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3.76 AVERAGE
3.76 AVERAGE
Subgenre:
Regency Romance (Classic Historical Romance)
Tags:
Regency Romance
Spinster Heroine
Grumpy/Sunshine Dynamic
Guardian/Ward Trope
Witty Banter
Society & Scandal
Road Trip Romance (if applicable)
Slow-Burn Romance
Strong Female Lead
Georgette Heyer
Regency Romance (Classic Historical Romance)
Tags:
Regency Romance
Spinster Heroine
Grumpy/Sunshine Dynamic
Guardian/Ward Trope
Witty Banter
Society & Scandal
Road Trip Romance (if applicable)
Slow-Burn Romance
Strong Female Lead
Georgette Heyer
emotional
funny
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Annis is perhaps one of my favorite Heyer heroines! I hope someday someone does film adaptations of these delightful novels, because novels such as "Lady of Quality" are simply begging to be filmed! I wish there was a sequel - as delightful as Annis and Oliver's courtship was, I'd be much more interested to see how their married life played out! ;)
One of the joys of a Heyer novel is the incredible detail she gives to the secondary characters. The world of the hero and heroine is fully realized because of this. But in [b:Lady of Quality|32103|Lady of Quality|Georgette Heyer|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168335981s/32103.jpg|2475001] we spend too much time with the secondary characters. I like Annis Wychwood. I would have liked more time with her and Oliver Carleton. They are an interesting pair with great potential. I love the way they make each other laugh. But their love affair constantly takes second place to the background noise. They don't even get the final scene. That honor is reserved for Annis' brother and his wife.
funny
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Edit 11/14/22
I have more appreciation for Annis and Oliver's romance this time, and less so for Ninian and Lucy's. Oliver is not my favorite hero by a long shot but I do love his proposal to Annis.
Review Jun 5 2013
This can't be Georgette Heyer's last novel! I've been rooting throughout the book that the secondary couple (Lucilla and Ninian, who, without them, the two protagonists wouldn't have met) to end up with each other! Though, of course, the main romance was enjoyable, too. I need my closure, you know, and I need to read that book about Lucilla Carleton and Ninian Elmore. So you see, there has to be a next novel. Heyer wasn't exactly averse to sequels, after all.
But, alas, I do understand the futility of demanding something from a dead woman. I might as well content myself with my head-canon*.
Even though I was grossly left hanging in this novel, I'm aware that Heyer handled it very well. Lucy and Ninian, are, after all, practically children, and still in that bickering stage. They grew up together, and people around them expect them to marry each other in the end. Which just sets their nettles quite high, they'll tell you! They bicker constantly (which reminded me of Ron and Hermione, honestly, and you know how that ended up). But they really do get along. They are made for each other, though they don't realize that yet. They have a lot of growing up to do, but I do believe, as Annis's sister-in-law believes, "The end of it will be, of course, that they will marry one another!"
Lucy and Ninian are one of my favorite couples that Heyer created, and they aren't even the main characters! There's just something in the way they're written, that you can feel the chemistry oozing from the pages, which just makes me like them and root for them. Their chemistry was just as palpable as the chemistry between Annis Wychwood and Oliver Carleton, who are what we're reading the book for, anyway.
3.5 stars To be sure, Annis and Oliver's verbal matches and romance were lovely to read, but I cared more about the secondary characters. Annis and Oliver, btw, find their match in each other, and live happily ever after, of course.
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I have more appreciation for Annis and Oliver's romance this time, and less so for Ninian and Lucy's. Oliver is not my favorite hero by a long shot but I do love his proposal to Annis.
Review Jun 5 2013
This can't be Georgette Heyer's last novel! I've been rooting throughout the book that the secondary couple (Lucilla and Ninian, who, without them, the two protagonists wouldn't have met) to end up with each other! Though, of course, the main romance was enjoyable, too. I need my closure, you know, and I need to read that book about Lucilla Carleton and Ninian Elmore. So you see, there has to be a next novel. Heyer wasn't exactly averse to sequels, after all.
But, alas, I do understand the futility of demanding something from a dead woman. I might as well content myself with my head-canon*.
Even though I was grossly left hanging in this novel, I'm aware that Heyer handled it very well. Lucy and Ninian, are, after all, practically children, and still in that bickering stage. They grew up together, and people around them expect them to marry each other in the end. Which just sets their nettles quite high, they'll tell you! They bicker constantly (which reminded me of Ron and Hermione, honestly, and you know how that ended up). But they really do get along. They are made for each other, though they don't realize that yet. They have a lot of growing up to do, but I do believe, as Annis's sister-in-law believes, "The end of it will be, of course, that they will marry one another!"
Lucy and Ninian are one of my favorite couples that Heyer created, and they aren't even the main characters! There's just something in the way they're written, that you can feel the chemistry oozing from the pages, which just makes me like them and root for them. Their chemistry was just as palpable as the chemistry between Annis Wychwood and Oliver Carleton, who are what we're reading the book for, anyway.
3.5 stars To be sure, Annis and Oliver's verbal matches and romance were lovely to read, but I cared more about the secondary characters. Annis and Oliver, btw, find their match in each other, and live happily ever after, of course.
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Spoiler
I am happy to have seen Ninian maturing by the end of the novel, and he was handling his family's estate. Lucilla, also, was polishing her manners and becoming a lady indeed. Although in the book, Ninian was said to be taken in by Lucy's friend, Corisande, it was also said that it was just a passing fancy. Now, since Lucy will stay with Corisande's mother before she s launched into society, there will be a sort of love triangle. But in the end, things will work its way out and Ninian and Lucy will eventually realize that they were made for each other. How ironic, because they running away from it in the first place! Oh, how lovely. :3
funny
lighthearted
relaxing
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
funny
lighthearted
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Enjoyable, but not Heyer's best. It's quite repetitive, both of elements from her previous books and within itself. I didn't find the characters that strongly drawn or the romance particularly engaging, and I mostly felt sorry for Maria, the annoying companion. I did enjoy the younger characters, but their story didn't have much of a resolution.
1.5
I hardly read [a:Georgette Heyer|18067|Georgette Heyer|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1336748892p2/18067.jpg] for the romance but her glorified rakes and weird bursts of sexism got a bit much in what was already a fairly bland book. If only her characterisation was half as good as her flair for authentic Regency vibes...
I hardly read [a:Georgette Heyer|18067|Georgette Heyer|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1336748892p2/18067.jpg] for the romance but her glorified rakes and weird bursts of sexism got a bit much in what was already a fairly bland book. If only her characterisation was half as good as her flair for authentic Regency vibes...