Frederica!

[cimorene]

Dude, this is one of my mom's favourites. She quotes it all the time and I hadn't even read it in years!

Indeed, she had once demanded, in a moment of exasperation, if he cared for anything but his clothing. To which he had replied, after subjecting the question to consideration, that although his clothes were naturally of paramount importance, he also cared for his horses.

The Marquis of Alverstoke: a hunk of burning heterosexual manlove with an incredibly fastidious approach to clothes and a languid-snark approach to conversation. Oh, Georgette, you crazy lady!

Comments

[aynatonal.livejournal.com]

Frederica is also one of my very favorites. Your mom is a very sensible lady.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

No, she really isn't! (Ahahahhaha.) But she does have good taste in comedies of manners.

[syredronning.livejournal.com]

It's one of my top favorites too! Such a lovely romance novel.

[copracat]

I love Felix and Jessamy so much.

Heyer does such cool secondary characters, villains and heroes. Though I just read Envious Casca and it was very hard to like any of them, though Sturry quite often made my day.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

Well, I really like the hero in that one, and I love that book.

[copracat]

My problem with Envious Casca is the villain, who, unusually for me, I picked immediately, because they stop everyone else from speaking. They have to be shouted down or they completely dominate almost every single scene and almost every action. If I'd been in the book the murder victim would have been a different person! It's a blissful relief when Scotland Yard shows up and there are non-villain scenes. I would have enjoyed many more uninterrupted conversations between Nat and Stephen - who was fab- if only they existed.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

Hahahahha, yes. Well, she was a little more transparent there than usual, and failed suspense is the worst error in a murder mystery! But if not for that, I would've been really pleased with that villain - isn't she the little old lady who poisoned someone in their toothpaste or something? - because she was just so... wacky.

[copracat]

No, the broke old theatre luvvie who kills his rich brother, inspired by Empress Elizabeth of Austria.