Tag: Georgette Heyer

  • REVIEW of The Weaver Takes a Wife by Sherri Cobb South (Weaver #1)

    REVIEW of The Weaver Takes a Wife by Sherri Cobb South (Weaver #1)

    Ethan Brundy is a self-made man, rising to great wealth with his mill. He sets his sights on the aristocratic Lady Helen Radney as the woman of his dreams, and coerced by her father, Lady Helen marries Mr. Brundy in what she thinks is a marriage of convenience. The trouble is, Mr. Brundy is quite…

  • REVIEW of Roxton Family Saga by Lucinda Brant

    REVIEW of Roxton Family Saga by Lucinda Brant

    Lucinda Brant’s Roxton Family Saga tells the story of a noble family of the Georgian era. The patriarch of the family, the Duke of Roxton, has an iron will, a razor wit, and an unquenchable devotion to his much younger bride, the French firecracker Antonia. Their offspring and assorted in-laws and cousins make up the…

  • REVIEW of Heyer Society: Essays on the Literary Genius of Georgette Heyer, ed. Rachel Hyland

    REVIEW of Heyer Society: Essays on the Literary Genius of Georgette Heyer, ed. Rachel Hyland

    This collection includes 25 essays about the inimitable Georgette Heyer. Inspired by her love of Jane Austen, Heyer penned period romances of her own and ended up creating the Regency romance genre that is still widely popular today. The essays in this anthology treat on Heyer’s influences, intelligence, idiosyncracies, and immortal achievements. Some of my…

  • REVIEW of Miss Armistead Makes Her Choice, by Heidi Ashworth

    REVIEW of Miss Armistead Makes Her Choice, by Heidi Ashworth

    Mr. Colin Lloyd-Jones has sworn off the London season and ladies in general. After crying off from his unfaithful fiancee, he is in dire need of avoiding any fresh heartbreak. But when the breathtakingly beautiful Elizabeth Armistead knocks on his door after a carriage mishap, his best laid plans come to naught. With the assistance…

  • REVIEW of Georgette Heyer’s Regency World, by Jennifer Kloester

    REVIEW of Georgette Heyer’s Regency World, by Jennifer Kloester

    When reading Georgette Heyer’s books, you can sometimes find the story so enjoyable and full of levity that it seems like you’re reading “fluff”, not serious historical fiction. But Heyer was a meticulous researcher using actual places, persons, foods, furnishings, and turns-of-phrase from the Regency period. I didn’t realize just how detailed Heyer’s books are…

  • REVIEW of Venetia, by Georgette Heyer

    Venetia Lanyon has never been out in London society, and at twenty-five years of age she is almost on the shelf. After the death of her mother, her reclusive father kept the family tethered to the country estate, and after the death of her father, the role of managing the estate fell upon Venetia–at least,…

  • REVIEW of The Convenient Marriage, by Georgette Heyer

    If you’re looking to read something unpredictable, Georgette Heyer books are not for you. Thirty-something-year-old former rake falls in love with young girl barely out of the schoolroom (or alternatively, with a spunky twenty-something-year-old “spinster”), and after many misunderstandings, much wearing of finery, probably some gambling over cards, perhaps a duel or two, and loads…