Georgette Heyer. I *like* Georgette Heyer. Only took me 70 years, but I got here.
Now I've read Sprig Muslin. Hester Theale is another "older" heroine, whom it took me time to warm up to, until I started to notice and appreciate her quiet, rather wicked sense of humour. Gareth Ludlow is that most elusive of men: the handsome, intelligent, athletic, impeccably dressed and well mannered, totally splendid sort of chap who actually IS all of those things, plus perceptive and soulful. He's a close second to Miles Calverleigh as my favorite Heyer hero, thus far. Sprig Muslin is another 5 star treat; this one so full of laugh out loud moments beginning to end, I just must finally admit the truth: I get Georgette Heyer. I *like* Georgette Heyer. Only took me 70 years, but I got here.