Devil’s Cub by Georgette Heyer is enchanting and will assuredly transport you to another world. Georgette Heyer, praised to be the new Jane Austen, was born in 1902 and her tales are quite old but hold the same classic feel as any one of Austen’s novels. I can picture the whole novel as a movie and am surprised that I’ve not seen it made into one. Of course I haven’t checked in at IMDB so I could be quite wrong about its silver screen status.
This is my first time reading Heyer and such I found it tough to start (as such it's affected my rating). The writing while at first difficult to read and to get into because of the level of vocabulary and particular word phrasing which is unusual for today’s standard’s. However it gets easier the more you read. By the end of the book you’re practically flying through the pages trying to get to the end of the story and see the leads get their happily ever after.
In the true spirit of a Regency novel, this novel includes a secondary romance to entertain us. Neither romance goes to the bedroom, in fact the first and only kiss mentioned is at the very end of the tale. My one fault with the story was there was much too much time spent on ditherings going on around the leads and not nearly enough time focused on them. They were more thrown together in the beginning when Dominic kidnapped poor Mary than later.
Mary Challoner is determined to save her sister from scandal and intercepts a letter from Marquis of Vidal to her sister Sophie arranging an illicit tryst. A daring scheme to take her sister’s place and fool Vidal comes to her and Mary rushes through with it, barely thinking out the consequences.
When Vidal finds out he’s most upset and assuming her to be like her untoward and loose sister, Vidal forcibly takes her the rest of the way to France. Once there, Mary is able to make her true nature known and flummoxed Vidal is forced to do the one thing he never thought to do – propose marriage. Imagine his surprise when Mary refuses! What’s a Marquis to do?
Rating: 3.5 Stars
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Originally posted 2008-09-02 05:43:56. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
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3 comments ↓
Great review! I’ve read some Heyer, although not this one, and she is like a Jane Austen-light: not quite the same quality, but much more prolific. I stumbled across her in a used bookstore and have 5 or 6 of her books, I’m thinking maybe I should use them for a giveaway. They’re nice, but not something you read more than once.
They would make a great giveaway! Lots of readers grew up with Heyer and love her. I’ve heard that Sylvester and Corinthian are exceptional and personal favorites of more than one reader.
A lot of the peripheral story makes a lot more sense if you’ve read her previous book, These Shades of Mine. It’s a satisfying blend of romance and vengeance featuring a heroine initially disguised as a male, and it has the backstory on Vidal’s parents.
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