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Being a woman of certain age, I am not into romance novels featuring ingenues anymore. Even with Ms Heyer's books, I prefer the ones featuring "older" women than 18-year-olds.

I read both Lady of Quality and Black Sheep back to back. I must say that I like Black Sheep more. First of all, the contrast of what love means to a 17-year-old and to a 28-year-old is so funny and right on that I could not help but chuckle whenever Fanny (ingenue) declared her undying love for Stacy the cad. The conversations between Abby (Mature Woman) and Miles (Hero) are also full of humor and word play. Their verbal sparring is never tiresome and always witty. Ms Heyer deserved to be compared to Jane Austen.


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Black Sheep Georgette Heyer 9780099468035 Books Reviews

I read pretty much every genre (just take a look at my other reviews!) and I have few authors that I'm loyal to. Georgette Heyer's regency world is one of them. Her stories are not about high romance, perfect hero's and heroines or Dukes coming to the rescue. Above all, these are not bodice-rippers but novels of manners (like Jane Austen). Her focus is much more on character development, including some memorable secondary ones, interactions between her characters and developing interesting scenes and situations. I recently purchased Black Sheep and read it in one sitting (okay I was sick in bed, but still!).

I have a few favorites; The Grand Sophy, Frederica and Regency Buck probably topping the list. Until now! Blacksheep has eclipsed them all. I think the reason I like this book so much is that there is a great deal of interaction between Abbie and Miles most of it extremely funny. The scene where they meet is great. Heyer is known for her witty dialogue but this is perhaps the best of it. I'm re-reading A Lady of Quality because of the similarities in the main characters and even that doesn't hold a candle to the humor between Abbie and Miles. Its probably not a coincidence that Frederica, A Lady of Quality and Black Sheep were all written closely together at the end of her life. In fact, Arabella and Regency Buck were written successively, too! These others make the favorites list, too. I just looked it all up. Another commonality, all of the "Heroes" are more mature and they behave more like anti-heroes. (Except Grand Sophy, but in that case she is just so much fun!) Anyway, if those are some of your favorites then I can guarantee you'll enjoy this one. In general, I'd say the ladies are more independent, headstrong and self-sufficient (or at least consider themselves to be).

BTW These periodically go on sale in the store, that's how I switched most of mine from the print edition so keep your eyes out and pick up several, you won't regret building a collection of her work.
What do older HR readers like me do when their favorite and trusted HR authors haven't published in a while and all the new HR authors (with a couple exceptions) that have popped up in recent years write what feels like total mistorical drivel? Well, I go back to my oldies but goodies. I hadn't read Georgette Heyer in several years so I chose this one, a very favorite, if not my favorite, Heyer book.

This didn't use to be my favorite Heyer. Back in the day, when I was much younger, THESE OLD SHADES, DEVIL'S CUB, SYLVESTER, and REGENCY BUCK were at the top of my list. Now I prefer the H/h relationships to be found in BLACK SHEEP, BATH TANGLE, and A CIVIL CONTRACT. In the first place, the H and h are more mature. In BLACK SHEEP, we have a heroine in her late 20s and a hero in his mid 40s. In the second place, there is so much intelligence, joy, and humor in the dialogue and the relationship.

Heroine Abby, who lives in Bath with her older sister and her orphaned niece Fanny, is worried about fortune hunter Stacey Calverleigh, who is successfully wooing young, impressionable Fanny. Abby has never met Stacey and while out and about in Bath meets up with a Mr. Calverleigh, whom she mistakes for Fanny's suitor. He's not. He's Miles, the estranged uncle, who is very recently back in England after years in India. This mistaken identity and subsequent beginning of a beautiful friendship make for a great story.

Miles is not your typical hero. He's the black sheep of his family, who, after too many episodes of youthful indiscretions, was sent away in disgrace years ago. He's not handsome, dresses carelessly, and is blunt and rather tactless, indifferent to how others feel about him. But he's the breath of fresh air Abby needs after so many years with her stifling relatives.

Not that Abby is a docile, passive observer of life. Not at all. She's a delightful heroine, loyal to family and friends, but no pushover either. Miles and Abby's relationship is perhaps the best one Heyer ever created. It's based on respect, humor and like-mindedness. These two are perfect for each other.

This is Heyer at her best. In many of her other books, the secondaries tend to take up far too many of the pages, with humorous dialogue and incidents that entertain but sometimes drag on too much and put the romance on a back burner. I felt the romantic connection throughout in this one.

Once a year, Heyer books are put on sale, I believe at the anniversary of her birth. That's how I have my collection to reread whenever the spirit moves me or whenever the pickings are especially slim of new and good HRs.
Being a woman of certain age, I am not into romance novels featuring ingenues anymore. Even with Ms Heyer's books, I prefer the ones featuring "older" women than 18-year-olds.

I read both Lady of Quality and Black Sheep back to back. I must say that I like Black Sheep more. First of all, the contrast of what love means to a 17-year-old and to a 28-year-old is so funny and right on that I could not help but chuckle whenever Fanny (ingenue) declared her undying love for Stacy the cad. The conversations between Abby (Mature Woman) and Miles (Hero) are also full of humor and word play. Their verbal sparring is never tiresome and always witty. Ms Heyer deserved to be compared to Jane Austen.