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[dangermousie]

I am currently reading Mary Jo Putney's Dancing In the Wind, which is set in 1814 and involves a spymaster with (unsurprising) trust issues and a heroine who is a master of manipulation and disguise who is on some sort of investigation of her own and, not knowing hero has infiltrated bad guys to track down a spy, makes him one of her suspects. They

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[dangermousie]

I am reading it now and am loving it (and Nicholas is pretty amazing, and so far, might be in the running for my favorite Beverley hero). But OMFG, is his brother horrible waste of space - every time he is on the page, my blood pressure spikes. I'd deal with a villain better than with someone who is not actively evil, just so self-absorbed and weak that he might as well be so.

[dangermousie]

I figured that was the one you meant - I have it shipping to me at some point (I am irritated her earlier books aren't on kindle - I much prefer them that way).

[helenajust]

I can't believe The Panther and the Pyramid! Any one of those plot points would be OTT, but all of them together makes it literally incredible. And didn't the author realise that she needed to save up some of those crazy ideas for later books? How is she going to top this one? I'm amazed you persisted; I think it would have been a DNF for me. Is the writing so good?

[dangermousie]

The writing is not good at all - it was the sheer trainwreck factor that kept me going. I kept thinking 'surely nothing can top this' after every insanity, but something did.