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merleita 's review for:
The Grand Sophy
by Georgette Heyer
One of my favorite authors recommended Georgette Heyer, so I looked her up and found that The Grand Sophy is typically the recommended starting point. I'm not sure how I feel about that... First of all, from what I've read of reviews, I realized that the audiobook version cut some scenes (I don't know anything about the ducklings people keep chuckling about, for example) and was more abridged than I thought. I had assumed the abridgement was just to clean up an overtly antisemitic scene, but that scene was still quite bad even in this form. It also seemed pretty okay with stereotyping a character from Spain. Aside from the stereotypes and the knowledge that this version may be missing some key parts, this was an okay audiobook. I enjoyed the narration and the different voices the narrator did for each character. I feel like Sophy was a fun heroine, but a little too perfect at her manipulation. I enjoyed her independence and humor though. I didn't really care for Charles as a love interest, since he just seemed like a jerk. Not sure if I'll read another Heyer novel, but if so, maybe I'll try one of her mysteries next time since that's way more my genre than romance.