A review by mrswythe89
Charity Girl by Georgette Heyer

3.0

Yeah, hmm, not one of my favourite Heyers. I got positively bored while the Viscount was looking for Cherry's granddad, and was not especially convinced by the central romance. Maybe my cousin is right -- you do have to know by the middle of the book which option the protagonist is going to go with, though it's better if the protagonist themselves doesn't know yet. I didn't -- as wasn't sure if this was going to be an "equals who banter" Heyer romance, or the "rich aristocrat + naive girl" type. It turned out to be the former but I think, say, Frederica is a better version of that type of Heyer woman than Hetta, whom you get to see hardly at all. Also, bleh at the Viscount & family being horrified at the prospect of his marrying Cherry because of her background, and the Viscount's consciousness of the duty he owes to his family being portrayed as a virtue you were meant to applaud.