Lady of Quality by Georgette Heyer

  

My rating: 2 of 5 stars

Category: Adult
Genre:  Romance, Historical Romance
Content: Clean

 

Independent and spirited, Miss Annis Wychwood gives little thought to finding herself a suitable husband, thus dashing the dreams of many hopeful suitors. When she becomes embroiled in the affairs of the runaway heiress Lucilla, Annis's life becomes more complicated, as she soon encounters her fugitive's uncivil and high-handed guardian, Mr. Oliver Carleton.
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Befriending the wayward girl brings excitement and unexpected consequences, among them greater interaction with Lucilla's guardian, who is quite the rudest man Annis has ever met..

 

Georgette Heyer's books have been on my radar for years. I have several of them on my Kindle, but I've never gotten around to reading any of them. I specifically chose this one because it filled a reading challenge I was participating in and I also wanted to try one of Heyer's books after I recently read a couple of books by Sophia Holloway who has said Heyer was her inspiration. I knew going into this that it wasn't considered one of Heyer's best books, but it still had relatively high ratings. I have to say that this book was very disappointing to me. It certainly didn't leave me wanting to read more of Heyer's books. In fact, I'm going to have to convince myself that it's worth giving her another try. 

My main problem with this book is that some of the word choices and phases made the prose somewhat awkward and tedious to read at times. I've read multiple Regency era books. Books that were actually published in that era and I've never run across some of the words or phrases used in this book. I'm not saying they didn't exist, I have no idea, but I didn't care for the way this was written. Also, there is very little romance in this book. The man who becomes the love interest in this book decides he's interested in the main character and goes about being quite rude and obnoxious. I didn't find him likable at all. I also didn't really connect with the main character, and her attraction to this obnoxious man didn't make sense to me. On top of that, he's a rake that has kept mistresses and currently has one that he will have to break things off with now that he's fallen for the main character. I'm not a fan of Regency romances with rakes in them. There were also attempts at humor that also fell flat for me.