My favourite Georgetter Heyer novel is Devil's Cub, which others would I like?

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Sometimes you just want a moody badly behaved yet powerful man who is transformed by true love.

I read Venetia and it didn't tick my boxes.

my favourite is Devil's Cub too!

I like Regency Buck, Frederica, Arabella, Bath Tangle,

I liked Faro's daughter too I think (is that the one with Deborah as the heroine?).

not particularly the Grand Sophy, or the one with Horatia as the heroine - she's too young and stuttery.

ooh I may just go and download some too now. haven't read these for years.

Hmm. Devils Cub is my worst one.

I like The Grand Sophy the best, except I think she is wasted on Charles Rivenhall.

Nah, I think Charles has hidden depths that have been suppressed by money issues/being engaged to whatserface. With someone to encourage him instead of squish him he'll be fine. And at a period when Sophy can't manage to have a glittering career of her own he's the perfect husband for her to manage to great heights - he's intelligent and articulate and principled and he has a high enough opinion of Sophy' s character that he will always trust her implicitly but what he lacks is the charm and the propensity for risk-taking that Sophy will bring to the deal. But at the same time he.s not a pushover, which she'd find boring. I think they'll do very well together.

There is the anti-Semitic bit in The Grand Sophy (FFS, autocorrect, I've just typed "Sophy" about a billion times; how likely is it that I suddenly mean "Dolby"?) which is short but problematic. I know books are of their time etc., etc., but I wish they'd do an edition with it edited out.

If we're talking modern edits, we could address the borderline-paedos perhaps.

Avon is 40 to Leonie's 19
Rule is 35 to Horatia's 17

What we noticed in book club is that the pairings are more and more equal as the author gets older - the heroes start 35-40 and gradually drift down to their early thirties, whereas the heroines start as teenagers and are eventually about 27/28.

Have you read Black Moth? You might like that one.