A review by guiltlesspleasures
Beauvallet by Georgette Heyer

4.0

This was a lot of fun. Rather than being set in Georgian or Regency times like most Heyers, Beauvallet takes us back to Elizabethan England and Inquisition-era Spain, with the Shakespearean dialogue to go with it. We meet Nick Beauvallet, a swashbuckling rogue with a pearly grin, and Dominica, a true Heyer heroine with a fiery temper that is all too willing to be cooled by a strong man. Lots of horse chases, secret identities, a couple of run-ins with creepy King Philip of Spain, and plenty of fun anti-Catholicism. It felt campy and cinematic, like Errol Flynn should play Beauvallet.