These Old Shades (Hardcover)

from auntieknickers

I came very late to Georgette Heyer, having read my first of her books only a couple of years ago because it was on the Guardian's 1000 Novels You Must Read list. I'm working my way through, and found that one of the most recommended books, An Infamous Army, was listed as third in "the Alastair t...

from Condorena

Tis story was foreshadowed in Georgette Heyer's first book The Black Moth because the main characters bears many similarities in both books. But in this case Justin Alaistair the Duke of Avon is more fully fleshed out. He is never as bad as he is painted. The story begins when he rescues a waif f...

from samnreader

A quick, zany, humorous book-- and my second Heyer, recommended by Georgie-who-is-Sarah as a better offering than Beauvallet. I'd have to agree, though that same swashbuckling feel exists here. Her writing is bold and upbeat. I am still, somehow, by the end of their evolving and strange relations...

from lauralkeet

Justin Alastair, Duke of Avon, is a rake if there ever was one. Men fear him; respectable women will have nothing to do with him. He spends most of his time in the gambling houses of Paris, leaving his sister Fanny in charge of his English estate. One night he encounters a young boy on the run fr...

from lycomayflower

Light, diverting, and fun. Better in the first and last thirds than in the middle, where the heroine's childlike innocence became a bit wearing. And the end, where the villain is finally dispensed with, is absolutely delicious.