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Title: These Old Shades
ISBN: 0373773404
Author:
Georgette Heyer
Publicate Date: 2008-07-01
Publish: 2008-07-01
List Price: $13.95
Average Customer Rating: 5.0
Format: Paperback
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1: Different
I've only recently re-discovered Georgette Heyer, so this is my 3rd one I've read. While the book is well written and the hero an interesting character with a lot of depth (if not exactly conforming to the modern idea of a hero) I didn't particularly care for the heroine and this spoiled it a little for me. I thought she was frankly annoying. The age difference itself isn't so disturbing, if one thinks of it in historical context, but the transition from a paternal relationship to a romantic one that just doesn't feel right. Perhaps this is Heyer's own youth showing. I did not have any problems with the French in the book - in fact until I read these reviews I didn't even really notice it. I'm not fluent by any stretch but I did study it throughout high school and college.
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2: Excellent, wonderful.....
I loved this book so much I tried to read it slowly so it wouldn't end too soon. It's not the kind of story I thought I would like so I was a little surprised by how it grabbed me quickly and wouldn't let go. I can't quite decide if this or "Black Sheep" is my favorite Heyer; it's a toss-up right now. They're very different types of stories but I enjoyed them about equally. Try it, you'll like it! Very highly recommended.
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3: Terrific book, will NO-ONE ever get the covers right?
This is a marvellous book - Rafael Sabatini meets P.G. Wodehouse, humour and adventure and elegance and, yes, romance, perhaps the best of the early-style swashbuckling Heyers, and the first of a series continued with "Devil's Cub" and "An Infamous Army."
But won't someone, ONCE, get the covers right? What is this chichi sub-Tissot Regency pap? This books takes place in the 1750s in England and France, less than 10 years after the Jacobite uprising and Culloden. Madame de Pompadour has a cameo. This coy illustration (really, only fluffy kittens are missing) would have INFURIATED Georgette Heyer. Tchah!
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4: Lushly romantic, both light and dark
I did not think I could like a May/December romance. I was wrong. The hero is dark - he needs redemption. He finds it in a sprite of a heroine who needs to save someone. It's wonderful.
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5: another great Heyer book
True to Heyer's style, this regency romance has humor, mystery, and romance. The romance is clean enough for your teenage girls and sophisticated enough for your grandmother.
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