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annestefia 's review for:
The Grand Sophy
by Georgette Heyer
I admit I am fascinated by Heyer's writing, just as everyone. The repetitive elements don't bother me that much, but what I found lacking in her stories is the longing, the pining...like, I need more tension than this!
The cousin romance (I know this was acceptable back then and I'm trying to keep an open mind to history, still kinda irks me though) gives a more platonic vibe rather than a romantic one...and I can't find anything juicy other than the writing, really.
The Grand Sophy is Heyer's top-rated book (according to Goodreads), and I'm kinda disappointed by this. Charles is so annoying and capricious, there were so many times he insults her, disregarding all her good qualities, then the next, when someone insults her, he has nothing but good to say. And Sophy, yes, she is indeed a bad-ass, but also impulsive and quite mad sometimes. The only real romance in her books is in the secondary characters and that still fails to be interesting enough, because I want it more for the main ones.
The cousin romance (I know this was acceptable back then and I'm trying to keep an open mind to history, still kinda irks me though) gives a more platonic vibe rather than a romantic one...and I can't find anything juicy other than the writing, really.
The Grand Sophy is Heyer's top-rated book (according to Goodreads), and I'm kinda disappointed by this. Charles is so annoying and capricious, there were so many times he insults her, disregarding all her good qualities, then the next, when someone insults her, he has nothing but good to say. And Sophy, yes, she is indeed a bad-ass, but also impulsive and quite mad sometimes. The only real romance in her books is in the secondary characters and that still fails to be interesting enough, because I want it more for the main ones.