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Devil's Cub / Regency Buck
Contains two novels.
Hardcover
First published December 31, 2015
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Georgette Heyer
252 books5,508 followersGeorgette Heyer was a prolific historical romance and detective fiction novelist. Her writing career began in 1921, when she turned a story for her younger brother into the novel The Black Moth.
In 1925 she married George Ronald Rougier, a mining engineer. Rougier later became a barrister and he often provided basic plot outlines for her thrillers. Beginning in 1932, Heyer released one romance novel and one thriller each year.
Heyer was an intensely private person who remained a best selling author all her life without the aid of publicity. She made no appearances, never gave an interview and only answered fan letters herself if they made an interesting historical point. She wrote one novel using the pseudonym Stella Martin.
Her Georgian and Regencies romances were inspired by Jane Austen. While some critics thought her novels were too detailed, others considered the level of detail to be Heyer's greatest asset.
Heyer remains a popular and much-loved author, known for essentially establishing the historical romance genre and its subgenre Regency romance.
In 1925 she married George Ronald Rougier, a mining engineer. Rougier later became a barrister and he often provided basic plot outlines for her thrillers. Beginning in 1932, Heyer released one romance novel and one thriller each year.
Heyer was an intensely private person who remained a best selling author all her life without the aid of publicity. She made no appearances, never gave an interview and only answered fan letters herself if they made an interesting historical point. She wrote one novel using the pseudonym Stella Martin.
Her Georgian and Regencies romances were inspired by Jane Austen. While some critics thought her novels were too detailed, others considered the level of detail to be Heyer's greatest asset.
Heyer remains a popular and much-loved author, known for essentially establishing the historical romance genre and its subgenre Regency romance.
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January 2, 2021Georgette Heyer's characters are varied, credible, and many grow and mature as the plot unfolds. What Georgette Heyer does have in common with Jane Austen is her wit, her lightness of touch, her gift for period detail, her ability to create credible, multi-dimensional characters whom feel you'd recognise if you saw them on the street, her ability to set the scene so that you feel you are there, her genius for witty but everyday dialogue. She is such a brilliant writer.
Georgette did intend her historical romances to be light reading and I prefer her Regency romances where she paid loving attention to period detail including historical events, facts, slang and real people such as Beau Brummell, the Regent, the Duke of Wellington.
Georgette did intend her historical romances to be light reading and I prefer her Regency romances where she paid loving attention to period detail including historical events, facts, slang and real people such as Beau Brummell, the Regent, the Duke of Wellington.
July 21, 2022
Love love love Georgette Heyer and this book had her characteristic hilarious ending, but the characters were awful. I would have given it one star, but it was just so well written! I kept asking myself why the heroine even LIKED the hero, much less loved him!
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December 14, 2009Regency buck by Georgette Heyer (1966)
April 2, 2010
DEVIL'S CUB by GEORGETTE HEYER (no date)
November 4, 2015
Vidal was not very likable but neither was his Father in his book. The plot was captivating none the less and I couldn't put it down.
February 3, 2016
Loved every minute of the story. Best rake ever!!
September 7, 2020
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April 10, 2023
I am an unabashed fan of Georgette Heyer's novels, and have read all of them at least twice. The Devil's Cub is part of her only series, but can easily stand alone. Like so many of her characters, Lord Vidal is "high in the instep" and unfortunately, quick to respond in anger and forgetful of the behavior required of someone in his position. Thus, after the latest duel he is ordered by his father the Duke of Avon to quit the country until things have died down.
Like so many of Heyer's heroines, Mary Challoner is level-headed and not considered a beauty, but in this case she throws caution to the wind and makes a decision that takes her on a madcap voyage to France that will likely ruin her reputation. Which, of course, is a fate worse than death in the society to which they belong.
One of the best things about Georgette Heyer's novels is the dialogue: witty, full of colloquialisms of the day, sometimes a challenge to decipher, at other times best to ignore and hope the context will make things clear.
Like so many of Heyer's heroines, Mary Challoner is level-headed and not considered a beauty, but in this case she throws caution to the wind and makes a decision that takes her on a madcap voyage to France that will likely ruin her reputation. Which, of course, is a fate worse than death in the society to which they belong.
One of the best things about Georgette Heyer's novels is the dialogue: witty, full of colloquialisms of the day, sometimes a challenge to decipher, at other times best to ignore and hope the context will make things clear.
June 15, 2025
Fun, light read, predictable, but perfect as a summer vacation read
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