I read this book many years ago, and just had the pleasure of rereading it. Edith Layton wrote some of the best traditional Regencies around, and this is one of her best. The story is not dated at all, in fact it was actually better than I remembered it. Layton writes the most lovely prose, with crackling dialogue, and she gets us inside the heads of both the hero and heroine, and makes us feel all their emotions.
The plot is so typical, with an innocent heroine and a rakish hero, but the things she does with this simple setup are anything but average. Where other authors could take chapters explaining things, she can draw a character in a few strokes of the pen, and make us understand where they're coming from.
There are some heart-wrenching moments in this story, as the couple seems to get together, then splits, then gets together again. I think the hero has to go through a much bigger transformation than the heroine before the HEA can happen. The motives of some secondary characters who may have seemed like villains but actually are not, are fully explained, and the conclusion is just perfect.
The plot is so typical, with an innocent heroine and a rakish hero, but the things she does with this simple setup are anything but average. Where other authors could take chapters explaining things, she can draw a character in a few strokes of the pen, and make us understand where they're coming from.
There are some heart-wrenching moments in this story, as the couple seems to get together, then splits, then gets together again. I think the hero has to go through a much bigger transformation than the heroine before the HEA can happen. The motives of some secondary characters who may have seemed like villains but actually are not, are fully explained, and the conclusion is just perfect.
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