The Convenient Marriage (1934)

A fun read! You can read my full review/commentary of the novel over at my blog (contains some spoilers!): http://www.rulethewaves.net/blog/?p=3103 ( )

A fun read! You can read my full review/commentary of the novel over at my blog (contains some spoilers!): http://www.rulethewaves.net/blog/?p=3103 ( )

The leading lady is seventeen years old and behaves like 15-year-old. Though husband-wife inteactions in this 'convenient marriage' were far and few - they were entertaining. This book is full of duels, highway men and kidnapping references. Toward the end, the book became a free-for-all playground for all the childish characters, exactly like a Priyadarshan movie. Wish Heyer had focused more on the 'chemistry'. Oh, btw, I learnt a lot about hairstyle - even French ones - of the time. ( )

Had remembered it as a rather good one, but either I wasn't as much in the mood for a Heyer as I'd thought or her charm has worn off slightly. ( )

Why did it take me so long to re-read this Georgette Heyer novel? I had forgotten what a romp it is. Ok, so it's not her best work and definitely not in my top five Heyer favourites (I much prefer the novels with older heroines!), but it is nevertheless a well-plotted and entertaining read. Horry is a somewhat annoying heroine, but Rule is an appropriately attractive hero, Lethbridge is a good villain and Pel, Pom and Edward (in his second and subsequent appearances in the narrative, at any rate) are hilarious. Georgette Heyer novels are my ultimate comfort read. I've read almost all of them and re-read quite a number of them regularly. I'll be adding The Convenient Marriage to the re-read list. ( )