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Title: Devil's Cub by Georgette Heyer ISBN: 0-373-83563-9 Publisher: Harlequin Pub. Date: August, 2003 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.78 (23 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Heyer spoils you for any other Romance author
Comment: I admit to being hooked on Regency romances and historicals, and it's all Georgette Heyer's fault. The first one I ever picked up at the age of 13 was her novel 'The Grand Sophy', the second one was 'Venetia', and there was no looking back. She invented the Regency romance novel and although there are many newer authors I enjoy and collect, GH remains the best, the funniest, the most skillful at drawing vivid characters and using authentic period slang. She is often imitated, but never equaled, IMHO. Heyer's historical research was so thorough (unlike many later imitators) that one of her novels is included in the recommended reading booklist on Napoleonic warfare at Oxford University.
'Devil's Cub' is part of the only trilogy she wrote -- 'These Old Shades' is the first, 'Devil's Cub' the second, and 'An Infamous Army' concludes the family history. I am glad to see these being reissued, and hope that younger readers will also enjoy Vidal's father, the extraordinarily menacing Duke of Avon, and his irrepressible and beautiful mother, Leonie. Vidal and Mary have a classic first-I-hate-you, then-I-love-you, relationship; yet the turns and twists are not only amusing but believable.
Buy this and enjoy it, but be forewarned -- you may start collecting all of her novels!
Rating: 5
Summary: Brilliant part 2 of the Trilogy
Comment: Devil's Cub picks up the story of the Duke of Avon and his 'page' Leon some 25 years after Justin and Leonie have married. The traditional story of love conquering all - in this case the wild and infamous Dominic meeting his match in the apparently staid and prosaic Mary is beautifully handled by the author who was the 'Queen' of the Regency romances. Others try, but fail to match her exquisite use of language, fine characterisation and intricate plotting. The similarity to Jane Austen is there but Ms. Heyer's characters are more flesh and blood. The final part of the trilogy is 'An Infamous Army', set around the Battle of Waterloo with Dominic and Mary's daughter Barbara a worthy successor to the strong characters we meet in the first two books. Georgette Heyer wrote the Black Moth first and liked her anti-hero so much that she used him as a model for Justin and also borrowed the abduction story and used it as part of Justin's past. Romance, humour, drama and characters you care about - what more can you ask?
Rating: 5
Summary: Rake meets good girl
Comment: Thoroughly enjoyable! I must admit that the idea of an honorable loose screw as is Videl in this tale had me rather intrigued. He may be a devil may care but he never touches a lady, which Mary is. His genuine passion for her is inspiring and the connection between him and his parents is seemingly cold, but really very strong and loving. The dialogue, as has become a halmark of Heyer, is splendid! Read it. You won't regret it!
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Title: These Old Shades by Georgette Heyer, Stephanie Laurens ISBN: 0373835590 Publisher: Harlequin Pub. Date: July, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: Arabella by Georgette Heyer, Stella Cameron ISBN: 0373835558 Publisher: Harlequin Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: The Black Moth by Georgette Heyer, Diana Palmer ISBN: 0373835582 Publisher: Harlequin Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: The Grand Sophy by Georgette Heyer ISBN: 0373835485 Publisher: Harlequin Pub. Date: March, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: The Foundling by Georgette Heyer, Kay Hooper ISBN: 0373835493 Publisher: Harlequin Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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