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Melina Mörsdorf moin47bc — A quick read, with interesting characters and a few plot surprises. It would have been interesting to know more about the interior life of Iris; seeing her from the besotted Daniel's point of view told us more about him than her, and I was left wanting to know more about her motivations.

Kristy Pang kristyyspaa2ef — This is another Heyer that I really, really enjoyed. The dialogue sparkled, even if at times Heyer laid on the cant so thickly that I couldn't always figure out exactly what a particular saying meant. The set-pieces were amusing (balloons and Baluchistan hounds, oh my!) The secondary characters were as finely and as wittily observed as usual, even if slightly more subtly and a little less openly caricatured than in other books. Frederica was a wonderful heroine, and Alverstoke (I refuse to consider anyone called Vernon in a romantic setting) a suitably rake-with-a-heart-of-gold hero. I liked how Heyer allowed their relationship to progress. It was, of course, plain from the start that Frederica and Alverstoke would end up together, but the process of them falling in love was developed slowly and carefully, with a detail and an attention to character development that I really liked. I do not think, by the end, that we were left in much doubt as to just how much both of them - but especially Alverstoke - have changed as a result of their contact with one another. I especially liked how the children, Felix and Jessamy, played a role in bringing the two together; and as more than a deus ex machina (diis ex machina? Is there a plural? I'm never certain) as well. Heyer managed the nigh impossible feat of making them into likeable, realistic children, despite one of them filling the Male Polyanna role, and the other fulfilling the part of the Irrepressible Scamp. As usual, Heyer manages to fill three hundred and eighty pages with not an awful lot of plot, but some very well drawn characters and some very amusing dialogue. (Then again, she says, if it worked for Jane Austen...) I'd rate it up there with The Grand Sophy, and it's definitely one I'd pick up again.