3 Stars
Charming and delightful regency romance.
Heyer's plucky heroines make for enjoyable reading. Frederica is the penultimate eldest sister who has inherited the mantle of family matriarch after her parents' deaths. Juggling four siblings' needs is time consuming for as a soon as one is settled, another needs sorting out.
While I liked this one, I didn't enjoy it as much as Cotillon. This one was rife with responsibilities which I don't have issue with, but the conversations between Alverstoke and Frederica were repeated over and over again:
F: I shouldn't impose, but the situation is dire.
A: Nonsense it's nothing. Talk no more.
F: Really, it was a dreadful overstep.
A:You're boring me with this talk.
A great deal of this is tongue-in-cheek, nevertheless--Tedious.
That said, Felix, the youngest brother and scamp extraordinaire saved this and facilitated the entire relationship. Quite easily the most entertaining member of the Merrivilles. Anyway, this story was more about watching Alverstoke become a pillar on which Frederica leaned than a romance. It was very pleasant, but not my favorite storyline.
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