The Runaway Debutante [Paperback]

Elizabeth Chater (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 1, 2001

When her father loses everything in a gambling debt, including her, Matilda can take her role as a passive and dutiful daughter no longer. She finds a strength and willfulness she never recognized before and the courage to leave this intolerable situation. Fleeing the kisses of the fifty-year old Earl of Lark, a man notorious for his womanizing ways, Matilda finds work as a cook in London. Her culinary skills so impress Major Robert Bruce that he hires her as his personal chef. But the earl is still pursing her and Matilda has been trapped in a whirlwind. Her love is beginning to grow for the handsome duke, but does he love enough to give her shelter from the nefarious earl?

--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

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"Elizabeth Chater is a treasure." Greg Bear --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 140 pages
• Publisher: e-reads.com (February 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1585869120
• ISBN-13: 978-1585869121
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.6 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,247,646 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Pleasant, but not up to Heyer's standards, January 29, 2010

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This review is from: The Runaway Debutante (Kindle Edition)

I read this because it was recommended to me as "if you like Georgette Heyer, you'll like this". I liked it okay, but it's not nearly as good as Heyer at her best; it's not even as good as Heyer at her most mundane.

The story has a remarkable number of plot holes in it, including some historical anachronisms. If you ignore them, then the book is well-written and reasonably enjoyable. Once the hero and heroine get themselves married, there are a couple ridiculous "reasons" why the book can't come to its happy ending faster than it gets there. The female characters (except for the female villain) seem to sway back and forth between being competent and being completely silly; I found this annoying. The hero is somewhat more solid, but not really very interesting.

It's better than a lot of romance novels, by far, but it isn't anywhere nearly as good as I was led to expect, and did not inspire me to seek out more by this author.