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3.95 AVERAGE
3.95 AVERAGE
If you like gothic romance (as my mother did, and hooked me), Heyer is the grand old dame.
emotional
lighthearted
medium-paced
This is one of my favorite books by Georgette Heyer! I love proud, snobbish Sylvester and I think Phoebe is the perfect foil for his proud manners. The supporting characters are also very well written and likable.
Much more fun than I remember. Beginning to wonder if I ever have read it before, or just thought I had! Excellent Regency Fluff, I would say.
Another fun Georgette Heyer! Love the humor and crazy situations her characters end up in. Her regency books are also clean which is much appreciated.
I'm a sucker for a couple that bickers their way into love, and this story does my favorite trope due justice!
Have read this many times, and it worked a treat, a classic comfort read, delightful characters, ridiculous situations and a terrific ending.
When Miss Phoebe Marlow first encounters Sylvester, the Duke of Salford, she is smitten, quite unfavorably, by his sarcastic arrogance. Generally considered a tedious country miss, Phoebe has the hidden depths of razor-sharp literary wit. Crafting a novel of her unpleasant adventures in London society, she casts Sylvester, with his distinctive eyebrows, as the villain of the piece, determined to murder his nephew to steal his inheritance, and sends it off to a publisher under a nom de plume.
Of an age where he ought to marry, Sylvester is pressed to consider the unprepossessing Phoebe Marlow. Decidedly unimpressed by the shrinking debutante, Sylvester continues on his merry way until chance throws them together at a country inn. Phoebe allows Sylvester to penetrate her shield of shyness and discovers that he is a rather decent fellow, not at all the monster she had created in her mind. A courtship ensues, and wedding bells seem to be on the horizon, until a certain anonymous novel takes the ton by storm, exposing Salford in the blackest of lights. When Sylvester's sister-in-law takes the novel as truth and determines to run away to France with her little boy to save him from his evil uncle, Phoebe must try to save the day...even if it is too late for Sylvester to ever forgive her.
The plot of this novel is delightfully farfetched. Heyer has a talent for taking gangly and unlovable young ladies and making them charming. As with other debutantes in Heyer's novels, Phoebe's antics disrupt Sylvester's ordered existence and force him to take himself less seriously. Sylvester's vanity and unwillingness to forgive Phoebe make him lose points in my assessment, but the hilarity of the flight to France and Sylvester's pursuit make for a fun read.
Of an age where he ought to marry, Sylvester is pressed to consider the unprepossessing Phoebe Marlow. Decidedly unimpressed by the shrinking debutante, Sylvester continues on his merry way until chance throws them together at a country inn. Phoebe allows Sylvester to penetrate her shield of shyness and discovers that he is a rather decent fellow, not at all the monster she had created in her mind. A courtship ensues, and wedding bells seem to be on the horizon, until a certain anonymous novel takes the ton by storm, exposing Salford in the blackest of lights. When Sylvester's sister-in-law takes the novel as truth and determines to run away to France with her little boy to save him from his evil uncle, Phoebe must try to save the day...even if it is too late for Sylvester to ever forgive her.
The plot of this novel is delightfully farfetched. Heyer has a talent for taking gangly and unlovable young ladies and making them charming. As with other debutantes in Heyer's novels, Phoebe's antics disrupt Sylvester's ordered existence and force him to take himself less seriously. Sylvester's vanity and unwillingness to forgive Phoebe make him lose points in my assessment, but the hilarity of the flight to France and Sylvester's pursuit make for a fun read.