Traditional Regency Romance Aficionados discussion

Anybody else DID NOT like Sophy? While Charles's fiancee is called a busybody, why isn't Sophy? She does much worse and against the conventions of her time. Would she really have been accepted with all her antics in that time? Everybody comments on Charles being quite dull: what would you have done with 7 brothers and sisters, a weak mother and a gambling father? And he's (IMO) quite accepting of Sophy's antics (I mean we are talking regency period not 2000s!). I found Sophy particularly annoying the way she always seems to think she knows everything so well. Ahd for a heroine,she is quite nasty ('horse face' comment; anyone remembers?)

I loved it! Charles seemed realistic to me, and Sophy came to better understand him as it went on.

I found it less credible that he would ever have become engaged to the awful fiancée.

The subplot with the Spanish woman was also rather silly.

I have been disappointed in some of Heyer's other romances. For example Venetia was great for the first 80%, but as soon as she went to London it became silly and implausible. I would actually recommend readers skip from that moment and just go to the last couple of pages.

I loved "Grand Soppy". Have read it a million times. The wit is amazing. The writing style is so classy, the language, the express, all are wonderful. I have been trying to find a writer who could even come close to her style of regency romance, but haven't found even one coming close. She put so much substance, and no explicit scenes, because none was needed to make her writing sell. Please do let me know if you have come across any such writer.

Polo- have you read any books by Jude Morgan? He comes the closest to being a marriage of Jane Austen and Georgette Heyer. I loved Indiscretion and An Accomplished Woman was really good too.