I thought I liked Heyer. It was bad luck that I read The Grand Sophy first, but I still think of Freddy from Cotillion as one of the most delightful characters in all of literature, and even The Grand Sophy had the matter of the ducklings
Oh, yes! I just am probably more sensitive to criticism of them just because they've been my comfort reads for twenty years now & have cheered me up on trains, through sickness, boredom, and just when I needed something to read that made me smile and didn't need a review. And, of course, they are mid-20th C thing, Heyer certainly had her faults & fandom these days does seem prone to not being willing to cope with anything like that, no matter the era, so I probably was just worrying more about those than even Alleyn.
(And you should get The Talisman Ring next. It has a side-order of murder and smuggling to go with it.)
plenty of the rom-coms I do like are full of strange priorities and ethical issues and sometimes terrible people; it's just that I like them. The heart has its reasons, etc..
Indeed.
I don't have much brain, so I had probably better just get on with reading the books I'm trying to read now anyway! I am not sure how entertaining the ghost wife would be in practice, but the idea pleases me a lot. :-)
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Date: 2017-06-07 07:27 pm (UTC)Oh, yes! I just am probably more sensitive to criticism of them just because they've been my comfort reads for twenty years now & have cheered me up on trains, through sickness, boredom, and just when I needed something to read that made me smile and didn't need a review. And, of course, they are mid-20th C thing, Heyer certainly had her faults & fandom these days does seem prone to not being willing to cope with anything like that, no matter the era, so I probably was just worrying more about those than even Alleyn.
(And you should get The Talisman Ring next. It has a side-order of murder and smuggling to go with it.)
plenty of the rom-coms I do like are full of strange priorities and ethical issues and sometimes terrible people; it's just that I like them. The heart has its reasons, etc..
Indeed.
I don't have much brain, so I had probably better just get on with reading the books I'm trying to read now anyway! I am not sure how entertaining the ghost wife would be in practice, but the idea pleases me a lot. :-)