Book Log 40/2012 - Sherwood Smith: Danse de la Folie

[jacey]

A regency romance somewhere between Austen and Heyer with a likeable heroine (or two). It's genteel, of the period and doesn't make the mistake of modernising the heroines. It's Clarissa's story with Kitty as a strong secondary character. Expect the usual Regency fare of unrequited love, misunderstandings, engagements to the Wrong Man and fortune hunters slightly spiced up by the fact that Clarissa falls for a smuggler - but no ordinary smuggler, a marquis, no less. (That's revealed early - it's not a major spoiler.) Naturally the course of true love does not run smooth but all ends happily. You kinda knew that was going to happen but it's how that's the interesting bit.

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