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A review by thesincoucher
The Masqueraders by Georgette Heyer
5.0
This was such a romp - I completely fell in love with it!
At the beginning I was very confused. Heyer's narrator only tells you what they want you to know and I felt like I was trying to read a play without any previous information. This lasted ten pages and then everything was crystal clear. I loved mainly three things, and the rest was awesome:
- Fat representation: English confuses me sometimes so it took me awhile if large meant tall or fat but yes, it means fat. And the heroine is also 'stolid' that after again a bit of confusion, I very cleverly deduced means fat. Amazing.
- The love interest: I don't know how she does it, but I completely adore her pairings. They are so interesting and original (on some things, on some others it's your regular male love interest in a heterosexual couple (I did it want it queerer but this is Heyer)).
- The heroine being a part of the guys: as she dresses up to pass as a man, she has to go to clubs and hang out almost exclusively with men so you get to get an insight of how men behaved and I find it so interesting (reminded me of The Convenient Marriage, which I also loved). (Also I would have loved to see the hero's conversations and just more of him with the ladies).
Bonus: the dad was a riot. I completely love his character - completely adore him. I laughed a whole lot.
To sum it up, this was amazingly great.
At the beginning I was very confused. Heyer's narrator only tells you what they want you to know and I felt like I was trying to read a play without any previous information. This lasted ten pages and then everything was crystal clear. I loved mainly three things, and the rest was awesome:
- Fat representation: English confuses me sometimes so it took me awhile if large meant tall or fat but yes, it means fat. And the heroine is also 'stolid' that after again a bit of confusion, I very cleverly deduced means fat. Amazing.
- The love interest: I don't know how she does it, but I completely adore her pairings. They are so interesting and original (on some things, on some others it's your regular male love interest in a heterosexual couple (I did it want it queerer but this is Heyer)).
- The heroine being a part of the guys: as she dresses up to pass as a man, she has to go to clubs and hang out almost exclusively with men so you get to get an insight of how men behaved and I find it so interesting (reminded me of The Convenient Marriage, which I also loved). (Also I would have loved to see the hero's conversations and just more of him with the ladies).
Bonus: the dad was a riot. I completely love his character - completely adore him. I laughed a whole lot.
To sum it up, this was amazingly great.