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Powder and Patch
by Georgette Heyer
This was a fairly harmless, pleasant little Heyer romance. The time period setting is not my favorite--I find it difficult to envision a hero as virile and masculine when he "minces along in red high heeled shoes", and wears powder and rouge and patches. so when Philip Jettan is sent off by his love and his father to learn to be a 'real man' I was a little irritated. yes, he was slightly pompous. it didn't hurt him to become better traveled/ experienced, and to learn some sword play. but I missed the old Philip about as much as Cleone found herself doing so.
There's a specific scene where Philip is talking to Aunt Sally, and she basically says that women need to be mastered, and we don't think. A) By thinking through enough to explain to him that women don't think, she disproved herself, and B) arrrggh! Yes, some of us like to be mastered occasionally. but still--the scene annoyed me. No matter how true the scene was to the time in which it was set. so, well done, Ms Heyer, and yet booooo!
But this was overall a pleasant read. a good way to fill a Christmas day road trip. :)
There's a specific scene where Philip is talking to Aunt Sally, and she basically says that women need to be mastered, and we don't think. A) By thinking through enough to explain to him that women don't think, she disproved herself, and B) arrrggh! Yes, some of us like to be mastered occasionally. but still--the scene annoyed me. No matter how true the scene was to the time in which it was set. so, well done, Ms Heyer, and yet booooo!
But this was overall a pleasant read. a good way to fill a Christmas day road trip. :)