Another gem by Georgette. Nell might be my favorite of her female protagonists; she is so hesitant and cautious with her husband, but so flamboyant and careless with her spending. The paradoxical personality makes for excellent comedy. The story's resolution is also very heart-fluttering; hard not to get caught up in the couple's moment with them! Already, I can't wait to re-read it. ( )

I vaguely recall this from my youth, in the sense that I recognize the title and maybe some of the plot was somewhat familiar. But since I did not remember it well enough to know what was going to happen next or who was who, it is basically a new book to me now.

This was entertaining and a breezy couple of hours, but not a keeper. In fact, I can't even remember the characters' names right now. It is one of Heyer's more contrived stories. The 18 year-old heroine is in a love match and doesn't even know it, although she's been married about a year. She turns to her scapegrace brother for help when her husband scares her with a scold over her debts. In fact, this scenario feels somewhat like modern Regency romances that rely on increasingly improbable plot devices to throw two strangers into forced intimacy. But while modern romances often take this approach for the sake of including sex scenes, it is not clear whether our couple here even have sex during the course of the story. I suppose these rough patches lead to lonely beds occasionally.

The story is a very entertaining comedy of errors and manners with some great dialogue and some very humorous scenes, such as when her harebrained brother holds up her coach as his first ridiculous plan to help her raise the necessary funds. So it's worth borrowing from the library to while away a rainy afternoon. ( )

Not one of my favorites. I really wanted to shake the main character ( )

http://www.lonelymountain.net/books/j... ( )

Heyer does a much better job with this plot in The Convenient Marriage. Still, it is a fun read, even if a tad tedious. The male characters are not very well developed.