Books: Joan Wolf - "The Deception", "Golden Girl", "American Duchess"

[koalathebear]

Alas, Joan Wolf continues to disappoint me. After His Lordship's Mistress, I still haven't found a novel that matches that one in quality. I forgot to mention yesterday that not only did "The Gamble" rip off a series of Georgette Heyer novels, "Fool's Masquerade" rips off Josephine Tey's novel The Daughter of Time" most royally

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[svelterose]

Hmm...have you read any of Allison Lane's regency novels? I particularly liked Birds of a Feather which is about this intelligent miss who locks horns more than once with a Lord. Of course, cheesy endings abound - they fall in love but it's cute. =)

Candice Hern's Miss Lacy's Last Fling is also pretty good. I don't want to give it away so I'll just post the Amazon.Com blurb:

Rosalind Lacey is a woman with a mission. Having sacrificed her youthful opportunities to family obligations, she is ready to make the most of her long-postponed London season. Her free-spirited Aunt Fanny is just the woman to show a girl all the nice, and naughty, things London has to offer. She starts with Max Davenant, rake extraordinaire.

Hee. =D

[svelterose]

Oooo and just another thought. I tried reading Joan Wolf's Fool's Masquerade but as it was in first person POV, I couldn't do it. The heroine annoyed me right off the bat and for some reason, I found it super odd reading a Regency in first person POV so I think that added to my bias.

[koalathebear]

I don't love the first person point of view but she's done it in a few other novels and it was acceptable. I'm just offended by the rehashing of the same plotlines and the stupidity of some of the characters