Wednesday, May 29, 2019

Regency Buck by Georgette Heyer

I didn't love this Georgette Heyer as much as I did Sylvester, but it was still a fun read. It's interesting how some of these storylines don't seem appropriate to our modern sensibilities but were perfectly acceptable just sixty or seventy years ago when they were written (not to mention two hundred years ago in the day and age when they are set). In this book, Judith Taverner and her brother are accidentally made wards to an unknown guardian, who, it turns out, is a handsome and fashionable young man. You can guess what's going to happen just from that one-sentence summary, I'm sure, but it's still enjoyable to watch it all happen. The parts that seem a old-fashioned are how even though Judith is a very stubborn and strong-willed woman, she still is controlled by all the men in her life--her guardian, her (younger) brother, and her cousin--and she allows them to do it. And even finds it attractive. This sort of storyline would never happen these days. But it was still a fun Heyer book.

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