Bodice rippers and beyond -
I'm an avid reader of "Regency romance" and historical romances set in the British Isles in the 18th and 19th centuries. I try to avoid "wallpaper historicals" where the mores and behaviour of the characters are contemporary rather than what would be expected of the period and social class in which their book is supposedly set. Georgette Heyer and Mary Balogh are my favourite authors by far, but I've also enjoyed many books by Loretta Chase, Madeline Hunter, Eloisa James, Jo Beverley, Laura Kinsale, Judith Ivory, Julie Anne Long and many others.
As an escapee from Goodreads, I'm using this site to record my impressions of the books I read and to share them with other readers.
The writing syle of the book seemed clunky at first, with too many sentences in the style of "Not that there's anything wrong with that", multiple insteads and althoughs in a single sentence and other clunkers.
But things smoothed out in the later parts of the book and it turned into a really sweet story of a socially awkward duke (who lost an eye in a silly accident) and a woman who was cast off by her parents and has to make her own way in the world.
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