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[psocoptera]

I've had Cotillion in my to-review queue for a bit now and all I really have to say is that unlike Civil Contract this is pretty much a classic happily-ever-after. I find Heyer fascinating as the bridge between Jane Austen and the modern historical-romance genre - there are aspects of Heyer's characterizations like the class snobbery and notions of propriety that feel much closer to Austen than to modern romances that often use the historical setting with pretty contemporary mindsets. Anyways, Cotillion is basically Jane Austen fake dating and if you're the kind of person who likes the sound of that, you're not wrong.

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[belecrivain]

I've only read a couple Heyers and Frederica was far and away my favorite.

I read a Lisa Kleypas a couple weeks ago and was decidedly meh about it. I mean, she writes well, but the characters came off as far too contemporary for me. (There's a chapter where's everyone's being cozy and cheerful about a baby just being born, with the mother [not the heroine] still in her chamber, and I'm all OH HEY HI PUERPERAL FEVER.)