Review by somasunshine - The Grand Sophy

The Grand Sophy by Georgette Heyer

4.0

Hilarious! This was so entertaining! The dialogue was great and witty.

Sophy was so charmingly autocratic and a great scheming matchmaker.
Charles was funny as well in his way. He tried to be strict but in the end he couldn't help but crack a smile at Sophy's antics.
It was all very dramatic and hilarious in its campiness. The dialogue is a bit unusual and you can tell that the book is a bit older in that the characters speak in a very circular way. It takes them a while to come to the point. (Also, there's a lot of exclamation points!)
The ending felt a little abrupt, everything happened all at once in the very last chapter (reminded me a lot of theater) and the changes in behaviour seemed very abrupt.
Heyer conveys a lot in her dialogues, it's very subtle the way Charles warms up to Sophy and starts being annoyed by Eugenia. I would have liked to get more of a feel for Sophy's emotional landscape. She was very much a protagonist but I felt like her as a character with tender feelings was missing a little bit.
I choose to ignore that they are first cousins. In my mind Charles is Ombersley's child from a previous marriage...