Bath Tangle by Georgette Heyer

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Bath Tangle by Georgette Heyer


My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Regency romance. The one where our willful red-haired Earl's daughter is outraged to discover upon her father's death that her inheritance is entrusted to the man she jilted, whose permission she needs to marry.

This is interesting to me because it's doing some really mature work on a craft level. The hero and heroine spend the vast majority of the book apart, and we get a lot of back-and-forth about a handful of secondary romantic entanglements, while the main romance is told almost entirely in negative space. It's skillfully done – Heyer really was very, very good at this. But my problem was that I just didn't care about anyone else in the book. Whoops. And also this one just happened to slide a little too far over the line from 'they spend all their time snarling at each other' to 'it's supposed to be hot the way he kisses her without permission.'

Still. Clever.

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