These Old Shades by Georgette Heyer

These Old Shades by Georgette Heyer


My rating: 2 of 5 stars
The one where the infamous duke buys a boy off the street to be his page, except the boy is actually a girl the duke can use in his revenge schemes. And then they fall in love.

Okay, that's a no. I have no problem with single-minded love, but not when it's played as slavish and not when it's part of a really scary power dynamic. The heroine was not particularly bright, the hero was unimpressive, and the whole thing dripped with accurate but obnoxious classism.

And the genderfuckery made up for none of the above, because it was swept under the rug as fast as humanly possible. *flounce*

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