False Colours
Georgette Heyer
Georgette Heyer, she is the inventor of the regency genre, and her books read like a very dishy, unserious Jane Austen – instead of commenting on regency society, Heyer is interested in immersing herself in it and all of its trappings. She’s slangy and gossipy and fabulous and a little ridiculous in kind of a winking way – False Colours is about twin brothers who swap places, so that wackiness ensues. There’s a thing with an engagement and debts and true love with a bright girl, but it’s all second place to the comedy and the loveliness with how Heyer sketches her characters so deftly and juggles plot elements seamlessly and flawlessly into place.
The slang, the cant, was sometimes impenetrable, even in context, but this was overall a fun and light kind of read that didn’t make me feel as if I were wasting away my mind on trash.
Georgette Heyer, she is the inventor of the regency genre, and her books read like a very dishy, unserious Jane Austen – instead of commenting on regency society, Heyer is interested in immersing herself in it and all of its trappings. She’s slangy and gossipy and fabulous and a little ridiculous in kind of a winking way – False Colours is about twin brothers who swap places, so that wackiness ensues. There’s a thing with an engagement and debts and true love with a bright girl, but it’s all second place to the comedy and the loveliness with how Heyer sketches her characters so deftly and juggles plot elements seamlessly and flawlessly into place.
The slang, the cant, was sometimes impenetrable, even in context, but this was overall a fun and light kind of read that didn’t make me feel as if I were wasting away my mind on trash.
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