Love Georgette Heyer's books!! They always entertain!
Classic Regency romance which means light, funny and entertaining.
This book had an OKAY plot. I think I'm getting a bit bored of this same scenario with the girl dressed as a boy and running away and the one who makes himself the guardian falls in love. I don't know if I could swallow the age difference. Perhaps If i was able to feel them more. What I mean is, you know when they each fell in love but you don't feel it with them. You still find the situation a bit awkward. Atleast I did. This one did not keep my attention as well as the others. This would make a great 1st book to read of Georgette Heyer. Since I've read so much better, it could be that I expect more. :) Still, it's a quick read and good.
Sir Richard Wyndham is a Man of Fashion, a dandy, but he prefers the term Corinthian, if you please. He is somewhat bored with his life as a trendsetter of the haut ton, and is being forced to seriously consider a somewhat irksome marriage of convenience when he is waylaid by circumstance to aid Miss Penelope Creed, an heiress not yet out in society, on a quest to elope with her childhood sweetheart in an effort of avoid a match with her fish-faced cousin.
The plot of the story is light-hearted and fun, full of adventure and misadventure. But it is Heyer's style, much reminiscent of Jane Austen's yet more colorful and engaging, that makes this book truly delightful. It is a must read for her description of a proper dandy alone. There were many places where I could not help but chuckle aloud.
The plot of the story is light-hearted and fun, full of adventure and misadventure. But it is Heyer's style, much reminiscent of Jane Austen's yet more colorful and engaging, that makes this book truly delightful. It is a must read for her description of a proper dandy alone. There were many places where I could not help but chuckle aloud.
