Cotillion by Georgette Heyer

Cotillion by Georgette Heyer


My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Regency. The one where Kitty's eccentric guardian requires her to marry one of his nephews to get her inheritance, and Kitty schemes to get the one she wants.

This is not a good starter regency romance. It's a great tenth regency, particularly for people, like me, who really dislike the ones where the heroine falls for the handsome rake who she tames generally by letting him do appalling things to her. This is not that book. Very deliberately and awesomely not. It is a book about not being that book -- about not being that girl.

It is also a book about people who are not the prettiest, and not the most brilliant, and who are actually quite silly, but sweet and happy and hilarious together. And that's why I liked it, beyond the quiet meta work it did inverting all the romance novel clichés. It's just . . . nice.

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