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Title: Love's Charade by Jane Feather ISBN: 0-8217-7202-3 Publisher: Zebra Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (8 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Lots of love, not so much charade
Comment: One of the frequent problems with many romances that I've read is that the author has devotes a great deal of her creative energy in devising magnificent and fantastically complex heroes. In comparison, the young woman to be paired with this perfect specimen of tormented masculinity is usually bland and uninteresting. The author has already spent her creative juices. The interesting thing about Jane Feather's LOVE'S CHARADE is that we have the opposite problem.
Danielle is a stunning creation. At 17, she's beautiful, educated, strong-willed, and a witness to horrors that have brought her maturity beyond her years. The traumas of her past leave her driven to provide succor to the gentry dispossessed by the French Revolution, efforts that she pursues with ingenuity and charisma. And on top of that, she is witty, and oh yes, as we mentioned before, stunningly beautiful. Given such a glowing heroine, the 34-year-old hero, despite being twice her age, and allegedly clever and well-connected, is bland in comparison. He is your basic British Earl/Duke/Whatever of near total economic success, with a secret passion for aiding the Crown and no real interest in marriage until he's found the perfect post-adolescent. Their age difference is more than countered by their comparative weight in personality.
Balance! That's all I want! Just a little balance
The plot is fairly pleasant, offering a slight twist on the usual Pimpernalia. It is a bit drawn out, with a couple of clearly unnecessary episodes, including the usual Jealous Misunderstanding, Resigned to Lonely Marriage, and Kidnapped By An Evil French Rapist bits. These only serve to pad the book. Maybe target audience readers feel like they need these steps and I am simply out of synch, but I'm sure that at least two of these three could have been eliminated.
The basic problem with this book is that most of the suspense in a romance is in trying to figure out how the disparate hero and heroine will ultimately be bound together. Since that is resolved fairly early on, the rest of the novel is devoted to whether Danielle will get herself killed in her recklessness.
Polished prose keeps things moving along, and Feather introduces a couple of interesting bits by tying the plot so closely to the French Revolution. The aristocracy that stayed in France was not all wiped out overnight, and those that escaped often found themselves in more dire circumstances than the urban impoverished that they fled. Feather offers another view of the Revolution, one that fills in some of the gaps left by Les Miserables and The Scarlet Pimpernel. For that, there is no reason to regret reading this book.
Rating: 1
Summary: I'd rather read the original Heyer.
Comment: If I wanted to read Georgette Heyer's wonderful These Old Shades, I'd go and read the original, not this pale imitation. In These Old Shades, Justin, the Duke of Avon, is in Paris and rescues a waif called Leon. He subsequently discovers that Leon is in fact Leonie, a girl in disguise, and there is a mystery as to Leonie's identity. There is, of course - knowing Heyer - a very sweet romance as well as a well-plotted mystery story.
Sound familiar at all? Have other reviewers not read Heyer's book? My recommendation: forget about Love's Charade and go and read These Old Shades. You won't regret it!
Rating: 5
Summary: YOU HAVE TO READ THIS!!!
Comment: This book was absolutely my favorite of Jane Feather's. It was so captivating and once I started it I felt torn every time I had to put it down. It is a nice length of 478 pages and by the end you feel as if you have shared so much with Danny and Justin. She holds her own and is a very strong heroine while she loves Justin with everything she has. He feels the same for her and it is just an all around amazing book that you will NEVER regret reading. The story never grows boring and when it is finished you feel sad that it is over. I highly recommend this book to any romance reader who likes to be transported into a whole new world....
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Title: Virtue by Jane Feather ISBN: 0553560549 Publisher: Bantam Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 1996 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Vixen by Jane Feather ISBN: 0553560557 Publisher: Bantam Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 1994 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Velvet by Jane Feather ISBN: 0553564692 Publisher: Bantam Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 1996 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Valentine by Jane Feather ISBN: 0553564706 Publisher: Fanfare Pub. Date: 01 January, 1996 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Emerald Swan by Jane Feather ISBN: 0553575252 Publisher: Bantam Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 1998 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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