three wishes for you as the tide turns

[musesfool]

Just called Dom to wish him a happy birthday. He was like, "This is the only time of the year when we speak to each other twice in two days." Heh. True. When we were kids, even when we had joint birthday parties, my parents made sure there were always two cakes. I would have fussed, otherwise

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[topaz119]

I wrote a Regency AU for Big Bang this year and reread so many Heyer's in the process that I can barely keep them straight. This is not necessarily a bad thing, except for when I can't remember which hero belongs where & I end up going through 4 books before I find Damerel. :)

[musesfool]

Heh. That's really not a bad problem to have.

When I wrote my Regency AU, I tried really hard to have as light a touch as Heyer did, and handle the plot half as well.

[starfishchick]

The Heyers sound fun! Do I need to read These Old Shades first?

[musesfool]

I would say yes, if only because otherwise, you're spoiled for the plot twist? But I didn't and even knowing it, I still enjoyed "These Old Shades."

[withdiamonds]

I, too, read These Old Shades long after I read The Devil's Cub, and yeah, I liked it, but Devil's Cub pushes way more buttons.

Devil's Cub is probably at the top of my Heyer list, followed by The Grand Sophy, Sylvester, The Unknown Ajax, and The Nonesuch. I never, ever get tired of reading them.

[musesfool]

I haven't read The Nonesuch. I will have to add that one to my list. Heyer is so much fun and so eminently rereadable.

[anonymous]

Devil's Cub is my favorite Heyer, bar none, for all the reasons seperis lists in the post, but mostly, and I feel this cannot be stressed enough, because Mary shoots Vidal.

That being the case - have you read Loretta Chase's Lord of Scoundrels? In some ways its relationship dynamic is similar to Mary's and Vidal's, except that in LoS the heroine demands her fair share of time to be a bit nuts.

[musesfool]

I have read it, and I remember enjoying it, though at the moment the plot's not coming back to me.