Maybe I'll give it another shot when I'm more in the mood for that kind of story. Recommended if you're in the mood for Regency hijinks. Maybe I just wasn't in the mood for comedic escapades.ģ so-so stars. The romance is kind of given short shrift here, but that often happens with Heyer.

I'm past the point in my life where that's romantic to me, although I can handwave that if the rest of the story really grabs me. Part of my problem is the age difference between Pen and Richard: 17 and 29. There's also a stolen diamond necklace subplot to add to the craziness. Some of the funniest parts are what happens when they finally meet up with Piers and the silly, weepy girl he's currently involved with. Pen thinks she's going to go formalize her 5 year old unofficial engagement to Piers Luttrell, an old buddy of hers (so she was 12 when she was hanging out and making a youthful marriage pact with this 16 year old boy? Okaaay, I'm not going to think about that too hard). And love blossoms in places unexpected to the hero and heroine but certainly not to the reader. So off they go, Pen with short hair and dressed in boy's clothing. The soused Sir Richard decides that running away sounds like a very good idea indeed, and, besides, Pen obviously needs someone older and capable to watch out for her. It turns out that this young person is 17 year old Penelope Creed, a wealthy orphan who is running away to avoid being pressured into marrying her cousin.

Intrigued, he stops to catch this young person (since the knotted sheets they're climbing down stop several feet short of the ground). He is making his boozy way home when he sees someone climbing out of a 2nd story window. It's a cute and humorous plot: Sir Richard Wyndham is just about to enter into an engagement with the cold woman everyone expects him to marry, and has gotten very drunk to drown his unhappiness. The banter is witty, the hero capable and charming, the heroine brave and feisty, and I was pretty much unmoved by it all. I've overdosed on Georgette Heyer Regencies, and now I can't tell if I'm bored because this is mediocre Heyer or because I've temporarily reached saturation point on her books. I believe, however, that if he were married, it would give him the ballast he lacks. I don't scruple to tell you, my dear, that I dread what might be the result if he were allowed to run free. Excellent reading copy with collectible possibilities. Front board has a sharp object gouge, skin not broken. rubbed or lightly tattered at all edges, but now in mylar protector. graphic shows the rich young torquil standing on a bridge with Kate.

Cond : Boards are red with gilt lettering -spine only. Learn what terms like niinyhammer, tattle-box, potch-kettled, and first-oars say about someone. Kate Malvern is a marriageable young lady, and Lady Broome offers a scheme that would make her quite comfortable - the only problem is the chosen man is a little loose in the screws.

Cousin kate by georgette heyer