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jaceyI'm beginning to suspect... well no, more than suspect... that Heyer wrote the same book a number of times. No, I don't just mean sticking to the tried and tested formula, but actually writing the same characters and situations, though possibly pairing them up differently and mixing and matching scandals. There are way too many tropes here from 'Friday's Child'
Horry – Horatia Winwood. – marries Lord Rule so her sister doesn't have to and then once married and with a promise not to interfere in her husband's life, proceeds to make an ass of herself with the help of a couple of young bucks – in this instance her brother and his friend, who have barely two brain cells between them. Sound familiar? Horry is very nearly Hero rewritten from Friday's Child.
Actually, looking at the publication date, it's the other way around. This precedes Friday's Child by a decade, but everything else still stands. One is unusually reminiscent of the other. Enjoyable fluff, of course, as usual.
Horry – Horatia Winwood. – marries Lord Rule so her sister doesn't have to and then once married and with a promise not to interfere in her husband's life, proceeds to make an ass of herself with the help of a couple of young bucks – in this instance her brother and his friend, who have barely two brain cells between them. Sound familiar? Horry is very nearly Hero rewritten from Friday's Child.
Actually, looking at the publication date, it's the other way around. This precedes Friday's Child by a decade, but everything else still stands. One is unusually reminiscent of the other. Enjoyable fluff, of course, as usual.
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Date: May. 2nd, 2011 12:26 am (UTC)