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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
"April Lady" comes into her full bloom.,
By Kit Kat "Kit Kat" (Cali) - See all my reviews
This review is from: April Lady (Paperback)
Heyer's writing vividly brings her reader into the social life of regency England and the fictitious Earl and Countess of Cardross after a year of marriage. Nell is the beautiful young bride and Giles is the handsome, devoted husband. She loves him but has been advised not to expect him to love her owing to their age difference. He loves her but begins to believe she only married him for his wealth and title.
Cardross is largely clueless regarding his wife owing to the lack of communication between the couple; and his disruptive baby sister, Letty is badly in need of a sound spanking. Nell is clueless owing to her inexperience and dependence upon her even less mature brother, Dysart who's speech and actions steal each scene he appears in. Fans of modern romance will be disappointed to learn the most explicit sex is the public kiss of the ardent earl upon his lovely wife (both remain fully clothed). This story is delightful different as the main characters learn to truly love and trust each other after they are married. Nell's story is timeless in the manner of most young wives who have been taught an ideal of marriage and are badly advised and ill-prepared for the practical realities of relationships and the stumbling path from naive ignorance to self-confidence. For 'tasteful' romance liberally scattered with engaging characters and light farce, Georgette Heyer is a must read!
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
April Lady - Romance and Adventure Blossom into Love,
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This review is from: April Lady (Paperback)
First, I am a bit biased. While I have not yet read every single one of Georgette Heyer's romance or mystery novels, indeed, I must confess, I am a fan. I thoroughly enjoy her historic regency research with which she fills her novels.
"April Lady" follows the romance novel plot of where there is already a marriage in place. Earl (Giles) and Lady (Nell) Cardross are already married, and we enter their marriage after the passing of about 1 year. Giles, 28 years old, offered for (proposed to) Nell, in the marriage style of the day, when she was 17. Being still quite young, our heroine, while having been raised with good sense and character training, does not yet really know how to live on a budget. Indeed, her husband is vastly rich, so when she is a spendthrift and overly extravagant in her many purchases, he is able to pay all of her outstanding hat, baubles, and clothing bills. However, he gives her quite a lecture for her to be more prudent with her money, and she vows to learn to live with the generous allowance he gives her. And then... she realizes she had left out one sizable bill to a dressmaker which she simply must pay, does not have the funds to cover, and she feels she simply cannot go to Giles one more time to cover a bill. You see, Nell (Elinore) wed Giles because she was in love with him. But he has been stating and fearing with her own family heritage of a father who is gamester, that she wed him only for his money. Nells works herself up into a tizy and feels she cannot be honest with Giles about the debt. While to everyone else, it is obvious that Giles is besottedly in-love with her, he has not told her so. As was the manners of the Regency era, couples typically married for convenience, and Nell's Mama indeed tells her that Giles wed her for convenience. Thus the scene is set, and the action and drama start.... The other characters in our little coze include Nell's overly adventure and pleasure seeking brother, Viscount Dysart, and Giles' spoiled 17 year old sister, the wealthy heiress, Lady Leticia (Letty). Letty was raised with a much too lenient and liberal environment, and never learned self-mastery of herself. She is overly bold and expects and insists on her own way with great wont of wisdom about what it is she wants. And what she wants is to marry a very sensible man of great character and no funds and no prospects, Mr. Jeremy Allandale. Allandale will be going into pubic service and leaving for years of service in Brazil in just a matter of 6 weeks. Will there be an elopement? Dear Georgette does not disappoint. This is quite an action packed romance novel with twists and turns of the dramatic build up of the plot including some fun surprises. It is just the right length to enjoy with a pot of tea sipped over the course of your weekend as little romantic get away to England in the era of Regency Romances.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
a little knowledge is a dangerous thing,
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This review is from: April Lady (Paperback)
April Lady is one of Georgette Heyer's well written, well researched, highly readable and thoroughly amusing Regency romances. The characters are fresh and enjoyable and their actions and attitudes are those of the time in which the novel is set. Anyone who enjoys Heyer's lighter works will enjoy this book.
I take issue with the previous reviewer who accused Heyer of anti-Semetism. A little research of her own would show her that 'going to the Jews' when one needed to borrow money was a perfectly reasonable 19th century colloquialism. The reason, of course, was that give the situation in which most Jews lived, many of those who lived in Western Europe earned their livelihood as money-lenders. There was little else open to them. Heyer is reporting historical fact and that does not make her anti-Semetic.April Lady
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