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readingtheend's review against another edition
4.0
well this is by far my favorite Georgette Heyer book that I have read thus far. It's about a brother and a sister who both have to dress up as the opposite sex, and they have all sorts of hijinks and fall in love. I quite liked the large insightful man that the sister falls in love with. I liked this so much that it almost made me want to read other Georgette Heyers, which is not an impulse I have had in quite some time!
lauriestein's review against another edition
4.0
A fun one - women dressed as man and man dressed as woman, plus their ridiculous father.
madhamster's review against another edition
4.0
One of my favourite Heyer's - more of a romp than my other favs.
Robin & Prue cross-dress in order to find out what their father is up to - and, as he has a very shady past, keep their secrets and lives.
Both fall in love in the course of their masquerade. But it all comes right in the end, of course.
Robin & Prue cross-dress in order to find out what their father is up to - and, as he has a very shady past, keep their secrets and lives.
Both fall in love in the course of their masquerade. But it all comes right in the end, of course.
algae429's review against another edition
3.0
One of my favorites. I love the twists and turns and convolutions of this plot.
papidoc's review against another edition
3.0
Light gothic romance fiction, among my Mom's favorites. Considerably better than the average gothic romance. Some of them are more like historical fiction, such as Simon the Coldheart. I read them from time to time when I was growing up.
cimorene1558's review against another edition
5.0
One of my favourite Heyer's; light, funny and very romantic and exciting!
violinknitter's review against another edition
3.0
The plot was fun. I had issues with some of the male characters. The Audible narrator was also not great… she kept switching the voices she was using for different characters in the middle of dialogue scenes, which made it exceedingly confusing to listen to.
tonyriver's review against another edition
4.0
A Heyer delight. Great strong characters with another wonderfully accomplished female lead. Such a romp (initially confusing, but all becomes clear).
Highly recommended for all Heyer lovers
Highly recommended for all Heyer lovers
emilymorgan02's review against another edition
5.0
I loved this book as much as I did the first time I read it. It is a historical romance. The story is of a brother and sister, dressed up as the opposite sex, in order to protect their identity. They have been adventurers from the time they were little and put up to schemes by their eccentric father. This scheme, however, turns out to be much more consequential to both siblings and their father.
I loved rereading this! It's clever, witty, and just plain fun.
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I loved rereading this! It's clever, witty, and just plain fun.
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mrswythe89's review
3.0
Not likely to go down as a favourite Heyer, if only because my passion is for the Regency period and this isn't set in it, but quite charming all the same. I like how genderbendy it is, though Heyer's predilection for epithets ("the large gentleman", "the mountain") was starting to get on my nerves a little.
This is an ootoro book not because the genderqueerness is annoying to the point that I feel it needs the calming influence of Fujioka Haruhi (which is my usual criterion for determining whether a book is an ootoro book), but because I think Haruhi and Prudence would get along famously. And Robin is like a short blonde Hitachiin twin, so they would get along too!
This is an ootoro book not because the genderqueerness is annoying to the point that I feel it needs the calming influence of Fujioka Haruhi (which is my usual criterion for determining whether a book is an ootoro book), but because I think Haruhi and Prudence would get along famously. And Robin is like a short blonde Hitachiin twin, so they would get along too!