book re-read
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fleaGeorgette Heyer, Cotillion. Spoilers follow.
Not that the title appears to have anything to do with the content of the book. I love this one. Everyone is absolutely silly, including Kitty, our heroine, and Freddy, our hero. The sole rational human in the entire book is Freddy's father (who is ironical but not sneery in nature). And yet the author loves silly yet clueful Freddy and loves bighearted Kitty and even loves the vastly silly plot devices, Olivia and the Chevalier and Dolph and his lady-love. Even Jack, the villain, is a human being (one of my favorite things about Heyer is that for the most part her "villians" are simply people whose desires conflict with the hero/ine's, and aren't uttery depraved/insane like so many baddies in modern romance.) And Freddy knocks Jack down at the end! And Uncle Matthew marries Fish, and Kitty is happy about it!
Not that the title appears to have anything to do with the content of the book. I love this one. Everyone is absolutely silly, including Kitty, our heroine, and Freddy, our hero. The sole rational human in the entire book is Freddy's father (who is ironical but not sneery in nature). And yet the author loves silly yet clueful Freddy and loves bighearted Kitty and even loves the vastly silly plot devices, Olivia and the Chevalier and Dolph and his lady-love. Even Jack, the villain, is a human being (one of my favorite things about Heyer is that for the most part her "villians" are simply people whose desires conflict with the hero/ine's, and aren't uttery depraved/insane like so many baddies in modern romance.) And Freddy knocks Jack down at the end! And Uncle Matthew marries Fish, and Kitty is happy about it!